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This is the exact reason I no longer visit our local dog park, the amount of times I have witnessed Parents put their children in the dog park whilst they sit outside and have a coffee and chat (not even watching their children) astounds me. These children then run around screaming tryin to 'catch' the dogs to pat them. When I was younger I knew that if a dog was running away from me it clearly did not want to be patted. I have also had children try and pick up my dog and seen them try to pick up other strange dogs. I find myself constantly having to protect my dog against children but never the other way around. Although I am young and there is still so much I have to learn bout dogs and Border Collies, I still find my self having to teach children and parents things about dogs. Like just cos a dogs tail is wagging doesn't mean its 100% friendly and do not run up on a dog (especially one you do not know) from behind. It just fustrates me because if one day Diesel retaliated I have no doubt I would be told its my fault for having an agressive dog out on the street

Last night I was up at my local shopping centre (its a big outdoor shopping centre so dogs are allowed), with my Border Collie who has just turned one. We like to take him up every so often and we do some training with him and get him used to all different people and things (like hats, balloons etc) But last night I had him out the front of a shop with me in a drop/stay waiting for my partner to come out. We were right on the edge of the pathway making sure we were out of the way when a family walked past with a young boy (maybe 6ish?) who ran up behind my dog and pulled his tail!! My poor boy was terrified and then the father of the child then had the nerve to say he must be a really old dog because he then didnt try to get up and play with the boy :D To which I replied no he is just turned one and you are lucky that that I have socalised my dog and he didnt react agressively when his tail was pulled for no reason. The family just continued walking no apology at all. I've had many other instances like this when we are going for walks and children will run up behind us screaming and trying to get to Diesel, which scares him, as the parents just watch! What has happened to parent's teaching children manners when it comes to dogs? When I was a child (not that long ago as I am only in my early 20s) I knew you approached a dog from the front, asked the owner's permission before coming to close and then doing what the owner said. Just because my dog is a well known breed doesn't mean he loves children especially ones that run up from behind, scream and pull his tail/ fur. I do everything I can to stop this from happening and I know I'm lucky because he isn't an agressive reactive dog but it just annoys me. I control my dog I just wish the children had some manners. Vent Over

Sorry if this has been done before. But I was just wondering how people have taught their dogs to do High-10. Diesel knows High 5 but I'm not sure how to teach him to advance to High 10? Any Suggestions?

I have to say I feel sick and disgusted as a co-worker just showed me a video off a NEWS web-site showing a young girl (they think from Croatia) purposely drowning stray puppies by throwing them in a river. This girl must be twisted to do this but also to film it!! I can't believe people do this, and she looks like she is actually enjoying it!!!

I just wanted to make it clear that yes now I know buying from a non-registered breeder is not the right way to go. And yes I have started the process of getting my next dog from an ethical registered breeder. I was not trying to advocate BYB just wanted opinions.

What health tests did she carry out on her dogs? If she knew so much about them, surely there would have been some testing done? What type of 'return policy' (for want of a better term) did she have? What type of 'after you bring home your puppy' advice did she offer? I'm not really here to talk about the particular breeder its more of just a general question. But I do know she had CL and CEA testing done. As for advice she presented us on socialising the pup, feeding, crate training, grroming and many other things. Although some people would just dismiss her as a BYB i would have no hesistation on calling her for advice (which I have done in the past including once at at 1am in yhe morning). She is happy to help whenever she can. But I dont want to turn this into a discussion on what I have done wrong it is more of a general can it happen type question

Hi all I just have a question relating to BYB. I got my first puppy from a BYB (i know that was wrong now and am now pursuing down the path of registered breeders for my next dog) and although the breeder wasn't registered (some of her dogs did come from registered breeders though) can you have an ethical BYB. This BYB knew so much about this particular breed, did not constantly breed her dogs (one litter every couple of years), fed them on a balanced premium diet, looked after her dogs, checked out homes before she sold someone a puppy and did many other things that registered breeders do. So is this just a one off or are some BYB a lot better than others?

Before we moved in the Kelpie was just being fed dry dog food (supermarket brand), leftovers and with the occasional tin of tuna and the rare bone. Since we feed diesel primarily raw food supplemented with some royal canin we have also fed the kelpie in a diet more similar to Diesel as it is near imposiible to give one dog a chicken frame or bone for dinner and not the other. Is it possible we're still giving Diesel sommething and the Kelpie not enough to cause this? I have only ever seen him chew at Diesel's fur when Diesel is asleep because there is no way Diesel would just lie there

My old dog washes the younger ones all the time , does no damage to the fur though just leaves them silky soft and gleaming they are not allowed to move while he does this perhaps a bone for the kelpie to keep him busy ? and add a bit of calcuim to his diet he might stop trying to suppliment off your poor boy (SP ) I have tried to keep the kelpie busy with bones, toys tiring him out with excercise and training. I wouldn't mind if he was just cleaning Diesel but he's actually chewing it I've never seen or heard of it before?

Hi All. I'm relatively new to this and I didn't know where else to post this. My problem is that recently moved in with the in-laws just for a few months (our house is getting some work done to it) and this also means my gorgeous Border Collie, Diesel has come with us. The in-laws have a 2 year old kelpie who was brought for my partners youngest brother and this poor dog gets no attention apart from being feed and is basically treated as a backyard ornament (but don't get me started on that). Since we moved in I noticed that Diesel's fur on his lower back was looking patchy I took him to the vets had all sorts of tests done costing a fair bit of $$$ to find out their was nothing wrong with him. I took him back home had contacted his breeder and we were both scratching our heads trying to figure out what was happing. Then one night I walked past Diesel whilst he was asleep and saw the Kelpie lying behind him chewing on his fur . I was absolutely horrified and repremanded him immediately. Since then I have tried my absolute hardest to stop this from happening by keeping an eye on them and trying to keep them apart. His fur is slowly improving but I wanted to know if anyone else has ever experienced this and what they did about it????

I've always got my puppy's chicken mince from Lenards at Rouse Hill for a $1 a kilo and they occasionally also include some frames free. Never had a problem with the freshness?

There is a chicken wholesaler on Withers Road in the Rouse hill/ Kellyville area. Haven't been there for a while but their prices are pretty reasonable