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The ABS still has a bit of work to do to stabilize the appearance of the breed. I have no doubt they will get to that point in the future as there are many very dedicated breeders in this group. Anyway, here are my standard ABs. To me, they are perfect :D Gorgeous :) As with many breeds there are some people who own 2 dogs of the opposite sex and will only ever breed those 2 dogs together with no real thought as to whether or not they are actually suited to each other. I've had others think I'm mad for keeping a male pup from my first litter. Why would I keep a boy who I can't use for breeding with my bitch (his mum) when I could have kept a girl and then had 2 bitches to breed from? Some still don't understand when I explain that he was the best pup in the litter and is everything I'm trying to produce and isn't it the idea that I keep the best to go on with. He may never produce a litter, he needs to be hip and elbow scored first and obviously I'll make the decision once he is mature whether or not to make him available as a stud.

So do most breeds in development and thats usually what stops them ever really getting to where they could get if they had a third party registry - because there is a greater risk where the people can branch off and do it THEIR way - its why you see three registries for the Aussie Bulldog and several for the Australian Labradooodle. Think about it - knowing the breed politics of all breeds - not just those in development if the registry wasnt third party with set rules for who can and cant decide about changing the standard and what needs to be done for registration purposes etc same could happen even for those which have long been established. But they create their own registries usually because the ANKC and the like won't even consider accepting them. Yes they need to keep records to be able to know what they are breeding with etc and they have to have their own registries because if they ever want recognition thats part of the criteria - so for 15 years they are at high risk of personalities and differing opinions seeing some move off and splinter groups forming. And this has happened with Aussie Bulldogs. It was quite a while ago so I don't know the ins and outs of it but basically the founding person (Pip Nobes) and another founding member had different ideas on where the breed should be going and so he split off to start another group. Although TBH when you're still heavily using another breed (BB) and the biggest selling point is how much percentage of that breed the dogs have in them, why not just get that breed to begin with?

As far as type goes I'd say these 2 certainly look like the same breed go dog despite the difference in markings and colour. This is Simi and her son Arnold (he is 6 months old)

I still refer to them as Australian Bulldogs too but I also quickly explain the Bosdog name in case they do some google searching later on then they can see that there are different registries. Most people have no idea that there can be different types and groups so its a good way of showing them and explaining why its good to research not just breeds and breeders but also the groups/registries they belong to.

You are right of course but Boss-dog sounds better to me Lol, in this house they could be known as 'get away with murder dogs'. It's very difficult to stay mad at those adorable faces :)

I know... I parent 3 ABS registered ones and it wouldn't be the best thing to call them Boss-dogs The name change happened prior to me becoming a member but I understand it was voted on by financial members and this is what they decided on. Personally, I don't love it but i do love the breed so I can live with the name. I also think its important to try and distance ourselves from the other groups. Most people don't know about the correct name as it is fairly recent and like I've said, we are not the only group out there. BTW Its Bosdog, not Bossdog :)

My bitch is 4th generation, so by looking at her papers there is only one dog that was not a Bosdog. It is a BB and is her great, great grand sire on her sires side.

I use a tether on most dogs I groom, but I often take it off at some point and I don't always put it back on if they're calm and happy to stand for me. I've been lucky as the 2 salons I've worked in have been great with the way they handle the dogs and were good places to work, just not enough money to be made when you're grooming for someone else. I now groom from home on the weekends and I have a nice group of regular clients to keep me busy enough.

The Bulldogs and the cats would stay with me as would the small fluffy but OH really has a special love for the JRT so depending on where he would live then he would like to keep her. I have problem with that as she isn't attached to our other dogs and wouldn't miss them at all. He would also keep the snake :)

Pretty much like Lisacc said. Most people know what they are but don't know that there are different registries that have very different aims or that there was a name change to fit in with ANKC guidelines. I suppose that's why I get asked about percentages when people enquire about pups as they have usually googled the breed and seen the websites of the other registries. As far as I know we are the only group that no longer uses other breeds for breeding. Recently the ABS has been issuing all pups with limited papers which can be upgraded to main once the dog has been hip and elbow scored and the results are below the cut off point. I'm not sure how many breeders are registered with ABS, I'll have to ask them and I'll get back to you :)

So The Australasian Bosdog Society is aiming for ANKC recognition and have ticked many of the boxes mentioned above. I'm pretty sure one of the things we are struggling with is having 500 entire dogs on the registry, although as time goes by that should become less of an issue. They're would be 500 out there but they are not active members of the ABS, just puppy buyers/owners with no interest in breeding or being a member. Some breeders are up to producing 7th generation pups and the breed has been around for more than 15 years now. I think one of the problems for this breed is that there are a few different registries and they are definitely not aiming for the same things and that can confuse people. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked what 'percentage' my dogs are. I then have to explain that we no longer cross breed so don't use BB in our breedings and haven't for many years now and so we don't measure the percentage of BB in the dogs as they are not BB. The other registries are also starting to go down the 'rare blue' path, which is sad. I've noticed that a couple of their breeders have imported blue BB and are charging $3500 for blue pups and also promoting that they have blue in their lines. AFAIC my dogs are purebred and they meet the standard set by the ABS and although there is some difference in the appearance of different lines, nearly every ABD (Australasian Bosdog) I've ever met or talked to owners about has the same temperament. They are funny, goofy, a little bit stubborn, dog/people/animal friendly (they adore children) and just love everyone and enjoy life. I'm not for indiscriminate cross breeding, or just letting any 2 dogs breed because they can but I'm certainly not against people wanting to and trying to create a new breed as long as it's done for the right reasons.

I'm confused with the difference between purebred and pedigree. From my understanding a purebred dog is a single breed, i.e a border collie from border collie parents that fits within the breed standards but not necessarily from a registered breeder I was under the impression that dogs from registered breeders with a prefix were considered pedigree So all pedigree dogs are purebred but not all purebred dogs are pedigree ...correct me if I'm wrong My understanding too :) So in the above example the owner of the Labrador is right in saying their dog is purebred despite the lack of papers Ahhhh, but are they? :) The dog has no pedigree, no traceable ancestry - so although both parents looked like labradors, were they really purebred labradors? Perhaps one of them had a parent who was really a labrador/golden retriever cross... So, yes a purebred dog is a dog where both parents are of the same breed, and doesn't necessarily have to have a pedigree - but you only know for certain that a dog is purebred if they do have a pedigree and you can trace their ancestry. Otherwise you're just going on what the dog looks like and what people say the parents were :) My ex husband sold a Bull Terrier pup and its mother to a registered breeder. She told him that she would be using them for breeding and neither of the dogs had papers. So just because it has papers doesn't always guarantee that it is pedigree or pure either! My heart dog was a Dobermann, he was everything a Dobe should be in looks and temperament. I used to compete in Flyball so went to a lot of shows, breed fun days and pet expos and I had many Dobe breeders compliment me on him and want to know which breeder I got him from :) there was no doubt that he was a pure bred, papers or not.

I'm confused with the difference between purebred and pedigree. From my understanding a purebred dog is a single breed, i.e a border collie from border collie parents that fits within the breed standards but not necessarily from a registered breeder I was under the impression that dogs from registered breeders with a prefix were considered pedigree So all pedigree dogs are purebred but not all purebred dogs are pedigree ...correct me if I'm wrong My understanding too :)

I would never do it as no matter how much you want it to be, it's not the same dog. However, I do understand the emotion behind why people want to do it. I'd do just about anything to have my heart dog back but I know (from sad experience) that no matter how hard you try you can never have another exactly the same.

Very sterile advice from them. Practical but entirely tactless. How awful for her. Agreed how hard it is to say sorry we can't !!!! Exactly. I really struggle to understand why people can't be sensitive and appreciative of a situation and nice, when it's so easy to do- why be harsh? Anyway to the purebred dog frustrations argument. What annoys me about the whole thing is people calling a spade a shovel, when it's clearly a spade. Or, why pretend/think/tell others/mistakenly believe that your '-oodle' is a purebred dog, when it isn't. Don't get me wrong I love bitsa's- I own one, my precious kelpie x, Mr Rexie- but he isn't anything other than a kelpie cross staffie! And no one could convince me he's a special kind of Kel-ord that should be left entire and then produce a new generation of unique, special Kel-ords (btw lol this was the best name combo I could think of quickly :) ) Same deal with 'oh this is my purebred Labrador (for eg)'. Me (usually) oh, who bred him? And you get the breeder's first name and where they're from, rather than a kennel name... Me: oh, that's nice. *general question re papers/breeder's prefix which results in a blank stare*. And then confusion about why my dog has 'papers' and theirs doesn't/can't have them. That's not really so annoying, as it's a result not of willful blindness, but ignorance and misinformation- it's the pretence that a dog is something it isn't that really irritates me. And people I know and like a lot, fall for it (Aussie bulldogs are another classic example along the Bull Arab line). My rant over now! :laugh: I'm stepping in here to defend the 'Aussie Bulldogs'. There are a number of different registries and they are not all equal. I have 2 dogs that are registered with The Australasian Bosdog Society. We are very serious about getting recognised by ANKC and I don't think it will be too much longer before we are. We have changed the name of the breed to fit in with the ANKC rules, all pups are registered and come with papers (that have all the same info tha ANKC papers have on them), they are now up to 7th generation pups from Bosdog to Bosdog breeding. We have a standard, and although there is still variety in the look of some dogs it's no more than I can see in many other breeds that are recognised by ANKC. All breeding dogs must be hip and elbow score and the results must be below a certain score before their papers are upgraded to main for breeding. It really annoys me when people are so dismissive of something that others are working so hard for. In my first litter of pups I had a lovely lady purchase one of the boys and she was beside herself with excitement about him and while she was shopping for dog stuff she ran into a family friend who also happens to be a breeder (BC I think) and she said 'oh, is this for the mongrel mutt you're getting?' Rude beyond belief if you ask me.

I've had just about every kind of pet but my favorites would be horses and ferrets. Horses just make me feel good and ferrets make me laugh with their funny antics.

I also got mine from K9 Pro :)

In the last few months I've stopped feeding my dogs dry food completely and I was doing the morning feed Barf and night feed the Vetpro5. All dogs did very well on this arrangement, including a growing 6 month old Bulldog pup, but as I have 4 dogs it was becoming too expensive so I have given up the Vetpro5 and replaced it with lambs hearts and or another raw meat. I'll still use it occasionally though as the dogs really liked it.

I hate them too. We still have cracker night here in NT and of course no one can obey the law and be happy with letting them off during the allowed hours only. They can go off at any hour of the day or night on any day of the year as people save them up and let them off randomly. I'm lucky that my dogs are not terrified of them and wouldn't try to escape but their are always posts on FB from people who have lost their dogs because of it. I really hope you find your dog safe and sound.

Simi and Arnold are perfect, no need to change a thing :) Jokes aside, there really isn't anything I'd want to change about them. They come in a variety of colours, they are usually great with all people and other dogs, they don't require huge amounts of exercise and they are very entertaining with personality plus. What's not to love?

Thanks Sandra, the stud owner has already contacted transport companies and has given me a quote so I assume it will be as quick as possible it's just that getting anything at all to Darwin seems to take 10 times longer than anywhere else in Australia and I'm a bit worried that something will delay it and we'll miss out! I'm sure it will be fine, I'm just being a worry wart.

If there are direct flights then the transport should be same day? The breeder who I sent chilled to did the AI herself at home. The stud owner doesn't live in Brisbane so will have to drive a few hours to get it to airport so that's why it may take overnight. I will be doing the AI at home myself with the help of another breeder. I think I'm going to have to contact a few other vets up here and find one who is more experienced in this area.

I can't imagine that cats would be a popular choice. I've seen plenty of dogs that have attacked and/or killed cats and most of them have pretty extensive injuries themselves that require treatment. One of my own dogs killed a cat one day and when I arrived home and saw her face I thought she had been slashed with a razor blade repeatedly! I have also been bitten by a cat while trying to save her from a dog attack and I had to go to hospital with the insides of my fingers bubbling out of the puncture wounds. The dog that had a hold of said cat had a swollen head the following day due to infection from the cats bites and scratches. Any trainer using live cats would need to have plenty of money for the vet bills following such training methods.

Thanks guys. I'm not sure how quickly it would take for the transport but I assume 1-2 days. the owner of the stud has done this many times but its my first using chilled. We did AI for her first litter any had 9 pups but it was fresh. We didn't prog test either, I just watched her behaviour with the stud and we did the AI on day 13. Unfortunately there are not many vets up here experienced in AI and my regular vet doesn't do it at all and doesn't keep Prog tests in stock but one of the vets said she can do a vaginal swab and that will give us a good idea but as we have limited semen and limited time frame I'd rather be sure. I'm seriously considering flying the bitch and myself to QLD for a week as it might be easier!

My dogs have never shown any signs of distress or any kind of 'missing' the deceased dog. They are all very much attached to me and not really each other.