vernie

the lady at the nursery told me not to use 'blood and Bone' if you have dogs.

Can someone please explain the general gist of 'crate training'? i have seen it mentioned a few times on here and would like to do a bit of research before we pick up our new furrie on the weekend. happy days and thanks in advance

Can anyone recommend obedience classes in Melbourne's eastern suburbs?? (around Lilydale?) Our previous puppy was trained at Kintala in Heidelburg, but we have moved.

hehe, my beautiful black 2 labs (rip), chewed through the following... • mum's pearl earings • weatherboards off the house • telephone cables • 6 meters of bubblegum • a random pair of poohey undies up at the high school (unforgivable!) don't even get me started in the stuff they managed to find and roll themselves in!! Vern even caught a duck on sydney harbour in front of heaps of people! he was 12 at the time and it was totally random and unexpected! he didn't hurt it - he bought it back to the back and it flew off. very embarrassing!! happy days!

How exciting Riley's Mum!!! Bails used to love camping along the Murray - he would take himself off for a 3am swim pretty much every morning!! For such as passive dog around the house, he was completely different when you took him camping.... it's the only time he ever growled/barked! Hopefully our new pup will love it just as much!! Happy days!! Where about's are you?? i know some pretty cool camping places with 4wd tracks

thanks guys!! i really appreciate all your help!! our previous lab just took himself off to his kennel whenver he got over it he really was the best thing ever. i got him as a pup, and even tho he was pretty crazy and ate his way through several hoses, weatherboards etc, he turned out to be the most beautiful thing ever. one day he just sat next to me and became this supercool, chilled out buddie. crazy daisy - i too am up doing the dummy run! too funny!! we go collect out new little buddie on sunday, so i shall post some pics of him then!! in the meantime, i'll jump over to the lab forum. happy days!

The RSPCA in Burwood is great!! Really well priced with funky stuff that's a bit out of the norm.

thanks guys!! it all sounds very promising!! both puppy and bubs can be separated if needed when playing outside (deck/gate/back yard). i have found the breeder through this site and all looks very positive!! i know any puppy is going be hard work - and lab tails have a mind of their own, so i am excepting a few little hic cups when it comes to being knocked over! I have had 2 pure bred black labs in the past (one of them a failed guide dog, and one a beautiful crazy thing) and can't wait to have another!

well our other dog, was perfect around our bub and our bub was always gentle around him! they had such a lovely relationship the new puppy will def give her a run for her money and it will be like having another toddler in the house!!! i'm up for it tho!!

Lilydale lake has some pretty good off lead sections!

Hi Guys, Just a quick Question... We have an 18 month old little girl who has always been around dogs. Our 7 year old Lab died recently and we are now considering getting a lab puppy. Are we crazy for getting a puppy when our daughter is still so young? i just feel that if we don't do it now, we will be waiting a few more years when we have finished having our family and i will miss having another furry friend around

Hi Guys, Just a quick Question... We have an 18 month old little girl who has always been around dogs. Our 7 year old Lab died recently and we are now considering getting a lab puppy. Are we crazy for getting a puppy when our daughter is still so young? i just feel that if we don't do it now, we will be waiting a few more years when we have finished having our family and i will miss having another furry friend around

Goodbye my beautiful Bailey I am sorry that the drug they gave you to make you better took you away from us. You were the one sure thing in my life. I have never lost before and my heart breaks each time i think of your sudden passing. Camping won't ever be the same without you. And my little girl still calls for you at the back door xox :rofl:

i have just been on the phone to Pfizer... they are pretty insistant that my case is rare, however after reading your posting, i believe that i am not alone. if anyone else has gone through this recently, please notify them. it may have been a bad batch.

I have just finished writing a letter to Pfizer. I feel a bit better now. I don't mean to scare anyone into not using it as I have heard that it actually does wonders for some doggies. However, after sharing my story and reading about your experiences, I will never use it again (and will probably question everything else!). I just feel that I needed to get it out there to help make others aware and to perhaps spare folks the grief that I went through.

I am sorry to hear that others have been through this as well Our 18 month old daughter stands at the back door calling for her friend, so i bought her a black lab furry toy, which she now calls Bailey also. We are slowly on the mend, however, never will I put another dog of mine on this drug. We get Bailey's ashes back later this week - it will be nice to have him home again. I have never suffered the loss of a pet before and not sure if I am willing to get another one, inevitably to go through it all over again.

I just wanted to let everyone know about my first and last horrible experience with the anti-inflammatory drug 'RIMADYL'. My beautiful black Labrador Bailey, came back from the vet one night, 2 weeks ago with the diagnosis of a slipped disc in his back and a perscription for Rimadyl chews. We returned to the vet the following morning (following our vet's advice) for some x-rays, however Bails had appeared to make a full recovery so we were sent home again to rest and continue on with the perscribed medicine. The following week Bails was fine... pretty much back to his normal silly self - Until tuesday. He refused to eat his breaky (very unusual, infact, he has never not eaten his food) and looked a little lethargic. That evening i went to feed him dinner and he ignored it completely. When i went to give him his bickie at bed time, he stumbled in the back door and fell over. He was so weak and couldn't get up. We rang the vet who told us to come in the next morning. We took him to the vet on Wednesday morning. She took a blood test and found that he had an extremely low red blood count and a very high white blood count. He then had an x-ray which showed internal bleeding. Bailey's results indicated that he was suffering from critical Anemia and he underwent a blood transfusion straight away. We saw him on wednesday night and he seemed like a new dog compared to the previous 24 hours. He died at the vets at 4.30 that morning The autopsy showed that his stomach was riddled with gastric ulcers. My poor Bailey never had a chance. he was only 7 years old. The vet said that he had suffered from a rare reaction to the drug thjey had perscribed for him to make him better. Yesterday i discovered that there has been a civil law suite against Pfizer, the manufacturer of this drug due to it being implemented it an abnormally high amount of doggy deaths. Our vet has registered our dogs fatal reaction with board of vetinarians to help make others aware. I was just wondering if anyone else had experienced anything like this? It all happened so quick, and now our family is without it's beautiful furry friend. I would hate anyone else to go through what we have.