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Do you recall what brand it was ? Thanks for the feed back everyone It was from SVS Australia - this model.

Walkie talky will work for you. We tried that too but the mic pickup from the camera in the trailer interfered with it.

One thing we wished we had was a means to talk to the dogs from the car. We tried a voice activated baby monitor but it was too close to the mic in the camera system and produced feedback.

We had one but it wasn't wireless. It was a system that had a screen in the rearview mirror. It had colour, night vision and a microphone (which you could turn off). We also installed a 2nd camera behind the trailer and one above the towball. With the push of a button you could switch between all the cameras. It was an awesome unit and gave amazing peace of mind when travelling long distances, although for the most part all we saw was them sleeping.

We have three shedders, I mean shepherds, here. This Melbourne weather has been crazy. We'd have a day or two stinking hot weather followed by a week or more in the low to mid 20's, followed by another day or two 38-41 degrees. A few times now it has dropped from nearly 40 to approx 15 in the one day! The poor dogs don't know if they should shed their coat or grow one. Vacuuming is a daily (sometimes twice daily) chore at the moment.

Just found a number for them. (02) 6036 3944.

There's only one listed in the HWD guide for Gundagai that allows dogs inside. Gundagai Farmstay (02) 6944 8242.

According to the latest Holidaying With Dogs guide, the Albury Central Tourist Park and Cabins allows dogs inside. (02) 6041 1844. I can look up other towns for you if you'd like.

Lost for words. Just can't find the words to describe how sad I am for you and how incredibly angry I am with the groomer.

The boys at Arthurs Seat on the Mornington Peninsula VIC.

May I join this thread even though my phone's a Samsung Galaxy S2? Melbourne skyline from the Bolte Bridge Local scenery A cicada that scared the life out of me when it flew out of the darkness and landed on my chest I'm proud of this one because of the nerves of steel it took to get close enough for this shot. Bugs.......lots and lots of bugs.

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We have mango and banana fiends here. Thankfully they haven't discovered the strawberry patch yet (although the wild birds have).

I must have weird dogs. They line up for their daily spoonfuls of Glyde and regard it as a high value treat. I have heard of people mixing it with water or yoghurt if it's too dry to be palatable.

Thank you. I had trouble deciding between the previous photo or this crop: I've taken a few backlit photos when I had a p&s (and posted them on DOL somewhere). It's my favourite thing to try and capture. Photographing on the phone has it's challenges though and now that my computer has suffered the blue screen of death, I can only view the images on my phone too.

I was sitting on a park bench reflecting on the events of the last couple of months when the sun briefly broke through the storm clouds. (taken on my phone)

Tlaloc spotted one of our moray eels under the lounge one morning. It had somehow escaped from the tank overnight and slivered as far as our Lofa. I hadn't seen it there so the first I knew about the escapee was when Tlaloc came into the kitchen and sat next to me with what I initially thought was a snake in his mouth. After I recovered from momentary heart failure, I grabbed the eel, gave him a quick rinse in the sink to remove the dust bunnies (thereby returning him to his slippery-as-an-eel status) and put him back in the tank. The eel survived and didn't have a single mark on him. Thank goodness for Tlaloc's soft mouth retrieve otherwise I could easily have ended up with the main ingredient for grilled eel.

Rakim has been taught to give an empty toilet roll tube to the OH. The OH will then go and open a specific door so Rakim can go in, grab a sealed pack of toilet rolls and bring them to me. Rakim's now found where we keep the empty toilet roll tubes. If we haven't closed the door properly, during the night he'll go into the bathroom, open the recycle bin, grab a roll, bring it back into the bedroom, drop it on our bed next to the OH's face and then sit there and watch him. if the OH doesn't get up and open a specific door (which is what Rakim is waiting for him to do), he'll go and get another tube and drop that next to the OH's face too. The OH woke up one morning to find himself surrounded by a half dozen toilet roll tubes and with a dog staring intently at him. I was laughing too hard to explain what was going on. The OH got the hint though and after a night's sterling effort, Rakim was finally able to bring me a pack of toilet rolls and receive his reward!

Interesting but it's not a new idea. Prototype This episode 13 was about a Robo Dog Sitter.

Very sad to hear this. Thank you for the wonderful work you've done over the past five years. Does this mean that the idea to safeguard pet care in the event of an emergency will be shelved too?

I'll start planning the next dog about four years before the youngest is ready to retire. That gives me two years to find the perfect dog and roughly two years to train it. However given that anything could happen to force an early retirement, I am always keeping an eye on dogs with certain qualities within the breed, just incase my four year plan suddenly needs to be kicked up a gear.

Say cheese, not sneeze

Edited: found answer elsewhere.

I know what you're going through right now. I was in this position about four weeks ago. It was so hard keeping it together whilst trying to keep things as normal as possible for her. We chose palliative care for a number of reasons. Know that there are wonderfully supportive people here in the land of DOL and that you are not alone, no matter which path you decide to take.

To me, pack hierarchy is to do with the social structure of the pack and how the individual dog's behaviour is goverened by their place in the hierarchy. This includes how they interact with the other dogs and humans, with resources, during play, in investigation, with marking, during greetings and response to a perceived threat to the group. There there is that polarising chestnut - leadership (aka alpha). To me, dominance and how it is displayed and enforced by dogs and humans is tied to where the dog sees itself and (in the case of the My Lab Bit Me thread) humans in it's hierarchy.