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Basic question now: How big a bag is your first aid kit in and where did you get it. Pics encouraged!! Colour is a given - red!!

Yes please. This is for minor issues, not for when you need a vet.

Pav could you please add to the medicines in your kit saying what you use them for?

What should be in it folks? I'm keen to put a good first aid kit together and am seeking input as to what drugs etc you should have on hand for common emergencies. I'll add one - discussed with my Whippet mentor today. If folk add others, recommended dosage where applicable would be useful and i'll copy them all into this first post. Pav Lova - this is your big chance!! Polarmine - low dose antihistamine - useful for stings and allergic reactions. Dodger came in from outside last night looking very puffy around the eyes. Likely to have been a sting of some kind I think.

The best advice I can give is don't be in a rush to get her home. IV fluids are crucial to recovery from this condition. If she is still flat, I strongly recommend another overnight stay.

Want to know about a breeder/prefix? Never underestimate the power of Google. :cool:

How is your girl this morning Donatella??

SB: Ah, the first allegation of "group think". Here we go. The only people I am interested in protecting are those who own dogs that pose no threat to society but who, by virtue of half arsed, ineffective legislation now find themselves with dogs on the wrong side of BSL. No BSL here in the ACT. You'd think it would be a hotspot for serious dog attacks but it simply isn't. Go figure. Do yourself a favour before you make a complete goose of yourself and go and read about BSL in Canada and the contrast taken by Calgary - it will show you what REALLY works to keep dangerous dogs out of society.

Yep. Primarily due to dehydration though so you needn't worry about that.

Yeah, right. Over to you Rumpole - I bow to your superior knowledge of the legal system.

Very possible. If not well treated, they could carry a high bacteria load. Ask your vet but I'm dead wary of what i feed as treats these days. No pigs ears here. Can you link the timing of the symptoms to those chews? If so, then you can eliminate one trigger. Count your blessings. It sounds mild. My poor Darcy had 72 hours on a drip the first time he got it.

Congratulations. You've just proven you know very very little about law. People charged with theft are obliged to prove squat. It is for the crown to prove the case against the accused beyond reasonable doubt. The accused doesn't even have to GIVE evidence if they choose not to. Next...

That was going to be my suggestion - one of my dogs has had two bouts of HGE. She's where she needs to be - IV fluids are crucial to recovery from this disease. I have a few suggestions for next time she starts to vomit - but hopefully in your case there won't be a next time. Have you thought about what the trigger might be? It will be a toxin or a bacteria most likely. Have these bouts been after something like a pigs ear??

My dogs will be happy, even if my wallet isn't

Breed.

Is is the law in most states that all pups be microchipped prior to sale. And you pay more for some crossbreds in pet shops than you pay for health tested parents breeds from ANKC registered breeders. .But it isn't purchase price that determines whether or not a dog gets dumped. Once again, it is when the dog fail to live up to its owner's expectations (which with uninformed purchases are often unrealistic) that sees it at the pound. And yes, there is research on that too. Then I suggest you do so to the appropriate canine control. Veiled assertions about knowledge of wrong doing here won't accomplish anything. Given that ANKC breeders can't register a litter if one is born to a bitch every season and are restricted in the numbers of litters any bitch can produce, surely you'd have to agree that this is a positive step against "over breeding'. However if you're concluding that dogs end up in pounds because too many are bred, again you would be misinformed and that there is research (actually conducted to inform the mandatory desexing debate) that refutes that. Preaching to the choir on that. However you're the one who made a blanket statement that it "should be harder for breeders". Crikey, how much harder do you want it to be for responsible breeders when there are plenty of "breeders" out there who don't pay any attention to the laws they are subject to now???

No.

You can't google for an answer unless you have some idea of what you're looking at. Hang out with purebred dog nerds long enough and take a look at their bookshelves and you'll find that most have a pretty good feel for rare breeds, particuarly in the Group they exhibit in.

Whose mess? 20% of the dogs born in this country are whelped by ANKC registered breeders. Yet the pounds aren't full of ANKC registered purebred dogs that have been dumped by their owners are they? If you want to mop up the mess, it pays to be certain of who's making it before you take steps to clean it up. Lumping all "breeders" into the one basket is hardly fair on those doing the right thing. great another topic - my attention span is not good enough too keep up with the last. your right it's hardly fair, so 20% you say, then to make a comparison we would have to assume that about 80% (in pound/rescue) would be non-ANKC dogs and about 20% would be, if the number comes out much less than 20% you would be on to something - then you would have to consider cause and effect - do some fraction of the 80% dodge ANKC breeders on financial grounds etc. if yr gonna quote stats then you shouldn't prolly make these statements; Yet the pounds aren't full of ANKC registered purebred dogs that have been dumped by their owners are they? me and you both don't know that - i would guess you are right but with out finding out the actual numbers and scaling it to the numbers sold by each and determining cause and effect it just quoting stats to obfuscate. Actually, for the ACT I do know that and I'm not obfuscating about anything. If you're going to hurl bricks at breeders, then expect those who aren't contributing significantly to the issue of unwanted dogs to take issue with it. I also know that pups sourced from petshops are OVER represented in the dumping stats where I live because the RSPCA collect such information. I'm not pulling these figures out of thin air. Add to this the Uni of Qld research that found that responsibly bred purebred dogs were far less likely to be dumped than other dogs and I think you can take the guesswork clear out of the issue. There are no simple answers to complex problems and "desex em all" only harms the responsible. Vets cant' desex dogs they never see and a not insignificant proportion of the sources of unwanted dogs fit into that category.

I agree. I can't understand why the parents of the kid haven't made him take the dog back, unless he was acting on their behalf. I sure as hell would be looking into who owns the dog, if one of my kids brought a dog home. Assuming of course, that the dog made it home.

So are people like me who just adopted a rescue "Bull Breed" a fool? Such narrow minded views, especially on a dog lovers forum give me the irrits. I think it behoves those rehoming such dogs in BSL states to protect both dogs and new owners by getting them assesssed. Removes foolishness from the equation. :) There are options beyond letting them die that don't bring heartbreak and legal bills to new owners.

Whose mess? 20% of the dogs born in this country are whelped by ANKC registered breeders. Yet the pounds aren't full of ANKC registered purebred dogs that have been dumped by their owners are they? If you want to mop up the mess, it pays to be certain of who's making it before you take steps to clean it up. Lumping all "breeders" into the one basket is hardly fair on those doing the right thing.

Sweet - will save me a trip to Melbourne next time. :)

Norwegian Buhund?

I'm sorry. Which part of "legislation restricitng dog breeds doesn't make communities safer" aren't you grasping? What's always been done is BSL and what's always been achieved is squat. There IS a working alternative but it is more resource intensive than a vote in Parliament. And quite frankly what the hell does a coroner know about dog behaviour???