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In NSW, are people able to study for a vet nursing qualification if they don't work for a vet?

I always used to use Sandoz. Then I discovered the ingredients in Troy were exactly the same (and about 1/2 the price). Have been using it for 5 years (less the 2 when I didn't breed) without problems.

They are cute little fatties!!

Sorry to hear about your pups. There are thousands of things it could have been. I would be asking the vet to do a fecal swab for worms, particularly hookworms, on the remaining pups. I might get the mother swabbed too. I would also worm with something which kills hookworm. Do you still need to dose with Troy 2 days running? Drontal puppy kills hookworm.

Field Spaniels are very difficult to obtain, and I think a Clumber might be a lot bigger than they wanted + both would want to be inside. Sorry, don't know anythong about PBGV. Don't know that they are all that easy to get either.

Neither a cocker or a cavalier will be happy without full access to the house. The cavalier will be unhappy and fret, the cocker will become destructive. Cockers are high grooming maintenance. How about a beagle or a fox terrier?

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Very intelligent and easy to teach. They also love children. Easy care,very affectionate, playful, yet sensible. If allowed, they will bark, but a little training solves that. There are a couple of breeders on here who may see your thread. Come in black and cream (rare).

Offtopic, but can you please PM me the proof for this? Thanks. Why not go and look up the date yourself? Then you will believe it

They had 10% off last month.

Greylvr got a bulldog with problems. I have had a heap of boxers - I had the sicko boxer from hell at one time - gorgeous looking, nice temperament, lovely pedigree, expensively ill. Cost about 6 zillion in vet fees!! If that was my only boxer, I would be frightened off forever. However, I had two other well boxers at the time. Animals get stuff. All we can do as breeders is try to ensure that we are improving any problems we find. Sometimes we breed and know not what we do -- a year or so later, we find we have bred a dog with problems. I hope all of us will do something critical about it. Some will. "Improving the breed" doesn't just mean breeding dogs with a nice turn of stifle who will win lots of fringies.

No one is protective of anything - except the truth. We don't see the truth, and when someone tells the truth, it is simply ignored, not exciting enough, so myths can persist.

But your earlier contention is that you can tell the health of a british bulldog from photos. Some photos you can, same with any other breed. My daughter is a vet, with 3 degrees, and a couple of other qualifications. She is the practice manager at 3 large metropolitan vet clinics. She says there is NO WAy she could tell the health condition of ANY dog, or any condition from a photo. So you should be pleased to know you are better than a well qualified vet. By your own admission. And if you want to see healthy Bulldogs, look here There you will see Tillman skateboarding and surfing; Diesel another Bulldog, jetskiing, and Gus giving his plastic pool hell. In fact there are heaps of healthy bulldogs out there. Look on you tube. Making the same assertion AR does - they are all unhealthy. And Steve, there are plenty of purebred dog breeders, slugging along, as usual, breeding healthy dogs, and striving to fix problems. Like AR, you seem to fail to get that. Maybe they are not making enough noise Not that it matters. But the incorrectness and assumptions annoy me.

Bjelkier, obviously something terribly wrong with someone's interpretation of the standard. Have to suspect perhaps they never read the standard? This is probably where my vet heard this!! Sounds as if heaps of pugs eyes fall out. I've never seen any do it at shows, have to watch harder I don't think breeding pugs is for anyone except experts, with a mentor. But they will no doubt be the 2nd breed to go - or Cavaliers.

I am sorry you had had so much trouble with Cid - let's hope it all gets sorted, and I am sure you are very worried about him Please do tell the breeder. What does your vet think the problem with the tail is that affects his bowel? And, please do continue to feed what the vet recommended. He had reasons for that. Don't change his diet or if you want to, ask him first. Hope all goes well with you

Oh well, Neo Mastiffs will probably be one of the first to get the chop. :)

I was sent this with a heap of funny photos. Not funny. I am surprised the poor little dog is still standing.

Those most critical of purebred breeders are purebred breeders. Those most likely to report a registered breeder to council/RSPCA are registered breeders. And, yes, it will be AR who finish purebred dogs. Banning pitbulls, having tail docking banned, banning first degree matings - all at the feet of AR. Genocide of an entire breed; a law which caused about 1/3 of the breeders of those breeds to walk away. Megan, I don't have a side. I used to, but now I don't care. I do my own thing and enjoy that. When the dogs are finished I will be dead or nearly so, and I wont care. People should accept that there will always be dogs who are not 100% no matter how much care went into breeding them. There will always be breeders who care more for fringies than health, but they are very much in the minority. A breeder who has arguably bred more champions than any other breeder in Aus, heavily linebreeds, and the dogs are as healthy as can be, living into their teens, so fringies and health can marry. Alkhe Nobody is denying there are issues - the problem is that people believe the majority of the breeds are affected, the majority of breeders don't care or can't or wont fix the problems. Of course it is animal rights hoo ha. Began in US, migrated to Aust, PDE told the world that the majority of pb dogs were unhealthy. According to (??), I own a breed with a plethora of life endangering problems, and I am supposed to fix them. I am obviously hiding my head in the sand, I can't see any of these problems in my dogs. One has ear problems, she is 12, but her ear canals were narrow.

yes and yes it was a registered bull dog from show parents I know it happens but just really opened my eyes up to the breed and I still think they are very cute :) and I know there are good breeders out there looking to improve them but without drastic changes in looks I dont see it possible and if you did those changes would they still win in the show ring and if they cant would the good breeders still push forward? Tricky situation Maybe Bullbreed lover will answer. There seem to be some slightly different BB in England. Someone in UK who is into English shows etc on my facebook has one, interested to see how that turns out. I think the problem for a breeder is that you have x problem and it is difficult to eradicate, because most of the dogs in the breed have the same problem. I also think that there are a few breeds - bulldogs, pugs are two, that are not for the faint hearted. I don't think I would ever have enough experience or expertise to breed a correct pug or bulldog. I think too, that many people who are new to breeding love one of these breeds and embark on breeding them, without fully understanding the extension of the standard. With all brachy breeds, the nose is short, but in each breed, there are compensatory factors - large wide mouth, large open nostrils, nose roll etc which mean the dog is fine. But the trick is getting it all together in the one dog. And if a lot of the other dogs of the breed are incorrect your chances of getting it right have just gone down the gurgler. Melzelwelza Wrong. That's what AR wants you to think. And you could elucidate the "terrible breeding practices" of which you speak?

Thanks Greylvr. I suppose this was just a few years ago, and it was a registered bulldog? Sorry you had the experience.

Thanks for the interesting article from Norway, Mita. They have it right ... and the 10 rules are the rules all breeders should follow and the good ones do follow. + basic knowledge of pedigrees and how to read them, and genetics should be a requirement. Crisovar Pshwar!! Not good enough, definitely not good enough. Steve, as you are in agreement with Megan, please tell me which breeds need airconditioning to survive in 30 degrees? Don't say pekingese. There is far too much generalisation. Someone heard something from someone who read it in the paper and so it is passed on. But no one seems to know any stats about it. My vet told me pugs' eyes fall out. On questioning, he told me he had never seen it happen, he had never been told by anyone he knew that they saw it happen. However, he knew it was true. So don't tell me about unhealthy breeds, show me the money.

The US shelters are not HSUS - they are state owned humane society shelters. Megan, I didn't have issue with any poster in this thread I was just commenting on the situation. However, you said The dog world never believed it was important enough for some organisation with zillions would try to close it. Don't make the mistake of thinking it is pedigree dogs, it is ALL dogs but pedigree are visible. Pit bulls were first, pedigree dogs were second. You assert that some breeds are in very big trouble (bolded). Can you tell me what breeds, and what the trouble is please? Some problems have been identified. Fixing a problem - even a small one - is not done in weeks or months, but in years. I understand bulldogs have been bred away from caesarians. To do that, you would need to breed from a dog, or dogs, which did not need caesars. It would then take 2 or 3 years to see if you had been successful. To see an overall improvement would take 10 - 20 years depending on the numbers bred. I don't care any more - I used to once - I have a couple of excellent dogs, and I will be dead (or near to it) when they remove our right to own dogs. You don't need to believe it Megan, you can believe whatever you like, but you need to realise that the dogs are on their way out - without some heroic efforts by the CC's breeders and the public, which wont happen because the public believes they are diseased and unhealthy. It is a shame people don't have hindsight to see what has already happened to the dog world. You don't even have to look to the future to see what looms.

:laugh: There are a lot of extremists out there. Here is an article from a US paper. Wayne Pacelle is the president or CEO of HSUS - animal rights. They collect donations for their shelters but don't have any shelters. I think they are currently being examined by congress. As well as "no pets" there is also vegetarianism .... They are on the job 100% of the time. Because dogs seem such a sort of small and harmless activity, and a hobby, no one in dogs "got it" for quite a long time. I hate saying anything because I sound like a nutter ... but ah, who cares?? :laugh:

Hotfurball, you have obviously missed the carry on about AR and dogs. Ingrid Newkirk, ex president of PETA said Ingrid Newkirk, Animals, May 1993 and Ingrid Newkirk, The Harper's Forum Book, Jack Hitt, ed., 1989, p.223No one took her seriously, except her followers, who have almost reached their goals. Even bringing "companion animal" into the language instead of "pet" changes the connotation, and you will not see "pet" written anywhere much. Dog breeders, particularly those over 50, are aware that what AR has planned will come to pass, so they are making hay while they can - you beaut champion imported dogs at huge expense, AI, developing lines at huge expense ..... their last hurrah, as there is not much time left. Her aims have been fostered by such places as Sydney Uni which wanted to control the way those shonky purebreds were bred, by the English government which has moved legislation in line with Jemima Harrisons' "Pedigree Dogs Exposed" which was an untruthful and sentationalized video on pedigree dogs in England. Each little nibble into the fancy drives more away - finally there will be no one left and they will blame those damn breeders who walked away!!!

the cropped ears on the bone-mouthed sharpei at 6:09 is the thing that unsettled me the most - or did noone else notice it? Yes both, ears are not a problem - hindquarters are