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There's the cutest Tibetan Spaniel "Frankie" on mine from Heaven Can Wait animal shelter.

Does this person still have all the other animals?

Also does your dog have IBS or IBD? Just seen both terms written. They are different.

I'm assuming you've done a complete veterinary elimination diet? We had my IBD dog on Wellness when it first came out in Australia, he did quite well on it at the end. Otherwise he was on a home made diet after finding what he could/could not have after an elimination diet. It's not just finding a protein, you need to find appropriate carbs too, and add in vitamins. He was also on low dose pred.

Aww! When they do that completely wrapped I always think they must have such cold noses.

Photo needed for sure! 20 coats, they would have to have their own wardrobe! At least you could match their outfits to yours.

Thanks guys, I'll give him some more blankets to snuggle into and see how he goes growing undercoat. There's not much there at the moment. He did do his second seasonal drop not too long ago. Hopefully his coat gets thicker this winter than it has previously. Unfortunately one new neighbour is dodgy (I've found stuff thrown over the fence) so I don't let him outside without supervision, that will probably impact coat growth too. But we are outside often and won't have the heater going too early. Rebanne, I can't see greyhounds long beautiful legs curling up as tight! :laugh: Does phoebe have a onesie? My friends greyhound loves his onsie and gets so excited to get it put on!

If I was going to get him one I was looking at these. As we do plan on trialling eventually (finally entered in some rally :D) . We play at agility and run and hike most days now, so he's an active dog.

They are fantastic! Keeping him warm his brand new! Spent the last few years keeping him cool! :laugh: One of his not so comfortable dog balls

Yes I've been told the winters are similar to my home town but Nova had only been there in the milder months or visiting in winter. Not living there over winter. I was hoping he would grow some more coat for the colder climate :/ maybe it just hasn't been enough time yet. I'm enjoying it though!

He's only 3 next month! We have just moved to a cold climate from living in Wagga before though. Where summers reach 40+

I'm actually getting the the point of seriously considering whether I need to lightly rug Nova. He has been curling up into blankets and pillows so tightly at night it's uncomfortable to look at (I measured it last night at under 40cm dog ball lol). He is cold to touch. And he refuses to move. He can't be comfortable! He doesn't have a lot of coat for an Aussie and never really has. But maybe he just needs to grow more undercoat and that would prevent it??

Bahaha. Great quote! I would sell my soul for a Dalmatian, but similarily I'm happy to wait until LUA's are more common in Australia and wait for one of them.

It's a google image search none of them have context. I just did the same for 'dogs in Australia' and I also got some mange ravished puppies, some dingoes dead and strung up on a fence, and oh look, the exact same stock images of aggressive dogs...

Opportunity - or rather lack of opportunity to breed with same species. Something like those creepy zoo people who interbreed lions with tigers (may they rot in hell). Lions and tigers are sufficiently different genetically that they produce infertile offspring so they are still closer to the generally understood definition of species than dingoes and dogs, which do produce fertile offspring. Dingoes, dogs and wolves would be classified as the same species under the basic definition because they all produce fertile offspring (not sure about dingoes x wolves but chances are they would produce fertile offspring), because the morphology (appearance) is significantly different they have been classified as seperate species, so now they are referred to as seperate species, Canis lupis (grey wolf), Canis familiaris (dog) and Canis dingo (dingo) whereas in the past they were all Canis lupis with dogs and dingoes considered a subspecies of the grey wolf. It's all mainly semantics anyway but I suppose it's useful in terms of management to understand that they do have significant differences which are measurable and consistent across the species, as the original study suggests this is important when looking at the role of the dingo in Australia as opposed to that of wild dogs as there are differences in behaviour as well as morphology and this impacts on their role as predators. Its not that simple with panthera hybrids either. A Liger and a lion have had a cub before (liliger apparently). I think it depends on the cross and the sex of each. It happens every now and then with true Hybrids. You will once in a blue moon get a fertile mule too, but only in females.

The difference is that this is this vets ONLY service. She doesn't do anything else, no general check ups, no broken bones, she doesn't even have a clinic, she only does at home euthanasia.

Dr Marie De Lint is a vet with a thriving practice, but no clinic. She sees all of her clients at their place and it is always, without fail, for the same reason. Dr De Lint specialises in euthanasing people's beloved pets among the everyday comforts of home. "I think it makes it so much easier for the pet to not have to be bundled up in the car and be driven to the clinic," she said. "It's familiar smells and sounds — sometimes I've got a cricket match on in the background and people say 'I'll go and turn the telly off' and I say 'no, keep that going because it's part of your home and it's normal'." Dr De Lint started her unusual practice in 2008. Cats and dogs are obviously the mainstay, but over the years Dr De Lint has been asked to send pet rabbits, sheep and even an old goat to sleep. Dr De Lint is not the only vet who thinks, if possible, animals should die at home. Dr Kylie Green agreed not many dogs or cats would swap a trip to the park with a visit to the vet. "There are very few animals that enjoy going to a vet's clinic, it upsets them," she said. Euthanasing pets is a key part of veterinary work and Dr Green said it could be satisfying. "What I mean by satisfaction is we can end an animal's suffering, they don't have to starve to death, we can help them go peacefully and painlessly," she said. But she also argued that could come at a tremendous emotional cost to vets. "There is a lot of burn-out in this industry, there is a lot of compassion fatigue, there is a lot of suicide and I think this is one of the reasons why," Dr Green said. Relationship between pets and owners drives vet to continue work Dr Green has no doubt Dr De Lint's service takes some of the pressures of putting pets to sleep off vet practices, which often, because of insurance coverage or staffing issues can not offer home euthanasia to their clients. For Dr De Lint, there is no respite and she is often asked how she keeps doing what she does. "It's a really good question and I ask myself that sometimes and clients ask me all the time and I think I can keep doing it because I am fascinated by people and their relationships with their animals," Dr De Lint said. "I just think there is a really deep need for this type of service." Richard Tucker holding Ollie and Mark Aistrope holding Lillie PHOTO Mark Aistrope holding Ollie and Richard Tucker with Lillie who was recently euthanased at their Adelaide home. SUPPLIED: RICHARD TUCKER Mark Aistrope and Richard Tucker allowed the ABC into their home when their 12-year-old Keeshond, Lillie, was put to sleep. An illness had sent the dog completely blind in just three weeks. Mr Aistrope explained, despite waiting and hoping for Lillie to adjust, she could not. "Yesterday, I had come home and she had made a mess in the house which isn't an issue," he said. "The issue was she had walked everything all over the place and was actually lying in it sleeping and that's just not something she would do. "So Richard and I discussed it and based on how she'd been behaving so distant and sad we decided now is the time." Home experience a 'world away' from previous dog's passing When Dr De Lint arrived she broke out a tin of dog treats and offered one to Lillie ... the dog's sight may have gone, but her stomach still worked perfectly. She then outlined the mechanics by which Lillie's life would end. "I do things in steps because I want to make things really easy for Lillie and what I will do first is give her a little injection I call my feel-good cocktail," Dr De Lint said. After that injection, Lillie is in a deep sleep. Two urns holding the ashes of pet dogs PHOTO Flowers were placed on Lillie's urn before being placed on the mantlepiece. ABC NEWS: SIMON ROYAL The vet and the two men sit on the floor with the dog, sharing stories about Lillie's life. After half an hour or so, they gently lift Lillie onto her favourite couch. Then as Mr Aistrope and Mr Tucker pat and hug Lillie, Dr De Lint administered the injection that brings things to a close. Mr Tucker said it was a world away from what happened when their first dog died in an emergency clinic. "It was all over and done within about 10 minutes and within 30 seconds of injecting her and leaving us alone, they came back in with a brochure and said would you like to pick an urn and we were just so devastated," Mr Tucker said. "It was a horrible experience. This was completely different, nobody wants to put their dog down, but this was the best it could possibly have been." A week after Lillie's death, Dr De Lint returned to Mr Aistrope and Mr Tucker's house, carrying a small white urn containing Lillie's ashes. The urn, decorated with lilies, will sit on the mantelpiece, next to the dogs Mr Aistrope and Mr Tucker had before.

I just caught this story on ABC. This is this vets only service, not just an add on to a clinic. http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-09/adelaide-veterinarian-specialises-in-euthanasing-pets-at-home/7285196

I agree with the above posters. Australian shepherds can be very prey driven dogs. Mine was a land shark as a puppy. Would herd and heel anything that moved and the only thing that stopped it was consistancy in his training from day one. You have two things you need to get this puppy used to completely separately. 1: The Leash walking 2: The Pram. I highly recommend attending a beginners obedience/training class if you haven't started already.

"An integral part of core vaccination of puppies is the 'booster' vaccine that has traditionally been given either at 12 months of ageor 12 months after the last of the primary series of puppy vaccines. The main aim of this vaccine is to ensure that a protective immuneresponse develops in any dog that may have failed to respond to any of the vaccines in the primary core series, rather than necessarily'boosting' the immune response. The delivery of this vaccine at 12 months of age is likely to have been chosen historically as a conve-nient time to request the owner to attend the practice for a first annual health check. This therefore implies that should an individualpuppy fail to respond to any of the primary core vaccinations, that puppy may be unprotected until it receives this 12-month vaccine.This might account for occurrences of infectious disease (e.g. canine parvoviral enteritis) in a proportion of vaccinated puppies atless than 12 months of age. The VGG has re-evaluated this practice and now suggests that veterinarians might wish to reduce thispossible window of susceptibility by bringing forward this vaccine from 52 weeks to 26 weeks of age (or indeed at any time pointbetween 26 and 52 weeks of age; however, 26 weeks of age provides a convenient timing). This practice will require that pet ownersclearly understand why this is recommended, because as indicated in Table 5, adopting such a protocol will mean that vaccinationstarted in a 6 or 7 week old puppy, might now entail up to five vaccine visits in the first 6 months of life. For core vaccines, after a 26week 'booster', another core vaccine would not be required for at least another 3 years. This new recommendation for vaccination at6 months of age as an alternative to vaccination at about 1 year of age is certainly not mutually exclusive to, and does not preclude, a1-year or 16-month 'first annual health check'. Many veterinarians are understandably keen to check the animals under their care ataround the time they reach skeletal maturity."

Australia IS onboard. This is the AVA protocol It is based on the WSAVA one. There is NEWER information in this, particularly regarding when to give the first shot AFTER puppy shots. I know all about the current AVA protocols, my vet follows them, and I completely agree with what you said earlier Haredown.

2015 World Vaccination Guidelines This is an earlier thread, read through this, updated information. Might be a while till Australia gets on board with the recommendations, but it's an interesting read.

Only had boys, both burried their bones.

I've seen it a couple of times, and I have attended a grand total of about 15 dog conformation shows in my entire life :) Yea, I've been to about the same amount and have seen 3 non awards, and that's only in the rings I've been paying attention too.

Great photos!