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Don't pay. If the owner has already paid for her to be lifetime registered then she's registered, no need to pay again.

Pay once and it's for life. Maybe she's from Victoria.

NSW pounds have to hold for seven days if not chipped and 14 days if chipped. if they are surrendered by the owners there is no holding period.

Pound Cowra Council on (02) 6340 2041 also the pound number.

Mini poodles are around the 1200 mark usually

I like to mix it up. I love my kelpies from a working and activity point of view but would never only own kelpies. I love having the JRTs and the maremma and the huge horse puppy. It's so wonderful to be able to share my home with so many different types and personalities. Life is never boring. The only breed I would never own are dachshunds, most staffy types (I love them but they aren't dog for me) and Labs. It's not that I hate them but I'm just not keen on them.

Bullarabs aren't a breed though. They're just a type and that type varies so widely. Bullarabs usually have Dane, working dog, a bit of sighthound and something heavier and the dogs can look like anything. Horse Puppy is not a Bullarab and has none in her but there is a dog down the road who is a bullarab and looks almost identical to Horse Puppy. In reality I'm pretty sure if the dog has no real defining qualities of a single breed then 'Large mix breed', 'Medium mix breed' etc will suffice. Our need to label everything is putting innocents in the line of fire. Many people think they are a breed. As does the ABBA, The Australian Bull Arab Association. My cousins are piggers and all have heaps of bull arabs are as you describe. But many people would call them a bullmastiff *. To me it is just a big dog type as well. I just think BULL ARAB that is where the BULL came from. After all mastiff is a type so I actually don't mind them being mastiff * but not a BULLMASTIFF*. Unlike pitbull which is a breed (thetically) but most think it is a type as well - that annoys me. I hate when commonly people use an actual breed name for a type - as you said. Incidentally, what is Horse Puppy - do you know his breeding. This week end I met a very large dog owned by an elderly lady who would be called bullarab or bull mastiff *. But she called her a Ban Dog. She was one of the most lovely dogs I have ever met and the absolute perfect dog for this owner who lived alone, couldn't walk much due to ill health and this girl was very happy laying at her feet all day. Polite, calm, barks when someone knocks and otherwise silent. The lady loved her to death. Horse puppy has a full great dane dad and a neo mastiffXkelpie mother

I'll never forget the day I had 3 of my dogs with me Baxter and Maybe who are everyone's best friend and Torque who can be sporadically toey. Anyway this lady saw my dogs and advanced for a pat. I politely told her that I'd prefer she didn't pat them. She completely ignored me and kept walking toward saying "Oh I have dogs at home". Torque backed right up and hid behind me, obviously trying to avoid her. SHE BYPASSED THE TWO THAT WERE FRIENDLY AND TRIED TO DUCK BEHIND ME TO PAT TORQUE! That's when I did the whole stepping in front of the dog and said "I wouldn't she'll bite you" to which she said "It's Ok I have dogs at home". She saw i wasn't going to let her so gave the two friendly ones a quick pat and walked on. It was so odd, some people are weird.

how can you determine this? I know them personally

I know quite a few dogs that are reactive just because their owners are.

The key is to act like it wasn't a big deal as Hank will look to you for the appropriate way to behave. So a dog roughed him up and bit him on the leg, to you it's horrible and to him it's something he's already forgotten about so don't remind him. :)

Sure it's not TELDE? As they've been going for 40 years http://www.nijateldeboxers.com/ There's also Thasrite which have been breeding since the 70s http://thasriteboxers.com/

Bullarabs aren't a breed though. They're just a type and that type varies so widely. Bullarabs usually have Dane, working dog, a bit of sighthound and something heavier and the dogs can look like anything. Horse Puppy is not a Bullarab and has none in her but there is a dog down the road who is a bullarab and looks almost identical to Horse Puppy. In reality I'm pretty sure if the dog has no real defining qualities of a single breed then 'Large mix breed', 'Medium mix breed' etc will suffice. Our need to label everything is putting innocents in the line of fire.

He is the one from Gundagai, but has been found :thumbsup: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

I was going to apply and got warned off by a fair few nurses because of that.

This is Horse Puppy, she isn't a bullmastiff (I know her full breeding and there is NONE in there) but according to 80% of the public, she is. In this day and age of Google you'd think people would know more but they know less. How hard would it be to Google 'Bullmastiff' and see what it looked like? UGH

He looks familiar. Do I know this one? Really hope you find him soon!

I've noticed a massive hike in the news reports of bullmastiffs and their crosses being blamed for dog attacks. Obviously MOST of these dogs are just random crosses and mix breeds and for some reason the media is reporting them as bullmastiffs and their crosses without having the slightest idea what a bullmastiff is or what it looks like. I'm so worried that Bullmastiffs will become the next unfairly labelled dog breed. Do you think there is ANY way we can combat this BEFORE it happens?

Probably were foxhounds or some kind of beagle hound cross then. They were in Glebe if that helps.

There is one at our obedience club, I thought it was a Foxhound at first Now I'm wondering if a few I thought were foxhounds in Sydney were actually harriers.

I didn't know Harriers were in Australia! Sorry bit off topic!

I've seen a few working dog types that were so bad at tail chasing they had to be PTS

Sounds like a neurotic behaviour. Is there any way you can share the video here?

When I first got the horse puppy she was the worst jumper and I've spent a lot of time training her out of it and then people encourage her to go it (even family and friends) no matter how much I try to explain that they shouldn't. She's 37kgs at 8mths. The last thing I need is people ignoring me and encouraging her because they won't like it when she's 50kgs and still doing it.

I believe it depends on the area. In my area it's usually working dog breeders and hunting dog breeders as well as bybers. You rarely see puppy farm dogs or ANKC dogs around here that are in the pound or in rescue.