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I occasionally take my kelpie up to visit the old farmers in the nursing home. They love her and always tell me stories about their working dogs and I also gain some knowledge and she loves the pats. I used to take my Maremma up but he loses too much hair despite all my grooming so he wasn't ideal, they did love him though.

If you read it through it's not entirely linear.

It so is. It's turning into The Man Thread but with more maremmas. :laugh:

I know LLDR in SA caters to mainly seniors and does a great job :)

The perpetual question.

Sounds like something they'd do but without proof, who knows.

That is hard, because even if you see potential in a dog that acts fearful or aggressive you still have to write down exactly how it behaved and sometimes/quite often that can affect the likelihood of the dog being adopted, even if it's probably more likely caused by the stress of the pound environment.

My friends kill their own turkeys and the dogs get the carcasses if they debone the turkeys

I think what Juice is getting at is not so much that these whippets are muzzled but that this lady believes they can't start anything because they have muzzles on. Apparently in this lady's mind, the only way for a dog to gain an aggressive response from another dog is to bite. So she's putting her dogs and other people's dogs in a risky situation because she doesn't understand the basics of dog behaviour.

I have great pound cooperation, I find the hardest thing is for the dogs that have been there a while before I can get the pound and they're so hyped up from being kenneled that I can't get an accurate read on them as they've gone a bit kennel crazy.

Dog parks are more trouble than they're worth. I stay well away from them because of stupid owners or people that have out of control reactive dogs. I hope this woman's whippet doesn't get injured or killed. Not all dogs are dog park suitable and people need to accept that.

Torque has a thing about getting as close as she can to your face and then licking her crotch.

What if your dog goes missing or is stolen? So does all your money :laugh:

Haha nice job, Scout! Although it wasn't very dramatic, he needs to work on his acting skills :laugh:

I'm thinking about sleeping on the lounge tonight

Maybe thinks that coming into my room and walking dirty paws all over the bed is acceptable...it's not.

Torque sleeps on ym bed at night and last night she must have been cold because i woke up and she was spooning me under the covers. It was a weird feeling. :laugh:

I had a budgie that you would pretend shoot and it would backflip and lay 'dead' on the bottom of his cage. the neighbour's kids thought it was a hoot. Loved the video, the food face with the treats is so cute.

Leaving the patient is a big no no, you NEVER do it. Someone always has to be monitoring and a vet can't operate and monitor. You're meant to monitor constantly and fill in the anaesthetic forms every 5 mins so you can have a record and the anaesthetics machine also keeps and saves a record.

the breeder has no right to the dog once it's bought by someone else. The CC could take the breeding of a limited reg dog to court since the paperwork says no breeding but they would have to have rock hard evidence to prove that the dog was going to be bred and/or the puppies that are on the ground were not an accident. Good luck with that. It's a hard one.

They'd be bitten I think, as I have a maremma and he doesn't take kindly to people just walking in unless I say it's ok. I have no doubt that if someone tried to enter my yard ignoring the barking the maremma would at least be very serious about them getting out and perhaps one of my kelpies would ankle them in back-up. That's why we lock the gate when we're not home.

Well with my girl having a name like Cougar, she is obviously something to be feared. My one is called Ammo, because he is a killer :D

They're all blood thirsty killers :p

For their Driving Dogs campaign, SPCA Auckland, along with MINI New Zealand, had animal trainer Mark Vette and his team teach rescue dogs Monty, Porter, and Ginny how to drive. The campaign’s aim was to change some common misconceptions about the intelligence of rescue dogs. In this series of videos, you can see how the dogs learned to drive and, in this video, you can watch Porter drive a MINI Countryman around a track. The specially modified was customized for the dog’s use by Ikon Engineering. (I, for one, welcome our new driving dog overlords.) link

Suing a vet isn't the same as suing someone you sold a puppy to. Once the puppy is theirs it's theirs, the dog would still be yours if a vet castrated it.