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Is she rehoming because of the fire or looking for temp care?

Is she rehoming because of the fire or looking for temp care?

Is she rehoming because of the fire or looking for temp care?

Is she rehoming because of the fire or looking for temp care?

Advantage or Advocate are what I use. You can buy cheaply online and I use them on the 1st of the month religiously plus I wash all their bedding every week. Could you have Wandering Jew in the yard? Normally with fleas you see a lot of irritation at the base of the back, nr the tail.

There's also a scammer in Sydney who takes people's unwanted crossbreed pets, undesexed and free to good home, and then onsells them asap for up to $350 - still without any vet work ...

I know of some fantastic rescue orgs who put a higher price on some sought after breeds and puppies so that they are not "on sold", I agree with this. aren't the mutts just as valuable? I get where the OP is coming from. Yes of course they are, though there are some particular breeds who are at risk of being onsold for profit. Increasing the adoption fee often avoids that happening. ETA Particularly as they are desexed prior to rehome, breeding is not possible. I would have thought vetting the new homes would help with that? and as you say they are, or should be, desexed. Anyone trying to buy a purebred on the cheap from rescue to on sell wouldn't be interested in a desexed dog anyway. Actually some are dog brokers and know they can on-sell a purebred for more money, desexed or not.

I've rescued quite a few dogs that have cost me $700 but I cannot recoup that. If I have another dog that has cost me $300 for the vetwork and I sell that dog for $400, would you have a problem with that? I would have housed the dog and housetrained it but i don't charge for that. There are the vet bills and the training but there are other costs you may not have calculated that I also cannot charge for and won't usually recoup - quarantine fees, air/road transfers (I run a national rescue), my petrol and tolls ..... Rescuing dogs is not for the faint hearted or tight of purse, it's bloody expensive and time consuming.

So are you saying that never, under any circumstances (including fright such as backfiring car engine, thunder etc) will your dogs leave your front yard? What sort of dogs do you have? I don't believe there is one dog that will always be 100% reliable. I've read about a person's Border Collie - 100% reliable according to the owner, until the day it suddenly ran out in front of a car because it believed it saw someone it knew across the road - it died. There's something to be learned from that. I'd rather take my very slim chances than live in a bubble. Each to their own, I guess. So long as you're clear that you're not actually taking any chances, your dog is. You're risking the life of a creature unable to make that choice for itself. I also let them run loose at offleash parks with other dogs. They occasionally swim with at the beach where they could drown or be eaten by a shark. Sometimes they jump over hurdles and risk injuring themselves landing incorrectly. If only there could be more legislation to prevent such dangerous activities. A completely fatuous remark and actually irrelevant. The question I asked you is can your dogs leave your front yard? Yes - they can rush at people, dogs, cars passing by - then you'll be breaking the law and perhaps your dog will be injured or killed. Zero out of 10 on the scale of being a good dog owner. Decent people consider others in everything they do, simple as that.

Parting with an animal undesexed is not ethical rescue at all. Appalling.

Have you contacted Rescued with Love or checked Petrescue?

So are you saying that never, under any circumstances (including fright such as backfiring car engine, thunder etc) will your dogs leave your front yard? What sort of dogs do you have? I don't believe there is one dog that will always be 100% reliable. I've read about a person's Border Collie - 100% reliable according to the owner, until the day it suddenly ran out in front of a car because it believed it saw someone it knew across the road - it died. There's something to be learned from that.

That's great Nina!

RIP Barney, hugs to you

I've got a problem with some people in my suburb, not particularly nice people. They have a 2 foot front fence which doesn't extend across the driveway (there are NO gates). Then on the side, they have a permanently open gate. Right at the back of the house is a small fenced area. Every morning (and presumably in reverse), they walk either 1 or 2 staffies from the driveway side around to the back of the house (no collars, no leads). They pass the ungated driveway, 2 foot high front fence, open side gate and then go into the fenced part. Several times I've been walking my dogs on the pavement adjacent to their side fence/open gate when they've come round the corner with the large adult staffy who has rushed the fence - luckily not noticing the gate is open and proceeded to appear extremely dog aggro at my dogs. Yes, some dogs do defend their properties in this manner, I understnad that. My 5 kilo dogs do not respond, they are not posing any threat but are scared witless by this display of aggression. The teenager in charge closes the gate as the dog doubles back to them. One second earlier, on each occasion and the dog would have come straight through the gate, right at us. The dog has come out when it saw a small dog crossing the road but luckily the owner called it - I saw it myself. I've asked them several times to keep the gate closed although this is completely insufficient as they still have the unfenced driveway and 2 foot front fence to content with. The dogs have no collars on and i've now had to stop walking that way. But why should I? What happens if some innocent person comes along past their drive way when they open their door? And this is how dogs get mauled or worse. These people do not give a ---t.

Nina does a fantastic job of coordinating the rescue of dogs in the pound, there's a lot of work, endless hours of phone calls and emails. Yay for Nina!

Daisy - are they home during the weekday?

Can anyone recommend a good greyhound vet? Pref. near the northern side of Melbourne please.

Daisy - I could help you with this but not until next weekend - i'm not nearby and am going all over Sydney today and out tomorrow for an appiontment i can't change

Thank you, I was obviously tired - i have certainly been overdoing things lately in my world of dog rescue, so apologies. I just reread the OP's first post and I can see that the plan is they hope to look after each other's dogs when on holidays. However, it also mentions that there is another dog living with the Vizsla cross that it dominates. That would mean that the GR would be with 2 other dogs rather than just one and that those two dogs already have issues. It would def. not be advisable to add the GR to the mix. Can I suggest (if you don't want to kennel the dog) that the OP finds an organisation like "Don't Fret Pet" or someone who could move in to the OP's home and care for the dog. There are other alternatives to kennels but even that would be preferable to placing the GR with the Vizsla cross and it's friend.

I think living in the same conditions as they forced upon those poor animals for a couple of years would do them good .... lowlifes.

I shrink my photos in Powerpoint and then save them to post, not as good as some other people's pics but it does work!

Yes, in a couple of cases but at the time that I let them go, there were extenuating circumstances. In both cases (a few years apart), the circumstances changed a few months after each dog went but I have to console myself that I did what was best at the time and could not have foreseen the changes that came. I cried for months after one of them went, he was truly my heart dog. 2 years after he was adopted, the owner became very ill and I went and fetched him. We had 18 months together before he passed away. I am glad for that second chance that we had and I know he was very happy here.

And here's the answer - "My dog was desexed ..... and his is still entire". As a rescuer, I can tell you I would never rehome a dog to a home where the existing dog was entire, it normally (not always) leads to issues. Is his dog definitely a purebred Vizsla? I don't think that is typical of the breed. I have noticed that in certain places in NSW they are calling dogs "Viszla crosses" when actually they are most likely pitbull crosses. Vizslas aren't all that common. You need to either get him to desex his dog (if he's not showing or breeding then there is no reason not to) or separate your dogs permanently, asap. Hoewver, you've still got to come home and presumably interact with the dogs in the house? then someone has to move out, this is a very stressful situation for both dogs and therefore responsible owners who don't want to see their dogs stressed.

Some of the vets are interested in the dollar only and take to the work like a duck to water however, for most of them it is something that distresses them i'm sure. I saw one vet who has the contract for a large pound in NSW speak at a public meeting and it was very emotional for him, my heart went out to him as he spoke of destroying so many young, health animals mostly with lovely natures.