Her Majesty Dogmad

Add to that the fact that some dogs need to be breed assessed or assisted with professional training, some are lucky to break anywhere near even at that price range. Most of the dogs I rescue need dentals or other tests. I also rescue Italian Greyhounds from interstate, have to board for quarantine period sometimes. The adoption fees rarely cover my costs either. :) When I said cover costs, I should have added for the basic essentials - desexing, heartworm testing, microchipping and vaccination.

You can rent citronella collars which might help. Buy Muscoban to spray the dogs - it's a brilliant fly repellent specially made for animals.

I think you are wrong. I don't consider it a high cost either. Is it expected that shelter and pound dogs should be free? If so, why? Why do you consider a dog from the pound as not of any value? The average rescues sells a dog for between $250 - $350. If Muttrus purchased the dog, desexed, it would have been within this range and it would have also been registered. A lot of rescues do not rehome rescues registered and the cost is borne by the adopter.. I'm a rescuer and I think most rescues would have to be charging $350 - $450 to cover costs, vet charges have gone up.

Wow, Rusty is gorgeous!! Just my cup of tea. What a dear little dog and well done for fostering him! If you need a couple more Devon Rexes, check out the RSPCA Somersby as they have 2 six year olds.

If you need to get the dog down to Sydney, Dog Movers are very good and not too expensive. If sending Lizzie interstate would be too upsetting for your friend, it might be an idea to have a look at Petrescue in QLD as there are probably many groups that don't use DOL and they might be able to help.

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound unsympathetic, it is a terrible situation for all. The rules of this forum are that you cannot post about undesexed private rehomings which is why I was wondering if this could be organised somehow.

Is there a JRT rescue in QLD?

And there's more, so much more.

But he denies that petshops are an issue.

I have been thinking about that lately and think you are right, it is so much easier to ensure you do not receive any negative feedback, on DOL is not so easy to hide or erase because it may not have such a biased reason for existing. Yes, funny how quickly the story about the Pound Rounds dog attacking a child disappeared. In a blurb I read of theirs the other day they say the pound staff are responsible for testing the dogs and knowing what they are like. Hmmmmmmmmm, does that mean they then take no responsibility for the things that happen after the dog gets out of the pound?

Yes, I'd like to thank Ninahartland for the huge job she does - I've rescued dogs from the threads she puts up and she doesn't just simply plonk photos into a new thread, she does so much other work behind the scenes. Her phone bill must be enormous, she's been a huge help to me previously and I really appreciate it. Anyone who takes pot shots at those who load these threads would obviously never have done it themselves and even if they tried they'd probably only last a week or two, it's a LOT OF WORK. So thanks to those that do this, the dogs who get saves thank you with their lives.

I think it's the irony, as someone else noted, that he's the head of an organisation that sells undesexed cats yet he's out hunting down the feral ones. Nevermind the photo, the hypocrisy is not a good look. Spot on Sheridan. He may be a good dog trainer but as the head of a major organisation based on the pet industry (and therefore a major contributor to the need for a rescue industry), he really should get his head out of the sand and go visting some of the pounds on a weekly basis or talk to the rescue groups that regularly take surrenders of petshop puppies, bought on a whim. I've had one recently ... bought from a Chatswood petshop but oops - owner found that job overseas just after buying the puppy. The thought that the dog would actually live for about another 16 yrs never entered their head.

I guess one of the beauties of social media is that you can delete any dissenting voices .... and that well suits some of the unscrupulous.

I feel like it is an honour roll, all the dogs on my list have been truly beautiful beings some of whom suffered for many years before I found them, for some it was too late to fix their medical issues but for whatever time I had them, they were truly loved.

Get ready for a long list and should anyone wonder, each dog had all the love, attention and vet care possible at the time. And no, just because I go through losing dogs on a fairly regular basis, losing them doesn't get any easier, I grieve long and hard for each of them. I miss them all as the individuals they were. All were rescue dogs so I've indicated how long I had them as well, some of their ages are approximate. I have lost 2 dogs in earlier times but haven't included. Name Type of Dog Age/Illness how long I had them 2007 Wonder-dog Foxie cross 7yrs/Brain tumour 2 yrs Gloria GSD cross 12 yrs/Ovarian cancer 6mths Pippa Terrier x 12 yrs/kidney failure 1 yr 2008 Cindy Westie x 14 yrs/back legs went 2.5 years Dixie Border T x 15 yrs/Cushings 7 yrs 2009 Luigi Italian Gyhd 16 yrs/neurological 9 yrs Herbie JRT x 12 yrs/Cushings 18mths Rompe Italian Gynd 5 yrs/jaw crumbled* 2 days *his jaw crumbled when my vet tried to remove his teeth which were left rotting in Bebe Tenterfield 11 yrs/crippled 2.5 yrs his head and he had many other issues, all of which could have been treated but it was too late when I got him - my website has the story: www.iggyrescue.com.au - Iggy Rescue was set up in his memory 2010 Sally Cattle dog x 12 yrs/liver cancer 2.5yrs Pepper Keeshond x 11 yrs/lung cancer 2 yrs 2011 Roly Aust Terrier x 18 yrs/old age 18mths Sienna Min Pin x 2 yrs/brain damage 6 mths and 2 dogs I rescued due to a brain tumour and advanced peritoneal hernia 2012 Taz Chi x 15 yrs/heart failure 10mths I'm happy to provide any advice to someone who might be facing any of the above illnesses. Dixie outlived medical expectations with her Cushings, she survived 4 yrs on meds rather than the expected 3 yrs. She had a pituitary tumour. I've currently got another Cushings dog whose been on meds for a couple of years, it's unfortunately common and sometimes hard to spot, diagnosis is also a challenge and expensive. During the years above, I've had between 4 and 7 dogs, including foster dogs, living with me at certain points and as I take the older and sometimes sicker dogs, I'm going to lose them no matter how hard I might try.

The day that my rescue is only organised and run via social media - SHOULD THAT DAY EVER COME - is the day I will be out of rescue altogether.

Sometimes I dream of getting a nice life with holidays, clothes, furniture etc. like other people and not being dragged down by the depression of beating my head against a brick wall, swimming against the ever growing tide of unwanted animals. But then I rescue another dog instead of giving it all away.

Surely when arranging with the pound there would be clarification of the description of the dog alongside it's no? Would the volunteer pick up person not have noticed it wasn't the right dog? For rescue groups I have gone to collect a "female" dog from HP previously, listed as one on their website etc and when I got there I have found said female dog had a male appendage. This has happened to me more than once and I have called the rescue group to tell them and see if they still want a dog. I guess what I'm saying is it would be safer to give the person collecting the dog a good description/picture of the dog you want them to get and have a discussion with the pound. Rescue is a thankless task and so is doing the pound threads. Noone is perfect but I really think the last person that deserves any blame here is someone who spends their time doing such threads, it takes hours. And not only that but they themselves are also running a rescue and God knows that is extremely demanding. I'm rather disillusioned with rescue these days, it's hard to know who to trust, who you can rely on. Some VERY unethical people hanging about with the aim of making a dollar and causing some horrific events to occur due to their recklessness. Powerlegs is NOT one of those people and I'd like to thank her for all those hours she puts in behind the scenes, to do these threads and the many other things she does for rescue.

Hi dogmad, do you know if this dog still needs help? At the weekend he was still available - do you want the details?

A genuine question, dogmad. I'm interested in what information puppy buyers are given or can get... when buying from a petshop. How did you, or the person who surrendered the purebred puppy, know that it was indeed originally from a particular registered breeder? It's just that I know of people who've been simply told, in pet stores, that a puppy is 'purebred'.....but no written documentation is shown or given. And certainly not the name of the breeder. I've wondered if it would be impossible for a buyer to know, with certainty, if the puppy was from a registered breeder... or from a backyard unregistered breeder (we have one of those nearby, 'producing' a small breed). I'm not disputing that some registered breeders sell to petshops (there is no legal barrier). It's just that the UQ research dug out quite a number of the backyard unregistered breeders. I've met someone who enquired about a 'purebred' puppy, directly, from one of those. And was shown a home-typed piece of paper with the mother & father's names on it. And was also shown the pedigree papers for the father. In this particular case i do have some inside information but won't go further than that on a public forum. However, just as you say, the new owner was not given any papers from the breeder by the petshop. The owner thought the "papers" were the purchase document from petshop, ownership etc. In another case of a petshop selling a purebred "chihuahua" to a couple who gave it to their daughter as a gift - she was going to live overseas .... what can you say about people's stupidity ..... the "chihuahua" turned out to be enormous but that's because it was some sort of kelpie cross!!

And at least with one breed in Sydney, this is already happening. Much to my disgust. I've already rescued 1 unwanted purebred puppy, 3 months after purchase. As for the PIAA, as a rescuer I think I can smell it from here.

An Italian Greyhound, a Maltese, a Westie cross, a JRT cross and a Foxy/Italian Grey cross. They are aged between 8 and 13 and get along famously with each other, play, curl up and love each other. I often foster as well and they welcome the other dogs and teach them how life should be.

I don't like feral cats, I don't like this photo but it doesn't offend or upset me nearly as much as the latest thing in Africa - hunt a giraffe and then stand, like a moron posting for a picture with your gun, acting proud of killing a magnificent animal that doesn't do anything or anyone any harm. Feral cats are a menace, giraffes aren't.

Yes quite. As someone who runs a breed rescue, there is a particular registered breeder who seems to sell their dogs to just anyone that can pay and we keep getting their dogs from these unsuitable homes. Yes, we can rehome them but the dogs have had to deal with an unsuitable environment for some length of time or the pound .... I've contacted this particular breeder to be told they are not interested.

Why did they pick the dog in the first place or did they perhaps let the kids pick the dog? Maybe they got the dog for the wrong reasons. I got a second dog (I now have more than that) as a companion to my very gentle IG, every other dog we'd looked at had attacked him. I felt he was lonely so brought her home, she was an older scruffy terrier. I didn't feel a strong bond with her at first but she was an easy little dog, one of the best. When I lost her I was bereft, I'd had her for 7 yrs, she'd welcomed many foster dogs here, she'd been so easy I was guilty of sometimes not appreciating what a treasure I had. If I could bring any of my dogs back, she'd be one of them. It's very sad for this dog that it isn't appreciated. I agree that they need to put in more effort, instead of just feeling negative about it all they need to try and see what are the good things about the dog (why they picked the dog in the first place - there must have been something right) and work at it.