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My dog chews the necks. She gets one in the morning when I leave for work. The vet had a look at her teeth last consultation and said they are fine on one side but the other side is getting tartar build up. Seems Millie only chews them on one side of her mouth. What about those Greenie things you can buy? I had a sample packet sent to me.

I have an ex pound dog who had no training but now she is perfectly behaved and her recall is about 95% (the other 5% is when she sees a friend arriving and has to go out to their car to greet them - then she is deaf to me). I only found out how good her recall was by mistake. I was walking her and we were a few blocks from home and her collar snapped and she kept trotting beside me. She did this all the way home and when she saw another dog, a firm "Come!" from me and she just wagged her tail and didn't run off to greet the other dog. I had to be firm though in my sternest voice. I let her off lead the other week to play with a red kelpie. They ran to the other end of the park but as soon as I said, "Millie, come!" and opened my arms, she ran as fast as her stumpy legs could take her back to me. My friend can't do this with her spoilt little fluffy as she will just run off and up to other dogs bearing her teeth. Her dog is just a horror in that sense and she can't let her off leash anywhere. Last time she did, little fluffy ran up to a boxer and hung off its neck. The boxer thought it a game and chased her all the way home - the only time her recall was perfect :p

Poor Shelley. She's at peace. Run free little girl. I know how much you loved her, Mita.

LOL, I gag at the smell of it!! Plus I noticed it made Millie's poos almost black. I now feed her chicken and sardines (the ones in spring water) with lots of vegies mixed in like mashed pumpkin, sweet potato, carrots, broccoli - in fact, whatever I'm cooking I do enough vegies for her as well. She is prone to putting on weight.

Hopefully they will be PTS, BigBum. Let's hope the owner is fined. Isn't there a law against marauding dogs destroying stock or is it a civil matter? I know what my father would have done had they come onto our property when we had the farm - one bullet for each of them. Amazing how some owners don't care isn't it?

The thing is, you can't have marauding dogs going about the place killing and maiming stock. We lost a baby angora goat when my parents had a property by wild dogs, they do so much damage too but farmers would constantly go hunting them as they were a real pest and yet when they shot one of them it turned out to still have its collar on and was someone's pet who had just got out and turned killer. In north-west Sydney, there was a huge problem last year with someone's dogs getting out and maiming livestock. One little girl lost her pet lamb and another woman lost 2 of her show alpacas and the other one was so badly maimed she had to get it put down. The owners should be fined and the dogs put down in my opinion. Good luck, BigBum.

That's very sad. I too love bunnies. They don't live long do they? I used to mind one when his owner went on holidays. He was a naughty bunny and my parrots used to get qutie bossy with him and try and nest in his straw. There would be a fight on between bunny and my female Alexandrine - who would win.

That is so very sad, BB. Are you in the country? We know what happens to sheep killers in the country. Poor Beryl, she sounded like a lovely soul.