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Another trick those people proclaiming to be from the windows/microsoft service team(microsoft will never call you ever they don't have your phone number),is they get you to go into event viewer, and your going to see a lot of yellow and red warning symbols, they say ohh its all bad, your computer etc is in trouble, I work in IT I spent an hour and half on the phone with them screwing them about asking them ridiculous questions, proclaiming I needed to protect all my money as I day trade stocks at home and was regularly doing 6 figure transactions, they got all excited and passed me on to someone "higher" up, they we're really trying very hard to get me to download their "remote control software", eventually when I got bored and let them know I was screwing them, the abuse down the phone had me in stitches lol She went to her bank as soon as I told her that she had been scammed. The bank has taken all the necessary action regarding passwords and access etc, and has taken a statement from her. They have told her that they will attempt to trace the transactions that were not made by her but that this could be a slow process and could take up to six weeks. If they cant trace the money trail it might be difficult for them to reverse the transactions. She is under the impression that she will get her money back but I have an uneasy feeling about it simply because she willingly gave these people access to her computer and the necessary passwords to do what they did. Fingers crossed that she gets her money. In general terms it's not a huge amount but to her it's all that she had !! The banks security team told me the 6 week thing when my account got emptied(I blame a dodgy online retailer since gone broke as another account wasn't touched), I told them I get paid monthly I'm a single parent can't you do it quicker I need that money, it was literally back in my account the next day, the only thing I heard from the bank afterwards was a call a couple of days later telling me where the money had been moved too and we're checking if I had any dealings with people in Qld, but they were certain it was another compromised account used to "hold" the money before moving it off overseas. So if shes on a pension she could try call them again and ask.

thats good news then Vurd :)

No never had xrays, vet wanted to but I spoke to the breeder and a few other people and they said don't get them done by anyone but Karen or Rob and coz she's young to wait and if I'm still worried in 12months time then do it.

neither did I, I thought they just sent them off if you wanted them reviewed for AZ ratings, you could post pictures of them on another forum, and they could tell you what they think. Also I'd think if there was something seriously wrong the vet would of said something. Thanks.. what other forum are you talking of ? I am comparing them myself, i am well far from an expert, but it is helping me stay positive as they don't look bad..to me only that is. I was thinking of germansheperds.com. Yeh I wouldn't really have a clue either if I was in your position, I'd be just comparing them to other xray pics and what people have said but I would still probably post a pic of them just to get others opinions and shut my mind up until I got expert results back. I would be confident they were positioned properly because of who you went to though. I was really hoping you'd come back with some news this afternoon, just for yourself so you'd know. They didn't say anything at all about the xrays?

neither did I, I thought they just sent them off if you wanted them reviewed for AZ ratings, you could post pictures of them on another forum, and they could tell you what they think. Also I'd think if there was something seriously wrong the vet would of said something.

Dunno If I want missy to muscle up, she's already quite strong she'd probably pull a car when shes finished growing lol

I hope its nothing and just a bit of strain from the extra exercise, I've read swimming is really good for building muscle without the joint and bone strain, the extra muscle is supposedly good if the hips are a little loose. Theres a vet that has a pool where you can take your dog to swim too. I've given them a call and they said it's a full size pool, sometimes you might have to wait but you can swim as long as you want they said, I haven't visited yet but I plan too.

my pups almost 6 months lol and I was being a bit of a 1st time GSD owner worry wart to be honest. It just seemed like she was limping on her right leg on and off and I thought it may of been her hips and another vet who I went to locally for her shots wanted to x-ray her and was being concerned saying it could be HD, they also told me to up her weight a lot, but after talking to the breeder and other people I've been told her weight is fine and if I have any concerns about hips or something specific to go see Karen as a lot of vets don't know GSD's well, she also does the breed x-rays and I think Rob does too. So I gave her a call and Karen said if she was showing signs now it would probably mean it is pretty severe HD, but looking back I can pretty much say I had been stressing over nothing and its now been shoved to the back of my mind, but then I had other things to worry about like ears going back up lol and now its are they going to straighten out instead of looking like a teepee lol

I've never visited either with my GSD but I was told by several people to go to Karen(I believe shes the Hereditary diseases person for the GSD council) when I was getting paranoid about my pups hips, though from talking to her she was very helpful and pretty much squashed my worries, along with seeing other pups run about. I can say my partner likes her clinic as she's taken her own dog there, and we also dropped a lost cat in there one day.

weird, I just checked my history then and that's the number I got from yellow pages that I visited middle of last month. I just tried calling myself on the landline and its busy. I do know she's in Monday, Tuesday, and I think they said shes in on Fridays.

I called Karen Hedbergs clinic a few weeks ago and spoke to her, I believe this is the number 4571 2042 at North Richmond. hearing clicking sounds when walking from what I've read may not be good, but if it is HD hope I hope it isn't bad for you both.

Can't see councils paying someone a grand a week or more to sit in dog park for 8 hours a day unfortunately, otherwise people would have to pay for using the park, though that could probably have its pluses. Having never been to a dog park and warned off them, maybe someone on weekends or late afternoons who just visits once an hour or so I guess could work but then that would again require someone to employee or leave current duties. It would be a hard one for them I guess, until something really serious happens I don't think they'd do much, one of those use at own risk things.

I need to buy a new collar as we've out grown the current one, but this thread has been bookmarked lol

Just got a bag today to put bits in food here and there as everyone says how dogs go crazy for it. All I can say is it doesn't smell lol but we still only ate half our dinner

Which is American and next to useless. That's unnecessarily rude. Yes it's American but the info can be helpful. True, check the ingredients etc they're nearly always the same, here is another with first 5 ingredients,calories per cup and with protein, fat, calcium, etc got it from a GSD site. I've found it helpful.