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[ Where abouts are you in SA ?? yes where abouts in sa are you near Mt. Gambier ?

If he is blowing coat it may pay to wear a face mask yourself when using a blower as it will remove loose hair with the greatest of ease.If you don't have a dog blower check your vaccum cleaner for a reverse blow feature and use the crevice tool to increase and intensify the airflow.

One of the best bits of equip I have is micro fibre towels best stuff since sliced bread.I use them myself (not the dog ones)it really handy to get dry quick after a shower.it also cut back on washing normal towells etc.Cuts down the electricity usage too and it all counts.Thank heavens I don't get water bills here as we are on tank and bore so no price rise for customers which they will appreciate.

Well I don't know what hourly rate would be required but I wouldn't work for less than $30 per hour. That would be using all their supplied equipment.I definetly wouldn't work for nutters.If you don't enjoy working in an enviroment you won't be performing at your best.Start doing something off your own bat if you have a garage/shed at home it doesn't have to be a shop straight away.Word of mouth is the best advertising you can get you cant buy it! Ok I'm in country vic all i have outside is a crappy sign on the road side (cost $10).I don't advertise at all I print my own cards.I limit customers to 200. Go for it !

Are we talking about the Gardener(very loosely).This is the same guy that insulted the old long standing and extremely well respected Gentleman (70+)that was incharge of the Mt.Macedon Gardens.He was instructed to leave I don't believe that show went to air in the format that it was supposed to.I think the producers were good gardeners too.Don't worry too much about him he will shoot himself up the butt so just wait for it and enjoy the moment.

thankyou for your kind thoughts 1 week on caught heaps of fresh salmon and no boogie to enjoy them. He enjoyed them so much I fed him a barracoutta about two foot long one day then I thought maybe I should have killed it first. I mean they do have teeth but when I looked over the wall and saw him with about six inches poking out of his mouth I felt sorry for the coutta. but he did enjoy it so much even more than if he nicked my port or I gave him a stubbie of stout. He was a lot like me actually he loved all those things that you girls would hate like,liver, fish,port, stout,you know all those blokey things. God he was the best. And he was able to win over all the women mate he was soo smooth it was just a natural talent. it digs deep when an eighteen year old kid asks how he is because they were young when they first met him. to this day I am not sure if you were ours or we were yours. Me thinks we were yours "you owned us".We were your servants of our choosing. seven little shih`s miss you heaps. coco,buffy,monty,troy,pippy,jemma & Puddy. love chris and liz

Bye Bye our old mate you left us sadly on Good Friday. You were the best mate that we could have ever had. You weren't just 95 kgs of awesome Saint Bernard. You were everyones friend. Thankyou for giving us your very special love only you could do that. You gave us so much joy, you showed us just how gentle and caring you were so many times. We never heard a bark in anger and you always shared. I remember a few glasses of port went missing whilst I had my back turned splitting wood. You absolutely loved your fresh fish and many will miss you whilst fishing out the back. Your seven little mates are missing you too. No big brother to harrass. Rest gently my friend I know you are watching those salmon swim by. Boogie 11-03-2000 to 22-04-2011 R.I.P.

well I always thought the dog was hyperventilating or is this the same ?????

HeavyPaws that is double the normal for a Saint Remarkable effort My Boogie had his tenth birthday 11-03-2010. He is poor of sight and hearing as can be well imagined. but is looking real good and moving around heaps better because he's been getting fresh baby salmon whole for about a month and he just loves them. He's always at the back gate waitng for me to see what he has for tea!

There was an article in our local paper warning of a rat and mouse problem with the ideal conditions for them to breed in and now they are lookin for nice accomodation now that the weather is coolin off. We use baits inside in our secure areas then we use traps in other spots where the dogs still have no access to. In the areas where dogs could have contact we use 50/50 concrete powder and bread flour making sure there is a drink of water near by. The good thing about it is no smell when they die and its safe. Well I wouldn't let young kiddies near it they have been known to eat some very bizarre substances.

Very tired and Hardy's Cab/Sav 2009 not bad after big day lol

thanks for all the congrats and input simply fantastic. our oldest saint romisaints amber was 13.5 when we said enough is enough she told us and we knew and we obeyed HER WISH. I swore after Amber no more saints yhen Matt bought Boogie and he is a sheer delight to have as a mate. he is a mate in the true sense of it because he actually disagrees with me at times like a real person does. think I may have located where my pics from mobile are will get OH to put them up swoon

carrie approx what area are you in?roughly i mean. they have also released a new callesi thing for rabbits again.

Masjana The One And Only. I won't mention who bred him as I've never been impressed ! My son actually bought him and well the rest is history but when Matt comes home he's just like a puppy again. I haven't posted pics for a long time and will have to work out how to do it again.

Hi our Saint turned ten today. So he's had his once a year mud cake and half a stubby of stout with his birthday hat on. I'll have to try and get some pics on here. he still loves to sit at the back gate and see if I've caught any fresh salmon for his tea when I've been fishing.

personally after veiwing your pics. could it be that the product has been applied too low i.e. its supposed to be on the neck from what I can see here the cat could lick this area and cause this problem it wouldn't be impossible ???? after having seen this type of wound many times this may be the cause that has eluded us. Thankyou.

Aren't these harnesses made to test a dog ability to stop when something becomes uncomfortable. Does it state on the instructions to just stand still when the dog pulls and not pull on the lead at all. So that the dog realises it is it that is making it uncomfortable for its self ? I used to make these no pull collars back in 1990 with great success but they were mostly used by people who were time poor or weren't into the training thing. Some people like them others don't but if they give you the result you need go for it. I like them because it gets the dog thinking and they change their attitude real quick with no effort from you. And there should not be any effort involved. I also agree that other methods work its a matter of personal choice or circumstance. If you can afford it I would use a pro-trainer but if not you have to go for other options. the thread killer or am I just paranoid Chris

I just asked my dear lady if our bath was called a Handy Bath and she just said she had a pamphlet in the bedroom. Called A&T Hydrobaths. So i will now try and ring them. Thanks

No my son ordered it from the people that make them .

We bought a plastic Handy bath (hydro bath) many years ago. it was made in queensland. If anyone knows where I can contact the maker I would be very grateful. These Baths were originally made in Hallam Victoria. Chris

I used to walk my Saint and call into the local and have an ale. One hot day Phil the Dill (bar manager)thought he would be nice and get Katman a nice bucket of water. Well there weren't many in the bar but all new how he drank from a bucket except Phil. Well the shock look of horror when he saw Katman's head o all the way to the bottom was priceless. Yes you guessed it the floor was carpet !! All of our shih's now drink from the water bottles no mess that way.

Well they used to reckon that a healthy kid used to eat a bucket of dirt a year . So I think there could be something in this its certainly possible.

I feed Boogie my saint the home brand mackeral in oil. When I cant catch fresh salmon,mullet,barracouta. And he likes them live even better which makes my lady sick.

Back in the early nineties I had A Saint Bernard - Chalet Saints Kathmandu. He was 125 kg and 36 inches at the shoulder when he got his title. I always chuckled at the people that had bigger dogs especially the perfect 85 kilo rotties . whilst at a royal Melb one joe public with kids said what a lovely border collie much to the alarm of a woman who was blind who replied she was blind but could tell it was not a collie But the best of all went to MR. Gordan Deanna (not sure of spelling ) at a show in Wagga Wagga who stated to me when I rocked up to exhibit the KAT " I'm sorry sir but we have already judged the Bernese Moutain Dogs ". Well I nearly collapsed in shock horror much to the delight of all within earshot !!

I always pluck the ears keep them clean is a lot easier. use your thunb and fore finger and gently pluck hair from ear until clean or dog has had enough. You don't need to make it an unpleasant for the dog. so don't grab too much at once I find that being male helps because our fingers are fatter so we don't tend to probe to deep into the ear thus being able to get too much at a time. I have had dogs that were quite deaf because there was so much hair obstructing the ear canal once plucked and cleaned were very different dogs. Cheers Chris