Paptacular!

Your dogs are beautiful Coco1.

Someone's let their large dog poop all over my front lawn.

Would yourself and the old owners feel ok about meeting in a public place, like at a park? This way the dog might focus more on the novel surrounding and the car trip home (if she enjoys car rides) than the fact that the previous owners are disappearing again.

:D :D :D New big footed baby!!

Hmmm, yes.

Thanks Aziah, I managed to find the ANKC ones before those ones, but fairly similar.

Found the ruling: 9.3 For Conformation purposes, a dog six months of age or over shall not be accepted as physically entire unless both testicles have fully descended and are in the scrotum. Any dog disqualified for this reason at a Conformation Show will have its registration suspended until it can be proved to the satisfaction of the Member body that it is physically entire. (05/00) 9.4 Any dog suspended in accordance with 9.3 shall not be accepted for stud purposes and any litter sired by the dog will not be accepted for registration. (05/00) 9.5 Any dog over the age of twelve months which is proven to be non entire shall be deregistered or transferred to the Limited Register. (05/00) I wasn't planning to continue showing him for much longer if it didn't come down. Looks like he misses out this weekend, there appears to be no leeway. I'll monitor him for a little longer, just to see what happens. If there's no action soon though I'll have to consider my options.

I wasn't aware there was such a ruling.... would that be ANKC or a state thing? Will have to search through the DogsNT rulings.

Yes I've been showing him through baby puppy class. Next weekend he goes into Minor. I've heard that judges give babies leeway in that department, but after that? Would hate to be lambasted for daring to bring a one-nut wonder into some judges ring.

I'm not great at feeling myself The vet seems to think it may be there but she wasn't definite. She thought he may have just been sucking it up. I've been checking every day since Saturday.

We were at the vet over the weekend, she seemed to think give him another 6 months? He seems a bit behind his litter sister who we have kept; she has her adult teeth already and he still has his babies. Whether this is another manifestation of being a little behind? He was the smallest of the litter whether that has anything to do with anything developmentally....

As the title states, how long would you wait for a little boy's testicles to descend for the ring? Little boy Tyson is almost 6 months old and at this stage has only one down.

Congrats on your BIG! Is that a first for the Xolo's in Australia?

I can't see them Here you go!

Thank you, and also big thanks to you for handling Coco when I needed a spare pair of hands, and you did well with her getting her Baby of Breed! :D

And that nervous feeling amounted to.....? Doing exceptionally well!

At the Darwin Royal tonight, Blaze got his final points and can now be called a Neuter Champion!!! (application pending of course)

Yay Brockie!!!

Any results from last night? :D

Have never seen the comets before. Haven't won a rosette yet, there were some at the last show and try as we might, we weren't lucky enough to get one. Apart from last week's shows I don't think I've seen rosettes on offer at any other show up here though I may be wrong.

And Portia's breeder hasn't replied to my email either, so can't even tell you what happened with her pup. She didn't seem worried though, she seemed to think this girl would have big ears!

I have no real preference in my own breed (paps) except that I'd prefer not to have a lemon coloured (technically a very light red). In other breeds I like though I do have colour preferences, as they're likely to be the only dogs of the breed I'll own. Blue merle for an Aussie, black and tan for a Shiba Inu, tri colour for a Basenji and the grey colour for a Swedish Vallhund (have seen the red/wheaten type colour and am not a fan).

Royal Show starts tomorrow night!!! I can't be there Thursday but will definitely be there Friday and plan to head down on Saturday, whether or not I'm lucky enough to bring a dog back with me. ETA - And breed number breakdowns listed on the site in DR's sig.

Anyone have full results from last night that they'd be so kind to share? :D