kelpiecuddles

Dogz rule are you shoalhaven? The ladies at the pound are very nice there so with any luck they will help

Yes I agree yg. When mine were pups the issue didn't even cross mind as they never needed doing. With hindsight I now advise everyone I know who's getting a pup to fiddle withy their feet heaps as littlies

Yep. I think you need to bite the bullet and tell her it's either her dog or yours and that she needs to come get it. Unfortunately there isn't really another way around it. Maybe tell her that since it's staying at your place you need to have it friendly so you need to be socialising it now too.

We walk on bitumen as there are no footpaths here but it's not enough

She doesn't really use them. We don't encourage climbing and jumping much as we go places with low fences and don't want her getting any ideas. She'll jump up on the top of the kennel, etc but she doesn't need her dew claws for that. Bones are a tough one because they cause serious arguments here so I generally only give bones that can be consumed fairly quickly like turkey necks or lamb flaps

How do you go with front dew claws? They are our biggest hassle at the moment

Thanks I might try that. I'm glad you posted the vid because I had a totally different image in my head. Lol

My rats wouldn't even eat great barko. Lol

Why should someone who pays monthly get a discount over someone who pays annually in advance

My vet said last time we got her done that she chucks a pretty impressive tantrum for a usually very well behaved doggy. :laugh:

I've been stuck at touching her feet for over 12 months, probably getting on for two years. Problem is that eventually I do have to cut her nails. Realistically hers need doing about fortnightly but I've even pushing it out to a month to try to reduce the exposure to a stressor but we can't go on forever not cutting them. She's ten years old. The other dog took around 6 months to progress from foot handling to now being able to clip as long as she's getting a belly rub( I'm getting good at rubbing her belly with my foot while I do the nails. Lol)

We don't use the guillotine ones :). I have a deemed type tool but she freaks as soon as you touch her feet no matter what follows. She puts on some of the same routine when it's bath time but I'm very no nonsense with my dogs and I tell her to get in and she hangs her head and gets in. :laugh:

Our old place had quite a bit of rough concrete and in the first seven years of her life she basically never had her nails done as they just wore down naturally We moved a couple of years ago and so it's now an issue as we have only grass and smooth painted concrete here and they don't wear down. It was a new experience for both the girls and unfortunately Sascha has just never got used to it

We've actually been down that route already. We've had her to a number of groomers, done in the back room at the vet in hopes that might work, etc,etc. my Basset was also vey stressed out by it and I've worked with her for around 12 months and she is now fairly obliging so it's not through lack of perseverance as I've been working with them both over that time. She has unfortunately for worse over time in a number of areas and I suspect a slight case of early dementure as she's forgotten some training as well.

My kelpie gets incredibly distressed when we try to cut her nails. We've tried for a long time to desensitise her to it but we are getting nowhere. Cutting nails requires two or three people to hold her still( usually I hold her in my arms) and she ends up a total quivering mess, whining and shaking and desperate to get away. Has anyone ha to deal with this before? I'm considering asking the vet if it's worth medicating her somehow before hand as it's that bad and I hate seeing her so distressed. Would the vet consider something like that or would that be unlikely? I've never given her a sedative of any sort before so it was never my first choice but I think I need to help her somehow...

Yes jemapelle we did make the nowra news last week too, a family shot with myself, the kids and Josie at the wood chop at Wandandian. Our property is there.

Thought you guys would appreciate this article. We were interviewed a couple of weeks ago by the local reporter at the hospital we visit. Not a great copy sorry as I haven't been able to find it online yet but a full half page so a great promotion for the group and also i think for bassets and pure bred dogs in general as we are getting pretty well known around here and many people now stop us to ask questions when we are out and about. :)

Maybe see if Google can help you out with a new contact number. Breeders move house just like everyone else so could be as simple as a new number

I would just phone. I'm known to miss emails as my email has a tendency to randomly put things in my junk mail.

The hard seeded types with very pointy tips are specifically good at the spiral action. Google stipa grass for an example of the sort of seed head

Grass seeds are actually designed to spiral down in to the soil, it's a pretty clever trick but also explains why they ae so good at travelling once they get stuck in the skin.

I'm thinking I'll keep an eye on them and in a few years once they get really popular and there are lots of users I'll get some them ;)

They are good denali but only work within a few hundred metres of a user so you or another registered user has to be close to them anyway. I looked at them for my problem human child :D

You could google Tomerong State Forest, just down the road from me and I've heard there is bush camping(no facilities) in there. It's on Jervis Bay rd which is heads straight to the beach.

You can get little key chain type ones on eBay that you can just clip to their collar. Not as durable if they are rough and tumble but a lit cheaper