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actually im not sad. pretty frightening they could train a dog to come back and kill anyone between it and its owner . think of how many could have been killed that were innocent. as i said, it sounded pretty amazing. so being a myth actually makes me feel better to know. if that makes any sense?

just received this in my email. anyone else heard of this. what an amazing dog, amazing story. I thought you might like to know about this dog and his story. I especially like the ending ......... The K9 above is Brutus, a military K9 at McChord.. He's huge - part Boxer and part British Bull Mastiff and tops the scales at 200 lbs. His handler took the picture. Brutus is running toward me because he knows I have some Milk Bone treats, so he's slobbering away! I had to duck around a tree just before he got to me in case he couldn't stop, but he did. Brutus won the Congressional Medal of Honor last year from his tour in Iraq . His handler and four other soldiers were taken hostage by insurgents. Brutus and his handler communicate by sign language and he gave Brutus the signal that meant 'go away but come back and find me'. The Iraqis paid no attention to Brutus. He came back later and quietly tore the throat out of one guard at one door and another guard at another door. He then jumped against one of the doors repeatedly (the guys were being held in an old warehouse) until it opened. He went in and untied his handler and they all escaped. He's the first K9 to receive this honor. If he knows you're ok, he's a big old lug and wants to sit in your lap. Enjoys the company of cats.. K-9 Congressional Medal of Honor Winner Thought you'd find this interesting. Talk about animal intelligence and bonding with humans! Remember that they can't do a lot of things for themselves and that they depend on you to make their life a quality life! A PET'S TEN COMMANDMENTS......... 1. My life is likely to last 10-15 years. Any separation from you is likely to be painful. 2. Give me time to understand what you want of me 3. Place your trust in me. It is crucial for my well-being. 4. Don't be angry with me for long and don't lock me up as punishment. You have your work, your friends, your entertainment, but I have only you. 5. Talk to me. Even if I don't understand your words, I do understand your voice when speaking to me. 6. Be aware that however you treat me, I will never forget it. 7. Before you hit me, before you strike me, remember that I could hurt you, and yet, I choose not to bite you. 8. Before you scold me for being lazy or uncooperative, ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps I'm not getting the right food, I have been in the sun too long, or my heart might be getting old or weak. 9. Please take care of me when I grow old. You too, will grow old. 10 On the ultimate difficult journey, go with me please. Never say you can't bear to watch. Don't make me face this alone. Everything is easier for me if you are there, because I love you so. ~Take a moment today to thank GOD for your pets. Enjoy and take good care of them. Life would be a much duller, less joyful experience without God's critters. ~Now please pass this on to other pet owners. We do not have to wait for Heaven, to be surrounded by hope, love, and joyfulness. It is here on earth and has four legs! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

if never letting a person know where u live anymore im certainly will and forever remain a puppy farmer. ive had 7 stolen in some 28 years by people who have come back and helped themselves. only since microchipping has come in did i get the last two stolen back. so if i have to lose a home for a pup because they want to assure themselves by inspecting my home, then they can go find someone else who doesnt mind having their home cased by in the case of my last two stolen pups a team of husband and wife professional house theives. thanks to the chips one was traced directly back to them as the seller , to learn from the police he had 6 outstanding arrest warrants!!!!!!! and yes her sister too was rescued, found wandering beside a 6 lane highway. so I am sticking to my guns no matter what label u want to stick to the desire to be able to sleep at night or go out without wondering what will be left when u get back home. ho. n i was home when they came back and stole them, if i had been seconds faster in getting out to the drive, they probably would have ran me down as they shot off with the pups in the car, they were flying.... and when they were arrested, what did the police tell me? they had knives and a gun in their possession besides being high on? forget what they called it. that stuff that makes people so violent that hospital staff fear when they bring em in. they were so high on whatever it was they admitted the theft when arrested and even told them where they had sold the one found on the road, some market at campbelltown. so her new owners hadnt made much of an effort to keep her safe poor little thing. n how did i find her sister, advertised on trading post, her buyers hubby had decided no puppy sold for 200 could possibly be a purebred and get rid of it while it still looks like a purebred and i recognised her photo while i was trolling the net the night after her sister was found because i couldnt sleep, because every time i shut my eyes i would see visions of her little body on that highway. so began trolling the net for sale adds as the police said most stolen dogs are sold on the net and at 1.30am in the morning i found her. so you brave ones can hug your etical status all u like to keep you warm and able to sleep, if u end up with the likes of that lot visiting you.

come to think of it, perhaps the quickest way to eliminate "a breeder that breeds for profit" from the canine councils make it besides the rules 6 litters per bitch and the one being condsidered i gather from another thread only allowed to register was it 20 pups max a year. how about they also fix a set price for pups? like no breeder can sell a pup for over say 400 dollars or their membership is cancelled? dont think that could return a profit after adding feed, vet costs n the other incidentals which seem to add up terryfyingly fast. always figured the day will come when only those who can afford to breed at a loss will be allowed to be "breeders" anyway. be interesting to see how many members will be left after 3 or 4 years. i recall quite some time ago there was a survey done and it was discovered the majority of new members didnt last 5 years, n the majority of over 6 years members were pensioners who used the extra money from their pups to supplement their pension. and its interesting to see how many at the shows are in the pensioner category. wonder how many will remain if this comes in. wonder what percentage of pensioners have sufficient income to survive once locked into only breeding if they can absorb the loss? thats how its worked for decades with pedigree horses. although they dont deregister the few who do manage a miracle with those as there are so few. think it was 6 percent. (yes there was a survey done) the rest as their survey revealed, are subsidising the pleasure horse industry by supplying below the cost of production. I would be all for the idea but for one thing. All this is doing is making registered breeders out to be the only ones responsible for dumped and/or too many dogs. didnt someone post that as it already stands, the number of registered dogs bred per year is a . something fraction of the number of estimated dogs surrendered or lost in the the community? have i missed somthing, is there anything being considered for the i suspect tens thousands of people who are breeding either the occasional or more litter/litters that are nor or ever will, become registered breeders? most of the time when i ask someone where they got there darling puppy, the answer is not that it came from a registered breeder. think in our street alone there is only two came from registered breeders and theres and AWFUL lot of doggies round here. i even tried to rehome a friends ex broodbitch with a nearby pensioner, free, gratis, zilch, but he decided he just had to have a puppy and the pet shop gave him a discount for a pretty little pom pup they couldnt sell. so he got it for only 400. he didnt even know what patella is. n if i can see it in a pup that young its going to have some interesting way of going by the time its adult.

jennifer if i were you i would be putting an add in the same trading post along with a photo of him asking for help somehow i suspect the new buyer will find out fast. best of luck

wonder if its the same guy looking for a "good home " for his fresian gelding. same story and yep roughly the same cost for to the door delivery. LOL

WTF??? So what does the Dane Breeder do with the other 1/2 a litter? get a fine for every pup he/she produces over said limit? naturally. if theres going to be so much less breeders there has to be some way to keep fees comming in surely n what about the toy breeds with one or two pups? but as i was told once before when the number of litters was passed and asked what about if u have a one pup one litter mum? thats only produced 6 boys to date. that to want another chance at a girl is only puppy farming. so ..... surely anyone that cant find their one to keep in a litter of 10 has no excuse to need a second litter surely? in my case my girl had "litter" 7 luckily before the rule came in and bingo have my long awaited bitch puppy. yay. do i care it made me a puppy farmer? couldnt give a rats anymore. let em legistlate emselves out of business, thats whats its going to come too. they wont be able to afford the rates or the rent or whatever it costs to stay at erskin park if the incoming rules end up so few to register the income just will no longer be there to pay for it and staff. why should a breeder of a big litter breed be able to have 20 pups n more pups to the one bitch n not be labled puppy farmer yet a small litter breeder is? ive a friend whose golden retriver had 32 pups in her first two litters she had 5 litters in her lifetime. u do the maths. she never had less than 14 pups.

good grief moriarty, never suspected my cattle dog, cavalier or chi was in fact a pitt bull this is serious

Steve Ive sent u a pm

yes all of the above can happen, n i too have seen the chips pop back out, weird really. had one pup yes we finally found the chip, but who would have thought a chip could end up at the base of an ear?????? another has it now half and inch below their left elbow?????

hey thanks, only just dropped in to see if anything was doing n there u are. much appreciated. at this rate ill end up with a mailbox full of applications as ive already contacted the first one, then the second n now it looks like ill be busy tomorrow too

if theres one thing a border collie can be obsessed about is "working" some if there is nothing to work will make up their own. our neighbour had over an acre of fenced in lawn for his two and they ran themselves ragged regardless of the weather. i remember one summer the male was fitting on the ground. they called us in panic and considering it was some 113 deg F. i turned on the hose and saturated him and within 5 minutes he was up and off again. in his case i think he thought he was rounding up the birds as they flew over the place as for anything that actually landed. he and his mum would be stalking and trying to herd them. then when they flew off they would be running stupid again looking for the next bird it seemed to be and yes no birds they just ran patterns. we had one as a kid and he was a nighmare jumping out and rounding up the kids on the way to school. his record was 15 too scared to get to the bus stop. when my chooks got out, problem solved he spent all day eyeing them from one part of the yard to the other. happy dog, disgusted chooks. if the rooster got sick of him he would attack the border and pull chunks of hair out of him, stupid bird nearly choked himself one day when neiger was moulting.

your not kidding thanks so much

many thanks, i just KNEW someone here would know

have a litter want to get perantage verified my vet gave me the number of the dept of ag victoria. they dont do it any more. so anyone know who does? thanks in advance

What is a Judges role and responsibilities? sorry deleted the rest of the question. been advised this should be addressed to the board in question not aired in public. soo if you want and like goss, head for the nearst dog show ;) :cheer: :)

my friend went through this nightmare. after most of the litter was already dead and demanded the vet put them on antibiotics since they had no idea and figured what was there to lose, and bingo the deaths stopped. ok never knew why but it worked, soo wont hurt to ask, well in her case demanded.

you sound like my daughter, Jed do as u please although some aloe to stop the itching might help? only my second post on this thread, i just couldnt, too upset for you to play. think grief affects everyone differently. soo glad for you, hugs by the thousand. thrilled your better

its horses too, theres an add on an australian site for a fresian gelding for 1,000. isp number puts the seller in i forget right now which overseas country . n who else remebers the chihuahua's being sold NOT by some one is Melbourne? a few years ago?

know someone lost their dog in the wilds of mendooran. had forgot to finish their puppys shots n thought were safe anyway no dogs in miles of their place. as my vet said, it blows in the wind.

hey thanks. yes it was at night, n there was a bowl of food he was eating when i walked past. ive came often at night before no problem. but never when food was around that i can recall. although he seemed in a general all round bad mood. as he also rolled and really threatened the owners really old boxer who wasnt doing anything to warrant it. n he was nowwhere near the food when he copped it, the boxers owner had to tell him to leave him alone, he wasnt going to let the boxer get up until she yelled at him.

thanks all, i had a feeling borrowng a cattle prod could be more dangerous than doing nothing, but ive got to the stage im afraid now. n my gut instinct is this is not going to end well if i go there while no one is there. much as i hate to let my friend down i dont think i can face it. thanks for helping me formulate what had been just a bad feeling but couldnt get my head round. well maybe dont like the idea of admitting fear. ive never been bitten by a dog despite growing up with a yard full of savage dogs, my dad used to deliberately advertise for wanting to buy savage dogs. as he had a yard where stuff would walk overnight otherwise. soo from childhood learned not to attract their guard tendencies. heck in a couple of months id made pets of most of em. n he used to buy em as fully grown adults, foaming at the mouth on arrival? know this dog from a pup? but this boy it aint working as of this week . normally if i strike a dog on guard i back out of its boundary area n alls well, but this guy has included her place as his boudary area sooo i cant enter and check if im backing off the place can i?

as luck would have it he was home and i immediately went and showed him my hat, not only dented but covered in saliva so looked pretty full on attacked. he didnt seem to understand that to me this was serious, he thought it was funny he drooled on my hat That's terrible. :D did you mention that he bit you? yes, told him i felt every tooth and was terrified he was going to sink them in but didnt. was very afraid the next time he would carry out the threat but he obviously thought i was overreacting as he just didnt seem to understand at all this was just short of outright attack that could land me in hospital :D

as luck would have it he was home and i immediately went and showed him my hat, not only dented but covered in saliva so looked pretty full on attacked. he didnt seem to understand that to me this was serious, he thought it was funny he drooled on my hat

thats exactly what ive been doing and all seemed fine as well that is until this weekend, but this has me scared now. n remember hes known me from a pup? n his behavour towards me has been to ignore me once he saw it was me come out of the car. was there when some strangers drove in the wrong gate by mistake and he went ballastic, they were so terrified they wound up the wondows and fled . so his behavour towards me as up until now been ok. n im talking some 3 years now so why the change?