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Keeping puppies comfortable during heat waves. I realise I should have posted this before the heatwaves, but better late than never. Over the years, where I live we used to have frequent blackouts so air conditioning wasn’t reliable if you had puppies. I discovered decades ago, keeping a supply of frozen water bottles, preferably 3 litres, (as they take 8 hours and sometimes more to defrost) I know from experience a 3 litre bottle of frozen water is still frozen in the middle 8 hours later after being put out with the puppies at 12 pm. That was during a 117 F heatwave. They were so comfortable they slept right through it. In the past I would turn on the sprinklers on the roof, but during water restrictions that’s not an option. So share this with anyone who is in a situation where their area can experience heatwave conditions. It works. Another alternative is frozen ice cream containers 2 or 4 litre. Just fill them up almost to the top but leave half an inch so when frozen you then pop the lid on and put it with the puppies, the cold air settles around the floor with the puppies, it doesn’t take them long to snuggle up around it. Works best if they are in a litter box or kennel with at least a 2 inch lip so there remains 2 inches of cold air on the floor. I’ve used it for Chihuahua, Cavalier and Cattledog puppies. For the chi puppies I used to cut out half of those 20 litre water carriers leaving a 3 inch lip to hold the cool air in, and put a 2 litre frozen soft drink bottle in the bottom beside them. Mum couldn’t get in there fast enough either to curl up in the nice cool spot as well. Her body heat wasn’t a problem; it was still cool enough to get them through the 8 hours till the cool change arrived that night. At a pinch if you had no electricity to freeze bottles. Some empty ice-cream tubs/ buckets. Go buy ice from the nearest service station and fill up the ice cream buckets and put with pups and mum would do the job too. (put the lids on in case they get rolled over) Although if you have shavings or blankets underneath they will soak it up anyway and still cool them without getting too wet.

I agree, I love my "purebred" dogs, but. they were created in the first place closing the studbooks is locking the gene pool the people who created these dogs did not have a closed studbook too few remember that so many "breeds" are now locked into faces too short and not enough selection to choose from to stop the slide into unable to survive without surgery to remove their Palette, and the risk of dying on the table is quoted as 50%? is that what we want for the dog we love? I remember being told there is not enough genetic diversity in many of the bracaphylic breeds to undo the damage dont forget the Cavalier King Charles actual lines are what is now the King Charles. They were morphed so much breeders decided to recreate the dogs of the Cavalier King, Charles. there you have what the King Charles once was. far longer face and even the Cavalier is getting shorter and shorter. Not only in the face but the lifespan thanks to the increasing incidence of mitral valve heart failure. My first cavaliers lived to 14, 16, 17 and 18........my sister has the last two I bred, One just died aged only 7 from mitral valve that kicked in only six months before her death and medication didn't help......., the other also 7 also has mitral valve now but doing far better on her medication. I remember when I bought our first Cavalier and reading a book 20 years ago about them it said the average life span was 7 . That is appalling for a toy breed. We deliberately went looking for a breeder with old dogs, ten years or more and finally found one Pribar Kennels.........mum was 6. Grandmum was 10, Great grand mum was 13. My sister and I were so lucky with our choice, they and their puppies by Zambuna Cav King Jack , born in 1994 all lived to became teenagers, Jack lived to 16. Pribar Champagne to 17 , Pribar Tequila to 17, Muffie to 14 and Tia Maria to 18 as did their daughters for me and my sister. Sady as we had to use other line males the lifespans reduced every generation until I could not take it any more and ceased breeding them altogether when the last litters turned up a puppy with syringeamyelia. That was the last straw. After I learned a friends dogs who were from MRI passed parents had still produced an affected pup. one parent had three generations of MRI clear behind, the other 2 generations. In case you do not know it, its not just found in cavaliers, other breeds can be affected as can people, there is still a lot to learn about this. love Cavaliers but if only we could be eliminating those two problems My brother is facing heartbreak and his French bulldog is only 4 and might not survive this summer or an op to help his breathing, this is not what I think the founders of these breeds would want either. how to help them eliminate these problems is the question

I hate new years because of the fireworks. so many terrified animals lost or hurt. I had my horses in the stockyards just in case because some idiot in our area sends up the massive rockets with the HUGE opening circles. Has done it every year for as long as I can remember and some of the horses totally lose it. over fences. One crashed the stockyards so desperate to escape she shifted them in some sections 3 foot. but this year to my immense relief not a one went up. I thanked god they respected the total fire ban.

LOL from what I've seen its fellow breeders who do the Vilifying walking to a different drum in the dog world is a bit like risking the witch trials one points the finger and the pack attack starts. Its funny how much dog people without even noticing are mimicking their dogs, or is it they are just reverting to age old instinct? be an interesting study for some ones PhD perhaps? what I find amusing is when a serial finger pointer one day has one pointed at them and their complete bewilderment when its their turn. Have never stopped to think how bewildered their past targets felt too. The human race just keeps repeating the past, although tend to give the inquisitions new names

I will scroll through the breeds after chrissie and see if I can find it. its bugging me too Merry Christmas everyone

If it was a first vaccination, far as I am aware the vaccination doesn't begin to impart immunity until about day 7. learned that first hand when my mum bought an unvaccinated puppy, did not learn it was not vaccinated until already paid for and about to leave and asked for her vaccination certificate. when the breeder said she did not vaccinate her puppies we rang our vet immediately and arranged to take her directly to him.. problem was she wanted to go to the toilet while we were driving and stopped to let her out to go on the grass beside the road. seven days later she was walking along the hallway with her shoulder against the wall to stop her falling over..........straight to the vet and diagnosed with the beginning of distemper. The vet said the only reason she survived and without brain damage was the vaccine immunity was kicking in at the same time the virus was trying to take over. poor puppy, hope she recovers ok. at least parvo is not as dreadful as distemper, usually those who survive distemper have varying degrees of brain damage. awful disease. That was a very long time ago about 1960

You just would not believe what you get if a cavalier king charles gets to a chihuahua girl........ she was so huge we thought she had 5 pups, even the vet........she didnt seem to be getting anywhere in labour so took her to the vet who decided all the pups were so tangled there was no way he could untangle them. so proceed to op and the look on his face when he removed just the one BIG pup. think he was more astounded than I was. never suspected she wasn't just a big singleton purebred chi. well not until she kept growing and growing and growing until by six months blind freddy could see something was seriously odd. by then I was beginning to realise this baby was looking suspiciously like a parti coloured Tibetan Spaniel?????????? long body , short legs.........a baby Tibbie? we ended up calling her Tibbie. the only explaination my vet could come up with was her dad was my neighbours Cavalier King Charles? She so looked like a tibbie I think I could have shown her and no one would have suspected decades ago I saw what his owner said was a chi x great dane... it too had the short corgie like legs... have to wonder about what genes the chihuahua carry to make a cross with some bigger breeds have such short legs?

my mum found a dumped long coat german shepherd. no one noticed when she was in season but obviously my brothers toy, yes white toy poodle must have, because to everyone's amazement she had 11 pups and when we counted back it must have happened about two months after mum found her. the mind boggles trying to imagine how he managed it. the results were as uniform as if they were the one breed.. huge shaggy dark black/grey.........(his dad was a silver, which he must have passed onto all the pups) at the time , early 70's, there was a new breed being imported . Pups were $7,000 and had to go on a list to get one. forget the breed name. anyway mum found homes for all but two which she kept.....so we are at a show with my brothers chihuahua and mum has her two giant oodle cross girls.............there in another ring are their dead ringers.... the new imports? soon as their owner spotted mums pair she made a beeline to ask who mum imported them from, she was in utter shock when she found they were poodle german shepherd cross. Was even beginning to get angry until she learned both they and their mum were now desexed and yep we had heaps ask where could they get one just like them and so referred them to the lady with the new breed. so funny although not for the poor lady who had spend so much introducing her new imports until she calmed down oh my gosh, just realised mum's rescue girls litter predated the labradoodle by almost 20 years umm Kelb, wasnt though. so when my brother married and his wife's champion black pom had a litter to an import and the puppies began to get fluffy faces and the black pups turned silver and the red pups turned apricot not only did she had a fit, but the owner of the import refused to give her a repeat mating, was pretty obvious the one mating he had given didnt do much of a job since not one of the pups were by his dog yet she had been with the breeder from the time she began to come in until he said she was mated and could come home? They thought he meant she was off now. no one spotted Kelb up to anything, but then he was never spotted creating his first oodle litter.... She had two black and three red pups, they had no trouble selling them as pets, but Tom kept two of the apricots, as adults they had to be continually clipped so they were kept in lamb clips, everyone who saw them wanted one.. used to get my brothers wife furious. Lol Kelb so was the forerunner of the oodle's eh? his odd name came from my brother had an arabic dictionary. to name our arabian foals.. eg, Ibn Asal - Son of Honey, (his mums pet name) Asal became my show prefix for my cavies, they won everywhere, including the first shown at Sydney Royal, even against English imports. Percy Shorts black smoothcoat took out Supreme Champion Smoothcoat and one of my long coats took out Supreme Longcoat. he was a glorious white with gold face patches... Have to apologise to his owner, I cant remember her name. Kelb means. not too original......... dog

my daughter was thinking of doing vet science... after three weeks work at a vets she was appalled at how many perfectly healthy pets are brought in to be put down

not a one, I suspect they have made them hidden, the lady asked me if I wanted my name withheld or confidential. I think I ticked name withheld but beginning to wonder did I hit confidential? just cant remember. have the acknowledgements of receipt and asking me which I wanted them to be so I know they have them. while we were discussing I did tell her I realised how ill submitting them has made me. which I think may have made her decide to make them confidential

totally brilliant...........now to pray for a miracle

It’s about time RSPCA powers were reassessed The Morning Bulletin 7 Dec 2019 Picture: Zizi Averill ANIMAL WELFARE: The RSPCA seized 1500 head of cattle from the properties of a NSW farmer over fencing issues. They were in good condition not like these "drought affected" cattle after the long dry season. FARMERS need not worry about animal activists coming onto their property and walking off with a cow, pig or a sheep, that they may be trying to rescue and put in the back of a vehicle. RSPCA can get a government department to tick and flick their recommendations without checking the facts for themselves, walk onto your property at any time and seize your stock for whatever reason then muster and stuff them on to several trucks and send them to market. Heed the warning from John Williams a farmer in NSW recently on Alan Jones, Sky News. No one is safe. RSPCA seized 1500 head of cattle from his properties according to John not 1100 in a sweeping raid. When I saw his story on the news I could not help but notice the good condition of the cattle as everyone else did, and the feed in the background. Thinking something was wrong I immediately got in contact with my counterpart in NSW. This person took charge of the terrible wrong that was happening like a dog with a bone and steered John in the right direction to get his side of the story out there. Who are we? We are animal activists who are disappointed and angry at the direction that the RSPCA in these tough times for everyone has taken and in particularly taking against the elderly and farmers, people with intellectual disabilities or those do not have the capacity or education to effectively defend themselves and those with mental illness. They are the most vulnerable people in our communities who have no money for legal representation to tell their story. Their informal advocates are ignored. I thought that the RSPCA supported Beyond Overwhelmed. I must be wrong. In a bazaar twist, John started to restock his property this morning buying his own cattle back that were stolen from him. He should not have to do that. Apparently it was all over fencing he could not get done, not animal cruelty. The powers that have been given to the RSPCA need to be reassessed. Reassessed in WA where they no longer do prosecutions. Many people are now supporting an investigation into the RSPCA and it should be done across Australia. Lyn Laskus

I have contacted about the latest rspca seizures of the cattle and he has contacted me to say he will take late submissions when the subject is as important as what has just happened so although it is closed... if it is serious breech he will accept them for submission and has gee some pretty well written ones. for example 123

I have known for decades our politician's have increasingly moved away from representing the people who vote . the cushy private jobs and board directorships politicians slide into after leaving yet still retain their life pensions been aware of as well. not that there is anything the mug public has available to do or say about any of it. but now the milk cow must be running short of funding or as pointed out in this press release, we would not now be seeing the poor relying on centerlink committing suicide or pensioners who have worked all their life contributing THEIR wages to go towards their retirement are not only been denied a living amount. in the case of the pensioner its not even an entitlement anymore. the "entitlement" has been removed they are now a burden on government.......................the money isn't there, it is now funneled straight into general funds for the government to spend as they please instead of the pension fund to generate perpetual interest earning as the original legislation had intended and created. read this and notice the parallels with the unaccountability of the rspca........ they are only extending the rspca the same as they expect for themselves no wonder this is happening across the board https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/our-politicians-have-become-an-unaccountable-ruling-class,12985 equally interesting....the corruption pretty neatly spelt out. wonder how long this group is eliminated? Press raids are already reality in australia. https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/an-independent-australia-cannot-be-bought-by-corporations,13400

the rspca were awarded every penny of costs they claimed for the weeks of the Ruth Downey Inquisition............she had no conviction recorded nor was she fined even one dollar, but the magistrate awarded the rspca's application for costs...........they submitted "costs" to the tune of over $260,000, which included three barristers, flying in "experts" instead of using local "experts" etc.(dotted every i and crossed every t three times and charged for everything they could rustle up and the magistrate never queried a cent of it)...........interestingly a murder trial held in the same district court ran for less than half the same time and even though it was a murder trial the prosecution fielded one barrister something the locals found pretty interesting so much ammo (ie three barristers) for, as the retired Public prosecutor Leon Mills noted for a "crime" not serious at law, hence heard before a magistrate, not a judge and jury. Yet the far more serious crime at law, murder.............was not considered necessary to appoint three barristers to the prosecutors side and the defendant was found guilty, a conviction was recorded and sentence pronounced, achieved at a fraction of the cost in the same place at the same time?

Technically they won, cleared their names, but financially lost everything, their cattle, their properties (had to sell them to pay the legal costs, all up over four million paid out over the ten years fighting for justice) they never saw the 1.4 million, it went straight to the their legal team If the magistrate had ruled the rspca had to replace the cattle and the income lost over the intervening ten income less years and the true value lost instead, but that didn't happen nor did he award them cost's,

well, if any had any doubts the enquiry is going to have been a waste of time and emotions the latest news proves they have no fear whatever of being held accountable. The seized cattle photographed on this page indicate all of rural nsw can and if they so choose will be destocked in its entirety Words fail.. broken lives, broken minds. let alone all the needless deaths, or as they say "euthanasia" if you have animals you abrogate any rights, human or animal whatsoever https://www.facebook.com/Dogs-without-borders-Australia-709019335881463/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARAInM18xadsV_FMn6U7FtNmiJ6250ieFtnSUcj2yRr2z90AO3rOJ_T3jQQBI762N_2IrhZG1HNHGplw

just released on facebook. so sad one of the calves at the Binnaway seizure " 1 hr ·6/12/2019 Before being shot and put in a pit, this calf sat here for two days with no mum and no milk. Someone tried to take it milk and was refused. The rspca have gone too far, this is bullshit! "

yes , true so if it was "euthanised" with out green dream? the only alternative if the body is to be processed is a bullet and its throat cut or captive bolt and throat cut?

just listened to the Ray Hadley interview with Coleman. they were taken now they were in good condition so they could be sold. no explanation why the calves were killed though. he said the 50,000 of hay would only have lasted the 1300 cattle a week then they would have began losing weight again. no explanation why at least a core herd of 100 wasn't left to at least had something to rebuild from and 50,000 of hay would have gone a long way with that few numbers... like leave the cows and calves instead of killing them as they did? he admitted the cows were in sale condition, so they were in good enough condition to raise their calves.

Yes, I stupidly bought one at Aldi we have mozzies by the score but when I watched it at work what it was attracting and killing was dozens of moths and beneficial insects.....not a single mozzie into the bin it went

so true little gifts. the problem is as so many have noticed is there is not money to be made teaching the people who are better targeted for income. Pity the enquiry was probably not appraised of this , you so succinctly put in to words why the rspca has strayed so far from what it once was. the accumulation of money is now its sole aim. the seizure and sale of the 1300 cattle at Binnaway is irrefutable proof of that. the first press release stated they seized and sold the cattle because 200 bodies were counted.....The press release neglected to mention they had been placed there after death for the past five years because they cannot be burnt due to the continuing drought. Not satisfied with that press release, they next state they found 800 bodies. People who know the farm and the farmers vehemently dispute this. Photographs were taken of the cattle as they awaited sale at Dubbo and they said even the saleyard staff were astonished that they were seized on the grounds of cruelty when they were in good condition and even the poorest were described at sale as in store condition and there was stock from other vendors considered in sufficient condition for sale that weighed less. Every farmer who saw these cattle is very concerned if they can be taken and sold there is nothing in nsw that cannot be seized and sold by them. they maintained that the cattle that died in transport were due to their poor condition yet there are photographs of the stock crammed into the trucks so closely that if the farmer or any other farmer had done so would have been chargeable because they were packed too tightly to travel safely. any animal that went down had no chance of being able to get back up. even more shocking if that were possible they separated the calves from their mothers and shot them? why? we successfully transported over 80 head of our cattle during a drought all with newborn to weeks old calves without losing any cows or calves......such was the expertise of the carrier we engaged and loaded to his instructions. Yet they killed all the calves instead? apparently the rspca gave the orders for loading and the drivers permitted no influence yet their owner is going to be charged over the death of each and every one that died under their instruction. I picked up a load of hay yesterday and in the paddocks beside his shed is over 40 head in exactly the same condition as the Binnaway farmers, their owner is well aware how easily he can be next. over a third of the Binnaway cattle were in prime condition and they too were taken and sold. So good condition is not going to save them from seizure once they have "formed the opinion" everything will be seized. there isn't a farmer in nsw not fully aware now of their chances of being next.

this is the cause of my confusion, I specifically put the link to AAR and was talking solely about AAR and this was immediately below my original post So I could only think she was referring to AAR

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