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MISTY my 14 yr girl asked me to send everyone a Merry Christmas wish and dont comment on her fuller figure please :-) she is on a diet.

to keep my lot busy, I have either a ball hanging about a foot above the ground on a chain (discovered they like chewing on rope) or a figure of eight toy rope also on a chain... ditto hanging so it can swing in the wind.. that way they can tug at it to their hearts content... wrestle it from every angle of the compass and never bored replace as demolished.

SO TRUE. my standardbred Jody was feeling a little too fresh when mum was putting out the washing and decided to walk up to her, put his face against her chest and shoved her over...n mum weighed 18 stone so it was a heavy landing and she was NOT impressed despite the padding. so figured if he has that much energy he can have a run on the lunge line over the road in the park.... soo working up a nice sweat and the fiery eye was started to soften when over comes and outraged "I a member of the rspca, A horse only sweats when it it in pain, stop hurting him or I will call them immediately." so as any good citizen I handed her the lunge line and let her 'TAKE care of him". whereupon Jodie looked at the newcomer, walked straight to her, rested his head on her ample bousum and yep... PUSHED HER straight back onto her butt..... mea? I was busy picking grass to feed the poor suffering beast and no I did offer to help her get back up, Jody would only had knocked her clean over again anyway...as it was, he was thoroughly enjoying his new acquaintance, giving himself a lovely head massage olong her back and shoulders until she asked me could I "please take him back now, I think he is ok now!". she was still sitting there when she decided to hand me the lead back and we ambled back home... One of my all time favorite memories... only regret she didn't ask for a ride... he always dumps a newbie, stops dead and puts his head between his forlegs so they do the slippery dip ride to the ground and he stands there with his new foal between his forfeet looking soooooooo surprised and concerned....."ARE YOU ok ol chap? How on earth did that happen?" no mention of the quick pig-root to make sure you go over the point of no return as he sides to his sudden stop... so miss him, and people dont think horses can think, let alone have an awesome sense of humour

if you can see or feel the last three ribs my vet said your dog is correct weight... https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjw68n8krffAhUJfn0KHVa2CmQQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=%2Furl%3Fsa%3Di%26source%3Dimages%26cd%3D%26ved%3D%26url%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.dummies.com%2Fpets%2Fdogs%2Fhow-to-evaluate-your-dogs-weight%2F%26psig%3DAOvVaw2zDj1_L2CWGvjnf7upG5BE%26ust%3D1545695582879247&psig=AOvVaw2zDj1_L2CWGvjnf7upG5BE&ust=1545695582879247 one catch. if you can see three ribs, the rspca can take it.. they dont worry about optimum weight. have fun kids working how to keep your dog at what the vet said is best for your dogs longevity and yet out of the rspca's acquisition sights...

another solution is trap/catch and cull when its exceeded.....dont let them starve...... but hey that's and intelligent solution....one your cant accuse a pollie of is intelligance....follow the votes is all so many know or understand... Im beside a raaf base... thousands of acres.. but in the last drought the greenie in charge of the wildlife did nothing about the roo's starving,,, stripping everything until finally they dug out and culled themselves on the local roads.... tens of thousands of dollars, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, damage done to cars, utes and trucks but hey the greenie didn't have to pay for it.... nice wage when you can get paid for doing nothing but wave your degree. the suffering of the roo's wasn't a concern though. my favourites were the Swamp Wallabies with their little striped faces and their golden dusted shoulders, butts and tails... so gentle and friendly.... they would wait until we finished lunch when we were mustering and quietly slip over to the sandwich crusts.... but that was before the Greenie decided no more cattle in there to keep the fire hazard down.... 18 months later black christmas dawned.....the fire load so massive ALL the trees crowned and the blaze went though like a steam train and through to St Marys where tens of millions of damage was done... all the local rfs could do was fight to save the homes near the base and pray for our little roo friends......we were lucky no one was killed but my husband stank from the acrid smoke and lost all his hair but luckily not his lungs.... hazard reduction would have meant none of the parrot trees would have been destroyed, the fire would not have been so totally out of control... gotta love greenies.....and where was she?..................no where in sight while the place burned out there are three species of roo's as well... now the drought has broken, grass and herbage everywhere but not a hopper in sight.. have to wonder how few survived. there was never more than a dozen of the swamp wallabies before the drought. so hope they haven't all been killed. But this summer is going to be a rfs's nightmare..... once this stuff dries out......

The dingo who took Azaria was a pet, it brought her home and left her on the doorstop. the horrified owner killed it and buried both....obviously not together. how do I know... my bil was the arid zone vet who was lumped with autopsying all the dingo's shot and knew what really happened. people tried to tell no one listened......but hey who listens to the locals who might actually know...how quickly everyone forgot the local tribeswomen tracked it from the tent..... only lost the tracks when they realised where it was heading, had only just been given ulauru back....nightmare all round, then a dipstick in Darwin decides he doesn't like the way Lindy dressed and it all went downhill even faster. the dingo's on Fraser Island need food, but nope,.................. the half witted govt buffoons wont even let the scraps from the tourist camps be put out at a feeding station well away, so the dingo's dont come begging for food.....another disaster already happened how many times???? starving dogs is a recipe for disaster, regardless of species, as has already happened on Fraser island.....The photos of the dingo's show they are so skinny the rspca would have taken them if they were your dog....that thin means there sure is not enough native food to be found.............. I heard, until they stopped the scrap's being put out no attacks, because they were not coming to the camps but hey aborigines n locals dont know zilch about dingo's you have to be a greenie with a uni degree or of course a politician who bought the seat anyway with donations to get elected. safe, wildlife management isn't on the agenda

Interesting article....n I was told by a then member of RSPCA NSW in 2000 the membership and AGM voting had been stacked and now controlled by peta. love the take on the "Niall Blair, saw through this and ordered the process to start again " only took a few, ie TWENTY TWO thousand members of dogs nsw to get it through to him he had been hoodwinked... before he changed his mind about signing off on it though, then promised to engage more knowledgeable advisers (ie practicing veterinarians) and assistance before blanketing all and sundry as would have been, if he had shoved it through. https://www.smh.com.au/national/we-should-be-promoting-pet-ownership-not-making-it-more-difficult-20180423-p4zb4v.html?fbclid=IwAR0RHdZ814M1dDj12gEM5S_mjuIk9nRRacHJqMF-ueqcBlIJviCN1CMhOaA THE BELOW LINK is in, the above story. but it came so close to becoming law, PETA must be utterly furious they failed, so close to success. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/many-pet-owners-to-be-classified-as-pet-shops-under-proposals-20180406-p4z82d.html Meanwhile Victoria has the lovely peta hugger Jaala Pulford.... busy.doing her best to do their bidding. Kindly never forget this state has it law that you can serve ten years in jail for showing your dog if it was born in Victoria and debarked in another state if it belongs to a Victorian.... but any interstate owned or bred debarked dog can attend the same show????? This law has not been repealed either... a gotta love stupidity where ever we find it eh? did a little and I do mean a little, googling.... my goodness. https://www.markmaldridge.com/RSPCA-V-May.html?fbclid=IwAR3JSyV4XlOKY1Xc_VQO73x51QOBADav1oBP1LE336W2kA2OwGa91X7NOoA

think these headlines are england but would love to know the figures for Australia No stats exist even,or im not looking in the right places, not good press so they aren't easy to find.. my friend Nancy's friend walked from her home after her chihuahua's were taken, she had 9, all problem one's, so her breeder friends gave them to her, rather than re home them to pet homes, many so tiny hypoglycemia was an ever present problem. rspca decided she was a hoarder and took them all.... she never came back... a year later she was seen living on the streets of Sydney but fled when she realised she had been recognised... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2334136/SPECIAL-INVESTIGATION-Five-suicides-One-common-thread-They-fell-foul-RSPCA.html?fbclid=IwAR2NRblCednnmvikP025m_Sh3ZI2nvAnLP20rWRHjKNwXOpx9iPzzEXdVH8

I still remember the Victorian lady who rehomed one of her Lhasa Apso's Characteristics: Gay, assertive, but chary of strangers ... an Australian Champion.... so well used to being handled by strangers. its new owners took it to their local vet who was linked to the rspca...' the dog made the fatal mistake of adhering to its breed standard.... no problems in its new home or people.... let the vet know it didnt like the vet.... vet talked them into putting it down. A significant number of breeds are "suspicious of Strangers"....... many even note it in the standard.... so? better get cracking and breed that out. seems its OK to have a palette so long half needs to be cut out, nose to be cut so air can get in, so the dog can actually breathe as was seen this week for the french bulldog in Vet On The Hill... so he could play without needing to be carried home or risk suffocation? . lots needs to be changed but how fast that can happen is moot!

SADLY. I recall the lady who had all her cattledog's taken , Victoria I think it was, was also looking after a friends kelpie bitch and her puppies.... I'm pretty sure both the kelpie and all her puppers were not returned and were all desexed... so depend's on in which state? perhaps?

considering they know who the mum is, there is no way the pup is a dingo. the chances of the dad being anything but carrying part dingo is so low the question of the percentage is academic

someone came up with rather a brilliant idea the other night. DO not own your animal...... any of your animals.. Register it in someone else's name and look after it for them.... remember the only bull terriers that were returned belonged to people who did not live there, that had been left for matings............................... this is now our brave new world to negotiate best you can

I just saw Amanda Knox. amazing lady, she made me realise this is the new world we live in now..... how to manage to survive in this world is what so many need to learn.. me included. my crime I was accused of was so spiffing compared to the living nightmare she endured......... but strangely although never charged,.....never convicted........ even got the target, (my dog back) even 18 years later members of this forum still feel they can insinuate I probably deserved what happened........... There are going to be tens of thousands yearly need to learn how this system works.... http://www.amandaknox.com/the-scarlet-letter-reports/ So much to take in. one bit...... amanda knox In this episode of The Scarlet Letter Reports, I tell the story of how my own character was assassinated in the media when I was arrested and put on trial for a crime I didn’t commit. In 2007, I was just another twenty-year-old college student studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. One night, a local burglar named Rudy Guede broke into the apartment I shared with three other young women, and murdered the only one of us who was home at the time—Meredith Kercher. For the next eight years, Meredith’s murder made international headlines, but for all the worldwide attention the case received, few people have ever heard of Rudy Guede. That’s because the investigators, prosecutors, media, and public focused their attention, instead, on me. My boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and I were hastily arrested. The prosecution and tabloid media cast me as a femme fatale, a sex-crazed she-devil who murdered my roommate in a drug- and/or jealousy-fueled rage during a sex game gone wrong. It didn’t matter that I had zero history of violence or mental illness or criminal behavior, and that exactly zero DNA evidence placed me at the scene of the crime. The prosecution and the tabloids had already created “Foxy Knoxy”—a figure onto which people could project their fears and fantasies, particularly those surrounding female sexuality, and that was enough to convict us. Raffaele and I survived four years in prison and eight years on trial. In March 2015, we were found innocent by the Italian Supreme Court. To this day, I combat harassment and attacks on my character on a regular basis. I get through it by thinking hard about the forces that lead to our dehumanization, how those forces affect other individuals in similar situations, and what we can do to stop our lives and our identities from being stolen from us.

WONDER what happened to the OP? hope the pup is ok

Yes, my friend Les's black and tan kelpies produced,, blue, chocolate, lilac(same shade as the weimarinar breed), cream and gold, sometimes all of these colours in the same litter.

problem with that is if the kelpie is her dad dingo will come up anyway

Australian Champion Pureheel Royal Echo, howls and yodels with the best............ perfectly named, he is a purebred registered Australian Cattle dog....

my neighbour had a purebred dingo pup, her hubby was a semi driver and rescued her from a pub where one of the drinkers had found them and brought them in to show off before he killed them... she was a great girl and very friendly.. her only crime was she could pop a six foot fence and loved the neighbours chickens for lunch on occasion. people forget they were brought here by the aborigines remember? they were domesticated , both Kelpies and cattledogs have dingo in them. so she could look like a purebred from a kelpie dad.

Yes the tv might help, my sons dogs are petrified of storms and cracker night... so for new years I was dogsitting them, tv was on a movie and they could hear the fireworks, so changed channels and when the tv channel flipped to the fireworks display on the harbour bridge.... they curled up beside the tv and didnt notice a thing coming from all the racket going on out in the street. yet to me the racket on the tv was the same but no, didn't bother them at all thanks to the tv. sometimes you just never know what will work. case of keep trying to see what works

I have seen it myself, our neighbour was said to be in a coma beyond knowing anyone was there... I asked him would he like to see fluffy, he nodded... We used to bring her for visits as he hated the nursing home so. she would cheer him up no end along with every patient who could pat her. so went home brought fluffy and again when we arrived the doctor said its too late.. fluffy sniffed and nuzzled him and slowly his hand rose from his side to slide up her face and fondle her face and ears..... not sure who was going to faint first, the doctor or his son and grandkids. She gave Lenny so much pleasure in the years before we had to say goodbye. it was beautiful to see his happiness,,, he had a smile on his face and a light of happiness. After he became too tired and went back to sleep, she did the rounds of the patients waiting to see her too... she was so gentle with everyone. she was one hot tomalie when you were riding her though. this is fluffy at the State Sporting. see she sure could derby. She and her rider are 18... we had this wonderful welshie until she was 36 ... her best friend Rahma, is 34 and still going well... took Rahm's to the medieval fair at Bowral and went in the skill at Arms... our combined age was 103.. .. she is by a welsh dad from an arabian mum Our pets can take us such wonderful places, this was a best day with puppies and Chris Brown , Amanda Keller and the Living room , HEAPS OF PUPPIES 11 of them took over the studio, Gee Chris is tall. you wont see this again in your life time I suspect... the bay mare is Bea Bea, her two daughters are identical twins, we sure were not expecting twins. Let alone identical. They keep us sane while the world tries to overwhelm us, dont they. the tough bit is the knowledge that everyone of them can be taken by a moron, (with none of the qualifications of their vets with BV.Sc after their names) and killed if they so decide, because they have "formed the opinion" to do so. Before anyone starts on my fragile mental state. How did it get that way? I was with Marion Alcorn in 1995 when three times she was told if she signed her ten arabians over, "they would be found good homes" She signed them over. The man who had "formed the opinion " to seize them the day he took them was present as well... No 14 days to comply, he arrived, they were taken. Not heresay I was there with Marion when she was promised. I was also present at McGrath's Hill sales when that same man walked into the ring and told the auctioneer "You are only to accept bids from the doggers" then he turned on his heel and as he strode away finished "and they are all mad." Again Not Heresay... I was there.. He "formed the opinion" all should die. Despite the promise his superiors had made in his presence, only 5 days before. Marion received a phone call that same Saturday. Advising her all ten had been slaughtered for dog meat. When in fact all ten, were still very much alive, although we failed to save the Crenel colt. He was slaughtered after being trucked to Queensland..........The dogger who bought him refused to resell...... She never answered a phone again for over 20 years..... Weak minded? broken certainly. The man who "formed the opinion" that day, is now CEO of RSPCA NSW! There is still no avenue of appeal either? why is that so? Stringy was just the icing on the cake, showing me no one is safe.......no matter how healthy their pet is. Remember Marion's horses next time one of you is tempted to throw at anyone, that stupid line they never act unless "where there's smoke there's fire!"

Pretend she is a dog.... wonderful story. they mean so much to us, they help us so much. I have a friend whose husband has ptsd from war, one hour with our welsh Cob and he went weeks without a panic attack... they are great helps too..... click on the pic... it enlarges....stunningly Three years ago my husband Randy asked for a headstone for Christmas. I asked for a Wall. He also wanted me to sell his beloved Horse; Shadow. He had one request; before we sell her; he wanted pictures of her. I had Crista Everly come out and take the pictures. ( the first two pictures are Crista's Creation, aren't they beautiful?) And like most things Randy tells me to do, I did the opposite. I refused to sell the horse. Here is the story of the Other Female in my husbands life. The Other Female~ D.M. Eich My husband was given 7 months to live in June 2014. When my husbands Cancer was found one of the first suggestions; by I pray; well meaning individuals; was when you gonna get rid of your horse? The questions shocked both of us. Again well meaning individuals told my husband the whole list of cant's that he wont be able to do after surgery. Can't Ride horses; or be around them. They may kick you! You'll be frail and they will run over you. You'll never ride again. If you fall; your a goner for sure. So many well meaning individuals successfully filled my husband with fear. Just when I thought he needed to keep working with his horse he told me to sell his horse. He bought into the can't. In fact he wanted one last picture with her before he died. We both bawled like babies the day the photographer took the Picture of him and Shadow. I refused to sell the horse. For almost 6 months he sat in his recliner, hating life, hating the disease and probably most of all hating me for refusing to sell his girl; Shadow. We fought constantly. I chose to do the opposite, I brought her home and put her in the front yard where he could see her everyday. He'd call out she needs food, water ,love, brushing! I refused. I told him to do it; it was his horse! All I heard was I can't. Now before you notify PETA and tell them I allowed the horse to be neglected I want to assure you she was well taken care of; he just didn't see me doing it. It took my husband a long time to take care of her. Sure he was slow but each day she helped him heal. She helped him emotionally and physically. Seeing my husband slowly rotting in a recliner was tough. Seeing him brushing and talking to his girl made my heart sing. He ordered her all kinds of horse gear and spent obscene amounts of money on the best feed, grooming supplies and tack. I didn't mind, the other Female was worth every penny. As his strength grew so did his confidence. Since his diagnosis we have ridden in many states. Deserts and Mountains; over hills and valleys. His passion for Horses has grown as our bank account has decreased. I don't mind though; I have a happy husband who has cancer; Cancer doesn't have him. The crazy weather in Missouri is in the 70's today. We set out early and he spent the beautiful day with his girls. Shadow and I. For those of you who have a love and a passion please don't let this disease take you from it. Live each day as the amazing gift it is. I can't imagine where we would be without the other Female in my husbands life. I am blessed. ~D.M. Eich; December 2014

I thought there was a huge problem considering all the press releases? none of the comments below are mine. deleted the names and links to the posters. This is an interesting graphic. If you compare this with the number of cruelty cases reported, the number of those that are actually investigated, and the number of convictions .. it shows that animal cruelty is actually a very tiny problem! Big money when everyone has pets , Manage 6.7 million pets and how many successful prosecutions in Victoria? Manage 10,642 cruelty reports .. resulting in 113 successful prosecutions. For 6.7 million animals. Showing that animal cruelty is actually a tiny TINY problem. Manage Incidents were reported for 1.06% of the pet population. Only 0.15% of complaints resulted in a conviction. Manage Which indicates that Animal Welfare in Victoria is actually in a very HEALTHY state, so no new laws, legislation or indeed any changes at all were needed. Now ain't that a very different picture to the one painted by the rspca?

thanks little gifts just had to add this.. so true... so beautiful ..... all creatures great and small

Yes, they came from rescues.... but someone bred them, hopefully with much love too......

another , the reason they own our hearts