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spotted this and the link on Facebook " Killing. It's what they love to do Sold her SEVEN pups for ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS each. Then killed her. " http://savingpets.com.au/blog/lucy

My cousin and one of my best friends, yep married into the family she liked us so much. are raising their third guide puppy, they love doing it

He is lucky it was only a chihuahua. anyone else remember one of the first people to get a face transplant was because their dog had eaten their face while they had been unconscious? http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-who-underwent-worlds-first-8779087

the reason my parents never let me go anywhere without my dads cattle dog Blue at my side, I would be handed a note for the grocer and the money and off down to the shop, people would cross the road if they were comming the other way took me a while to realise blue would smile at them at the 30 foot mark and they crossed the road. my daugher was given Debbie by hilton singclair when she was born and she did exactly the same. never had to worry when to went to play with Debbie at her side. When our eldest son brought home his new baby daughter and he and his wife went for their first walk with her in her pram at 3 days old, Benny and rosie positioned them selves either side of the pram and to Pauls astonishment people would cross the road as they walked towards them, he wondered what was going on so crossed the road and walked ahead and watched benny and rosie. I got a phone call to tell he he had always thought my story about blue had been childhood bullshit, now he knows its not, benny and rosie were doing exactly the same thing... Australias best kept secret, ACD's The best thing that happened to the non pedigree acd was the bogans switched to importing and breeding apb's, they stopped breeding for acd's that bite anyone on sight. probably not politically correct but I think we all know in the wrong hands the results are disaster for both the dog and other people

Just learned tonight this parasite can kill people? My neighbour's husband was an orthopaedic surgeon and he pointed to a beautiful boy and told her, he would die soon. he had been dared to eat a slug. the parasite destroyed his brain. A friend who is a vet, sent me this. "Horses too , Angiostrongylus cantonensis - the rat lungworm. There are oftern small snails in water troughs and they can carry it too, foals and young horses more frequently affected than adults. And Humans I believe. Take home message - no slugs or snails in the diet, at least not uncooked! https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/angiostrongylus/index.html CDC - Angiostrongylus Education and information about Angiostrongyliasis, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, Angiostrongylus costaricensis, eosinophilic gastroenteritis, and eosinophilic meningitis including information on prevention and control, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and resources for health professionals." CDC.GOV "

So Excited 11 purebred cattle puppies will be taking over the set with Chris Brown and Amanda Keller. awesome advertising for purebred puppies eh. A great segment not to be missed as he discusses the dangers of snails and slugs to your dog and how to protect your dog

very true, that is the hard part. very had not to keep wishing, if only someone had come by, if only she had something she could have used as a tournaquate I know for me even when I saw all the blood was suprised and I realised i obviously could be in trouble but by then I didnt care, too sleepy. i know when i was better realised how lucky i was born now and not in the years of only horse and buggy, would have died that day. so the rest of my life has been a gift I would never have had if I had been born in the eara I like better than all the high tech stuff lol even the net, to think my grandparents still had horses and sulkies up until just before I was born, my mums horse won champion Harness horse at sydney royal in 1938 I think is the year on his ribbon? have to go check, my dad was still delivering ice because there were no fridges and here I am talking to you over a system me, my parents and certainly never my grandparents could ever envisige eh?

Yes, so true, so many horse rescues want to "save" everything. and other people not even in rescue put so much pressure on someone who wants to sell a horse they no long want because they are afraid of it, they tell the poor person that they have committed to that horses care for life when they bought it and they "cant just throw it away" when they want to sell it. they are big and potentially deadly if they want to be.

actually bleeding out is quite a peaceful way to go, you just feel cold and increasingly sleepy, I remember being quite annoyed when the doctors kept waking me up all I wanted was to be left alone and sleep, had no idea how much I had been bleeding after a miscarriage, by the time I arrived at the hospital all I wanted to do was sleep. It was only later I learned how close things came to death . felt so peaceful not even the sight of all the blood on the stretcher sheets when they moved me, worried me a jot

this is the very reason I so dislike the trend to always blame the breeder or the owner when a dog goes bad. you really will never know the cause for the majority and that is not the first time a brain tumour or damage is behind it. we had a beautiful border collie who was kicked in the head by a friends horse when he was 9 months old, raced to the vet we thought he was a goner, but the vet rang the next morning to say he had removed a 20 shilling size piece of shattered bone from his skull and he was up and happy this morning, when would we like to pick him up. he had a line of stitches and a slump in his skin where the bone was missing but fine for the next 5 years before things began to change. he began to look intently at people, typical collie stare to control the sheep but a menace was there in his eyes too. He took to jumping the fence and it was 6 foot paling fence and rounding up the people who walked down to the bus stop and holding them in the park beside the bus stop, we would have to catch him and bring him home, at first everyone thought it was funny and so did we but when they ignored him and went to board the bus he began to show his teeth and threaten them. One day I came home in the rain umbrella up and he came over the fence and came at me staring at me like he was mad, it was very scarey, I called his name but he made no hint he heard or recognised me. He plainly wanted me to not move but I took a step forward and he leapt for my face or throat, not sure which and I screamed his name at him and in midair he reacted and twisted sideways to not hit me and ran home very distressed. We took him straight to the vet and he said he had developed I forget what he said it was, scarinng? anyway he kept him overnight and he said he was having a form of fitting where he would recognise the vet one minute and then not recognise anyone and move to attack them, he believe during these sessesions he was in a great deal of pain and he was put down. There is too much of a blame game going on with the people who say no animal becomes bad unless someone is to blame, and people persavere with what could and in that ladys case end up so tragic. no one seems to have mentioned it here , but I was at a lesson day yesterday and two said the reports have come back he bit her on her legs and struck an artery and she bled out. Poor lady.

when i was a child a neighbour was killed by his dog. he had come home in the pouring rain in a new coat and rushed through the side gate in a hurry to get out of the rain. his dog was startled and went straight for the throat. he only bit once as the second he had he realised who he was and let go immediately but problem was he had hit the juglular, is wife saw it but the ambulance arrived too late. just pure bad luck regardless of breed although the bigger the dog the more chance, his dog was a german shepherd. the dog was a devestated as the wife she believed , well that is what she told my mum and she did not have him put down and died of old age some 10 years later n had never bitten anyone else since although perhaps that might be more catagerised as a freak accident? she took and risk and was lucky

my mum had a standard poodle and she was awesome with kids, so much so se think she saved the life of my friends 3yr old. Tammie LOVED water, we had a pool, yet mum and my friend were having a cup of tea and her son began crying, investigation found he and nipped outside when no one was looking and he was at the bottom of the stairs. tammie was standing beside him, mum thought he was afraid of her so told her to go inside. not long later he began crying again, but still no idea why.although tammy was beside him again. so mum and marilyn decided to watch from a window. soon as he thought they had gone he headed straight for the pool. it was an above ground and mum had removed the stairs. but he had stacked things against the side they had not noticed. he began to climb his makshift ladder and tammie came running, took his arm in her mouth and led him back to the stairs and he began crying. tammie got so many hugs she was thrilled to bits, as for tony he got a talking to and a smack (child abuse was rife in those days) its decades now but we are still amazed tammie didnt just jump in with him but somehow knew he should not go in and saved him from am almost sure drowning as he had not learnt to swim

Blue can manifest in a zillion shades, from darkest blue black to pale and everywhere in between, my vote is hes a dark blue. forgot to add, a blue does not have a black nose, its a different shade, paler than black and unmistakably not black. so? What shade is his nose? my silver boy had a black nose, a chocolate has a brown nose.

incredibly difficult situation, having been a breeder since 1978 I sure have sold a puppy to a pet home that I later regretted. Although in my case I never reneged on the sale, just hoped one as good would turn up in the next litter. Although in hindsight it rarely does happen. Also tend to console myself with the fact that so many people will see what a stunner it is can come looking for one as nice and they sure have. put it down to the fun and the frustration of being a breeder. Every litter is a new book, as is every puppy. This looks like one breeder who has had second and third thoughts after the event and decided she can't go through with the sale. I can understand why she has done it, but she had first pick in the first place, so pretty unfair to renig now, I don't think she has done the right thing by you. I expect your too upset about all this to even think about taking a second look at the puppy she had intended keeping originally? how cute is he? it could still turn out he could end up the best puppy too, and if you get him end up still having the last laugh...... its sooooo hard to accurately asses puppies under 8 weeks. the story of the ugly duckling has a basis on fact remember.

adorable dogs, unfortunately its the last three words in the standard that fails them in the rspca temperament tests . few will forget the darling dog who was put down because although was a showring champion made the mistake of being "aloof" to the vet who the new owner had taken it too for a checkup and who discovered it had been debarked in another state and led to the breeders dogs being seized and charged with breaking the new Victorian law that no dog owned by a victorian could be shown if debarked in another state. Think the breeder was facing 80 years jail as the sentance was if I recall correctly ten years for each time shown or something like that. Then convinced the new owner it was not safe to keep due to the dogs obvious distrust of the vet who then let the vet put it down. Not sure if it was put down before or after the vet sent the rspca to seize the rest of the breeders dogs, terribly sad day for the breeder and the Tibbies Characteristics: Gay and assertive, highly intelligent, aloof with strangers. rscpa dont tend to read breed standards. its so lovely the tibbies like quite a few other breeds have been lucky to have stayed the same over the decades , so it can happen they don't get morphed in the name of "improved" So it is possible.

That is another problem, fellow members of the ankc tend to brand those who are not interested in showing as you just said, puppy farmers. Watching that movie last night about the man who broke the enigma code during the war and how he was bullied at school, think we tend to think but bullying ceases after you leave school, when in fact it still manifests in for example among ANKC members, a percentage of members who show tend to not only look down on those who choose not to show, but a percentage feel the need to make complaints to the rspca in hopes the resulting harrassment will get them to give up and leave. I was pretty aghast some years after the incident when my dog stringy was seized to discover the person who made the call to the rspca was none other than someone who I had considered a friend and fellow member of the chihuahua club and who used to play with him at meetings. She decided because I didn't show my dogs it was her duty to make the call that almost had him die from the injuries he received whilst they tried to find something they could charge me with. I only found out because she told a circle of what she thought was trusted friends that she had done so not realising two were also friends of mine. It was hard to forgive but no sense in carrying a grudge. interestingly some years later someone did the same to her although many of her dogs were champions, NO i was not me, no way I could bring myself to put another through what happened to me. Bullying is still alive and well unfortunately. I like pollyanna's thinking, we all need to work together for the good of the breeds, instead of sniping at those who hear a different drum and choose not to march to the tune you prefer Need to take a leaf from the Peta types and work together like they are.

its not that simple, I know a breeder that had not shown any of their dogs since the 1980's . just wasnt interested in the show scene, fast farward to 2016 Let a youngster keen to show have pick of a litter and it has won some 7 best in shows for its thrilled owner. so just because someone is not interested in the show scene is no true indicator of the quality of what they have.

I bought my first registered purebred puppy in 63, every puppy the breeders considered to be representative of the breed came with registration papers. Unless the buyer didnt want them, or the breeder did not think the puppy was sufficient standard to warrant a pedigree, a pet puppy came with a copy of its breeding. forget the year it was decided to bring in the limit register. frankly at the time I think its only purpose was to ensure every puppy born was registered to ensure an income to the KC's from every puppy born as was not the case until then. somehow in the meantime the hunt to eliminate backyard breeders began and withholding full registration papers began to be promoted as "responsible" to prevent puppy farmers and backyard breeders gaining access to full registratered dogs and puppies. I know when it began I asked where are you gaining anything? backyarders and puppy farmers don't care a fig about breeding registered dogs? All you are doing is becoming a dead end breeder? when you join and become a registered breeder one of the aims being forgotten was to encourage others to become members and continue the lines the breeders before you entrusted to you. No one seemed to be listening then or now. as others above have said, many if not the majority not only limit register everything they don't keep themselves, they are already desexed before even going to their new home, even though it has been found that such puppies end up with lifetime problems including incontinence? as for my suspicions about falling numbers of the breeds and membership, its all there in black and white Really we should thank god for the existence of Backyarders and puppy farms, they will be the only place many breeds will be found at this rate you can check the numbers yourself here http://ankc.org.au/AboutUs/?id=1206 think even the akc's are beginning to realise if this is any indication http://ankc.org.au/media/1199/a-forensic-view-of-puppy-breeding-in-australia.pdf The Ankc's have used this pool in the past to reinstate genetic diversity into dead ended breeds, how many remember the opening of the register to graded up Stumpy Tailed Cattledogs? in the end only registered breeder was Iris, until this was done. so there is precedent already to use the unregistered gene pool available

Just reminded me of my hubbies best sheepdog, Her name was maggot, her mum was named Fly

If this has been up before, apologies, but thought it may be interesting to see. for me I like the before dogs. its as if the show scene is more interested in the 'picture' than the fact the content is a living being in these examples I was at sydney Uni vet clinic this week and watched a modern german shepherd trying to go to the tiolet. his hinds were so wobbly and unable to maintain his weight . would bend uncontrollably untl he fell to either side and stepped in his own mess. sad sight to see, watched one being handled at a recent show and he too could not hold the stack without his hocks crossing each other and yet he still won his class?

Been in that situation too. thank goodness so many dogs know "go home" and or "go to bed" and obey Accordingly. when I was a kid few dogs were ever behind fences and many regarded the footpath as their humans property. so it was often a case of freeze, tell him to go home and then cross the road to proceed rather than walk on 'their' piece of footpath or risk being seen as trespassing. the kids who knew this never were bitten, well my brothers and I werent.

On the subject of vets wonder if any here would be interested in voting for the new Bondi Vet? Naturally I have a favourite. You may choose to vote for another, but this girl has the biggest heart and unstoppable courage so if one of the others doesn't get your vote. Please vote for Sarah Jane Goodwin, her dads nickname says it all, Goody Goodwin, she has her mum and dads ethics, I know most of you have no idea who she is, but she is the bravest and most determined girl. She had wanted to become a vet from the first day I met her. only a tiny tot on an equally tiny pony she joined our Pony Club and within weeks of training qualified to be the youngest team member in mounted games. She showed early her determination to do her best. Finally her dream was being realised and she was studying Vet Science when she was a passenger involved in a car accident, the other car slammed into the passenger side so violently when the ambulance and police arrived it was to find the unconscious Sarah had been thrown into the lap of the driver ,the passenger seat and that side of the car were gone, destroyed by the other car. she has no memory of the impact but as the ambulance and police said the one time a seat belt failed to hold saved her life although she sustained massive injuries including brain damage and was a long time in a coma. Although her Uni gave her a year sabbatical to recover, she refused to take it and went back as soon as she could, battling the effects of the accident she still graduated and has worked twice as hard to make up for the time lost. Her dedication to her chosen field has never wavered, nor her care for any animal that comes into her care. She has worked impossible hours including emergency night vet at Sydney Uni before her present position at Bondi. She saved a pony we bred when its owners almost lost it. researched another way to deal with what was refusing to respond to treatment and saved her, many have similar stories. Please Vote for Sarah, she is down the list at the 40 mark so many clients of the other vets are asking their friends to do the same as I am asking for Sarah, she would make an amazing Bondi Vet. If only those voting for the other vets knew half her story on her road they would be voting for her too. And PLEASE SHARE on your fb pages. This would be wonderful outcome for such a courageous young lady. https://bondivet.com/305-meet-our-top-50-vets Judging by all the votes the other vets in the 50 shortlist are getting they have a very large pool of devoted fans, Sarah needs us to get a wiggle on if she is to have a chance to become what I and all her friends believe. she would be AMAZING and an awesome ambassador as the new, Bondi Vet.

I don't think that is what maddy wants to hear, the sports people who cheat actually are bludgening themselves when you learn how badly what they have done does to their health and lifespan, as for the players who were given the stuff by their trainer who didn't care a jot about the effects it would have on their lives and health, same cruelty but hey people are dreadful so what happens bad to them doesn't count, is that the message?

you really need to add unscrupulous people are involved in all sports, look at the AFL supplements scandal, Cadel Evans cycling scandal, multiple Olympic drugs scandal's do I need to list more? the problems are not isolated to sports involving animals that are not of the homo sapien variety, I am not trying cloud the issue, but a bit of reality might not go astray