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Yes they do. I have only been there once but I saw your pic and said to hubby perhaps we should go to Fellinis again

That is Jazz! She doesn't do clean, lol. I might repeat the photo tomorrow but with Piper's foot. They were bathed the same day, hers is white. Jazz bathes in her clam shell daily and then runs laps of the dusty backyard so never stays clean more than an hour.

Looking at Jazz's foot you would think she hasn't seen a bath for a month but she was done just 7 days ago. Filthy little devil!! Love Ava's heel position Wuffles, she looks all set to go. DSO - Jess is such a pretty girl with a flower in her hair. Helen I am looking forward to seeing how you go with 52 weeks of retro CM - Love the fancy dressed dogs Everyone has such great photos but they are the 1s that I can remember to make comments on right now. LOL

So many great and diverse photos Colliepaws, I love the colours and smells of the market and you captured it so well. I "cheated" and took 2 pics today. 1 first thing this morning as I remembered after I had gone to bed which I have labelled as yesterday's photo and another about 15 mins ago. Jazz's leg should be white and she was only bathed last week. LOL And this afternoon. I don't have a proper macro lens and everything in the garden is looking past it's best so I am quite happy with what I was able to get. I called this 1 "Past It's Prime".

I hope I'll get to add one to my crew in the future provided I like them when I meet some in the flesh, but it won't be for a LONG time! I already have my next 3 dogs planned I'm a die hard border collie person who shows no interest in owning other breeds but I love what I have read and seen of these little guys and could be very seriously tempted... As to suggestions for Huski - um I was thinking a Belgain variety - a terv or groen, not as high drive as a Malanois. A spaniel fo some sort - field, English, Welsh, Brittany. What about Italian Spinone - too big maybe?

I'm another pleased to see Pyr Sheps in Australia. I would LOVE to see some in the flesh. My husband just informed me there is no room for another dog, lol.

Looks great!! I am still waiting for mine. She says 2 - 3 weeks for custom orders and 3 weeks is this weekend but I would imagine she had heaps of custom orders after Christmas so could be a bit longer. If anyone is thinking of getting 1 as a gift, hubby got me the gift voucher. He said it took about 2 weeks to get to him and he was getting worried as he had expected just an emailed voucher. But the voucher is really nicely presented. It is on nice heavy weight paper with another sheet of instructions on how to do a design your own bag as well as a nice envelope for it all to be given in.

Well I missed Monday but have managed Tuesday, Wednesday and today. None of them are particularly good. 2 were taken with my iphone but I figure at least I got some photos. Tuesday 11/1 - balloon fun with the kids at work. There are 3 hiding in there. Wednesday 12/1 - out for a walk with the kids from work and today - Throw it!! A quick game once the rain stopped.

I always thought it was obedience, tracking, agility, jumping, games. Piper's herding titles come at the end after her JD so I guess herding comes in after that. If retrieving does as well I would guess that breed specific/restricted titles are last so I would think Earthdog goes at the end as well. In reality though I think as long as you get them on there when you enter events it doesn't really matter.

Dova, I hope everything is ok. PM me if there is anything we can do to help?

Lovely photo Terranik. Sounds like an awful few days for you both. This is the point where I fai. Went back to work yesterday and came home and raced about doing dinner than totally forgot about a photo. Today I shall get back on the wagon!!

Here is a video of 1: They are an open field trial. The ANKC B course is loosely based on them. The outruns are much much longer and there is a lot of driving.

Most of my instruction has been with a 3 sheep man (and it has been terribly sad him moving off the land and no longer doing herding - a big part in the reduction of my available training ) and I was taught the same. Getting Piper to work off balance used to be a hell of a job and he taught me to use my body language and I used to do the turn of the bosy especially near obstacles to reposition her. She responded far better to that than a verbal command alone. Janba - I would LOVE to come and train with you guys for a while. Don't think I could stay anywhere near as long as I need to to learn what I want to learn though. (That wuld involve permanent relocation) LOL

I don't want the break away to reach the point where my dog has to collect them - I want him to stop it before the sheep go offline. Ditto. Not that either of mine do it succesfully, but that would be what I like. I am lucky with Jazz she is naturally a nice wide worker so I haven't had too much of an issue with this. I have more issue getting her to come in and push. The best thing I have done to help her with that is use her in the yards at trials for the last 12 months. Mind you I mostly did that as she is not ready for intermediate. I hope to get more training in this year, last year was a right off. We had 4 trial weekends all of which she worked in the yards for, 1 clinic and I think we maybe got on sheep 2 or 3 times other than that. Plus a couple of training sessions on ducks, but they were useful as we are working on driving which is best for them anyway.

cmkelpie, Over here when we introcude dogs to sucks we have a very strict long line rule with an experienced person manning the long line. We also prefer (I say prefer not must as there have been cases where we have not reuqired it before letting dogs off lead - in particular shelties and pups) to see a good response to a stop command. So far I can't think of any dogs we have started on ducks in SA that have been felt to be totally unsuitable. A few we have suggested go back to sheep for awhile and work on flank commands and control which they have done and then been back on the ducks without an issue. The ducks are very pressure sensitive compared to sheep. It was explained to me that they are like sheep on power steering. 1 step from the dog can create 2m movement from the ducks. Also many dogs that are grippy, grip as they are slightly anxious about the situation. Ducks are less intimidating so the dogs often seem to be calmer about it.

Try contacting DogsQLD would be my suggestion. I'm not sure if there is a specific herding club up there or not but they should be able to tell you which clubs run trials and those clubs are likely to have members that participate and can tell you where they train. There was a sheltie person on here who had set their property up for ANKC herding. Hesapandabear I think it is. I have no idea what training they offer if any or what it is like though. BUt you might get help there.

I guess it is different backgrounds and different experiences but if I am seeing what you say correctly I can see how this could be an issue on non dogged sheep. I would think in averting yes and flanking out and away sheep that are not dog broke will say "see you later" and be gone. Whereas walking back but maintaining eye contact and holding the line the dog is on can make the sheep feel less threatened while still leaving the dog in a greater level of control. Also some of the non dog broke sheep I have seen being worked even flanking the dog out if they are near an obstacle could be enough to push them away from it as they react to the movement of the dog. Not a situation you would expect to see in ANKC trials though where the stock are dog wise. I think maybe if I saw what you meant it could be different as I picture a bigger, quicker movement when you talk about flanking away than I do with a few steps backwards that Janba mentions.

I ended up googling and found that page and have given her some. No idea how long before it should help, hopefully it kicks in before bed time so we can both get some sleep. Thanks

I have claratyne here?

Piper is coming up to 10 and has never been an itchy dog. There has been no change in her diet or anything else that I can think of. Yesterday I felt they were all all little itchy so bathed, blow dried, groomed in my usual shampoo and applied flea treatment (only use as needed - about once a year), Jazz and Jessi were 90% better from this. Piper seems to be getting worse. This morning I gave them all a capstar thinking maybe the spot on hadn't kicked in yet. Jazz and Jessi are now fine. There is no difference with Piper. She is almost contantly biting or scratching at herself - in particular around her shoulders and the top of her tail. She has some redness on the inside of her back legs yet does not seem to be too fussed about chewing/scratching there. When she scratches near her front legs she is taking clumps of hair out but the skin that I can see does not look too red or irritated and there is no rash or anything that I can see. She is also getting quite stressed and panting fairly heavily so she must be fairly uncomfortable. If she is not better tomorrow it will be off to the vet (typical dogs - has to be my first day back at work after 2 weeks leave, couldn't have happened a week ago. LOL) but I am wondering if there is anything I can do to keep her comfortable or ease her discomfort tonight. I feel for you all with allergy dogs now. It is not something I have ever had to deal with and she woke me several times last night scratching vigorously. It must be awful to live with them like this on a regular basis for you and the dog.

Today was spent at my nephew's first birthday party.

Single tank hydrobath, there's no rinsing happening here Tiny amount of shampoo involved though. Just wanting to know if the permoxin is effective when mixed with the shampoo do you know? I would dump the shampoo water and refill for a rinse with the permoxin myself.

January 8 - a lazy Saturday afternoon after a busy morning bathing and grooming.

I thought Roseworthy would probably have 1 being a teaching hospital. I also live near Roseworthy but hope to never need their services. I haven't confirmed it with my vet yet but have been told that the vets in Gawler no longer do after hours consults as Roseworthy offer them now. Good luck in your search for a well bred puppy. I hope you succeed. And there is never anything wrong in asking questions. Disagreement and debate will occur in a busy forum

Too hard to comment on them all. I'm not happy with today's picture. But it is hot and I am uninspired. This is the result of my shopping expeditions this week. $510 of clothes and leather hand bag for the bargain price of $160