sandgrubber

Mobile vets are wonderful. The one we had in WA did minor surgery (castration on the kitchen table), and was so much better than going to the hospital for puppy vaccinations, AI, euthanasia, prog testing, minor wounds, etc. I don't mind paying the vet, it's the practice manager in franchise vet practices that I have qualms about.

Penalties? How about victim compensation? Vet and hospital bills plus something for pain and suffering. Queensland government shouldn't benefit from its lax efforts to manage people's failures to train and manage their dogs.

Paywall. Sigh.

They like water https://fb.watch/o4ny2P96ql/?mibextid=9R9pXO

https://thespinoff.co.nz/live-updates/16-10-2023/important-data-journalism-the-most-common-dog-names-in-our-live-pupdates?utm_source=spinoff-share-button&utm_medium=spinoff-web-mobile If anyone cares.

The parents have owned and loved JRTs, and seeing how small NZ is, I'm inclined to avoid rarer breeds. Anyway, the pup is already paid for...arriving this coming Monday.

I'm helping an 11 yr old with her start in the pedigree world. Her family's choice is JRT, so that's where we're going. I don't know the breed. Am I right in thinking you can breed rough to smooth coat within pedigree regulations? Is one or the other dominant? Can you get a mixed coat type litter?

I'm an oldie and in the habit of using benadryl for bee stings and other minor allergic stuff. I was surprised when my vet recommended trying another over the counter med. I see there are at least 3 recommend options these days https://www.kingsdale.com/antihistamines-for-dogs-when-to-use-them-dosage-schedules-and-more Wonder how others have done with the newer options. Trying an itchy boy on Loratadine ATM. So far so good.

IMO it's a cross breed, not a breed, and the reasons for the cross are not to be encouraged. Oodles are bad enough. Modern society doesn't need extra large cross breeds that look frightening...some sweet, some definitely not sweet...and all the disputes that go along with deciding, after fatal attacks, which dogs should be classified as dangerous and put under heavy restrictions

No. It's just me being judgy. Seeing how she has exaggerated and displayed her own sexual features, I assumed she would prefer dogs with full tackle. We don't know if both were intact, and we don't know if the breeder or breeders knew there would be two boys in the same smallish backyard. I lived across the road from the Success subdivision when it was being built, and I sure wouldn't recommend it as a good location for two large, powerful dogs unless there was an exceptionally good owner.

I agree, but, sadly, don't think the political reality is up to doing a good job

Hard not to be judgy of the owner given the photos (from the owner's FB page) shown in this article. What a gross, disgusting boob shot! Maybe the breeder's only fault is in not doing a better check before placing the dog, though that’s not the easiest thing to do. In my days as a breeder, I hope I would have screened her out....but then, I had Labradors and majority of buyers had had labs before and most had obvious families with children. Putting 2 intact male Rotties in a suburban backyard isn't clever, unless there's a strong justification.

Wish there was a good way to ban breeders who go for aggressive. Many Rottis are sweethearts. Same with other suppositivily dangerous breeds.

"reportedly attempting to give the labradoodle a cuddle." "Reportedly" is key. I'm reminded of a story about a vet, who had just administered a lethal dose to an old family Labrador that had bitten a child, discovering staples through the dog's ear. Young kids may do idiotically cruel things to dogs without an inkling of understanding what they are doing; and a dog that has come to be trusted with kids will often be trusted too much. Even the most gentle of dogs may strike out if pushed too far. The statistic shows up as child bitten on the face. Supervision. Supervision. Supervision.

Like many of you, I'm puppy mad, but I'm 74 and already have two youngish dogs, so I need a puppy like I need a hole in my head. I think I found a great solution. I'm buying a pedigree bitch pup for the 11 yr old girl next door. Her parents got their choice of breed (JRT, lifestyle block, needs vermin control). The understanding is that I'll mentor. If she's responsible about dog care and the pup matures well, the dog will be bred in a few years, I'll help, and if all goes well, she can reimburse me for the purchase price with proceeds from puppy sales. No big deal if all doesn't go well. Sh#t happens sometimes.

Beware of the cheap stuff. A couple years ago I read a peer reviewed article that found much of it was rancid. I'll try to find a link. It must be stored properly. This isn't the article I had in mind, but it does a good job explaining. There are many studies finding rancidity. Most look at human supplements, but veterinary meds are less regulated than human, so I doubt they're better in this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4681158/

Maybe. Given the data set was huge and not selected for health tested cross breeds. I suspect most of the cross breeds in the study were not the carefully bred sort. Breed specific or breed concentrated genetic diseases can originate from loss of genetic diversity, and cross breeding tends to reduce the frequency of getting two recessive genes.

Scientific evidence shows cross breeding can have health benefits. https://www.avma.org/javma-news/2018-06-15/study-reveals-genetic-diseases-mixed-breed-purebred-dogs

English Springers are interesting in tending to have white background with dark (liver or black) ticking and patches. Ears most often dark. Tail and paws most often white. Bench breeding discourages ticking, but it's probably a majority trait in field Spanners. Trendy stuff includes roans and tricolour. Occasionally, eyes of different colours. Personally I find colour genetics interesting, but selection for colour infuriating. Back to Labs, the land race behind them (Lesser St John's dog, now extinct) was usually black with white common in paws and on the chest. The damn Victorians selected for solid colour, mostly black. Like "improving the breed" means making its coat appear more like your servants' attire.

Not uncommon. Bolo pads have a long distinguished heritage in Labs. Bolo was a top Lab when the breed was first established and his progeny often had white on pads. I don't know if judges in the 2020s know this...have lost track of the show scene. Certainly nothing to worry about.

Btw, link to the poem https://www.rainbowsbridge.com/Poem.htm

Interesting read about theauthor of The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbow Bridge: Setting the Record Straight Most anyone who has loved and lost a dog has most certainly heard of the poem, Rainbow Bridge, a tribute to pets that have passed. The poem has touched the lives of millions of pet lovers around the world. Most often, it has been shared, posted or inscribed with "Author Unknown" attached to it. Paul Koudounaris, an art historian and founder of The Order of the Good Death, was on a mission to find the poem's true auther. Through his research, Koudounaris found records of 15 separate claims filed under the title "Rainbow Bridge" with the United States Copyright Office, dating as far back as 1995. He compiled a list of 25 names he found that had any connection to the poem. Then, he found the name Edna Clyne from Scotland, in an online chat group. A little Googling led him to the name Edna Clyne-Rekhy, whose authorship of a book about her late husband and their dog made him jot her name onto the list — the only woman and the only non-American. "What initially would have seemed like the most unlikely candidate in the end turned out to be the most intriguing candidate and, of course, the actual author," said Koudounaris. When Koudounaris contacted 82-year-old Ms. Clyne-Rekhy, she had no idea that the poem she had written more than 60 years ago to honor her childhood dog had brought comfort to so many people. Major, a Labrador Retriever, was Edna's first dog. "Major was a very special dog," said Edna. “Sometimes I would just sit and talk to him, and I felt that he could understand every word I said.” Her mother used to ask how Edna had trained Major to be so gentle and obedient, and she still laughs about the question, explaining that she had never trained him at all, it was natural between them. Major died in 1959, when Edna was 19 years old. The day after he passed, Edna found a notebook and pulled a piece of paper from it. As she began writing, she felt as if Major was guiding her pen. "Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge," the poem begins. When she was finished, she wrote "Rainbow Bridge" at the top of the piece of paper, then showed it to her mother, who responded, "My darling girl, you are very special." Afterwards, she put the piece of paper away and didn't show it to anyone else for a long time. Years later, she showed the poem to her husband, Jack Rekhy, who suggested she publish it. But, Edna didn't want to, telling him it was something private between herself and Major. Eventually, Edna typed up a few copies and handed them out to close friends - but she did not add her name on those copies. As more and more people shared the poem, it became cut off from its source. By the early 1990s it had crossed the Atlantic. In February 1994, a woman from Grand Rapids, Michigan, sent a copy of Rainbow Bridge that they had received from their local humane society to the advice column Dear Abby. It was published with a comment from Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby), "I'm sure that many readers will be as moved as I when they read it. I confess, I shed a tear or two. Regrettably, you did not include the name of the author. If anyone in my reading audience can verify authorship, please let me know." The letter provoked an overwhelming reponse with mailbags full of letters from pet owners who had been touched by the poem. When Koudounaris reached Edna, she was surprised he found her, and the reason why. She told him everything, inluding that the original poem sat in a box in her attic marked, "If you can't find it, it's in here." Edna confessed to Koudounaris that when she took the poem out of the box to take photos of it for him that she began to cry. The memory of Major in the poem still carries that much emotional power for Edna. "More than anything though, she is simply flattered that something she wrote so long ago has resonated with such a vast number of people—the fact that it has comforted so many is the greatest possible homage to her love for Major," Koudounaris said. "She knew nothing about the inscribed tablets in pet cemeteries. She had also never heard the abbreviation ATB. I had to explain that it meant 'At The Bridge', and that there are entire mourning groups based around those three letters, which signify the pets waiting to meet their owners at a place she invented for Major." "As a concept, what nineteen-year-old Edna envisioned is a kind of limbo where deceased pets are returned to their most hale form and cavort in newfound youth in an Elysian setting," wrote Koudounaris. "But it is not paradise itself. Rather, it is a kind of way station where the spirit of an animal waits for the arrival of its earthly human companion, so that they may cross the Bridge together, to achieve true and eternal paradise in each other’s company, and to thereafter never again be parted." Koudounaris asked one question of Edna that took her aback during their discussions. What advice could she share for someone suffering from the loss of a pet? "Her response was then immediate – get another pet," wrote Koudounaris. "She said that the relationship with a new pet will never be the same as the relationship with the old one, but it can be equally special and loving in different ways."

That's probably it. They didn't say she had no antibiotics. They did seem impressed with how quickly she came to. She wasn't wobbly when I picked her up.

Yoli got spayed yesterday. I was surprised for 2 reasons. First, they didn't send her home with Clavulox. (I asked. They said it was a clean surgery and not needed). Second, she was ready for pickup 4 1/2 hours after I dropped her off. I'm generally happy to see less use of antibiotics, but still a tad worried about infection. Are others seeing less antibiotics and faster surgery at their vets?

If You want a sense of the probabilities, this is a good article, though it's best for the specific breeds studied. Spay incontinence seems to run around 10%, and is worse for early spay. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2020.00388/full