SparkyTansy

lappiemum how much grooming does a full coated lappie need and how often?

Poodlefan - how can you say "bugger the gundogs"?!! Your username suggests otherwise!!

How very sad for the poor dog in question I don't get how she can try and claim for money unless she can at least prove that the dog had an operation... and even then isn't it still her responsibility?

emery there was one chiro i know of named Kevin Kelly - no idea if he is still practicing he does a lot of work with horses. Then there is Dennis, the greyhound guy but again I haven't been to him in a long time. I take my guys to bowen therapy which I find hugely beneficial. We see Tracy Hockley in Banjup she is fantastic and does a lot of performance and show dogs as well as horses. PM me if you want her number.

Firstly Happy birthday Amy!! Mas yes the drool can be a bit embarrassing... spartans comes down in from both sides then joins in the middle... back in our showing days before we went in the ring i'd be the expert at "grab and flick" the drool... Mirawee - yes i would l ike to see foal photos!!!

James paws Ari just butts in... Spartan steals cushions (particularly if you are on the phone!) Charlie licks my mums wei's ears until she tells him to stop... it's the attention he wanted and he looks so smug afterwards.

awww how boring wazzat! you could have at least given us a pity post Spartan did some rally yesterday. For such a long time out of the training world, he fell right back into it and I was so proud of him!! He got a bit lazy by the 4th go, though. he is nearly 8 you know. That's 102 in Spartan/English Setter/Dog years!!! Valley and RS know the meaning of a drooly setter though, now. his bib was satched by the end of the night and next week i am going to have to feed him before training just to hope avoid the excessive drool!!

While I am quite aware of the implications of this rule I am speaking from a different POV here. as a member, you have voted in the committee and in matters such as rule changes, unless specifically mentioned as requiring a member vote, I imagine the committee is acting on behalf of the member body, as they have been voted onto the committee to do. I suggest you look at the constitution to see if there has been a breach and go from there.

I don't necessarily disagree with the rule, but simply why it's being imposed... as always it's for the minority of idiots that ruin it for the rest (that do things in the best interests of the dogs) by taking things to the extreme...

My boys do it occasionally. I have always discouraged it but mostly because I don't want Spartan to injure James (HD). Ari will occasionally also do it (to poor James again) always leading up to or around her season. I have been told by a few different breeders that discouraging it in males intended for Stud can often confuse them when it comes time to actually mate, but it didn't seem to stop Charlie Charlie is probably one of the worst humpers that I know of. He likes to corner and hump violently and doesn't listen to the protesting dog. He seems to lack the social manners in that department. We certainly discourage him and he has never even attempted it in public (except females in season!)

Good to hear that pointers have a better recall than setters I have to say yes it does come down to training, but it pays to know the type of temperament traits and a breeds history. If all behaviours were the result of training alone, all the dogs would be the same. Joel also keep in mind, wanting a pup as soon as possible is fine, but you have to make doubly sure you do your research to make sure you know what you are getting.

Joel you can get a well bred pointer or GSP as long as you go to the right people and do the research... speak to a few registered breeders of the breed you decide on. I recommend you go to a dog show if you are willing... a great opportunity to see both breeds. Depending on what type of work you want to get involved in with your GSP or pointer, and how immersed you want to get (competitive or not) may also determine what you choose. A pointer is a specialised breed, bred to find and point game. They are not bred as the GSPs are which is an all round "utility" gundog, which is bred to find and retrieve the game. I don't have experience with pointers specifically but i do have setters and have found that due to nature of their job (which is the same as pointers), where they are taught very much to range out independent of their handler, that their recall is not quite as reliable as the utility gundogs.

If the dog was paid for full price with papers then the owner should receive a stud fee in return for the dog being used... but i'd say it'd only be fair for the owner to pay the health testing... or the breeder pays for health testing but the cost comes off the stud fee. If the breeder sold the pup on condition or in co-ownership then make sure it's in writing and very clear and concise as to who gets what and who pays for what.

The inquiry into EI getting out found that if they had done things as per protocol there wouldn't have been an issue. Does that meant that the small animal areas also weren't adhering to the correct level of decontamination procedures? Seriously maybe private is the way to go for quarantine facilities... if a private company stuffed up as much as the government did you can be sure they would be held much more accountable. yes but i guess we can also expect to be charged a whole lot more

Spartan came to me to teach me what not to do with a dog... James came to me because I must have done something really good in my life, because it's the only reason I can think of as to why i'm lucky enough he came to me... Ari came to me to teach me that no matter what you think you know, there is always something more to learn...

coincidentally the same type of post was started by someone else named spazz9... the post is/was right above yours.

LizT the "dilute" gene can be an issue for some breeds but the issues crop up more often in the blue staffys because there are so many bred simply for the colour and not necessarily anything else (good, healthy examples of their breed first and foremost). I believe that blue greyhounds see relatively few issues, because they are not specifically bred to be blue, they are bred for other things (health and sound conformation to enable them to run). If a blue crops up it's treated the same as any other colour. If it can't run, or it isn't healthy, it doesn't breed.

Hey Rosie, you'll find a fair few dogs do that face rubbing thing when they eat chicken - no idea why, but both mine do it, and my mum's weim does it too. I have also noticed a small change in spartan's skin issues. He had calmed back down after a flare up last month, but now it seems to be back again. He is biting in the usual places relating to his atopy. He also has some bad scabs on his neck but that's still residual from his chicken rampage a few months back... so hard to get rid of once it spreads. he's been pretty itchy though - i know when he is really bad because he'll wake up and scratch. RosieFT have you tried antihistamine? Phenergen is good, or is it polaramine? I think i have given both... yielded mixed results because for spartan it depends on how bad he is, but it may ease the sensitivity. Also get Rosie on some Fish oil/Flaxseed or omega 3 supplement as soon as you can. In regards to the quarantine, i went not knowing what to expect. I didn't find it that different to some boarding kennels, but i did note the wet floors and just how cold it was because of them. Crazy madam irish that i went to see was not bothered at all by her surroundings but we did take her out into the big run and she went a bit mad, but i actually put that down to her breed, not being stir crazy!! I took some photos of her, but i'm afraid all i got was a big red blur for the majority of the photos!! I do think, though, that the price that has to be paid for daily care is quite high, however, and the limited visiting hours make things hectic.

SBT - That too LOL nice name change!!

wow i just had a squiz on the DOL puppy notices for staffords and wow... i really feel for the responsible, careful breeders and what they have to contend with!!

nawww *hugs* valley!! I am sure he'll have a great time!!! go give Toby lots of cuddles!

Sorry SparkyTansy obviously you not do sarcasm And the correct amber eyes on a well bred Wei are very different to yellow eyes. shudder. sorry I get it now just read it out of context!!

And any criticism or advice is viewed as being jealousy from other breeders or motivated solely by snobbish beliefs that a Staffordshire Bull Terrier should look a certain way where as the truth is that "unless they're for show it doesn't really matter". Blues apparently don't win in the show ring because of prejudice from judges and the jealous show people telling judges not to put them up. I don't understand the fascination with the colour myself, if I wanted a silver dog with yellow eyes I'd buy a BYB Wei. Um... a BYB Wei? so you'd support a BYB anyway? Why? Weimaraners ARE silver with yellow/amber eyes... the incorrect ones are BLUE...

Ptolomy very gorgeous! A lot less crazy than a certain Irish Setter I visited the other day!!

A perfect example of the argument... this person is breeding for colour, so is overlooking things that good, ethical breeders would take into consideration. It isn't a result of the blue gene, but a result of not looking at the dogs overall, and their ability to produce healthy specimens that conform to the standard. Breeding is so much about taking as much as you can into consideration when choosing to breed a bitch to a dog. We forget that at one stage nearly every breed was bred having specific traits in mind. Examples in my own breeds are the coat colour of the weimaraner, and the coat colour/patterning of the english setter. The Irish setter, too, was eventually bred with a solid red coat when the original setter was predominantly white with red. One of the original standards for the Old English had written that dogs with bob tails should be chosen over dogs without, until docking came about and made it no longer a requirement to select for the bob tail gene. The difference, in many of these cases, and still today with ethical breeders, is that yes these things can be looked and bred for, but most of the time, the overall health and/or working ability is taken into consideration. Unhealthy lines are bred out, dogs that cannot work were not bred from, dogs that do not conform to the standard are removed from the gene pool. This isn't happening with blue staffies, because people are taking the crap ones and breeding them to other crap ones, just because they are blue. If dollar signs are the motivation, and not the breed, there is always going to be an issue. Just a teeny correction on Nekhbets detailed post on genetics (but please correct me if i am wrong). The litter doesnt result in 1 in 4 pups showing the trait, but more that each puppy has a 25% chance of inheriting and showing that trait (and in the case of blues a 50% chance of being a carrier of that trait).