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love the kelpie beautiful dog, go aussie!!!!! he was in the studio apparently this morning at my fav radio station and he barked! he looks similar to my own boy who is a kelpie cross

looks fantastic can't wait to see that.

yes we've had it, in all the dogs we've bred and owned there were these 2 litter sisters that use to break out in terrible fights and drew blood several times, pomeranians were a bit more fiery than the chis, to solve it mum housed one and i housed the other in my home. problem solved then one of them didn't turn out as a show prospect so i rehomed her anyway. i wouldn't think there'd be anyway to really solve it otherthan letting them go for it and letting them solve it themselves, and yes, both bitches were very dominant and similar being litter sisters. never seen that before or since in any of our dogs. i've always let them work it out themselves and they usually do. ETA: although i have an older bitch now that is 10 and a young bitch which is around 2 and the younger bitch tries to dominant my poor older bitch. both we bred, usually the older girl is living with my parents but i've had to house her with me for a few weeks and i just seperate as the younger one stands over the older one. it usually works just chasing younger one away but usually then her mother gets in the act as well. so i have to chase away 2 dominant dogs. it doesn't help much that the older bitch is usually the dominant one but is meek and mild with the younger girl. dogs - i don't know can't work them out sometimes. the way i described that it sounds like a circus now.

this is quite a lively discussion. they had the exact same discussion when VCA invited members to have a forum on puppy farms. so i attended, they had a white board and the president asked what the members defined as farming? many said it is the care and how many. but you have to consider this, "farming" means farming an animal for money. breeding for money. most of us breed our dogs for a purpose whether that be showing, trialling, hunting, livestock farms (herders) all for a purpose in mind so we bred our dogs accordingly. no one has said, whether this gentlemen had crosses or pedigrees? whether he is propping up that petshop with his own stock, whether those 2 breeds he has he is crossing them togther. then you could go into, not health testing unable to because if they are crosses you can't research to weed out genetic problems etc. etc. a whole other discussion! large farms such as the ones in gippsland state that they have kennel staff for their many designer dogs they produce, 2000 pups a year and over 700 dogs on the premises. they state that they are following codes of practice in place yet many working there and observing and visited say otherwise. we all think different things about how many we can cope with so that discussion will never end in my opinion.

thanks for alerting me to this i just donated and asked 4 of my friends to do the same thing.

i agree with this, i just don't believe in giving dogs a diet of commercial food i.e. can food and dry food and nothing else. the local obedience club warned its members about how dry food has fillers (all food no matter if premium or not) and how it turns to glue in the dogs gut and it may cause blockages and organ troubles.. many vets have also warned of this by saying how dogs are meant to be fed meat as they are meat eaters like BARF etc. but yet there are many many vets who recommend dogs to be put on this diet because they have a contract with a certain company so push for it to get their commission or whatever. the last vet who i went to tried to push for me to use a fancy expensive dry food so i told him flat out my dogs get BARF or cooked meals thanks. so he gave up pushing. my brother feeds his GR's on a dry food diet. for years i have just fed my dogs BARF or cooked for them and put my own vitamins and minerals through the foods i am feeding them. others have told me that the dog needs vitamins and they only get it from feeding them dry foods i just don't agree with it all but each to their own.

when i describe "reg breeder" to anyone i always put ANKC registered breeder. in my screening breeders page on my website my opening sentence is The best place to buy a puppy is from an ethical registered ANKC breeder that places the breed first not their bank account. this covers all aspects i believe, these days puppy farmers/BYB are in every group even ours.

hey woofnhoof which dog was this?

that would be incredibly interesting to find that out. i just remember that the shelters weren't full like it is now, as a kid i use to work for the local RSPCA. i believe 20 years ago the figure would be much lower compared to now, DD's weren't off the ground then. i just believe all this DD breeding for money has bumped up the number we see in shelters now overall.

Until puppy buyers do their homework BYBs will thrive, cashing in on the latest fashion in dogs and ripping off buyers by selling inferior pups "cheap" by not health testing, not vaccinating, not microchipping and not keeping pups together until 8 weeks. A BYB bred pup with a health problem, that has been raised on an inferior diet, not wormed and not vaccinated is no "bargain". People happily pay through the nose for a plasma TV and Foxtel and expect responsible breeders to sell pups "cheap"? As if. Yet the family dog will be with a family longer than a TV or a car. Don't want to pay through the nose for a "rare" breed? The answer is simple. Don't buy one. There are plenty of "common" breeds available at realistic prices from breeders who offer lifetime support and actually care about the pups they sell. well said.

we've found we start reducing the price you get morethan questionable people looking at your puppies.dogs. the ones that want to mark down the price even further we usually find are the sort of people who will skimp on the vet and other important expenses as well. the last dog i marked down i got this wacka who promptly told me to rack off after i enquired how the dog was going after 6 months. it was bizarre to say the least, so no more marking down to cater for people thanks. they pay what im asking after i spend money on my dogs or i don't sell im not fussed if i get to keep them a bit longer until i can find the right home. example, i'll give you an example of expenses, paid $600 (reduced price for a main reg bitch because got her off a friend of a friend not normal price) bred her, paid for a ceasarian of ONE PUP of $900 emergency C-S too. so did i make money? nope, do i care, nope. still have this little bitch she is a valued pet of ours now 2 and a half years old, won runner up best in show not shown now due to an injury unfortunately. but to sell her i could have made a few hundred dollars but my dogs are worth more to me than just mere money.

i know you probably aren't laughing but if i didn't laugh i'd prolly be crying. in relation to kangaroo mince, did she explain why she thinks that? its just that my family was brought up in the sticks on a farm and there were wild kangas wandering around and there still is on the properties out there, but they claim they were full of worms, the wild ones taht is. So we don't know if the kangaroo mince that you get is farmed roos or wild roos that were perhaps culled. so they've always advised to cook the mince to kill anything. my family's been telling me that for years. but for the other stuff you mentioned i like how you continually bang your head on that wall. i had an ex who adopted a stray (maltese cross DD) couldn't find the owner so his mother and him decided to keep the dog, called him "mutty". anyway, lived p/t with my show chihuahuas. when i call my dogs they come to their names like clockwork because i've trained them. anyway ex-bf kept calling poor ol' mutty and he would never come. he is deaf he said. so i called him had a treat in my hand (didn't ofcourse let him see after a while how i train my babies) and he came everytime. i don't think so! also came to his mother which was comical. explained to me that a few times he'd call mutty and then yell at him and give him discipline for not coming straight away so hence why dog took time coming to his name and then not coming at all. tried to explain to him this is how you train them but yeha didn't understand the concept of training.

yes, that would be terrific. it would make my job a hell of a lot easier, instead of researching pedigrees blind, luckily for most of the bloodlines i've seen the dogs in person, have known of the dogs in the pedigrees right back 5-6 gens or have videos to help me select the healthiest examples. but new breeders/exhibitors don't have all this history sometimes and they are our future really.

so do you think ANKC are stating all this and publishing all this on the website to make it look good and for RSPCA to get off their back, do they intend to implement any of it. i hope so. i remember years ago, about 20 now, it was going around that eventually dogs will be microchipped and we thought wow, this is 21st century stuff, well its here now but they also said that each dog who enters the showring will be scanned to make sure it is the dog that the exhibitor entered. that technology hasn't come through has it. its still all an honor system left up to the discretion of individual people to do whatever they want, there's still no definate direction for us all when really the future of the pedigree dog depends on it.

i think they have said something to that affect, they want to eventually have a data base of diseases/genetic problems and also want to put it on pedigrees so everyone has access to the results. this would be a good step in the right direction. my experience is, that some breeders still continue to use affected dogs and then go and hide it from everyone else and you only find out that bloodline is useless and not worth continuing with because of all the genetic problems, when you breed the bloodline. i've found this problem for years so there has to be a better way that we can all have access to records and can use them to our advantage.

what i mean by saying "scare mongering" was that the media is trying to make out that ALL pedigree dogs are unhealthy and putting this info up they are actually steering people away from the pedigree dog which is another nail in the coffin for everyone involved in the dogworld. Me posting this up im trying to stick up for the pedigree dog and get people to read what ANKC are trying to do whether they implement the stuff is another story, i agree that perhaps they should start making testing compulsory because upon questioning some breeders with known genetic problems within a breed most say we don't test and still breed affected dogs and don't care. There are some of us that do like to breed only healthy examples and do have healthy pedigree dogs adn there is alot of us but it just seems to me we are thrown in with the people/breeders that don't do everything possible to ensure only healthy specimens of each breed are used and this continually irks me, only the unhealthy examples that may have come from puppy farmers who aren't interested in the welfare or health of a breed just the money are shown to the public, all this negative spin gets chucked in with the rest of us who are trying to do the right thing. is the neo a victim of farming like i read in another thread about i think a bulldog breed? can't remember the breed now, having a blank moment because people are breeding blues for money they are destroying the breed. which i found quite interesting and sad at the same time.

oh okay, that sounds good

yes that does help alot, with your permission i will copy this and send an email to a club person?? just to clear up a few issues with these other ppl i am talking to and make sure we are on the same page.

to this i would have actually said, humans don't have fur coats, dogs do! my dog is atm wearing a big hairy fury coat you old..........blah!!!! busybody

yay gooooooo chihuahua!!!! 10 pounder yipes thats a big chi. mine are around 4 pounds.

chihuahua faces off with robbers Who needs a big dog to protect them? A Chihuahua played super hero when he chased off two robbers. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies have released a video of a barking Chihuahua angrily chasing off robbers at an Altadena smoke shop. The video, released Monday, shows two hooded men, one armed with a rifle, running into the Ace Smoke Shop on July 7 and demanding money. As the store owner begins putting money in a backpack carried by one of the men, the owner's Chihuahua begins barking incessantly and jumping at the men, chasing them out of the store. At one point, one of the men even points his rifle at Paco, the Chihuahua, but the dog is undaunted. Neither the store owner, nor the dog was injured. We love Paco. The man who rescued Paco said police laughed when they heard the 10-pounder chased off the robbers. His owner said he's usually laid back, according to an ABC interview. Readers have talked about how loyal rescues can be. See for yourself in the video.

did you ask head office why that particular office is closed ?? perhaps instead of them lecturing you that you must pay how about they tell you why the office is closed, they sound very incompetent.

you are good to exercise such control, if an old biddy would come up to me i'd get great delight in telling them to MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS........

Technically called "hypopigmentation" (or snow nose, winter nose) it results from loss of sunlight, and causes the nose to fade to brown in winter; normal colour returns as summer approaches. Snow nose occurs mainly in light-coated breeds; the colour change can become permanent in older dogs. It is not associated with disease. Another reason for this condition is a deficiency of B vitamins, PABA in particular. Get rid of plastic food bowls and replace them with metal or ceramic bowls since some pets may be allergic to plastic. Plastic dish dermatitis can occur if the dog eats or drinks out of plastic or rubber bowls. It is triggered by a reaction to an antioxidant found in the dishes. Vitaligo causes black depigmentation in the nose and sometimes the lips to fade to brown. PABA PABA is the shortened name for para-aminobenzoic acid that is often thought of as only an ingredient used in sunscreens, while it is in actual fact a nutritional ingredient as well. Since it is a moiety of PGA, a form of folic acid, some health professionals do not consider it a vitamin, but only a B-complex factor. PABA is used to improve the protein used in the body, it relates to red blood cell formation as well as assisting the manufacture of folic acid in the intestines. Para-aminobenzoic acid is used in sunscreen preparations since it can help protect the skin against ultra-violet radiation. It has been linked to hair growth as well as reversing the greying of hair, but these results are disappointing. People suffering from vitiligo, over - pigmentation of skin, or without pigment in some spots, have reported an improvement of the skin after more PABA was ingested. Best used with Vitamin C and the B group vitamins, plus Folic Acid are best taken with PABA. PABA is found in liver, kidney, brewer's yeast, molasses, whole grains, bran, yoghurt, mushrooms and spinach, and can be made by intestinal bacteria. TIP A new herbal remedy for animals is called Chorela. It is supposed to stimulate the immune system and has proven helpful in treating dogs that lose pigment from their nose, and also dogs that have the nasty habit of eating their own droppings. Seek advice on this product from your vet or a naturopath. SNOW NOSE "REMEDY" Another suggested "remedy" is: B Complex With Choline, Inositol & PABA Vitamin C, Calcium Ascorbate powder Megamino Amino Acids The Vitamin C works together with the B to help absorption. Give just before meals. One B Complex tablet in the AM and one in the PM. The Vitamin C is given by body weight. ½ tsp. for each 50lbs of weight. The Amino Acid tablet is given in the AM only. Vitamins B and C are water soluble and once the body has absorbed what it needs, it will eliminate the rest. These vitamins are not stored in the body. They are also helpful with stress (for you too) and for the skin in general. In case you don't know it, the B vitamins that brighten our dogs' coats and darken their pigments work on us too. The B vitamins are necessary for our skin and for our hair colour. If your hair is prematurely grey, it may be a simple Vitamin B deficiency. There are documented cases where grey hair turned back to its natural colour after supplementing with the B complex vitamins. It is very probable that the success you will have in returning your dog's pigment back to black will be directly related to the diet you feed - in addition to the above supplementation. Good luck! I hope this is of value to you. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIP A new herbal remedy for animals is called Chlorela. It is supposed to stimulate the immune system and has proven helpful in treating dogs that lose pigment from their nose, and also dogs that have the nasty habit of eating their own droppings. Seek advice on this product from your vet or a naturopath. Chlorela (fresh water algae) - "Superior to Vitamin Supplements & Improves Digestion." Being a very ancient single cell algae, chlorela was the earth's first green plant and the first link in the food chain. Each cell of this plant is self sufficient and capable of life sustaining functions. Chlorela is 60% protein, and contains 8 essential amino acids, and more chlorophyll per gram than any other plant in nature! In just 1 tablespoon it provides 300% of the daily need for Vitamin B12 and Vitamin C. It is very rich in beta-carotene. Due to its rapid growth and the abundance of nutrients, chlorella offers many benefits including protection against toxic pollutants, pesticides, drugs, chemicals, atmospheric radiation, power lines, microwaves, computers and television. The natural vitamins and minerals in chlorella are bio-chelated. That means they are naturally wrapped in amino acids, so they will be taken in by the body more readily. Chorela contains natural digestive enzymes and fibrous materials that improve your digestion. Higher in chlorophyl than any other plant. Contains more chlorophyl per gram than any other plant. Contains 5 to 10 times the chlorophyl content of barley grass, spirulina, and wheat grass. Chlorophyl is one of the greatest food substances for cleansing the bowel and other elimination systems, such as the liver and blood.