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Aroura

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  1. Looks good, well referenced. Good website, I'm impressed :) Nothing I would buy though, got everything I need here is Aus :) I like to buy human products, for the same reason I don't buy dog food. Personal preference.
  2. Yes pro biotics are good to add to the diet, I just buy the human ones and give them to the doggies, to be honest they aren't real fans of yoghurt so this works better! I live in Australia, so probably not a school you've heard of! Unfortunately I couldn't get Chino into Puppy Pre School - He missed the boat, as he was ten weeks old when I got him and they'd already started a course (even though I knew all the dog training, I just needed him to get the socialisation - But by the time they actually returned my call 3 weeks later I'd missed the course!). He's started training now though, and just on time - He wasn't quite sure how to react to the other dogs at first, but quickly caught on! I didn't realise how long ago the initial post was. What happened here? When I posted here years ago it was always a busy place!
  3. Hello sosexxetrini :) I would say there are a lot better things that you can be feeding a puppy. Milk is not natural for a dog. Yoghurt has calcium like milk, but it is more easily digested, and contains pro biotics. Cheese makes a good training treat in small amounts. Soy milk is not good for dogs, for starters, soy binds to other nutrients which can lead to a malnourished pup. Also, it is not natural (even more so than milk) and contains oestrogen, not good to be feeding to a pup! One month old, did you breed it yourself? Or has the breeder sold it to you at 4 or 5 weeks of age? At this age it should still be with its mother and litter mates. If you have bought it and cannot return it to the breeder (until it is at least 8 - 10 weeks old) you really must make sure you enrol it in puppy pre school to ensure it gets the required social skill to get it through a happy life :)
  4. That's what I was looking for too Ravyn! But now that I have one that isn't so dark I am happy with that :wink: [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/Aroura/PhotoLibrary-1146.jpg[/img] How's that for making your girls tail look non existant? :lol:
  5. Here is an updated picture of Elmo [img]http://www.dogzonline.com.au/images/profiles/53/10167_172.jpg[/img] Meg will be arriving to Australia today and remain in quaruntine (I think) for a little while longer, I'm looking forwards to updated pics of her :wink:
  6. My Papillons dew claws were left on. I was going to get them removed when he was desexed but the vet said they should be fine and to remove them as an adult can cause a lot of trauma (have to cut into the bone etc). He has torn them numberous times, and hates having them clipped - the rest of his nails stay worn down by running around. Believe me, I know about the damage a Boxer bum can do :o
  7. [quote name='Kiwi'](which has reared it's ugly head here and led by a MP who doesn't even own a dog :roll: ) [/quote] I think it's the same most places - it's all about politics, not the welfare of the dog, the people who pass these laws don't know a thing about dogs :evil: As for only docking the ones that are going to working homes, aside from what you said - there is no reason for it, why not dock all the pups? There is substantial evidence that the pups don't feel a thing, unless the owner to be doesn't like the look (like one weim owner I know who has a weim born before the laws came in, with a tail) then there is no reason why a whole litter of pups should not be docked.
  8. [quote name='Ravyn']And its not that breeders will stop breeding. Its that GOOD breeders will stop breeding, leaving the field wide open for every BYB wanting to make a buck to even FURTHER mutilate the breed, not by tail docking, but by creating boxers with horrible heart problems, hip problems, eye problems or cancers, too large or too leggy or too long in the muzzle (or too short!) and with awful temperments. Boxer lovers do not want the boxer as they know it to go extinct. Same as any other lover of any other dog breed. Preservation of the breed as it is and as it is meant to be is key. Bobtails allow that without compromising the look of the dog, or putting it through any possible pain by docking surgically.[/quote] Yes, and that is what is beginning to happen here, some of the best breeders aren't breeding anymore, that is, until now, now they can use bob tails instead. Most people here are all for responsible breeding, now if you know anything about breeding you will know that responsible breeders are few and far between, it is in dogs best interest if we keep these breeders so that dog buyers have an option to buy a well bred dog over a puppy mill dog.
  9. Well I put breeding/showing as one in the same thing, otherwise there would have to be more variables (such as breeding without showing, showing without breeding, breeding/rescue without showing...) and it would get too confusing. If you rescue and show or breed just put it down as the showing/breeding/rescue option and you can post a note that you don't breed :wink:
  10. I voted the same as you Irena (thought I'd better vote on my own poll :wink: ). I do rescue, and show, and may breed my boys if the right circumstances arose :D
  11. I'm just trying to work out what percentages of Dogo does rescue/breeds etc, just for my own curiosity - but please vote I want a valid response!
  12. Agreed with everything Ravyn has said, you keep taking the words out of my mouth! But possibly one of the biggest reasons I say it is helping the breed (people can debate the tail injury thing as much as they want - I've seen what it can do and it ain't pretty!) but is because of the breeders who are no longer breeding due to the legislation. These are long time breeders who have strived for the health of the breed, if they stop breeding people who know nothing about the breed will take their place and god knows what the future has in store for Boxers. [quote]I'm going to throw myself out to the wolves now by saying that I find little wrong with tail docking.[/quote] [quote]On another note (you can call me a hypocrite now if you like), but I don't really condone ear cropping as a whole. [/quote] Agreed and agreed! 110% :D
  13. Aroura

    Pinch Collars?

    [quote name='Malamum'][b]Aroura wrote:[/b] [quote]They are illegal in this country, if you get caught using one you get done for cruelty[/quote] I'm sorry Aroura but that is just not true.[/quote] Sorry, I must have been misinformed (the person who told me is in fact a very well respected animal behaviorist - I'll have to re-inform her!). All the same, I would still never use one on any of my dogs. I used to use a check chain until it ruined one of our dogs and she hates training now, now I'd rather not take that risk thank you :wink:
  14. Aroura

    Pinch Collars?

    They are illegal in this country, if you get caught using one you get done for cruelty. I would never dream of putting one on any of my dogs - there are much better ways of training :wink:
  15. I don't always sign these things, but then I think of this big, precious life that has just been thrown away in the cruelest way imaginable because this stupid ignorant woman didn't think, she needs to get whats coming to her. :x
  16. Merlin is only going to get bigger! :wink: Good point BK. It is hard for some to see that it [i]will[/i] benefit the breed as a whole, but living in a country where docking has been banned, and being in touch with many of the Boxer breeders in this country, I can assure all of you that in many ways it is benefitting the breed. Ravyn, excellent post! Sound's like you are well educated on the matter :D
  17. Yes he will be, I'm sure. He's turning out so nicely, it's hard to tell what he will be like at the moment, he is going through so many stages, the only thing he MIGHT have going against him is that he may turn out to be long in the body, but seeing as Boxers are a head breed it is not a huge worry. The other Boxers in my area are pretty medeocre, well, until this girl moved over from Scotland with this stunning dog, now Merlin has some tougher competition :wink:
  18. [quote name='__crazy_canine__']Well to me that guy wasnt being responsible. He bred hundreds of dogs, and they were mutts, although now they are considered purebred. All for a bobtail.... which isnt very important to a dog that isnt going to be working, only showing. Thats just my opinion but I stand firm in not agreeing with his breeding of all those dogs.[/quote] Well everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I can say with 100% certinty that my next Boxer (which wont be for many years) will be a bobtail. Part of the reason why I got a Boxer in the first place was because of it's lack of a tail, now I have one with a tail and it's cute, but I prefer not to be beaten up by a big strong tail, now that there are bobtails in Australia I will be able to do that. The incidence of tail injury's in Boxers is tremendous, every day I worry about Merlin. It's just good to have the option of getting a Boxer without a tail, without the breeder having to break the law to make it that way :wink:
  19. CC - The guy who originally breed these has devoted his life to it, it is not just "an experiment", he has used nothing but his best dogs in this breeding program. I don't know what he did with the ones that didn't turn out, you'd have to email and ask him I guess, but he is not a backyard breeder breeding designer mutts, he is a genetisist using his knowledge to preserve the "look" of the breed. Anyway, Rowie, you wanted to see some more Merlin so here he is :angel: First up, a group shot: [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/Aroura/PhotoLibrary-1138.jpg[/img] What the heck, another :wink: [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/Aroura/PhotoLibrary-1142.jpg[/img] And a couple showing off his head and conformation, which I took for his breeder - she's very happy about how he's coming along!!! [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/Aroura/PhotoLibrary-1144.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/Aroura/PhotoLibrary-1145.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/Aroura/PhotoLibrary-1164.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/Aroura/PhotoLibrary-1146.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/Aroura/PhotoLibrary-1166.jpg[/img] Oh, and I just can't help myself, here's Monty in his little jacket I bought him for his birthday :fadein: [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/Aroura/PhotoLibrary-1171.jpg[/img] He's not quite as big as Diego yet, but he's 5kg heavier - he's a little beef cake! :)
  20. It just makes me wonder what the boyfriend did, did he forgive her? Are they still together? If so he is just as stupid as she is :evil: :x
  21. Yes they are gorgeous, I particularly like Meg - what a sweetie! Yes Rowie, I haven't posted pics of Merlin for a while! It takes SOOOO long on my connection to upload the pics onto photobucket etc, but I'll do some now :wink:
  22. This makes me so angry :evil: [url]http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/978552648?ltl=1121838905[/url] Please sign and help this stupid, ignorant lady to be put where she belongs. :evil: :evil: :evil:
  23. I guess maybe because it is the canine councils duty to keep these dogs as natural looking (natural meaning what they are [i]meant[/i] to look like, in a Boxers case meaning no tail) as possible, when governments bring in stupid laws banning docking (it's not cruel, it prevents injury, it should be the breeders decision whether or not to dock) the canine council makes an exception to keep this breed looking like it's supposed to. They are Boxers through and through. It is a problem when so many of the experienced breeders who have been in the breed for decades, stop breeding because a Boxer no longer looks like a Boxer, these people need other options to keep the breed what it is - at a recent Boxer specialty the overseas judge commented "The Boxers here (in Australia) are outstanding, and are far better quality than from my own country", lets keep it that way huh? :wink:
  24. I knew she was getting another dog, I knew it was going to be a bobtail, I just knew it! But she denied - wanted to keep it a secret, now she's let the c@t out of the bag and I was right! But lo and behold, she's not getting one, she's getting TWO!!! Can't wait to meet these little angels :angel: [url]http://www.dogs.net.au/boxberry/page4.asp[/url]
  25. My yard is far too big to chicken wire the whole ground. As for chicken wire in the holes, I'll give it a go but I have a feeling they'll do the same as Free did - Merlin in particular loves to run around with anything he can pick up, he's been running around with a broom for the past few days... if only I could teach him to use it to sweep the house... oh, that would be the day :lol: Another prob with the digging pit is that they would probably still dig at other peoples houses, seeing as they spend a lot of time visiting other people (and digging up their yard) I'd rather teach them not to dig at all - another reason I like the pepper idea :wink:
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