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I'm glad Coal is ok and I think you did very well not to completely panic (that's what I would have done). Have a pizzle :wink:

The strangest place BK has ever slept in would be this tiny old banana/fruit cardboard box that was used for newspaper recycling. Dad was going to throw it out and my stepsister was like, "nooo you can't throw it out Blitz sleeps in it!!!" He just squashed himself up like Gumby or something and slept in this box. He has a perfectly good, clean bed and 2 kennels to choose from but for a while he just adored this box. He also likes to sunbake on the outside table when it's warm. :)

Urrgh I can't stand people who get annoyed when in an *offlead* park your offlead dogs come to say hi to your *onlead* dogs. I know I know you should be able to control your dogs but for chrissake, they are dogs, not robots. Meeting and greeting is what most of them like to do! :roll: Reminds me of when I was at the park awhile ago and BK was playing with this adorable Boxer (male) for an hour or so, all smiles, in the offlead section of this HUGE park (ie 5km circumference), when this guy comes through with 3 Dobes on tight leashes and says to me and the Boxer's owner "oh you'd better put your dogs on the lead till we get past". ARRRGH. :evil:

Rabies doesn't exist in Australia or New Zealand either (I think). I am pretty sure it used to though. Cat bites and scratches are soooo nasty- a patient of David's had her eye scratched by one of her cats and it got infected and she had to have an operation to save her eye. another one had scratches on her hands and they got infected and it lasted for weeks. :-?

Hummmm at the moment Ferdy is *screaming* (MOOWWWWWW!!! MOROWWWWWW!!) to go outside. Never mind he has been outside for most of the morning and I have been outside with him freezing to death. :roll:

I have no idea (epilepsy? brain disorder? slow poison? as I said I don't know) but I just wanted to say that I hope they do find out what's wrong and it can be cured. :angel:

BK gets fed about 5-6pm every night (he has breakfast too LOL). You can tell it's getting close as he is more hyperactive than usual. He knows the routine: Dad (or whoever) goes outside with the opened tin and the bag of dry food, BK races down to where his bowl is, and does a little dance of excitement. BK likes to try and creep forward to get in before Dad is finished. So Dad says, "BACK!" and Blitz does a backwards jump onto the step and barks with excitement. He waits impatiently as Dad puts his tinned and dry food out and also puts a few dry bits in the empty tin and scatters a scant handful of dry bits around the yard (bk likes to sniff them out, it's his little game). Dad waits a few moments before saying "eat", then BK dives in and either eats at a regular pace or inhales his food, depending on how hungry he is. However, BK will willingly leave food if it meant he gets to go for a walk. :wink:

Have to agree with hillside, LC and Sasha here. Sure the guy is a tool who has issues (haha don't we all?) and his dog should not have been off lead regardless of the circumstances, but just like I always take BK out on his lead for his own safety (bar the off lead park areas), I keep my cats inside for theirs (bar their very closely supervised back garden excursions). Losing one cat to a car was tragic enough for me, I don't want to make it any more. :cry:

Happy Birthday Elmo! (and what a handsome lad he is too) :bday: :bday: :bday: :bday: :bday:

:lol: :lol: :lol: love it!!

Good luck! I hope it's nothing too serious.

Hahahahaha! that's great!! :lol:

Voted- that's a great picture!

Happy Birthday Banzai!!!!! May you live long and prosper :wink:

I just live with the dog (and cat) hairs; they always come back stronger and more determined to stick to things if you try to get rid of them :lol:

Embarrassing moment dragged up out of locked-up part of brain thanks to other post: :lol: BK was about a year old and at his most obnoxious (a phase which lasted until maybe last year :D) when this happened. It was at our old house. One day my stepsister's new boyfriend came over to get to know the rest of us better. My sister, who would have been about 13, had just started getting her periods and was fairly new to the whole regime. Anyway, she happened to leave a used pad (wrapped up) in the small rubbish bin in her room, and she usually kept the door open. BK managed to FIND it and took great delight in taking it outside, throwing it up in the air and tearing it to shreds in front of the new boyfriend, embarrassing my poor sister, my stepsister, and me. Once we realised what it was, of course, it got put in the big bin where he couldn't get it!

Oh ugh Divine that reminds me of a terribly embarrassing BK story... I'll post it on the other "embarrassing stories" thread. :o

Oh, I could go on for pages about the things BK has destroyed or tried to destroy. How about we start with my antique (1920s) watch that I stupidly left on the coffee table while I had a shower? I was gone for about 5 minutes and when I emerged he had it on the couch. I snatched it off him rather quickly and it's still got puppy tooth marks in the back of it (and it still works). Other things he has destroyed (mostly in puppyhood) include the entire contents of the old garage (books, clothes, assorted junk), the most "precious" things being my Mr Men Picture Dictionary my grandpa gave me when I was 5 and my blue and orange pogo-ball. :oops: :-? He also managed to knock over the 240L bin a few times and redistribute the rubbish inside it. He chewed up the garden hose, his bed, blankets, clothes, he used to steal charcoal from the fireplace, he used to steal pens and things off the coffee table too. He's pulled down a couple of fences and chewed the back architrave thing off the back door. He used to play with the axe and would bring it up onto the outside table and sunbake while chewing on the handle. :o He ate all my sister's really nice Easter chocolates when he was about 8 months old (he left the crappy ones :roll: :lol: ). He chewed up my doona once while I was asleep under it and I woke up witha room full of feathers. He could dig under and *move* bluestone blocks to escape, thereby leaving huge gaping holes in the ground. Most of this he did as a puppy/young adult and in hindsight I believe most of it he did out of boredom and probably separation anxiety. (I wish I knew then what I know now about dogs and their behaviour.) A good thing is he doesn't do any of this stuff anymore. And despite all of it he's still the best dog in the world! :wink:

You're going to have to give us more than that to work on! How about a pic and personality description? :)

[url]http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/01/1088488091449.html?from=moreStories[/url] Six soldiers sacked yesterday for torturing and killing a litter of kittens had brought shame and discredit on the Australian Defence Force, an army spokesman said. Their behaviour at an Easter Saturday drinking session at a Townsville barracks was well below expected standards, he said. The RSPCA welcomed the decision. It had delivered justice for the kittens, a spokesman said. The soldiers are able to appeal against the decision. Their discharge will be suspended until the appeal is dealt with. Their treatment of four stray kittens at the Lavarack Barracks prompted nationwide outrage. One kitten was dragged on a rope behind a motorcycle, then crushed under the tyre of a four-wheel-drive vehicle. Three others were doused with fuel and set alight. RSPCA national president Hugh Wirth said the organisation now had a measure of satisfaction that proper justice had been delivered for the kittens. "This was an appallingly barbaric act by those soldiers and the army is quite correct in that there's no place for such humans in the proud Australian army," he said. "The link between humans being cruel to animals and humans being cruel to humans is direct and obvious." RSPCA Queensland chief executive officer Mark Townend said the decision to discharge the soldiers was a strong signal to Australians that animal cruelty was unacceptable. "Normal people don't torture helpless little animals for over an hour," he said. "They tortured young innocent kittens for no reason whatsoever, but for pleasure." On May 10 in the Townsville Magistrates Court the soldiers pleaded guilty to animal cruelty. They were fined $2000 each, but did not have convictions recorded. Queensland police last month appealed against the sentences on the ground that the fines were inadequate. The army's decision to discharge the soldiers follows a review of their formal responses to termination notices. - AAP

[quote name='abker17'] [quote]Sometimes on walks I'll let zebra drink out of my sport top water bottle and he gets it all slobbery, I just wipe it off and drink out of it anyways.[/quote] :lol: I do that same thing! [/quote] Add me to that list. It's usually because on walks/runs I don't want to carry lots of stuff (ie a separate water bottle for Blitz and a bag for him to drink out of), but I'd be less likely to catch something from him than from another person, I think. (I hope!) :oops: :wink:

[quote name='Cairn6'][quote]Toward the top, he missed a step and fell. I instinctively grabbed his hand that I was holding and snatched him up. He never made a sound, didn't complain at all, but the next day he couldn't move his arm. I took him to the doctor and his elbow was dislocated . [/quote] Oh for heavens sake I think that stopping him from falling on the what I imagine were concrete stairs was a better choice. What a dip. My brother was 4 when he broke his arm and didn't complain about it until the next day. My mom couldn't believe he had a broken arm for a whole day without even crying. Kids are something.[/quote] I think the doctor did the RIGHT THING. Maybe not to abuse HF but to assume the worst. Child abuse is horrifically not uncommon and it really puts doctors, teachers and other people who work with children in awkward positions (especially in my state where we have mandatory reporting). Who knows how many cases they have missed because they assumed people were telling them the truth about children's injuries, or how many cases they picked up because they were more probing than considered polite. BK has collided with my face quite a few times (I bend down, he jumps up) and he's caused me to bleed once (tooth punctured my lip a few yrs ago) but he doesn't have a nasty bone in his body and anyone who knows him knows that. :)

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Kat!! Remember the NDR thread... :evilbat: :lol: (I am not sure if Mei is handling it all or me and K are helping with our little problem as well...so I can't do anything right at this moment)

I just wanted to say that I'm quite disappointed with Nookie. Nookie, you have been here long enough to learn a lot about responsible dog ownership and sadly, it hasn't seemed to have sunk in. I am glad that poor little *puppy* has a second chance- many don't. :angel: