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[quote name='Crystal']The advice here is ok, but I have been told by members I will not name that there are better places to recieve training advice.[/quote]
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That's right, I don't know your Toby. I can only go on the information given and nothing on play biting or Toby's other behaviour was posted in this particular thread until you replied to my post.
I don't believe I make you look stupid and I don't believe I am treating you like "an idiot who didn't know what she was doing". I'm not intentionally hassling you. We just have conflicting opinions and that is fine with me if it's fine with you. Ask anyone here- if there's something I disagree with I'll take them on no matter who it is and man have I had some doozies with people here.
Anyway. Jess made a very good point with training. -
[quote name='Crystal']I honestly fear that without the bond of family and dog that something is bound to go wrong. I'm scared to death that if this dog doesn't love and respect my family that he may bite one of my kids.[/quote]
Are you not jumping the gun just a tiny bit? Nothing's happened so far to cause you to think he may do something? I mean, you're saying "when that happens" as if it is inevitable. The poor dog hasn't even done anything yet.
A dog being not very cuddly isn't the end of the world. If we all got rid of our pets because they didn't live up to our expectations all the time then the shelters would be more overcrowded than they already are. My advice is to stick with him for at least another six months. You took on the massive responsibility of dog ownership and it is your duty to give him everything he needs within reason. -
[url]http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Dog-and-baby-are-doing-well/2005/05/11/1115585025538.html[/url]
Dog and baby are doing well
By Rodrique Ngowi
Nairobi
May 12, 2005
The stray dog that rescued an abandoned baby girl in a Kenyan forest has been adopted and named Mkombozi, or Saviour, while offers to adopt the newborn infant dubbed Angel are pouring into a Kenyan hospital.
As well-wishers at home and abroad inquired about the child, police said they were struggling to identify the woman who abandoned the baby.
"The publicity on the way the baby was rescued has sparked a lot of public interest in helping her," said Hannah Gakuo, spokeswoman for Kenyatta National Hospital, where the child is being treated for exposure and an infection in her umbilical cord. Queries have come from as far away as the US.
Government spokesman Alfred Mutua said the girl's rescue was amazing. "The Government is looking into it because, if it happened the way it has been relayed, it is one of those amazing things that happens in life that defies human explanation," Mr Mutua said.
Unwanted infants are often abandoned in Kenya, with poverty and failed relationships frequently blamed.
Mkombozi was being cared for yesterday after its last surviving puppy died for unknown reasons, the Kenya Society for the Protection and Care of Animals' spokeswoman Jean Gilchrist said.
Ms Gilchrist speculated that the dog may have rescued Angel to raise her because most of its puppies had died.
"She reckoned it was a young animal and possibly wanted to bring it up," Ms Gilchrist said. "It is rather a rare thing to happen."
Mary Adhiambo, a resident in the compound where the dog lives, said Mkombozi apparently found the baby on Friday in a plastic bag. The dog dragged her across a busy road and through barbed wire to a shed.
"I saw a dog carrying a baby wrapped in a black dirty cloth as it crossed the road," witness Stephen Thoya told the independent Daily Nation newspaper.
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Yay, another future kat person... I also agree having visiting kats is different to actually owning one. I guess the key is that the kat is yours instead of someone else's and you have to pay for all its costs. I'd suggest either adopting an adult kat who has proven to be good around dogs (if that sort of info is available at the BSPCA, like on Petfinder), or get a kitten, and slowly introduce the kitten to Rowie. Good luck :D
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Fingers and paws crossed for you all. :angel:
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Malamum well that's the thing- the kids, the TODDLERS might I add, were ON THE GROUND where about a dozen dogs were playing, chasing each other, etc. What sort of mother leaves her kids on the ground in front of a pack of very excited dogs she doesn't know?? Peeing on the kid's head was probably the least harmful thing BK could have done. :-?
He did another funny thing today (actually he's done this a few times). He went to the park for his morning walk and was so excited he peed and pooed at the same time. :oops: :oops: :lol: -
Yeah the old Blitz is a bit weird. When Rinny was alive we used to take them out together and if Rinny was in the way while Blitz was trying to pee on a tree, then Rinny got hit with the pee. BK must have just been really, REALLY excited because he's never done anything like that when I've taken him out to the dog parks.
My aunt's Beagle peed on my leg when I was about 10- at the time I thought it was gross but funny. -
Like fine wine, BK gets better with age. (He's 10 this year.)
His latest antics were at the park on Tuesday night. Dad took BK along for a while and he was playing with all the other dogs generally having a gay old time, and there was a Lab puppy there who was probably a bit too small to deal with all the boisterousness, so his owner left. Then Dad left and ended up meeting up with the Lab owner again at the other end of the park, who said to him, "oh were those dogs too rough for your dog too?" (If BK was any tougher he'd rust.) Then the owner proceeded to tell him that the "gentle" dogs (Labs, Goldens) met up at 5pm in the park after the "rough" dogs had gone home.
So on Tuesday Dad took BK to the park at that time and sure enough it was Labville. BK got so excited that he peed on a dog's head while at the drinking bowl, and another dog's head near a tree, but the one that took the cake was when he bounded over to a toddler and peed on her head. I wish I had been there with a camera!!! Everyone was most amused except the mother of the child. I'd like to wager that BK's pee is way more sterile than the grass in the park. :lol: -
Haha doesn't the vet know you rescued Laurel in the first place? Retard. That's why he deals with animals, because he doesn't have the bedside manner to deal with people!!!
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OMG I just realised it let me post the C-word! (cat)
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[url]http://www.saynotoanimalsinpetshops.com/[/url]
If you click on the left hand toolbar there's a petition to ban the selling of pets in pet shops in australia. Please think about signing this. I don't know what the figure is for puppies, but 2 out of 3 kittens (or 3 out of 4 litters) are put down, simply because there are too many. And that's in shelters alone, which surely includes discarded pet shop pets and fails to take into account the number of feral cats we have and also the people who destroy cats and litters by drowning them or worse.
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Dream on, city folk. Dream on.....[/quote]
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[quote name='Jessashelony']*Applauds Cournek*
Awesome post court... I agree 100%[/quote]
sometimes I think I want to marry Court... :oops: :lol:
pzoo: whatever you decide I will support you. There are good arguments all round for the number of options discussed (the ones that do not resort to childish nastiness). -
Me three!
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The harem is reborn :lol:
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Sending positive thoughts... :angel:
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Voted; you're coming third :)
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Thanks HF :)
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Yay! That is great, Courtnek. Thanks very much. :D
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I have emailed and crossposted this... anyone who wishes to send an email to the minister I will love forever...
Dear All,
I do not know many of you are interested in this, nor do I care :). Please look at the email I am planning to send to the QLD Minister and write one yourself to him (copy mine if you think it's any good), or to other ministers in other states. I am in kickass animal defender mode and my aim is to try to get as many people to think about the recent spate of kitten torture attacks in australia (that is, the ones that have made it to the media), the latest being in QLD, hence why I am writing to him instead of the Vic minister, and campaign for legislative reform. If you like (I didn't touch on these issues) in your own replies (please send them!!) crap on about juvenile offenders getting off easy because of their age, the importance of desexing your pets, etc etc. Even something short and concise would be appreciated for those of you in foreign lands. Oh and pass it on to your friends... please. We all did it a couple of years ago with the loophole as regards eating dog and c@t in Vic- that legislation has been turned over- and all because of emails and community outrage. Same thing for the kitten-torturing soldiers last year- the police appealed against the leniency of the sentence on strength of us mad as hell human beings. We can turn this around if we try.
I would be extremely grateful if at least you took the time to look at the email I sent this guy and and think about those poor animals who do not have the wherewithal to fight against any damage inflicted upon them. When I am a hotshot lawyer I might have more sway or at least more ideas on what to do, but for now as a student I am doing my best to get people thinking about these issues. It is hard when there is so much other sh*t going on in the world to get annoyed about, but this is my thing and possibly my career. Humour me.
Jane.
The guy's name is Henry Palaszczuk and his dept is the dept of primary industries. email is [email][email protected][/email]
For nerds like yours truly, the legislation can be checked out here: [url]http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/animalwelfare/[/url]
Dear Minister,
I write to you as a very concerned citizen in relation to the latest publicised animal cruelty offences in Rockhampton. I presume you are aware of the details, but I shall recant them for you briefly. Five kittens were garroted and dumped in a sack near an op shop. Four were dead and the fifth had to be euthanased. This cowardly act is but the latest in a series of widely publicised attacks on kittens, which began two weeks ago with the stoning and kicking of an eight-week old kitten at a Sydney railway station. It is feared the following barbaric acts were, and I do not mean to pun, "copycats". The perpetrators of the animal cruelty have so far been teenagers.
As your Department covers animal welfare, I have no doubt you are aware that there are proven links between cruelty to animals as a young person, and later cruelty towards humans. This is one of the reasons I ask you to push for legislative reform as regards the Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 (Qld). Section 18 of the Act sets out the *maximum* penalty as 1000 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment. This is pitiable and I am willing to bet, if I were to research the court history of animal welfare charges against convictions, and later the actual punishment meted out, such punishment would amount to less than the proverbial slap on the wrist. You will recall the torture of kittens by Australian soldiers in your State last year, and how their relatively light punishment has set a terrible precedent regarding animal cruelty.
Section 182 (1) states that the court *may* order the disposal or forfeiture of any other animal the persons convicted of an animal welfare offence owns, the animal that was the subject of the offence, or anything the court considers is likely to be used in committing a further animal welfare offence. The use of the word "may" gives too much leeway to the offenders. I suggest this is replaced with the word "must", which logically can be interpreted as the court having no alternative but to order the forfeiture of the animal or animals of the convicted person.
Section 183 states that again, the court *may* order the person convicted to be prohibited from buying or acquiring another animal. Again, I suggest changing "may" to "must", in order to achieve the same objective.
Section 185 gives the court leeway for mitigating factors to this already very tenuously worded legislation. I suggest that there be no option for broad interpretation as regards disposal or prohibition orders. Any animal welfare offence serious enough to even make it to court should not have anything like ss 185 (2) (a-d) as having being needed to take into consideration for these orders.
Section 187 as regards punishment to a person contravening a prohibition order is also laughable.
Section 188 (Review of certain prohibition orders) should be abolished. In my opinion anyone that has been convicted of an animal cruelty offence should never be allowed to own an animal again.
I am well aware that there are issues which could be regarded as much more serious and immediate to human society that may be taking up your valuable time, but I beg you to seriously consider legislative change. Take some time to visit the victims of animal cruelty at the numerous animal shelters scattered across Queensland. Those who have no voice cannot speak, and it is up to us to speak for them. -
Awww Kat. Sending positive thoughts your way :angel:
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Congratulations! Are you going to use her or the puppies for work at all? :)
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I'm so sorry... Treasure these last special weeks with Bongo and give him a kiss from me :angel:
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She is sooooo cute. It's great when you can just "click" instantly with a pet isn't it? :)