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[quote name='Anonymous']take a look at [url]www.gentleleader.com[/url] for a tool to help control the pushy boy's mouth while you at the same time look for a behaviorist to help you with this problem - ask your vet for a referral[/quote] I disagree completely, restricting the dog will only make it more agressive. The best bet would be to find people with similar sized, well socialized dogs and let them play OFF LEAD, making sure no serious fights break out but at the same time remembering that any little tussles are just a part of the dogs getting used to each other. So many people grab their dog and put it on a lead when the dog does even the slightest thing wrong, this is the worse thing you can do. Let them play under the supervision of a trainer or someone who knows the real danger signs and I'm sure things may well sort themself out.

In my experience, many breeders know alot more about dogs than vets, and certainly know alot more about their own pups! I'm all in for puppy food though personally, if they were unbalanced good brands like innova wouldn't make them. Of course alot of people here will disagree with me, but I beleive a good quality puppy food is best for growing pups. Not only do they need the extra calcium, they also need extra calories etc. Read the ingredience labels, compare the difference, price difference etc and make up your mind from there. I think your breeder is right though, vets have been lectured by pet food representatives - a multi billion dollar industry - so just go with what they have been told. Not many have done thier own research. Good choice of dog food though, if i fed my dogs a commercial diet and innova was available around here I would certainly feed it to my dogs.

LOL, my dad was a chihuahua, and mum was a collie!!! :lol: Its obvious why its so funny about dad being a chihuahua, but as for mum, she has dispised collies her whole life. Maybe they're just too much like her for her liking? :wink: Her dislike of collies kinda wore off on me, you know how parents are so influencial when you are young, but it all disapeard when I met the lady who bred one of the dogs that starred in Lassie. Cool huh? She also bred the cat that starred in the original cleopatra, I think it was the original.... she was pretty old :wink:

Horsefeathers, I'm just glad I've never seen a spider while I've been driving. On our way back from Gosford I'd been asleep in the car for about 2 hours, suddenly I got the urge to open my eyes only to see a spider hanging from a web just about to land on my leg! Well, at 120km I jumped all the way from my seat, across my sisters lap and was sitting on my brother squished against his door. The funny thing is, this spider was only like 1mm big and I wouldn't open my eyes until somebody killed it! :lol: There was a massive spider in my shower curtains one day when I was living by myself, and I kinda FLEW up onto a ledge next to the shower, god only knows how spiders make people defy gravity, but it happens. I just stod there and screamed for a few minutes and then managed to pluck up the courage to get down and find a slipper (the spider was still harmlessly in the curtains, and I was dripping wet). Of course being the scaredy cat I am, I couldn't even squash the spider with the slipper and THREW it at the damn thing instead!!!! Lucky I hit it, but it goes without saying I didn't finnish my shower that day... :oops: It was kinda like a scene from a horror movie :wink: I'm lucky where I am too, no funnel webs here... I think there are some harmless little ones, a different species to the Sydney funnel web that can kill people. Oh, just some interesting trivia, cats and dogs are immune to 'em so you wouldn't have to worry about that! I was going to explain how I knew about daddy long legs before too, my dad, in his many years of being a scientist, knew a spider specialist who explained it all to us. Its hard trying to get other people to believe though, even when you heard it strait from a scientists mouth! :-?

[quote name='Horsefeathers!']I have on more than one occasion dove out of a moving vehicle to get away from a spider. There's nothing in the world I'm more afraid of. From the "who cares" files....[/quote] Sounds alot like me, I've been known to jump onto the drivers lap because there was a big huntsman OUTSIDE the car!!! I jump on chairs when I see a spider across the room and scream loud enough that the neibours come knocking at my door to check that I'm ok! Well, as to the question, if its not harmless its probably good for him! All that protein and other things that he probably wouldn't get in his normal diet... Oh, and Horsefeathers, just to ease your fears a little, Daddy Longlegs are harmless, and technically aren't even spiders!!! Just big mites with long legs 8)

Another Aussie!!! :D :D :D Irish Setters are gorgeous dogs, although I must admit, the only one I ever knew was in Canada, and it was a little dopey :wink: But hey, Monkeys are cool! :D Smart, cute, and generally cool little dudes :)

Its times like these its always handy to keep a few dog treats on you. If you had some treats, then you could stop and show him how to get the dog to walk nicely by bribing it, just holding the treat infront of the dog. Then leave him with them and he would probably realize how much it helps. He sounds like the type of guy who if you just told him what to do he'd tell you to butt off because its his dog yadda yadda yadda. Thats what I would do anyway, hopefully by a good example it may help.

I don't think Ori Peis are an actual breed, like Bullboxers, etc, so I woudn't go out and waste all that money on a dog that isn't even a pedigree. Breeding dogs like that are just a scam for money and are the result of many puppy mills and people who breed their pedigree to another pedigree because it is not up to standard or comes from a bad or unhealthy line etc. Stick with the shar pei, why would you want anything less anyway? :wink:

LOL gigi, maybe I knew you in my past life? :lol: Mei Mei, I'm jealous, you had a better past life than me :( But I got to be a cute Beagle!!! :D :D :D

Wow, I can't beleive I posted this topic and somehow managed to miss the WHOLE thing!!!! :lol: Definatly sounds like I should have been here, if not to clear up a few details, at least to be a part of the arguement!!! :lol: LOL, I cant stop laughing, this is so ridiculous, the most ridiculous bit is that I missed it! Oh well, just so we now know (although this did happen a long time ago!), guest (who I believe is treating us as fools, trying to kid us into beleiving that they know ANYTHING about animal behaviour, let alone is an expert in it...), I did check for a micro chip, I took the dog to ALL the vets in town. As it is law in this state to chip the dog should have had one, but didn't. That was the owners problem if I did keep it, as the dog should have had a microchip. If I was paranoid about worms etc then I would have some pretty bored/crazy dogs on my hand, considering I would never walk them or even socialize them. I did notify the authoritys, but opted for a home impoundment, as I couldn't stand the thought of this darling dog being locked in a cage with other dogs, just as likely to attack it, and no one to give it cuddles etc. It ended though, with a happy ending with the dog, rightfully named 'Truely' going home. As it turned out the owner is an RSPCA carrer, all the more reason why the dog should have been chipped, but she had escaped an opend door. So now everybody can be happy, the dog is home with its owner, our dogs are safe and we no longer have any reason to argue!!! :lol: Next time I will have to make sure I don't miss reading my own posts! One question though, whatever happend to shannon? Did we ever find out?

Contact the person who you did obedience with, if they are good they should be able to help you. If not then find someone who does.

Thats what I was going to say, but was afraid I would get told off :o At least tell her we are sorry for making her so sad :(

I can see why you would be so frustrated. I would be as well. Even though it isnot your dog anymore you still care about it and I would also be very annoyed if my training of a dog went down the drain to some hopeless owers who don't understand the need for it and are to lazy to enforce it! On the other hand, at least you should be happy they do not abuse it, and that it is in better hands than it was before it reached yours.

Are they illegal over there? Well, if this guy is a drug dealer, it wouldnt be unlikely to get a 'dangerous' dog imported for protection. This guy sounds like the type of bonehead that gets breeds banned in the first place by getting something tough and using it for protection by training to attack trespassers. Also, just because the breed is illegal doesn't mean people arent breeding them.

Lots of tests at this site, such as 'what type of dog are you?' I am a Golden Retrever :) [url]http://www.emode.com/tests/[/url] I just did "what was your past life?" and here is what I came up with! :D C'mere, boy

I'm lucky enough that I live right next door to dirt roads and paddocks, so my dogs have always been 'off lead' dogs when we walk them in that direction (my house is on a road where there are houses and roads on one side and paddocks and tracks on the other, so we get the best of both worlds :D ). Because of this Lily is better than many of the dogs in her obedience class when it comes to 'comming' off lead when all the other dogs are running away. The way I taught her was simply to always have food in my hand when she came to me on her own will and give it to her, when she came when called I would give her a super big treat. Simple really. :D The long lead is a great idea, I use that while walking her on quieter roads where there is still the occasional car, to teach her she can sniff around but not go on the road or stay too far behind.

Thanks Bk, happy stories would be good! :D :D :D They always get you with those eyes don't they? You try to resist but they get you everytime! :-? I used to have that song you quote on a cassete somewhere but I don't know which one :( I hope I can find it so I can transfer it to mini disk :)

LOL, I am!!! :lol: Hmm, I wonder if my scorpions out to get me too... I don't think he likes me much, but I do think he's too lazy to be plotting my destruction!!! :wink:

Guest, what gives you the right to come on this board and call someone, who at least has the GUTS to name herself, a phsyco? I think you'd better grow up, get a life, and stop making uncalled for statements that you don't even know are true :evil:

We've had this discussion many times before, I think it is generally agreed by all that it is very, very wrong. :evil: Although some of the mixes they make are very cute, so are pedigree's and shelter mutts alike, there is no need for it.

Yup, I say exactly the same thing!!! Life wouldn't be the same without a cat in the house :wink: I think Tigers got another 10 years in him yet, healthy as ever, except for something on his nose, its always bleeding... I think he has cancer :cry:

Oh BK you shouldn't have, now I'm crying :cry: I've heard so many storys like that, but every time it brings tears to my eyes and a big lump in my throaght, and I just wish there was something I could do to save ALL those dogs. It makes me happy to know that at least I saved one dogs lie, when I got Tessa from the pound she was only 5 weeks old and was just about to get that dreaded needle when mum and dad agreed to let me have her. There is no way that will ever happen to my dogs, the first part of the story reminded me of my dogs, how they have always been there to comfort me no matter what. How someone could replace that with a family I will never know. Please don't remind me of the pain and suffering so many dogs have to go through again, it tares my heart to shreds :cry:

LOL, no we've had our fair share of moggies here!!! Nearly all of the cats we've ever owned (including the two we had in Canada) have been strays that we've brought in, usually full of a litter of kittens too!!! Between snake bites, cars and members of the family moving out, we only have one cat left, my cat Tiger, son of Marmalade the stray. I've had him for the past ten years now and though I love him to death, I've decided I'm never getting another cat with that much fur!!! He's got no more fur than any normal cat, but you know how some cats have real allergy fur? He's one of them!!! Of course me being so dam stubborn I'll still sleep with him and cuddle him etc even though I can't breathe :) But yes, I've decided to go Devon! Although they are very rare, and I will probably be on a year or two waiting list... :roll:

I'll post anymore evidence I find, but I'm researching cats at the moment and I do understand they do have different nutritional needs (I'll be getting a cute little bundle of Devon Rex in the near future :D :D :D ). Cats are more simple to feed, a bit of raw meat, a few chicken necks, an egg or two a week plus a few extras and they are set. Dogs are omnivores, and have a whole lot of different needs all together, although I do think this proves something about the cooking of meat.

ROFLMAO!!!! So true!!! :lol: Everytime I look at my cat, he is giving me that evil eye that they always have. I wonder what the diary of a goldfish would say? My fishies are always following me around, watching my every step.... :-?