Hobbit

Yes, ma'am.

Yellow --- the only thing about buying from a feed store --- make sure the vaccines were REFRIGERATED upon delivery. I hope someone told you to refrigerate them, until you give them?

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[quote name='Carolk9s'][quote]they all said if you neuter them at 5 or 6 months, they don't mark or develop other annoying male habits[/quote] Just a note on this, they are incorrect. Jesse was neutered right at 6 months, he started lifting his leg and marking when he was about a year old. When I was doing the final walkthough prior to buying my house I had him with me. He hiked his leg on a wall upstairs. So glad the then owners didn't see that! I have to keep one eye on him every minute I am in Petsmart, he once peed on an employees ankle, he was aiming for the display she was leaning against. He has tried to hump other dogs since he was about 8 months old. Perhaps SOME males will not present these behaviours, certainly not all.[/quote] One of our neutered males displays EVERY behavior that an intact male does. He just can't sire pups....but he goes thru EVERY behavior associated with being a NON-neutered male.

[quote name='bullygirl29532']kill him [b]and[/b] clean up the mess.[/quote] I hate those hard decisions! :lol: :lol: He was a very busy boy, having too much fun with redecorating your house. :P

Now I KNOW they are kin! WOOD is a constant, the little hamsters!

What breed of dog(s) do you have? I am sure that you've said, but I have forgotten.

Strawberries, my favorite. Our dogs love plums, apples, pears, grapes --- we have lots of the wild species on our property. We have lots and lots of wild plums, so at least we get some of them, before they are all eaten. The coyotes eat them, also.

Because Nancy --- you are a posting maniac!! :lol: Seriously, your posts are counted and when you reach a certain amount, you get a paw. Sweet, huh? ...... or, "Now isn't that speeecial?"...church lady (LOVED SNL!) :lol: :lol:

What a hard body! Good looking Saint.

Thank you......I think that we [b]ALL[/b] have heard everything about TLC and enough is enough and want to move on. Get it? If not, the moderators will lock this one and subsequent subjects. :wink: If you want to talk about dogs, genetics, YOUR dogs, etc...that is fine. But....I (WE) UNDERSTAND......OKAY? We are not ignorant or hard of hearing......and can read and have read about it now for the past few days, and many posts later. LET'S MOVE ON.

......um.....wasn't borned yesterday.

[quote name='gigishiba']I'm half tempted to get Kika a rinestone collar since she is soooo prissy and show-ie. She'd love it.........[/quote] oh....oh....one with a bell? :multi:

Nylon leads will burn the daylights out of your hand as the dog is pulling it 90mph thru your hands. You must take care of the leather. Use saddle soap and a good conditioner and it will stay supple and soft. A good quality leather collar will last a long time, provided it is cared for. The thing I have against nylon is that when it get wet, it's like ice --- it's slippery. ....oh and it burns.....I mean, smokes your hand!

Personally, these fences are way over rated. It does [b]NOTHING[/b] to keep another dog from coming into your yard and attacking YOUR dog. Put up a real fence, real chain link, wood, cinder-block, whatever you choose. This worked for one of my dogs....it may not work for you > so ...... We have pups / dogs that are chewers. The toys and bones didn't work, because whatever it was they wanted to chew on looked more interesting. So, everytime I saw one of them pick up something to chew on --- I would go to him and say, "good boy, for bringing me that"..."you're a good boy for bringing me that" and I would take whatever he had. Now, he just brings me whatever it is that he wants to chew on. I take it, praise him and give him a treat. I almost have a female pup that will do the same thing. [b]It may not work for you and it's dangerously close to praising for doing a "bad" thing, which could lead to a BAD habit. [/b] It has worked for some of our dogs.

:lol: :lol: ....mustn't....read.....funnies.....with...a.....full....bladder :shocked!:

There is a special [b][color=red]H E L L [/color][/b]for people that abuse animals, children and old people.

Let me clarify my statement. We have herding bred dogs and feed puppy food. If I had a large or giant breed, I surely would not push his growth faster than the ligaments and tendons could grow. :wink:

:evilbat: I will not be sucked into their flaming vortex. I will not be sucked into their flaming vortex. I will not be sucked into their flaming vortex. ......aaahhhh.... :drinking:

...Gigi...thanks..... :oops:

[quote name='yellowlabsrule']Actually to be perfectly honest it's bull genitalia. Steers have already had theirs "taken away".[/quote] :lol: .....sorry for laughing, but no....genitals is penis, vagina. Steers are castered --- testicles and vas deferens removed. Pizzle is the penis.

Apricot seeds contain arsenic. She should pass them in the fecal matter without the stomach acid dissolving them. I should say, there is a little seed --- inside the seed --- that is where the arsenic is.

Horsefeathers, I agree with you on the circumstances. I think under those circumstances, that debarking would be justified. BUT, I don't think that's what most everyone is thinking about. Debarking (*only*) for the convenience of the owner and not really for dire circumstances is what (I think) the majority is thinking about. Debarking because: ---they might have to disperse some of the 30 or 100 dogs that they have for breeding. ---they may lose at a show because the dog barks in the ring. ---they just don't want to take the time to correct the problem. ---it's the easy way out. Those type of reasons, not because (again) of dire circumstances, the very, very last resort sort of thing.

We feed puppy food.

[quote name='pzoo9']I know this is an old post, but I have heard about Mini-Aussies. I adopted a dog from the shelter that could pass, so I was curious too. Her fur is growing in and she is proving to be a sheltie cross. In my research I have found that the mini-Aussie is just an Aussie line that crosses the smallest of the litter with the smallest. The AKC and UKC do not accept this line as an actual breed. They state essentially that it is playing with genetic fire. There is a breeder in our area, and the word on the street is they do not have very nice personalities.[/quote] Pzoo9 --- breeding the smallest one in the litter to the smallest one, would not necessarily produce a small offspring. To reduce the size of a breed would take a very long time (many years). There are currently too many "mini" Aussies for this to have happened. Just like the "mini" Heeler, they are cross bred with a small producing breed. The "mini" heelers are crossed with Chihuahua's and are being sold as "MINI HEELERS", NOT Heeler/Chi's. Many of the "mini" Aussies are in fact crossed with Shelties. It could be a dwarf gene, but not likely because these "mini's" are in proportion (legs are not short like a true dwarf). And again, there are way too many "mini" Aussies for them to be from a dwarf gene. Trust me on this.....they are CROSS bred with Shelties. A few (VERY few) may actually be just below standard small; but the majority are not. Oh yeah, they are "registered" by a registry that was started specifically as a "mini" registry! ......just so the breeder could say they were "registered".