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Pools are great homeopathic tools. When Meg was bowled over by her brother and hurt her shoulder, I took her to a hydrotherapy centre for doggies and it did wonders to build up the strength in her muscles and to help strengthen the ligaments. Glad that the dogs had a good visit. :D

I contracted Lepto in september 2 years ago on a field trip with uni. I was fine after coming back then about 5 days later started feeling ill and had all the symptoms of flu. I went like that for a few days before getting worse and blacked out and my parents called the doctor out. He said I was very dehydrated with all the vomitting and diarrhoea (charming I know!) and because of the dehydration that was causing hypoglycaemia, and sparking off my heart condition (wolff parkinson white syndrome), so I reluctantly was admitted to hospital for i.v fluids. At first they thought it was just the flu as well with dehydration until I went kind of jaundiced :-? then when they started asking me questions if I had been any place exotic lately or working with anything exotic, I mentioned the field trip. They did some tests and discovered I had contracted lepto. 12 other students as well as 2 lecturers also got it and were given antibiotics. I stayed in hospital a while because my liver enzyme levels were high and my immune system was compromised from it. I am not exaggerating but I honestly felt like I was not going to make it. Even with injections to stop vomitting, I just couldn't keep anything down and was throwing up pure bile which was so gross. It left me weak after and I lost a lot of time off uni and had to put in a lot of hours to catch up. I still have checks 4 times every year to check my liver enzyme levels as lepto can be active up to 15 years. I do have a weak immune system now and tend to pick up colds and coughs easier not to mention the surprise chicken pox a few weeks ago (nobody else in the house got the evil things!). I'm really careful about trying to stay healthy as if the immune system is compromised, then lepto can appear again. I was told that echinacea and devils claw are really good for a heathy immune system so I take that as well as eating a lot of fruit and taking multi vitamins. Sander calls me a junkie because I take my vitamin, echinacea and devils claw drops, heart tablet and pill every morning lol. :lol: A few days before I went into hospital, Sander was diagnosed with glandular fever so there were thoughts crossing my mind that it could be that as we had been together a few weeks earlier and umm kissing :wink: DO the main symptoms are like flu. Feeling hot and cold and achy, vomitting, diarrhoea, weakness, jaundice, haematuria, liver and kidney failure in extreme cases just like dogs!

Hey Mouse yep I have a lot of posters designed in dutch as well as my own business cards made. I spent most of Friday watching Bailey sober up from being neutered while cutting up 200 business cards! My plans for this coming week are to place posters in vets, pet shops, dog clubs, supermarkets, animal shelters. I'm going to a fair tomorrow in Amsterdam too for expats so I'll be bringing some cards with me to give out if there is the opportunity. :wink:

DO, I know what you mean about Lepto. I was also very careful at the surgery to wash up well when we had dogs in with lepto especially when in contact with their urine. I was so careful that I never managed to contract it from the surgery, but from rat urine on a university field trip from skanking river water that we were sampling :roll:

They are both pedigree so that makes them both more likely to mate? :lol: Perhaps your friend should take a look at how the millions of cross breeds in the world were conceived!

How on earth did a pack of dogs get into a zoo in the first place? It says a lot for the zoo's security and fencing.

Staffy: actually its not BS. I started working at Archbold veterinary surgery in Lisburn , N,Ireland at the age of 11 and a half years old in June 1992 as a summer job. My Dad and I were there one evening with one of our past cats Jessica who was being treated for bowel cancer. That night the vet who runs a sole practice was complaining that he had no staff that night and was very busy. My Dad said if he needed help then this lassie (pointing to me) would love to get hands on practice with animals. For the first month I wasn't paid anything. My first

Really nice update to see and hear of :D

Working at the veterinary surgery I was always really careful to wash my hands thoroughly before leaving the practice. If we had a dog in with parvo or another highly contagious disease then I would change my clothes and shower as soon as I got home before I touched any of my pets. When we had the foot and mouth crisis in N.Ireland a few years ago we had to walk through disinfectant at the door of the practice both leaving and coming into work and when we left we had to leave our scrubs at the practice to be washed before going home.

Thank you all for the constructive comments! :D The pic on the front page is working now thankfully and I realy am pleased as to how well it has turned out. Its the first proper website that I've made so I'm satisfied :D

Way cool pics of Taurus! :D

I'm still waiting to get my proper domain name but Sander has it hosted on his server for now, so you can all review it and tell me what you think! There are still niggly bits that I'm working on, but if there are any obvious spelling mistakes then please tell me! I'm quite excited at launching my new business :D [url]http://www.sand-box.nl/~propaws/[/url]

signed!

Malamum right click and copy the url from the properties then paste into a new window :wink:

when I train Meg, I always treat her with cheese and have had no problems. The only instances where I would advise against cheese would be for animals that have severe allergies as dairy products can make a situation worse.

Wow he certainly is very unusual! Looks like a shar pei x Weimaraner to me :wink: I hope he finds his family.

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I am really starting to miss shows and i've been working very hard with Caelidh whos heelwork has become stunning soooooo.......... I'm thinking of entering her in her first obedience competition in december at a show near Amsterdam. I wasn't planing on doing this until next spring, but she is honestly nearly ready. Just had to share :wink:

I'm not against breeding of pedigree dogs. What I am against is irresponsible breeding of pedigree dogs as well as intentional breeding of 2 breeds and crossbreeds. My next dog will be a pedigree Border Collie because my intentions for that dog are to compete and i want to be sure of that dogs parentage. The way I see it is that I have done my bit for shelter dogs in the past by fostering and rehoming countless numbers of dogs not to mention hand rearing abandoned animals. I would still be helping at shelters but as you know i did try and volunteer and the shelter here was nasty about it and told me no.

The N.Ireland legislation for the dangerous dogs act was challenged several years ago and the move to banish the act was over-ruled due to the terrorism in the country. If pit bulls, cao de fila, dogo argentino were legalised then more and more members of illegal splinter groups would be using them for fighting and image.

Sounds dodgy this whole test that was designed... it doesn't actually state that the dog attacked... again another sickening case. :evil:

Already been posted but perhaps one of teh best flash movies that I've watched.

Thats great news to hear that the puppies are all doing well again! :D It would be great if you could adopt one of the pups. it would be assured of going to a good home :wink:

The dreadlock (Matted) breeds are a whole different class of dogs, but the Bergamasco beats all and looks like it has suffered severe lack of grooming :wink:

Don't worry. It takes a good couple of days before bitches get over being spayed. Keep encouraging her to drink little amounts of water and offer her something tasty to eat, but if she doesn't want to eat just now, don't worry.