Judith gsd

On Midlands Today, yesterday evening, they covered a topic about how the animals at Twycross Zoo are contributing to recycling with their droppings. The elephants are the biggest contributors obviously! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7773621.stm I wondered if HLGS could talk to them about the products manufactured from the stuff and how it all helps the animals?

I was about to say can you make her a "den" so she cannot get freaked by the others eyballing her and the pups.

No words of wisdom from me either, but well done indeed! It is fantastic that you qualified and worked at the same time! Congratulations!

I am sorry that she was starting to suffer at the end, but you stepped in and did the kindest thing. Hugs to you and happy duck chasing to Precious.

I do give them some pilchards sometimes, however that is tinned, but they seem to like it. Someone commented at the dog show about how shiny Wolfie's coat was (black gsd), although they don't get it as often as once a week quite.

I too had polyhyrominois with my 4th child. It was discovered towards the end of my pregnancy, so I was sent for a scan to check all was well. Indeed it was, except I had subjected the baby to another scan, not without risk to a developing brain. They said his head would be large, but as I had been through that with number 1 son, I was okay with that. I later went on to have healthy son, was born at home with his family suffering little disturbance, with Mum and Dad still around for them. It did my waistline no good though, and really stretched my tummy more than usual, and I suspect he nearly swam out due to all the fluid!

Don't be so cross with yourself, I know the conditions around these parts were quite damp today, and it was an accident! You know you tried to avoid him, and it sometimes works out wrong. But luckily this time the dog had a bump and a shock, let's hope his owner learns her lesson, it was her fault. You cared for him, you stopped to help, and asked about him later. There is nothing more you could have done. The owner took him to the vets, he will be fine.

Only just found this, what a shock for you, what a cheeky boy keeping quiet and acting normal! I am glad he ate his food for you. When our dog was poorly, the vet told us to giver her a multivitamin tablet once day to help her. May be worth a go, ask them if you get chance. Has he got some bedding with him that smells of home, or one of your (unwashed) t shirts? All good thoughts towards a quick diagnosis and recovery.

It is so hard when you have had them for so long, seen so many changes in your lives together. At least she chose her time to go at home with you. Be kind to yourself today, and come on here to talk if you need to. Run free with your brother now little one, free of pain and discomfort.

I handed this dog over to a local rescue yesterday, he is going into foster (a house with 10 acres) for a while, until a forever home can be found for him. That will be better than his first life living in a shed, then a flat and now a new start. I was met with a farewell committee (the neighbours who had before been disturbed by his howling, and were keen to see him move on from that awful situation), they shed a tear as he was about to be signed over. But now it is onwards and upwards for him, and I would love him to be in a new home for Christmas.

Hopefully this Friday, I will be collecting this little man to start him on his way to a new life with a lady who has a couple of other dogs for company, an older one and a younger one I am meeting the rescue at the vets for his vaxes to be done before he goes to his new home! Thanks to all who tried to assist me and him!

Sending all good thoughts your way. Give yourselves some time to chill. So thankful it was just metal and not bones!

This cat has now gone to his new forever home! So this can now be closed. Thank you.

We need urgent help with this one please, the lady who owns him has had to be hospitalised recently due to her lungs struggling to cope with the dog! She rang me this morning and she had a job to talk on the 'phone. Any offer of help would be gratefully received. He has now been neutered!

Sarah he will leave a big hole in your heart and home. But just think of all the dogs you have saved since!

I send my kind thoughts to you at this sad time. I should imagine that came as quite a shock to you.

What a joy to see them enjoying themselves, but so lovely especially to see Spike on good form.

It is a great feeling to be back on after a long time. I did it a couple of years ago on our holidays in Cornwall and went for a ride on a 16.2HH horse around Lands End. It was my first time for over roughly 22 years! You don't forget it, easier than riding a bike. I was nervous of falling down all that way, but when I broke my back and was knocked out for over 3 hours riding my own horse, he fell on me, I didn't fall off him - beware of horses falling on you at walk, they are quite heavy! Well done!

I am a fosterer for Coventry Cat Group (and assistant fund raiser!). We rescue and rehome cats and kittens for folks who cannot cope, bereaved cats and kittens, strays, all the usual reasons an animal needs help. We try to help people even if we have no room in our foster homes. We occasionally have to use a local cattery, which is of a very good standard. But mostly the cats and kittens come into foster family situations. We home visit before we allow our cats/kittens to go to their new homes. We spay and neuter if the animal is ready for this procedure. All cats and kittens are dewormed and deflead, usually as soon as they come into rescue. All our fosters and helpers are unpaid volunteers. We are a registered charity. We hold meetings about every 6 weeks in one of our member's homes. We have a policy of not putting an animal to sleep unless it is suffering undue stress from an untreatable condition. http://www.coventrycatgroup.org.uk/sections.php?id=about

I wonder where the Happy Little Green Squirrel Family are, this could be one for them! http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.ph...4.msg335897#new He is not in our care, as yesterday we had to take in a Mum and 6 kittens, and today we have taken in 6 beautiful 5-6 month olds - all due for a visit to the vets before they start to multiply! We have another fosterer retiring shortly too, and she needs us to take in her two young black and white boys, all around the same age 5-6 months.

Well done for turning her passing into a very positive thing. What a lovely opportunity for the Mum and her puppies.

So there has to be a place for good breeders but I firmly believe that they should be better governed with health checks being the norm. Yes that may well be a fair statement, as long as we are breeding when the numbers in that breed are not too high, i.e. too many dogs and not enough homes. I had this brought home to me last week. I was in the local vets which is intended to be a more affordable type of practise, for those with less money to spend on their pets. When everyone went "Ahhhhhh!" Oh! look at them. A man was carrying a washing basket full of English bull terrier pups. He said they were 8 weeks old, but they made no attempt to get out of the basket. He was saying thing like they have trashed my house, I can tell you. I am not convinced that they were as old as 8 weeks, more like 6 weeks, because they just sat in the basket and made no attempt to get out of it. I don't know why he brought the pups to the vet, as the mother dog was in with a poorly eye, they had also brought in a Staffie with all the brass fittings on her harness, she too looked as it she had been bred from. When asked how much he was selling the pups for, I nearly fell of my chair, he said £2,000! Was the poorly eye entropian, or some other genetic disease, and now the pups may suffer from it too? I did not feel comfortable with it at all.

Well done for offering to transport her, but very well done indeed for offering her a permanent home! Congratulations, her smile says it all!

Yesterday morning I went out to let the 2 older Cochin hens out as usual. But I noticed Mrs Black (the black one!) just seemed to be sitting in one place and not doing her usual thing of following me up the garden to her food. So I decided to keep an eye on her and see if she made any attempt to do chicken type things a little later. She had recently been to the vet with bumble foot. We have been able to poultice and bandage her foot to get the swelling down, and she has had antibiotics for it. I hade noticed that her comb is not looking as perky as it used to, but apart from that she always seemed happy. She still looked poorly, and my OH had been checking on her agreed with me that she was not right, so when I got back from Church Parade with my son who is in the Scouts, I got some oral rehydration (Poly-Aid) and syringed about 8 ml into her beak. She took the first 5 ml fine, but she did pull a bit of a face when I gave her the last 3 ml, and I was worried that I had chocked her ! I could hear a little bubbling in her crop, but otherwise she seemed poorly still, but certainly not choking. I had warmed a (microwave) heat pad and put her back in the ark on a towel and the heat pad. She seemed grateful for the warmth and to be out of the wind and rain. She even made some chicken type sounds, so that pleased me and confirmed that I didn't think I had drowned her. I must admit that as I left her to rest I was not sure if she would pull through, as was quite old. I left her quietly, and wouldn't let the children keep bothering her, but sadly two hours later I found her dead. She had her eyes closed and her head slightly laying backwards. It didn't look as if she had thrashed around. I hope she went quietly and in her sleep. I am now left with a lonely Cochin Mrs Brown, who at the moment looks very strange because she has loads of pin feathers around her neck, and it almost looks like a white collar she is wearing.