Warms the heart hearing this. Big love to you all! 
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Why so ?
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Beautiful photo. Wonderful to hear about his new and happy life. Good on you guys:clap:
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RSPCA and Dogs Home of Tasmania rules. We’re only fostering at the moment but it doesn’t make any difference. All rescue dogs are fixed up. Fergus, our Tasmanian Smithfield, was a rescue and at a country show a farmer, whole family top to toe in RM Williams clobber and oozing money, asked if I was interested In having him look after one of his ■■■■■■■. I said Id love him to and he would definitely love it as well. But alas, gonads cut off when he was a pup. Poor Fergus.
Female dog.
What is the most aggressive dog breed?
10 Aggression
9 Is
8 Not
7 Bred
6 It
5 Is
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1 Chihuahua
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Whose rules ?
We lost a Black Lab to mast cell cancer during COVID. I studied the causes and history, and many quoted figures that this cancer was many times more prevalent in castrated dogs. I then checked about castrating dogs, and Australia is the leading Nation at slashing dogs gonads. In Europe it is now not done much and same happening in USA.
Our new Lab has great balls and he is keeping them. I am fighting our Local Council at present about having to pay higher registration fee.
Some Vets will tell you about testicular cancer and others about dogs being unruly. Read up on it.
What, no special lower fee for an ex-Mayor ? That’s gratitude for you !
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Once was a Rooster, now a feather duster!
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Ohh, an ex-girlfriend had a Chihuahua like that.
Absolute ■■■■ of a dog for the first few weeks before it got used to me. Then when we broke up, I was more upset I wouldn’t get to see that dog anymore.
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Posted above. All dogs from the pound or RSPCA are de- sexed. Thems the rules. Down here anyway.
It was an RSPCA rule in Canberra. Discount or free de-sexing came with the purchase.
Some breeders also insist on it as a condition of a contract for pure breds
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It’s compulsory with any rescue dog down here. A few fellow fosterers on the Labradoodle FB page are saying how crook their mature age dogs are feeling after the chop. Seems the older dogs were kept for breeding obviously. Jasper looks and acts like a pup now in “freedom” but being a year old he must have been kept in the farm for just one reason.
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Second answer BF. I think it started with cats due to killing the native wildlife. Then the “rescue” centres and homes came to the idea to make it dogs as well.
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From memory, there is a minimum age for desexing. IDK whether there is a maximum age or whether it varies between breeds.
Unscrupulous breeders from nearly day one if they don’t want customers breeding. We bought 2 German Shepherds when we first came here and never realised that one of the pups was a “no nuts”. It was the vet that pointed it out. Otherwise it must be 8 to 12 weeks minimum and anything up to 2 years max from what I gather. But don’t quote me on that.
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I understand that and the same applies here. In my view it is an outdated concept, but I do get that not all dog owners are responsible and dogs need care and training.
We worked with a vet pharma company in Sydney who made a contraceptive for dogs. No market in Australia but massive in Europe and growing in USA. Yearly injection, seems more civilised than cutting off a dogs nuts. I guess it gets me that we pamper dogs and spend massive sums on them but think it is fine to butcher them because a Vet says it is ok. Reckon there are many blokes who should have their knackers removed before dogs, and same applies for lady dogs.
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Hey, I’m with you. We’re just fostering Jasper, will probably keep him, and Fergus was nutted as a pup before we got him. But if you get a dog from the pound then that’s what you get. Sad state of affairs but it is what it is.
Great pics of Jasper! Really living a great life, well done to the Hammers.
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As most here know by now, I’ve two pedigree black labrador bit¢hes. They’re entire, both of them. Five days apart in age, but they came from different breeders. One breeder didn’t mind selling me a six-week old entire puppy; the other objected until I said I wanted to breed, so she left the pup unspayed - for an additional sum of money.
For various reasons, unlike their predecessors, I never put either of them to a dog; they’re 11 years old now, so they’re too old to have pups. Over the years I’ve come to believe that if you have a dog or a bit¢h, you should let it grow to adulthood naturally, the way Nature intended, without interfering with its physical development.
If it was up to me I’d tell the RSPCA, local council, vet or whoever the interfering busybody authority was, to go to hell. But that’s just me…
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