Following the two disgusting stories I have heard about i.e the jealous girlfriend and the poor little puppy in Manchester has anyone got any happy news about their dogs or nice story to share to lift all the doggie people's spirits up? 

I am not trying to belittle the horrific stories but just wondered whether someone had some nice news.

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My 5 year old lab got the all clear after having a tumour removed a couple of weeks ago

Now that is good news sjs679 (catchy little name youv'e got there ;))  I must say I'm not sure why these horror posts are put on here we all know these things go on but I feel the posts are unecessary as they just cause upset without really contributing anything to preventing these things happening, maybe that's just me :(

They are put up for people to read, and well NO one told you to open the post ;) If you think a post is going to be sad and you don't wanna no the outcome don't click ;)

Yes maybe it does prevent one from happening. If people are made more aware of the type of stuff done to animals then maybe the law will be more harder on the people who commit the act. Maybe next time someone see's someone about to thro a poor inocent animal over a bridge or into traffic someone may stop them and help that poor inocent animal...No different then the one dog that needed help with his surgeries, just sad that these poor animals had to die that way....Or how about the puppy mills the more people talk about it hopefully they will be shut down...In all it just depends how you look at it. Obviously these people need help if they are able to commit such an act....Poeple who do this usually start at such a young age where things could of been avoided :(

It is not always clear what opening the link will reveal, Dollface.  I can see the point of details being put in local press, for instance, where it may elicit information the would help apprehend the culprit but I don't really think that posting these things on something like this which may not even be read in the same country will lead to convictions or encourage stiffer sentences so perhaps if anyone really feels they have to leave such a posting they could explain exactly what we are likely to find in a link.

Thats fine :)

But it is a public forum which means people can post/say what they want :)

I guess enough said :)

"But it is a public forum which means people can post/say what they want

Not Quite

Admin:

Of course I never ment anything like that for posting/saying what you want ;) ...I ment in respect. I am sure if you did not agree with what I have posted or ever said on this forum you would delete as well as notify me which I would understand.

I truely don't see anything wrong with what I posted, I found it intesesting as well as sad and just thought I would share it...

ttfn :)

One of my daughter's chickens laid a egg - does that count?

It's the bank holiday this weekend and this Mancunian can't wait to get out and about with her four legged friends :d

My daughters coming home in two weeks time after 6 months travelling I've missed her so much.

Well, my OH is being made redundant in September, but every cloud has a silver lining and after 9 years of permanent night shift we'll have a chance to have some decent time together :)  Plus, although its enforced, he's looking forward to being able to re-evaluate his life and hopefully will get something more satisfying.  So what seems like really bad news for us is actually going to be a positive thing, plus the sun is shining and its a bank holiday weekend coming up! Hooray :D

Lesley

Spice may have a new playmate down the road,our neighbours have got an 11week old border collie called Bobby.I met him yesterday and he's lovely.Once Spice finishes her 1st season we shall let them meet to see how they get on :)
We aren't planning on breeding tho' before anyone asks :D
Jacqueline.

Good news;

Mom is out of hospital after her heart attack :D 

My nephew has been for a trail run at his "senior" school this week and as he's Autistic and doesn't speak it was nerve racking. But he has loved it small classes of only 10 children, and each child has a "programme" based on their needs just for them. :D

My fella Ben is doing well with his treatment for Testicle Cancer. :D

The family is healthy and happy. :D

Sal has got over KC and is now able to go out no coughing for 4 days :D

And I'm on holiday this week. :D

Karen living at good news junction ;)

 

      

Good news Karen about your mum :D and all your other news :)

By the way I will be in touch in the next few weeks( get the BH weekend out the way as we are away no children, no dogs tickets for England vs the Barbarians then a night in a 5 * hotel afterwards , ohhhhhh I can't wait !!!!! :D :D ) Have so much else going on here at the mo this is much needed !  Anyway I will arrange our little rendevous in Henley. I will ask Lisa along as she has been helping out so I will have my two minders with me when I do the dirty deed;)

Lucy
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Thanks.

No problem you still have my email address don't you? just let me have a few days notice when and I'll sort it with work :)

Should I wear dark glasses????? you know look intimidating ;)

Karen

Karen

I hope it won't come to us going but we shall see. It will be a weekend and if I need you I will work around you having time off :)

It is head in the sand and they think that doing that it will go away !! It is amazing how humans think doing this will make the problem go away ! :rolleyes:

You me and Lisa will be the new Dog rescue 'Charlie's Angels' :p

Lucy
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Well, it's a lovely evening, and we've just got Beau & Vinnie's hipscores back - Beau is 3:3, and Vinnie is 4:5 - so that's our happy news - and our baby granddaughter is 1 today - and is walking!

Margot

So when did she start walking as Indi is doing bum shuffling and she is ten months !:)

Good news re the hips scores ;) We are waiting for MB's which are going to be v bad scores :(

Lucy
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Charlies angels - hmm I think you've drunk too much wine ;)

No probs just let me know when and I'll be there.

Good news about the hip scores Margot. And how's Purdey doing.

And Happy Birthday to your granddaughter :D
Karen

Karen - was just going to say glad everything is going well for you :D -  Purdey is doing quite well - she has just started on her 3rd lot of Metacam - and our vet did say that after 3 lots it seems to lose its effectiveness - but at the moment she is good.   She did give us heart failure on Sunday - looked out in the garden and there she was, lying flat on her side in the middle of the lawn.    I rushed out to her, thinking, oh no, not now - she opened one eye, wagged her tail very slowly, sighed, and got up - "can't a girl get any peace around here?   - if it's not that Pesky Pup Freya bouncing me, you have to come down & disturb my beauty sleep".....

She still rules the roost, bless her, still demanding her bacon butties.

Margot

Margot we have that with Min !

The when you come down and the chest is still going up and down ! We all have to do that will the old git Labs ! :) Mike does the reccie (sp) are the old girls alive?) I think he dreads if ever he had to come and tell me if one of the puppies have popped their cloggs :)

But Min when she goes out, she leaps into the car , leaps out the runs half a mile to the river and jumps in !  Not bad for a Lab who is nearly 14 ! :) She grumps if we say no you stay here ( not on her own as other human family members r here ! )

She started 3 weeks ago - just to Daddy at fiorst, but now she really gets up some steam and trundles around - arms in the air most of the time - but she has been standing up & walking round the furniture for the last 3 months!!!  I think it is because she has played in her "exersaucer" for so long, she was used to having something under her feet.

Cassie is quite different to all my babies - in that she has enough hair to put into a ribbon - my Sarah didn't, and her daughter Ella (who is just 4) has only just started having haircuts!

Indi is just a shuffle bum ! :

Lucy
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But Margot what you haven't thought of is Purdey won't have read thesame info as the vet that says Metacam looses it's effectiveness will she ;) so she'll just carry on bacon buttie eating ;)

Karen 

I've got another day older without finding my name in the obituary column

J Hic pardon!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. That's what my grandfather use to say. Very funny!

Well, my good news is that Lyric is getting reeeeeeaaaally good on the recall, even with a lot of distractions...not all, but a lot. And he's also getting good at his long down/stay with me a little way off.... in front of stores and comotion. He gets lots of compliments on his good behavior when we're out and about. He's sweet and gentle to every animal we see, dogs, kitties, baby chicks, bunnies, baby goats etc when we visit the farm and feed. He just gets it.....that those are people's pets and he can just sniff, don't touch. His little stubby tail goes back and forth. I'm very proud of him. Of course, he's only short of 10 months and he could change down the road, but for now, he's showing good temperament and real willingness.

Carrie

Good lord John, it's been ages since I heard anyone say that, my Nan used to say it.

So my other happy news is...a memory of my Nan. It may sound sad but she never meant it that way same as John I imagine. She was a lovley woman who raised 14 children to adulthood, lost 5 more. Her youngest but one my Dad (born 1932) was 24 months old when his Dad died of TB leaving my Nan to raise 13 children including a 8 month old baby. She remarried in 1942, and had a son the following year my Uncle John. She lived in the centre of B'ham where the ICC is now :) and when they demolished her house in the 60's they moved her too Northfield about 5 miles outside B'ham. And she moved back within two months as she couldn't get to the "dogs" greyhound track in Perry Barr. :)
A proper Brummie woman who was always wearing her hat to go out. Eliza's got her hat and pinny on the neighbours used to say "there's trouble" (she hated her name Eliza)  and she was all of 5' 1/4" proud of the !/4 inch. :)

Thanks for the memory John :)

Karen

Very interesting woman was your grandma. My goodness....that's a lot of kids!!! I bet you have enjoyed lots of stories from her life.

Carrie

To everyone who has good news thank you!  I was so upset yesterday after reading all those horrid stories but you have all made me :-) again!  I hope all your happy news continues!

xxxxx

Hi all,
Just to say hope all your happy news continues, and to add a few of our own;

My daughter Chloe who is 3 1/2 and has trichotillomania ( which means she pulls her own hair out) now has a full head of hair, which is sticking up all over the place and which I love. While out in the car with the windows down it was blowing all over the place, I was sooo proud of her.  :)

Oh, and Chloe and her little sis Taylor-brooke who is 18 months have raised £165 for their pre-school.  :)

Also Bruce and Lucie (our 2 year old boxers, which most dogs dont seem to like) have a friend. they have been meeting my friends dog for a little while now and they get on great, now means I can go and see her and take the dogs with me to play with her dog. :)

Oh, one more, my hubby is leaving his job to do something else and so we can move back nearer to all our family and our new baby niece (18th one now.)  :)

Love Lou, Gary, Chloe, Tay, Bruce n Lucie.   :)

I finished the last of my four exams for Spanish GCSE yesterday.  I don't know how schoolkids take 8-12 GCSE's in one go - I can't remember how I coped way back then (oh yes, I only took 5 and I didn't care one way or the other so I didn't revise or anything ;-) ), but its been mentally draining, and the two I took yesterday which I was most worried about went really well so I'm dead chuffed, that they are all over and I don't have to think in Spanish ever again if I don't want to! :-D

I am 50 this year and I have just put my name down to do an NVQ3 in dog grooming, i am doing the introductory course at the moment and Its great fun. I have met some lovely people and I have got my brain working again

Roxy and I graduated from puppy class last week.  :)

After 2 years of planning and a year of building every weekend, my goat pen is now finished the goats move in tomorrow and we're having a goat moving party :D

Bruce is finally clean day and night, we took him off of science diet and put all the dogs onto a BARF diet and 2 days after coming off the science diet he is clean and dry yay!

the sun is shining and i have a week off work to spend with my dogs, we plan to go picnicing with 2 labs a spaniel 2 kids 3 adults in a fiesta :D

and as im a Harry Potter fan the new film comes out monday and i cant wait :D i said id take my sisters but that an excuse to see the film

tanya

Good for you Woodsford, dog grooming sounds interesting. What qualities are needed to be good at it apart from liking dogs?

Good news - Minibeast can tie her laces, Satan Filly has got over her Weimeraner addiction and now loves cockers, Gothboy is finished his standard grades and the job interview I had on the 21st is asking me to complete a medical questionnaire " before a formal offer of employment can be made" which is good, Morse has a new flat collar which fits and he dosent pull in as much as the 1/2 check and his lead is now coordinated, and Silverback is sporting the most awful bush hat youve ever seen making us all roar with laughter.

I went to pick my new puppy up and conned OH into letting me take 2 home, I was really pleased untill I came home and found the No3 grandaughter had burnt most of my kitchen down!!!!  but still happy with my puppy's

Ohhh two puppies, what breed, what sex, what colour, and what have you called them?

Karen

Lorelei, your house sounds somewhat akin to "Fawlty Towers" :-D

yep I have such great news about my lab cannot stop smiling, thought the world had ended when aged 8 years she was diagnosed with bone cancer and advise was pts, had to give her every chance insisted on referral and was told amputation would give her 6 to 12 months pain free happy life, so took that option, living longer than this was just a one percent chance, Three and a half years on have just come back from a long walk over the sussex downs, with our 4 labs, including the three legged who is now in her twelth year, not only does she keep up with the rest (10 months, 5 years and 8 years) she is so happy and bouncy, and the best news recently her oncologist said well it has been three and a half years that is like 15 years in humans, as far as you ever can we consider her cured.  Not bad for a dog who we were advised to pts, and then only given a 1 percent chance of living longer than 12 months, she is my miracle :)

The pups are Lhasa Apso's, we have been without apso's for 12 years since Kyi died, we had the first one in 1979, the girl is tiny 21 oz at 81/2 weeks she is called little Mo, her mum is a Danish/swedish and german champion, her dad is also danish she is beatifull but everyone asks were do you put the battery's, she is gold with a black mask about 2 1/2" tall by 4-5" long but I could not resist her, The boy is from a different breeder, we saw her out in Bridlington with a 14 week old male, it was his first time out and he walked down the street is if he owned it he is so confident and beautiful very affectionate (tibetan spaniel and Yorkie do not appreciate his attention) he is called Louis but I think that it should be changed to randy, he is red gold. I know I should not have got 2, as I am picking up another Bordeaux puppy, and Britney is due on the 16th of June, but my children and daughter in laws etc are all happy to help, it just trying to get them back when they have walked them. It makes it seem a lot better haveing all the breeds I have every wanted, even though I have no kitchen as No3 grandchild burnt it down when we were away, but thats life

{{Lorelei, your house sounds somewhat akin to "Fawlty Towers" }}

Ha ha ha ha!!! I absolutely LOVE that show. It's a scream. I love British TV humor.

Carrie

Sorry for being dense but you have an eight and a half week old Lhasa that is only two & a half inches tall & weighs 21 ounces & she has been out for a walk at that age ?

My mum and dad in law are celebrating their diamond wedding on Wednesday I have been married for 27 years to jim and have never called them anything its always been jims mum or jims dad

jean

No she has not been out, it the newfoundland and dogue male  that the daughter in law and our kylye has had out to the coast today, they help with the excerse and feeding of the dogs , I am lucky that Kylye loves bathing and grooming the dogs, if I am away at shows my family all muck in to look after the dogs to give there dad and me more freedom, I think a walk across my bedroom is all mo needs at the moment, that is where she is with me, she sleeps at the side of my bed. We are taking louis for a walk up the village in the morning as he is full of energy, he is 14 weeks and has had all his jabs, I will get mo checked over but the breeder had had her checked twice, once at 4 weeks and then again before I picked her up,but she is very healthy and playfull just small, she has a teddy bigger than her that she rags and drags about.Sorry if I did not make myself clear

Well I've been waiting since Thursday (since she went in to hospital) to add to this thread.  My friend and colleague and his wife have just had their first baby, a girl, Esme Grace, born by ceasarean in the end, this morning.  :) :) :)