Just a quick awareness warning about dogs.
Nine years ago I had a dog that was very overprotective of my daughter. It wouldn't like my daughters friends touching her toys. When I had a new baby I felt uncomfortable that it may hurt the new baby. The dog had come from an animal shelter so it had an unknown history and I had quickly jumped into purchasing it after waking up to find a woman/criminal inside my house. We owned the dog for two years, and I called the animal shelter to see if they would take it back. They told me off for being an irresponsible dog owner. I advertised him for free in the paper. A lady with one child came around and said she was picking him up for her brother and wife and they had no kids so I thought things would work out well. After some months my husband started saying he had a bad feeling that our dog was used for dog fights. Then I started reading in the media about dog carcusses that had been obviously used for dog fighting were being found dumped in the same outer suburbs of Perth that our dog was destined for and same breed as our dog. If I had my time again, I would have had him put down. i wasn't aware that dog fighting existed. I'm living in Brisbane at the moment and a man attempted to steal my new dog across the road from my house last week. I was seeing some friends off and she had wandered across the road. She is a very unique looking dog. A man was walking towards her and holding his hand out and calling her. She barked at him. I appologised to him. He said, "oh is that your dog. I thought my dog got out". and turned around and walked off. Surely being a meter away he would have known it wasn't his dog!! I was kinda shocked and googled 'why do people steal dogs' and 'dog fighting' came up. I just wanted to warn people who may be a bit naive like me. I'm sure it would happen everywhere in Australia! My first dog was a staffy x greyhound x kelpie. My current dog is staffy x cattle dog x jack russel terrier.
Nine years ago I had a dog that was very overprotective of my daughter. It wouldn't like my daughters friends touching her toys. When I had a new baby I felt uncomfortable that it may hurt the new baby. The dog had come from an animal shelter so it had an unknown history and I had quickly jumped into purchasing it after waking up to find a woman/criminal inside my house. We owned the dog for two years, and I called the animal shelter to see if they would take it back. They told me off for being an irresponsible dog owner. I advertised him for free in the paper. A lady with one child came around and said she was picking him up for her brother and wife and they had no kids so I thought things would work out well. After some months my husband started saying he had a bad feeling that our dog was used for dog fights. Then I started reading in the media about dog carcusses that had been obviously used for dog fighting were being found dumped in the same outer suburbs of Perth that our dog was destined for and same breed as our dog. If I had my time again, I would have had him put down. i wasn't aware that dog fighting existed. I'm living in Brisbane at the moment and a man attempted to steal my new dog across the road from my house last week. I was seeing some friends off and she had wandered across the road. She is a very unique looking dog. A man was walking towards her and holding his hand out and calling her. She barked at him. I appologised to him. He said, "oh is that your dog. I thought my dog got out". and turned around and walked off. Surely being a meter away he would have known it wasn't his dog!! I was kinda shocked and googled 'why do people steal dogs' and 'dog fighting' came up. I just wanted to warn people who may be a bit naive like me. I'm sure it would happen everywhere in Australia! My first dog was a staffy x greyhound x kelpie. My current dog is staffy x cattle dog x jack russel terrier.