Note to self do not throw an undersized whiting at the lab. One gulp and it was gone now she has been crook all day.
Bloody garbage guts.
Bob
Dog talk
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Bob Pacey
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Re: Dog talk
The purpose in life is to have fun.
After you grasp that everything else seems insignificant !!!
After you grasp that everything else seems insignificant !!!
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Vic Jefferies
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Re: Dog talk
Good On You Bill,
Us Basenji owners are nearly as rare a breed as the dogs themselves.
A bit of research showed that they were taken from Africa to America (from memory) in the 1930s and were later acknowledged as a pure breed and therefore able to be judged in thoroughbred competitions in the "hounds" category.
What you say about them preening and cleaning themselves just as cats do is entirely correct too. Mine hated to go into the water and once fell out of my boat where she almost drowned because of her inability to swim!
I have read where they are used by the Pygmies in Africa to hunt lions because of their speed, fierceness and lack of dog odour. Yet they are generally not much (if at all) larger than a fox terrier.
Basenjis hate the cold and at the first sign of cool weather mine would sit in front of the electric heater and shiver and moan until I either turned the heater on or wrapped her in a blanket.
As you say Bill they own their owners if that makes sense and are totally independent but very intelligent animals. Don't think I could through owning one again but I still miss Mocha.
Us Basenji owners are nearly as rare a breed as the dogs themselves.
A bit of research showed that they were taken from Africa to America (from memory) in the 1930s and were later acknowledged as a pure breed and therefore able to be judged in thoroughbred competitions in the "hounds" category.
What you say about them preening and cleaning themselves just as cats do is entirely correct too. Mine hated to go into the water and once fell out of my boat where she almost drowned because of her inability to swim!
I have read where they are used by the Pygmies in Africa to hunt lions because of their speed, fierceness and lack of dog odour. Yet they are generally not much (if at all) larger than a fox terrier.
Basenjis hate the cold and at the first sign of cool weather mine would sit in front of the electric heater and shiver and moan until I either turned the heater on or wrapped her in a blanket.
As you say Bill they own their owners if that makes sense and are totally independent but very intelligent animals. Don't think I could through owning one again but I still miss Mocha.
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william williams
Re: Dog talk
Thank Vic and Bob you talk of your lab eating your whiting well here is one for you. I taught Rebel to be a gun dog and he was good one at retreive Quail that I shot. Well this morning I went out to the paddock hunting Quail which were rather scarce when I shot one and Rebel retrieved it holding it nicely in his mouth and sat before me with it, only to give a quick gulp and low and behold swallowed it. And I was a bit annoyed an hour and a half later and finaly another one rose up only the second that I had seen for the morning Bang I got him Rebel runs over and retreives him sits and again one Gulp one quail swallowed my foot headed swiftly towards his AR--S but alas it never met him he was to quick and headed back to the ute where he procceded to HOWL and HOWL like a bansie result was I gave up and headed backto the ute. Funny never did take him out shooting Quail again but Vic My bloke loved the water him and dams were great mates couldn't keep the mongrel out of them but he swum out once to often and a bloody King Brown got him several time so I had to to put him down though it could have been a fierce snake( type of Tiapan ) as there were a few in the area at the time.
Bill the old battler
Bill the old battler