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Doggy Acting

Bonnie — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:24:17 +0000

Are any other dogs into doggy acting? I'm with an agency called Canine Walkers & Animal Extras. I haven't had a job yet, but I will soon!

Chris Zink Canine Athlete Seminar

Tandy — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:17:56 +0000

PADS is Proud to host Chris Zink & Janet Gauntt

Chris Zink D.V.M.,.Ph.D. will present a two-day seminar focusing on how the Canine Athlete Academy: Everything you need to know to keep your canine athlete healthy and competing well into the senior years : June 11th-12th, 2011

Chris Zink, D.V.M., Ph.D., is a consultant on canine sports medicine, evaluating canine structure and locomotion, and designing individualized retraining and conditioning programs for canine athletes. She is the award-winning author of Peak Performance: Coaching the Canine Athlete, Dog Health and Nutrition for Dummies, and The Agility Advantage, and co-author of Jumping from A to Z: Teach Your
Dog to Soar and Building the Canine Athlete: Strength, Stretching, Endurance and Body Awareness Exercises. She has obtained more than 70 obedience, agility, retrieving, tracking, and conformation titles on dogs from the sporting, herding, working, terrier, and hound groups.

The broad purpose of the seminar is to provide information on how the canine body works, and what we can do to improve performance and keep our dogs healthy and injury-free. The seminars are highly interactive and provide ample opportunity for attendees and their dogs to participate in structure and gait analysis, lameness evaluation, to practice conditioning exercises with their dogs and to participate in jump-training and exercises appropriate to targeted performance events.

General Topics using participating dogs include:

Canine Structure – What it Means for Performance

* Your dog’s structural strengths and weaknesses
* What those strengths and weaknesses mean for performance
* How to capitalize on your dog’s strengths to maximize
* performance
* Understanding your dog’s weaknesses to minimize injury

The Amazing Canine Athlete

* The six canine gaits and how to put them on cue
* Gaits your dog uses for different performance events
* Abnormal gaits, why they’re abnormal, and how to banish them
* How your dog uses its body in agility/obedience and other events
* Age-related tips for performance training

Jumping – a Core Athletic Activity

* Training jumping – from puppies to seniors
* Lead legs – what they are, why they are important, and how to train your dog to use them appropriately
* Jumping problems – what causes them and how to fix them

Keeping your Athlete at Peak

* Body work for your teammate
* Fitness – it’s easy!
* Balancing strength, endurance, body awareness and stretching exercises
* Nutrition tips for the canine athlete

When Things Go Wrong

* Common athletic injuries your vet might not know about
* How to recognize them and get the best treatment
* Complementary and alternative therapies for healing and improving performance
* Canine rehabilitation – what it is and how to do some of it yourself

Janet Gauntt will be holding a one day seminar at the Pine Agility Dog Sports Club (PADS) grounds on the Friday 10th June 2011 from 9am—4pm.

Janet has been involved in dog agility since 1989. She has been judging since 1990 in the U.S. and internationally. Last year Janet was invited to judge at the World Agility Championships in England. Many of her students have gone on to participate and place in national and international competitions. Janet has been a semi-finalist at USDAA Nationals and Cynosports World Games pretty much every year since 1993 and has made finals four times. She has earned multiple Agility Dog Championships and Lifetime Achievement Awards with her Shelties, Border Collies, and Swedish Vallhund, with her most successful dog, Legend, standing in 16th place overall in USDAA for lifetime Q's. Her current dog is Legend's son, Sequel. He has just turned three years old and is the youngest dog on record to earn USDAA's Lifetime Achievement Award (Bronze, 150 Q's) and was recognized as one of 2010's Top Ten dogs nationally in the categories of Standard, Jumpers, and Snooker.

Her seminar will cover the following topics:

* Solving jumping problems and developing skills
* Contact/Weave-pole problem solving (Janet uses 2O2O for contacts & a combination of 2 x 2 and channels to teach weaves)
* Developing and using a balanced handling system
* Distance training

For further information go to www.pads.org.au

Seminar

Tandy — Thu, 26 May 2011 12:16:46 +0000

charter pet flights from Australia to europe

Laura — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:09:01 +0000

Im looking for people who are relocating to Europe from Australia with a pet.
Charter flights allow your pet to fly safely, humanly and onboard with you.
Yes - it is expensive but I am looking for about 15 people who are willing to put their pets wellbeing first. You will need to be date and destination flexible (until we have enough people together) it will cost approx. $10,000 (for one pet and one passenger) for a one way flight (ouch!!) and you will need all the relevant pooch import paperwork etc .....
Cheers Laura.

How do I change my display name?

Gill — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:18:21 +0000

When you sign up, it says enter full name I put my nickname but didn't realize everyone would see it. How do I change it??

haha

Lizzie — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:33:43 +0000

yeah the funnyedt thing I am ever been given is bunny food mummy got mixed up haha silly mummy

current stuff

administrator — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:26:56 +0000

i've spent a couple of nights now, trying to get some of the old fun stuff back - things like fancy statuses. It was fun putting glitter graphics next to your name.

the latest version of the site doesn't have the full range of language commands as the old site - it's supposed to be faster. so a simple think like displaying html, isn't working.

one of the other things i wanted to do, was to pull out all the "more features" and display them across two rows of headings. however that would stop the dropdown menu from working - eg you'd have to go to the photos page first, before adding a photo, instead of selecting it fom the dropdown. would that be a problem? or is it ok having all the functions under "more features".

any other things that i should be working on?

it's been a busy couple of months, but i should have a bit of time soon.

many woofs,

chris, spike and harry

Fleas

mcconmara — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:13:19 +0000

With this humid weather we have been having, I've noticed that the fleas have been breeding prolifically where I live. While I have been taking precautions and using preventative measures, my dog (and I) are still being bitten. Does anyone have suggestions to reduce the itch on dogs that are allergic to the saliva in the bites.

posting videos

DeskaTully — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:21:11 +0000

How do we post a video from youtube? Tully has a couple of videos of her doing flyball but the url does not end in the right format so the video uploader wont accept them. Are we doing something wrong? This is the link to one of the videos (its only short)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Om4UMUcjI

creative poodle grooming shows

administrator — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:02:35 +0000

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208913/The-poodles-transformed-pandas-horses-snails-creative-grooming-dog-shows.html

this newspaper article has some truly extraordinary photos of poodles groomed and dressed up as different animals.

dogs at cafes - mosman council

administrator — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:57:30 +0000

the companion animals act of 2001 says that no dogs are to be within 10m of food preparation or consumption areas of a restaurant, cafe or kiosk.

in mosman, the council has not enforced this in the past, but in the last 3 weeks, council has been mailing cafes telling them that they have to comply.

apparently the council had received complaints, so they sent out the letters.

the cafes that have started telling customers of the rule, have been losing customers, as they go elsewhere, or don't go out at all.

the local newspaper has been full of unhappy dog owners, saying that their dogs are well-behaved, and that they never cause a problem.

what do you think?

i have to say that i'm always impressed by the dogs that i see sitting with their owners! i wish spike and harry were that good.

when i only had spike, i still didnt sit at the cafe and drink - i would buy a takeaway coffee, and sit on a bench with him.

when we take spike and harry for a walk down to wharfys, we tie both dogs to the bench, which probably is 10m away, and give them a bone, while we have breakfast.

spike gobbles his up, and then stares at us while we eat. if we take too long, he sometimes starts whining, so we try not to take too long.

harrys a hard case though - he alternates between being a grumpy old man, baring his teeth and growling at other dogs. or else he gets over-excited at everyone getting off the ferry, and doesnt know who to play with. he is such a lunatic.

so its not really peaceful for us - we prefer to do take-away, and walk to the dog park with a coffee.

but i think if a dog is well-behaved, doesnt bark at other dogs or distract people from eating, they should be able to stay with their owners.

as usual, it comes down to responsible pet owners making the right decision as to whether to bring their dog to a cafe.

any other cafe-loving dogs?

live bark

Benji — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:46:50 +0000

hi from benji,
cant help noticing no one goes into live bark much. i check it every time i go on the site. just in case there is someone to bark at.
please check live bark if you are online. id love someone to bark at.
benny needs friends.

friends in brisbane?

Benji — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 09:03:34 +0000

hi everyone.

i live on the south side of brisbane. is there anyone else who lives here on the southside? id like to make some friends to play with.

skipp and i like to go to the park and we go on picnics with the parents whenever they have the time.

a play date would be so cool.

cheers

benny

resizing pictures

Benji — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:35:54 +0000

hi
does anyone know how to resize pics to post? all mine seem to be too big and ive spent ages trying to figure out how to resize them. cant seem to do it.
got some very cute pics of me, my bros, birds ,cats and everything.
love to show you all.
i managed to get one of them on my gallery and all the rest are being refused. so i just gave up and chewed my feet until my mum got worried and brushed me. feel so much better now. ssiiigghhh. love a brush.
benji.

Pictures

RosieGirl — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:08:07 +0000

Hi,

I forgotten how to post a picture in the profile. I cannot seem to work out how and where. I uploaded 1 piccie but it didnt end up in profile.

Hopefully you are able to point me in the right direction

Thank you

Cheers Nell