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T his is surprising to me here in the Netherlands its considered normal for the owner to be there on hand to restrain their pet ,to calm them and be there to assist the vet. Of course if you physically cant or if the animal needs extra hands there are assistants but its normally the owner. I...

It's hilarious I can go upstairs forget what I've been up for till I get to the bottom step and then suddenly I remember what it was I forgotten and I have to go back up again. But I can remember my nana's phone number even though she hasn't lived there since about 1983.. I can remember the...

Max was as the name suggested the MAX he was a cross Bouvier des Flanders /St Bernard he looked like a Bouvier but had the height and weight of a small St Bernard at his peak he weighed 70kg .. A lovely dog but scared of anything with wheels due to puppy trauma when he witnessed the death of...

Exactly.. and the waitress did bring a colouring sheet and colored pencils for the children which they then threw all over the floor and I had to clean up before we left because I was scared that my friend might tread on one and slip she's very unsteady on her feet nowadays.

Im 60 now but I breastfed my first until he was 18 months it was the only thing that settled him. Once when he was tiny he was screaming blue murder at a busstation and so I quietly started to feed him, an elderly man sitting next to me said ' thats it gal give the child what he needs' and...

I was going to add to my post George and Murphy might be on the lead all the time but it doesn't mean their leads are short or that their lives are restricted. On average we walk seven and a half kilometres a day. This vairies from the lakes or in the woods on marshland nature reserves along...

Add my two to this thread Murphy and George are both hunting breeds with high prey drive. We live in the countryside full of livestock and wildlife. Its just not safe ..

I'm so lucky living in the countryside we have quite a lot of independent vets who still see livestock I find them to be the best ,no nonsense, no gobbledy gook just plain straight talk. But many vet practices here in the Netherlands are also being bought up by a major multinational and then...

Here in the Netherlands they also have something called a Boomer that's usually a maltese crossed with a Shih Tzu or something similar the result being a short-legged curly hair dog that sorry , looks a bit like a floor mop.

Thanks everyone . Its been a tense few days and having been through lymphoma with a previous dog we had visions of the worst. As I said dogs cause grey hair but we love them , and George? Well he has just been his normal relaxed self enjoying the extra fuss hes had..

I love fungi of all sorts not to eat yukky.. but they make great photos especially when illuminated..

We have seen daycare walkers unload unrestrained dogs from the back of a van let them run for 5 minutes until they poo ( no pick ups) he photographs them as if to show owners what fun their dogs have then its back in the van and gone. As for kennels, go early, go unexpected , look at all the...

The vet called its good news. Just fatty tissue..

Well most of my time is taken looking after Murphy and George plus my OH who has FTD. But walking is something we enjoy as a family and we are lucky enough to live in Friesland which has a large area of UNESCO world heritage sites. I always have my camera with me I photograph what we see no...

Nothing as fun as that. I read Dutch fluently a little German and Danish but not for fun. But obviously to make sense to the native reader the titles do get changed a bit. Strangely it does matter who does the translation. Early Nikki French books are great the later ones have very heavy...

Im reading one of the Nikki French novels,Ive read it before but I didnt realise that when I picked it up. Thats the downside of reading in two languages sometimes the titles dont translate very well..lol.

I would also be in favour of a ban shortly followed by a ban on horse racing especially the jumps. I think while a ban for greyhound racing may be feasible because its not really as popular as horse racing nor does it involve the sums of money that horse racing does , it will still take a lot of...

Slightly optimistic post the vet did a needle biopsy today she said don't get your hopes up but what came out looks like fatty tissue there was no blood or pus but of course the samples have been sent to the lab and we hope that we will get the results within a week until then it's just fingers...

Yesterday was the last day of antibiotics. Sadly the lump is still very present it hasn't gone down much if anything since we were at the vet so he has another appointment tomorrow when we can decide the next step.

I once saw a border collie x Bouvier des Flanders. Imagine a bc with a head far too big for itself.. Frankenstein..