Kate's Dog Minding and Training

23/05/2022

For general information :)
Safety for our furry family members 🥰

*Any animal

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23/05/2022

Another Goldie from Flashs breeder 🥰

17/05/2022

Heads up everyone :)
Careful where you let your family members, the furry kind, drink :)

Animal experts have put out an urgent warning about a particularly harmful bacterial disease that dogs can catch from ponds and puddles.

25/01/2022

Please keep this in mind when walking your dog :)

Be very careful when walking your dogs...I've seen some horrific burnt paws.

08/12/2021

Heads up to everyone who treats with peanut butter. This is why I suggest only sanitarium brand peanut butter :)

Xylitol is a naturally occurring substance that is widely used as a sugar substitute. Chemically, it is a sugar alcohol, and found naturally in berries, plums, corn, oats, mushrooms, lettuce, trees, and some other fruits.

27/10/2021

From Another page :)

Not a week goes by where I don't have to reassure a concerned dog owner their dog's social behaviour at the park is 100% NORMAL!

It's so strange the way we expect our dogs to go to the park, meet 5-10 random dogs, and get along with them all perfectly.

Me? I hate going to nightclubs. I'd rather have coffee with one or two friends, or maybe a walk. Maybe you're the opposite and love going to crowded pubs and making new friends! Neither of us are 'abnormal'. Ok ok, maybe I am - sometimes I take a book to the pub to sit quietly and enjoy my craft brew...

So the sooner we all realise that our dogs have personalities too, the sooner we can stop creating goals for our dogs that they'll never enjoy.

If your dog is aggressive or nervous around other dogs, it's totally reasonable to have a goal to get them to walk past another dog on leash at say 5m distance. It's not a reasonable goal to expect them to enjoy playing with random dogs at the dog park!

As humans, we rarely stop to chat to folks on the street, unless we know them. Somehow this idea goes out the window with dogs, and there's this weird expectation to meet every single other dog on a walk! That's pretty stressful.

Most people want want their dogs to cope with the fair expectations of living safely in our community - to be neutrally social and robust. So let's set some fair expectations:

🐩🐕 Think about your dog's play style. Different breeds play differently! Eg herding, wrestling, body slamming, chasing...

🐕‍🦺🦮 Find a couple of well matched doggy friends for your dog, and let them play in low traffic locations (eg someone's backyard, a secluded park) to enjoy play time.

👋 Set the expectation early that not all dogs are there for play! Teach your puppy that most dogs you meet on the street aren't relevant to them.

🤚Advocate for your dog in play. Don't allow dogs to 'sort it out', or for your dog to bully or be bullied.

🤷‍♀️ Avoid dog parks. Sorry folks, these places generally suck for fair, beneficial and harmonious play.

Happy playing!
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06/10/2021

Another great post by Flashs breeder :)

All mummy's need a little break from their babies.
My mums are treated with so much love and respect when breeding and for their whole lives. I saw how most working breeding dogs are treated locked in pens with the filthy single blanket or same straw they'd delivered their pups on when doing rescue, l could never treat my dogs like that. The poor babies stunk, few times we had to pull over to get out of my 4wd before l vomited then the first thing l did was bath them all usually removing fleas, before l could bring them inside our home into a warm clean bed......no excuses to not breed and raise pups properly IF you must breed at all.

28/09/2021

Another great post from Flashs breeder :)
Hoping you get a laugh, I kmow I did :)

22/09/2021

This, Animal Poisons Helpline, is a great page to follow if you feel you’re not confident about what’s toxic to your pet :)
Or even if you’re confident, it’s quite useful :)

🚨 Sago Palm (Cycas revoluta) and other cycads can be lethally poisonous to dogs. We have posted about cycads previously, however as we continue to receive reports of dogs being poisoned by these plants, this post serves as a reminder to all pet owners to be incredibly careful around these plants.

Cycads contain a toxin called cycasin, which is broken down by bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract to a compound known as MAM. MAM is responsible for most of the toxic effects seen in cycad poisonings.

Ingestion of any part of the plant can result in poisoning. The seeds are particularly toxic, and ingestion of even one seed can result in severe poisoning or death. Signs of poisoning include abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea, drowsiness, weakness, seizures, coma, and liver failure.

In some published case series, the survival rate in dogs poisoned by Sago Palm is reported to be as low as 50%. Many dog owners that have cycads growing in their garden are not aware of the significant risk until it is too late. Whilst urgent veterinary assessment can be lifesaving, the most effective treatment is prevention as there is no specific antidote for cycad poisoning.

Veterinary treatment for cycad poisoning can be expensive. Pet insurance provides peace of mind and protection in the event that your pet is ever poisoned. Our platinum sponsor, Bow Wow Meow for Pets, is currently offering two months free pet insurance in the first year of coverage for Animal Poisons Helpline followers. Visit
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☎ If you're a dog owner and have Sago palm or any other cycads growing in your garden, consider removing them or at least restricting access. If your pet has been exposed to a cycad, please phone the Animal Poisons Helpline on 1300 869 738 (AU) or 0800 869 738 (NZ) immediately for advice, even if your pet looks well. The Animal Poisons Helpline is a free service for all pet owners in Australia and New Zealand.

20/09/2021

A very good educational read from another page.

Let’s set the scene. This may become a bit sensitive for some, and I apologise in advance.

You’re out somewhere. You might be at a restaurant, a bar, a public park on a sunny day enjoying the sunshine with your family. It may be that you’re on your way home from work or trying to catch the bus. You’re just minding your own business.

Suddenly, a person comes straight up to you. They give you anxiety. What is this person going to do? I don’t know! The person is walking with a friend and the friend sees you’re a bit anxious and calls out to you saying “Don’t stress, she/he’s all good!’’ ��But they keep approaching you. And when they finally reach you they randomly hug you. Touch you. Walk circles around you. Start talking to you. Don’t let you leave.

What would you call that? Harassment? Assault in severe cases?
How would this make you feel?

Now, after the initial shock you find your courage and you ask the person to go away. Leave you alone. But the person doesn’t stop and instead touches your arm or your hair. “Oh come on, we’re alright. I’m not doing anything bad I’m friendly! Just let me be around you.’’��You get upset and might push the person. Shout at them. If you’re a bit more of an assertive person you might punch them. Who knows.
�Then the person and the friend get upset. Well? WHY are you here then? What are you doing in this public space if you don’t like being around other people? You have no business to be here, minding your own business in this park with your family without allowing me to sit with you, play with you, touch you, talk to you. Actually, you know what you should do? You should be more social! You should go more often to random groups of people.

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Do you see what I did there?
If you thought any of the above situation is not okay (and I sure as heck hope you do), then why do we think it’s okay to let dogs run up to strange dogs and say ‘It’s okay he’s friendly’?

What we do in the dog world is the exact opposite what we should be doing. We label the harassed dog as aggressive and the harassing dog as the victim.

Dogs have emotions. They have feelings. They have their own characters and personalities. There are many, many dogs that are not interested in making new friends or being with dogs they don’t know they can trust.

And sure, some dogs love playing with other dogs. Those are the extraverted dogs. Just like we have people that LOVE hugging or love making new friends even as adults, but to be honest.. how many of those people do you know? I think if you put it into a % its lower than the people that rather just are with their select group of people and be left alone by random strangers in public spaces.

So don’t assume the dog your dog is running towards on the beach, is willing to play with your dog. Being in a public space means you need to have your dog under effective control. And if you can’t call your dog back, it should be on a long line until you can.

12/05/2021

Staying while chickens run past my two dogs...the ultimate challenge :)
They both clearly passed with flying colours, no pun intended :)
Where, with work, you can get your dog too :)

11/05/2021

Basil, a two year old blue cattle dog, stayed with us this last week. He worked out a frozen Kong gives yummy things and shared his bed with Flash very politely :)
He is no longer curious about the hydrobath, having tried to ‘help’ me bath Flash the other day, and you can see what he thought of being washed lol :)

24/04/2021

They shall grow not old as we who are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning.
We will remember them.
Lest we forget.

Thank you to all those who have served this country and given their lives so we may live as we do today.
Lest we forget.

31/03/2021

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29/03/2021

The very sweet Madi came to stay for post operative care today while her mum and dad went to the Gold Coast.

There is a tiny, pinky finger fingerprint, amount of sanitarium peanut butter on the pink Kong, not easily seen, that Madi is enjoying in the newly transformed spare bedroom now post operative room :)