Coloora Cavalier King Charles Spaniels

26/05/2024

Looking for my forever home 💙

21/04/2024

💕💕

15/04/2024

Still a couple of babies ready for their forever family - ok to share 💕

12/04/2024

05/04/2024

Ready to go 🩷

19/03/2024

As much as it has been a fun time with these 9 babies - time has come to find forever homes.

04/03/2024

Babies such time wasters but oh so cute

04/01/2024

“Theo” has settled in with his new home today with the Ward family. ⭐️⭐️

24/11/2023

Time to find some forever homes 💕

02/09/2023

💕

01/06/2023

Time to find some forever homes

17/04/2023

Just because ❤️

21/11/2022

A new chapter for these two girls - Thankyou Gerald and Chris for coming back to share the lives of these two beautiful souls - 💕💕💕

19/11/2022

❤️❤️

17/11/2022

“Phoenix” ❤️

01/11/2022

Beware of the cuteness ❤️

18/10/2022

CAP Challenge - Virtual Letterbox Drop.
We are challenging all our members to see how many shares we can achieve with our first flyer.
Share this flyer on your social media accounts and encourage your friends to repost.
Let's see how many shares we can achieve by the end of the week.

26/05/2022

Happy Friday 😊

15/02/2022

The beautiful Chase - portrait in pastels by Kaya - Kasia Klein ❤️❤️ such a talented artist.

13/02/2022

“Diva”

13/02/2022

Thankyou to Diana & Max for travelling down to take home their beautiful little girl - name to follow - it is always hard to send these little ones off on their life’s adventures but I just know that this little Angel is destined to be loved and adored. ❤️

13/02/2022

Please share. Our hobby is worth saving. Get behind the responsible registered breeders to fight the unfair actions of the Animal Justice Party who aim to take away our right to own and breed Registered Pure Bred dogs. Act now.. before it’s too late.
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Imagine if you sold something, anything, through word of mouth, online or in a paper ad. Just once. Maybe it’s a craft item that you made yourself, your car or maybe even an animal like a horse or a sheep.

Now imagine that a few months later a state government-assigned auditor turns up at your home and tells you that because you sold something you are now a commercial business. You must let them in so they can see everything.

You say, “No, I’m not a business. I have a full time job. I just really enjoy knitting these little dog jumpers in my spare time and occasionally I sell some. To be honest, it costs me more in wool than I get for the jumpers. It’s a hobby.”

And the auditor responds, “That’s irrelevant. YOU SOLD SOMETHING. You are now treated as a commercial entity under the law. I’m here to check that you meet all the commercial standards. Show me your evacuation plans, your facility pest management plan, your employee manuals and your written records for the last three years. Show them to me or I will issue you a $500 fine for each commercial standard that you fail to meet.”

Now tell me what you do. Do you keep knitting little dog jumpers? Do you pay the fines and establish yourself as a commercial business for something that makes you no money and that you only do in your spare time for personal enjoyment? No. I think not. I think you would decide that it’s all too stressful and the joy has all gone.

That’s how hobby dog breeders feel right now. How and why would we ever seek to impose upon ourselves the standards for a commercial dog breeding establishment?

Our dogs are our pets and they live in our home. We breed rarely and there’s no profit to be made after the enormous investment in optimal nutrition, care, training, and careful importation of genetics.

Where is the joy when an auditor can demand cement kennels and jail-like fencing?

Where is the joy when our home is decked out like a commercial facility with evacuation plans and contact sheets posted to the walls?

Where is the joy when we are forced to create employee manuals for the employees we will never have or need?

Where is the joy when one day we may be forced to stand in court and explain why indeed legislation that specifically references BUSINESSES is used against innocent, dog loving members of the community who truly do put the welfare of our animals first?

The joy will be gone. And so will the breeders that so carefully and lovingly raised healthy, well-socialised puppies for you. Replaced by large-scale puppy factories with cement kennels, evacuation plans, employee manuals and government endorsed isolation facilities for all their sick animals.

This is the future as it stands right now. Will we allow it? Will you allow it??

09/02/2022

The message from DOGS NSW President, Lyn Brand, is "Let's Be Positive!

Here are some Facts from Professor Claire Wade regarding the Animal Justice Party (Emma Hurst Puppy Farming) Bill.

Members are encouraged to circulate this information and to lobby your State members of Parliament regarding the proposed Animal Justice Party Bill. See below for further details how....

The following changes to companion animal breeding rules are proposed:

61ZF Proprietors of companion animal breeding businesses must not breed dogs or cats in certain circumstances.
A proprietor of a companion animal breeding business must not breed from a female dog or cat in the following circumstances—
(a) more than twice,
(b) if a heritable defect is identified in a previous litter of the dog or cat,
(c) with a dog or cat that is related to the dog or cat by blood.

Maximum penalty—
(a) for a corporation—2,000 penalty units,
(b) for an individual—400 penalty units or imprisonment for 1 year, or both.

Response:
The animal welfare justifications for the proposed changes are absent or unclear.
There is no scientific support for the suggested changes.
Part (a): The rationale for the metric of two breedings is unclear or unjustified. There is no scientific evidence to suggest that negative welfare outcomes ensue from breeding an animal more than twice or even more than any particular number times if the animal is otherwise assessed as being in good health. There is no welfare or other justifiable reason why an animal assessed as fit by their veterinarian should not be bred.

Part (b): The definition of a heritable defect is absent or unclear. For Mendelian recessive conditions, simply breeding the animal with a partner from a different genetic background will minimize the chances of re-occurrence. Indeed, the imposition of such a requirement is far more likely to generate negative genetic outcomes from a population perspective by severely restricting the effective population size of the breeding population. This will do far more genetic harm than good. Most modern companion animal breeders actively participate in research to provide new genetic tests for Mendelian conditions where these do not already exist and actively apply genetic testing to minimize or eliminate the occurrence of Mendelian inherited defects in progeny.

For complex traits, such as orthopaedic traits or cancer, the proposed limit is unlikely to make any substantive impact on the occurrence of disorders in progeny.

Part (c): The definition of “related by blood” is unquantifiable. If this same requirement was imposed upon humans, then many cultures would be subjected to genocide.

Penalties:
The breaches would be impossible to prove and very severe. The legal battles that would ensue from attempting to enforce the breaches would place unnecessary stress on the court system and create serious mental health issues for the humans who love their animals. No part of the proposed Bill is either justifiable or desirable from any perspective, and particularly not from an animal welfare or animal genetic health perspective.

Professor Claire Wade
Chair Computational Biology and Animal Genetic
University of Sydney

There is a petition site : https://www.change.org/start-a-petition?source_location=header that members may like to use to have their puppy owners, and all who own dogs, sign, regarding the AJP Emma Hurst Puppy Farming Bill. Start your own petition and send to your State member.

We would like to thank Professor Claire Wade for allowing DOGS NSW to reprint her professional and valued opinion regarding the Animal Justice Party Bill.

Make a difference by starting your petition today. Change.org is a free, easy to use platform that connects you to a community of over 180 million passionate members. Let's get started!

08/02/2022

Sometimes a girl just needs to have the bed all to herself ❤️ “Mabel” seems to have the Kelly family well trained now - Thankyou Cathey for sharing this super cute baby update. Thankyou for loving her ❤️❤️

07/02/2022

“Zara” living her best life ❤️ Thankyou Rosseland family for sharing ❤️❤️