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you said maybe structure? like it seems that his back legs are a little bit longer than his front, i have noticed that,

as far as the breeder, i found her on the same site where i got my aussie from, and i love his breeder and i LOVE him so so much, i had found one breeder that was about 3 hours from me, but she didnt return my phone calls, and the lady i got rota from, called me back right away (at first) she had good references, and she said she was a breeder of great pyrinese (sorry i know thats not spelled right) for more than 10 years and then she began to breed newfs,

on her add and her site it states that there is a 1 year guarentee for health, but, since i live 3000.00 miles away from her, i never actually met her face to face, or met the parents or signed any contract, she sent me pictures of the parents, the father is a champion, and he is amazinly beautiful, the mother, i wasnt to sure of her head shape, but i just couldnt get over the dad and how great he was, (luckily my boy has a nice strong head)

when i talked to her she looked for his dads papers and said that she had purchased him from another breeder ONLY because of his hip score, (the 90 percent thing),

i do admit, i should have probably gotten my dog from a breeder that was much stricter about where her dogs went, and i do regret it, but the fact of the matter is that rota is now with me, (luckily and not some one much worse who wouldnt feed him right or give him vet care) and i love him, and i cant bare to think of him in any kind of pain

il let all of you know what the vet says about his hips next week

 

thats awesome,

he looks great

....well today started off great, i took my 5 month old newfie to the dog park and he was having so much fun, when i saw a lady with another newfie!!!! she told me she was a memeber of the colonial newfoundland culb and her newfie was 10years old and looked great, he moved better than my dog (which will get to my point) she also had a saint bernard!!

well she took one look at my dog and said the way he walks is not normal, she said he looked very "hippy" and i needed to have him checked right away, she recomended a vet an hour away who sees giant breed dogs,

i never really though there was any thing wrong with the way he walks because i never had any thing to compare him to, i got him from a breeder in washington state (i live in maryland) so i didnt actually get to meet the parents i just saw pictures,

when rota walks his rear bounces, it does look very unnatural (compared to how my aussie walks, perfectly and smoothly) i just thought it was because of his size... but she pointed out that he doesnt really bend his knees, (on his back legs)

also, on the add from when i bought him, it said his parents were ofa of good hips and heart but when i got his papers (with the parents names on them) i went to the ofa website and his mother was not on there at all (no tests done im guessing) and his father had 2 tests, heart and patella, some one on this site told me that was a bad thing because the ofa only posts GOOD results so the fact that hips werent on there means the father probably didnt pass the hip test... which means bad news for my dog


the breeder said he had a 2 year guarentee, her add stated it, she gave me so much trouble, (even in the begining after i paid for him, before he was shiped) she wouldnt return my phone calls, or emails, or answer my questions, and when i did get him i literaly had the threathen her with a lawsuit just to get his akc papers

i went to her site and she has changed the guarentee from 2 years to 1 year, (luckily i have cought the problem early enough)

my only problem is now what?? what do i do? i emailed her about every thing that happened and he weill be going to the vet this weekend, (if they have an open slot for me), what if they vet says there is a problem?

do i get my money back for him? or will she take him back? what am i entitled to? and if she takes him back.... what will happen to him? will she have him put to sleep?

i dont know what to do

here is her website, i hope she never sells another dog again, no one should have to go through this


i love my dog


http://www.stonebrookenewfoundlands.com/615278.html


some thing needs to be done....

hes awesome, you know i dont know much about saints, what is there average adult size?

170 is HUGE =)

fish are my thing!!!

dude id treat em like any other animal you dont want in your pond, you can get an alarm system, (there not expensive no worries) you may actually be able to get it where you got your koi, but it makes a really loud sound when ever any thing gets near the pond (meant to scare off birds of prey and racoons, cats and other things) you can also put a net over it to protect the fish,

if it came down to it, you can get a shock colar and lay the wire around the pond so when they get close to it, the collar lets out a warning beep, if they continue to get closer, it emits a small stadic shock

eventually they will learn

because now that they know what great fun the pond is, they arent gonna stop with out training

=)

ive been working with rota ALOT on obedience, and hes doing so well he does every thing i ask of him, this is just one example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEvMJ5Ou1-o

(you can see my aussie in the back ground if you look for him)

i keep em seperated when ever there is food involved

dogs are very in tune to our emotions, he prolly knows exactly how you feel about your ex, and is giving him the cold shoulder (smart dog)

=)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAH!!!!!!!!!


OMG, i used to live in wv, and in the woods there, people hunt, and i dunno like some times they leave tha animals, or they gut it and leave part of it, it can be really nasty,

me and a friend were walking her dog, and we looked down to see him happily walking (a little behind us) with a deer leg in his mouth!!! OH MY GOD!!! we were both like EWW OMG PUT IT DOWN!!!