OT: feline osteosarcoma

2002-12-08 Thread Sharon Montville
Do any list members have experience with feline osteosarcoma? My 12-year-old red tabby American Shorthair, Flounder, was tentatively diagnosed with osteosarcoma in his rear knee today. We will be doing more tests and if it has not spread, I guess he will live out his days 3-legged. Apparently th

Age for carting...

2002-12-08 Thread MazamaDog
Lisa Ebnet did a nice job of describing how she starts puppies getting used to the idea of carting at a very young age. It is fun to help puppies learn this way, and always nice to introduce them to new things. Some people wait until their dogs are much older to introduce carting, and that's f

Champion Budman

2002-12-08 Thread Marion Brown
Dear Maria Whilst sincere congratulations are in order for Mom, Handler and Breeder the greatest influence in Buddy's life has been forgotten. Despite the fact that Daisy has long held the opinion that her little "brother" is one bellyrub short of a Bernese, she has nevertheless cherished upon him

Buddy-Congrats to Maria and Dede

2002-12-08 Thread Joanne Gerow
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New address

2002-12-08 Thread mudpuppy07
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Re: A Brag for the Budman

2002-12-08 Thread jane heggen
WOW, congratulations! I was going to suggest a big food fight or some such while Pat was gone. But now I am so impressed by the Budman I wouldn't dare cause trouble for his Mom! Way to go Budman, the heggen boys bow wow to you!!! jane heggen & the boys of iowa

baby or puppy?

2002-12-08 Thread Lcaprara
Of course every person is a little different. My husband and I didn't marry until we were thirty. We wanted children but wanted to be married a few years before we added the responsibility of a child. So our dog came first. I will never regret doing it that way. Spencer (our first berner) WAS ou

neutering

2002-12-08 Thread Pippa Antonio
I have 3 male intact Bernese Mountain Dogs. Col aged 5 years, Toby aged 3 years and Ulysses aged 11.5 months. I have never had any aggression issues even with encounters whilst walking with other males and bitches. I try to avoid bitches that I know are in heat. The 2 oldest lift their legs and wo

A season to be thankful

2002-12-08 Thread Kelly4joy
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Fire/emergency stickers

2002-12-08 Thread KendyBo
I just wanted to share with everyone a great thing I just found. There is a woman who makes fire/emergency rescue stickers for dogs, cats, and birds. She offers stickers for over 150 different breeds of dogs, and most importantly, she has a Berner one! The Berner on the sticker is GORGEOUS!!!

fire/emergency stickers

2002-12-08 Thread KendyBo
I made a mistake on the website address! It's www.sundogsdecals.com. Sorry about that! kendra

Re: Fire/emergency stickers

2002-12-08 Thread Laurie Montoya
>I hope it's OK that I posted this- I'm not connected to her in any way, other >than being her best customer today! And I thought that this is an additional >to make sure our pets are OK while we're away. > >Kendra, Jackson, and Sallie > I'm pretty sure it's ok to post about a site , as long

Cage (or Crate) Training

2002-12-08 Thread Jean Coker
We've had considerable success with crate training all of our berners by just having the crate in the doggie area - x-penned off area of the dining room/kitchen and leave the crate doors open all the time (except when we want one of the dogs inside) - that way they go in and out as they want and of

Re: berner pup or baby - which should come first???

2002-12-08 Thread Dave or Stephanie
I had two adult dogs when I had my first child. A German shepherd(who was my guide dog puppy who did not pass the program...was too obedient..would not do the intelligent disobedience to keep the person from getting run over by a car...you told him to go he was going..car or not :-) ). He was com

Nose to Nose Book

2002-12-08 Thread Kelly4joy
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Calling Cards

2002-12-08 Thread Jeannie Schoen
Hi, I noticed something odd with my Greta. During her recent heat cycle she left calling cards everywhere and then scruffed up the ground with her back feet--dirt, leaves, snow go flying. This looks like what many male dogs do. I think this practice will end soon and is probably just lingering

Re: Neutering poll

2002-12-08 Thread David Nowell and Susan Burnham
>I was wondering how many of you have neutered/spayed/unneutered/unspayed females and males, and what you're reasoning for doing it or not doing it is--i.e. >breeding purposes or personal preference, or whatever--and how many BMDs you do have. We spayed Mattie (our only dog) when she was 8 months

Baby or Berner first

2002-12-08 Thread Don Metzler
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Re: Nose to Nose Book

2002-12-08 Thread BernerFolk
In a message dated 12/8/2002 11:46:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > want to order two copies of Nose to Nose for presents and want the proceeds > to go to help our Berners. Boris's Book Pages, http://members.rogers.com/bernerboris/bbook_index.html -Sherri V.

Seniors

2002-12-08 Thread Alan & Susan Kowitz
I've been off this list for a while, and missed it. Cervical disc problems have made the use of my right hand capricious. I just had to peek back in and acknowledge all of the seniors who arrived in my mailbox yesterday via the December Alpenhorn. Some I've met, some I know from this list, and o

Introduction

2002-12-08 Thread Martha Hoverson
Hi, I have just joined the list. Our Berner is Molly, 9 months old and a great example of complete, unconditional love for everyone and everything. Molly unfortunately has both bilateral elbow and hip dysplasia. She is on her way Thursday to Foster Small Animal Hospital at Tufts to have a T

Re: neutering and marking

2002-12-08 Thread A. Sufi
Zeus was neutered when he turned 6 months (what a birthday gift, eh?), and I also had hip and elbow x-rays taken at the same time, since he was already medicated and out of it. Regarding marking, my big boy Zeus, now 17 months old, still doesn't lift his leg. When he needs to go, he just m

Berner Character Design

2002-12-08 Thread Santi Rowe
Hi! Well its me again *chuckles* Ok Im revamping the character design, and about ready to start production on the costume. In fact it should be fully done before summer (have a few others in the works right now to which this one had to be put on hold) Anyhow, I had remembered someone telling me a

Re: berner pup or baby - which should come first???

2002-12-08 Thread A. Sufi
While I completely agree with Janice, my logic was reversed >>the temperament of the dog has a lot to do with the acceptance of a >>new child. While my daughter (now 10 and an aspiring Vet) would have been absolutely fine with a puppy/young dog from the very beginning, my son is somethin

RE: chasing tails

2002-12-08 Thread Terri Taylor-Mikes
My Dharma does not chase her tail, but she does pull big chunks of fur from it. Anyone know why? Is this normal for Berners to do this? She did have a "rash/bug bite" on it at one time and lost some fur because of it - that is all healed now and she still pull chunks of hair from her tail; has s

Histiocytoma!!

2002-12-08 Thread Karen McFarlane
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Re: Neutering poll

2002-12-08 Thread Fran Jones
Sisco is our 3 year old intact male who we co-own with our breeder. He was kept intact while the rest of his litter was early spayed/neutered because our breeder saw potential as a future show quality guy. As it turned out, she was right and he finished his Can. Ch. when he was around 2. He h

Re: The CH Budman

2002-12-08 Thread Fran Jones
W woo! Buddy, You rock, man. Let me welcome you to the wonderful world of "romancin' the guuurls". They got big brown eyes and flirty little butts that they wave under your nose. Let me tell 'ya, Bud, the best is yet to come, man! (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). Congrats, big fella!

Re: Histiocytoma!!

2002-12-08 Thread Corinne
Hi Karen, I understand very well how much you can be worried but what you describe, is not inevitably a malignant tumor. Go to : http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1593&articleid=424 and look the picture. Is it the same ? You can also read all the table and you will see a lot of cond

lost dog

2002-12-08 Thread marthah 25
My dog is not lost, but I went to Danbury, CT. with a friend of mine to get a rescue dog, a very small chihuahua/boxer/who knows what else mix and after she dropped me off she went home, took the dog out of the travel crate,was about to put a leash and harness on her and the dog ran away. I remembe

cage training

2002-12-08 Thread Terry & Cathy Bering
Hello, This message is to Robert Rose and any other berner owners that are using the crate for puppy training. Thank God for the crate!! With that being said, we love to give our berner pup free reign of our home, a city condo. Unfortunately, having a pup and trusting our pup can be contraindicated

Language

2002-12-08 Thread traceywashere
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Re: Fire/emergency stickers

2002-12-08 Thread Annes4
In a message dated 12/08/2002 10:11:25 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << I'm sure it's easier for the fire/rescue people if they know exactly who they're looking for and have a name to go with it. I'll be getting a few of these decals , >> In a message dated 12/08/2002 10:

Re: Nose to Nose Book

2002-12-08 Thread Dr. William B. Neff
Hi Kelly, Here is the Boris' Books website: http://members.rogers.com/bernerboris/bernerbooks.html Some of the proceeds come back to the BMDCA Health Fund, so it's always a good idea to shop at Amazon.com, Dogwise, sitstay.com by first going to the website, then going to those other sites. T

re: baby or puppy

2002-12-08 Thread Elizabeth Malcolmson
Laura -- I especially appreciated your comments, sitting here nine months pregnant, due on Thursday... wondering, was that twinge something? Probably not... We lost our older dog on September 20 and are left with the younger one... We are a two-dog house. This one-dog thing is awful, especial

Aeryn antics

2002-12-08 Thread Susan Wilkinson
My keyboard has been a little quiet of late, but that doesn't necessarily mean that Aeryn's been a stellar little angel!! Far from it actually!! Two Sundays ago she scared me half silly by suddenly starting to vomit up foul, dark brown, gritty stuff, and went into full panic mode with a galloping

fencing woes

2002-12-08 Thread Susan Wilkinson
My backyard has a multi fencing system that has always worked well for us -- there's a new chainlink dog yard (40x70') which I love, and the perimeter of the greater than 1 acre yard is fenced with picket fence along the road side, a thick cedar hedge between us and the neighbours to the east, and

Michaela's problem

2002-12-08 Thread Rhona Vantine
Hi Michaela My suggestion for a quiet, uninterupted drink at the pub with friends and your dogs .. I borrow your two teddy bears and you have Cujo here Guaranteed to get people talking about you and not to you!!! Rhona and Louis in The Netherlands :) __