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SPCA/DBV

PAARL

Ons almal het 'n troeteldier storie. Dit kan gaan oor 'n troeteldier wat jy by die Paarl SPCA/DBV aangeneem het, wat nou so gelukkig in sy nuwe huis en omgewing is of dit kan gaan oor 'n troeteldier wat jy van die straat af gered het. Elkeen het 'n storie.

Ons wil baie graag hierdie bladsy opdra aan al die diere stories. En ons vra julle, die publiek om vir ons julle eie stories , afrikaans of engels, met 'n foto te stuur. Ons sal sorg dat dit op die website geplaas word vir almal om te lees. Stories en foto's kan gestuur word na Suzette Theunissen by spcapaarl@telkomsa.net.

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We have two wonderful SPCA dogs, Biggles and Cody. They had their names already when we adopted them, they also had beatiful manners. Tey were obviously cherished and loved and it makes us wonder about the heartbreak of who ever had to give them up.

We had always bought pedigree dogs, our thinking being that you could predict character and traits and reliability, then we had a series of disasters. We had a beautiful young border collie named Kim, he wandered onto the neighbours farm with his big brother - a yellow labrador named Monty - and he was shot dead. Monty ran so he survived, But he develop an auto-imune type disorder and died at a very young age. We then bought a black labrador, Percy - Then the breeder of Percy asked if we could adopt his litter brother who was being a bother in Cape Town, Too rambunctious for the city.Naturally we said "with pleasure" Almost unknown with labradors, and probably because they reinforced each other, they terrorised everyone. We tried everything - trainers, fencing you name it but we were beaten. We sent them to school for sniffer dogs which broke our hearts.

One Saturday morning I was wafting around being mournful and seeing reminders of my boys and I called the Paarl SPCA and asked if they had any medium to large dogs (okay Suzette, you are shaking your head at me now), and Linda said they had a Labrador type! So I asked my husband to go and look at this creature, He did and came back beaming with enthusiasm for Biggles. He came to us the following Monday. He is loved by all, he is sunshine.

Cody

Again, we were bereft, we had the strangest looking border collie, his name was Beau. He looked like a lurcher-greyhound-whippet. He was just ridiculouslovable. He was caught in a poachers snare, he was found after a week. After some time of grieving, I phoned the SPCA and asked if they had any dogs for adoption, so I met Cody. She is our first female. she has the coat of a golden retriever and the body of a border collie, and her manners are beautiful until dinner-time, she likes her food.

With the above two, we have an older dignified border collie and a very young and very cheeky Jack Russel, they are one big happy family.

Una West


	MY TAIL AND I Why do some dogs have long tails and some short tails? Dogs that are born with long tails sometimes undergo tail docking. Veterinarians do no longer do dock tails. Why do people dock puppies tails? Because they are use to seeing dogs with short tails. What are the problem for dogs with docked tails? To cut off the tails is painfull and traumatic. The cut goes through skin, muscles, nerves and blood vessels. The pups might never forget this pain. If docking is done poorly - your dog can have nerve damage as puppy grows older. What can we do? Insist on a puppy with a tail or cancel the sale. Report breeders who docks puppies tails to your nearest SPCA. Why do dogs need tails? Dog use their tails to communicate. Happy dogs - wag their tails wildly. Scared or Worried dogs - wag their tails stiffly. Dog with long tails communicate better. Tails help dogs balance properly.