I had exactly the same experience. My cat, stressed out by a long drive, ran off into the bush in 40 degrees heat. She never came back and Im sure there were quite a few scrub pythons interested in her. Id rather give my cat away for free than risk that kind of scenario again. Dogs are different. They might be curious, but they always look back to check that their human is around. Cats are too small, independent and agile to worry about where you are.

My 4 Chihuahuas , we named our van HOTEL CHIHUAHUA,

We adopted the smooth haired pair 6 weeks ago in Albany WA, Lilly the blue grey is 6 yrs old ,Daisy the black one 6 yrs old

We adopted the long haired ones in Adelaide 3 yrs ago Dexter the cream one 11 yrs old, Lucy the black one 16 .5 yrs old she has a brain tumor poor girl which is causing a few probs

Were with you msg.

The prices for a dog are ridiculous at present. We were looking at a Cavoodle or French Bulldog, but as you say, prices generally north of $4500 mean they are a considered addition to the family. At present not considered enough for us!

Keep our eyes on the Animal Welfare League and RSPCA here in Adelaide, but smaller dogs are very rare, and we wouldnt take a larger one.

Hope you find one soon somewhere.

I went onto the RSCPA website yesterday. Adopt a dog = small pomeranian, nice little female dog, couple of yrs old. Blind in one eye thats OK, doesn't like strangers and needs training for personality faults, they suggested one on one training with a dog handler. Must have been pretty bad. Cost = $800.

Oh well, I really wanted a chihuahua. Have had two over the last thirty yrs. Molly passed 25/11/2020.(15yrs) Maybe its too soon yet.

Chihuahuas are the best dogs to travel with. Small, no doggy smell, long coat only sheds badly in November, fiesty afraid of nothing. Back seat driver. (Bit of a pain at times) Brave and fearless (barked her little head off when a snake decided it was going to invade our camp) You could tell the difference in her barks.

Always good for a laugh. We were walking down the main street of Quilpie. Molls as usual was nose down smelling everything not watching where she was going. (yes on the lead) Outside one shop was a very realistic lifesize concrete sheep. So she's going along almost walks into it, looks up a the last minute, sees it, jumps back in shock and then barks and growls at it. Before she realised it wasn't real. Then ignored it.

Understand Hokianga, I think that,s what I'm going through at the moment. I'm really worried how I will cope without Molls to talk to. I think I will get another dog one day, but, after I have taken a few trips by myself, then see how I go.

I have never heard of a Huntaway dogs but Hope looks lovely.

I just noticed something. This was my post many moons ago when I first joined and I introduced Molly. Changed names since then.

msg,

Love the hairdo. Is that your new companion? Congrats to both of you. It looks friendly.

-- Edited by watsea on Monday 27th of September 2021 04:59:03 PM