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Tal's mast cell tumour is back.
She's 8 years into a 9 year life expectancy, and so far, the only affects are aesthetic.
£200 for an aspiration biopsy; £2,000 for further tests before recommending a treatment plan.
We're not going to put her through chemo, the most worrying of the tumours is inoperable; which means the treatment plan is paliative - but they want that battery of invasive tests to give us a prognosis.
Without the tumour, her prognosis is "she's probably in the last year of her life anyway" Without the biopsy, her specific tumours are very slow progressing anyway
 
Tal's health means that we're looking at getting a new pupper earlier than "intended".
I don't want to risk having Beli as an only-dog, and I really, REALLY don't want to risk a repeat of Beli's arrival - about a 10 days overlap before Guinness passed, with Tal resenting him for several weeks (she knew Guinness was properly ill before we did - in retrospect).

Our puppy trainer has retired - or at least, only doing 1-to-1 training, rather than classes; and the person who took over doesn't do the socialising walks that were the main benefit (for us) of puppy school.
We'll be doing all of the training ourselves and only getting help if things aren't going well.

Does anyone have any good puppy-training app.s they'd recommend? Be nice just to have a little reminder / backup
 
Yeah, I don't know any, but TBH, it was always surprising that they weren't banned from the off.
To my understanding (very limited, happy to be wrong) they're basically a supersized Pit Bull; with normal-sized Pit Bulls already being banned.


ETA: from wiki (so salt and all that, but generally pretty reliable about easily found stuff)
"The XL Bully was responsible for over 50% of the deaths caused by dogs in the UK in the period between 2021 and 2023"
And
"The American Pit Bull Terrier (APBT) was the foundation (parent breed) used to create the American Bully. One particular APBT strain was crossbred to create a specific, stockier, physique that breeders originally misrepresented as purebred American Pit Bull Terriers.
...
Eventually, enough breeders agreed that these dogs were disparate enough from American Pit Bull Terriers that it warranted them admitting that they were a different breed altogether"
So yeah, a supersized variant of a banned breed.
 
My understanding is part of the problem is the XL Bully isn't a specific breed. It's a mash up of a few then given a label. You have pretty different weight and height characteristics with no particular breed standard. You'll have owners of big staffies etc being reported as XL bullies. From what i know the Dangerous Dogs Act has seen no decrease in bites/incidents since it began.

Tbh I'm not a massive fan of kennel club of breed standards when it comes to certain dogs like Border Collies etc.

One solution i heard that might work is returning to dog licences. Back ground checks on owers as you would if applying for a fire arms licence and so on. The problem as always would be funding and resources.
 
Official first birthday portrait after he'd been swimming the other day.

Turning into a fantastic dog, but it's been quite a ride as it always is with puppies. Tons of joy, tons of frustration and the number of times that he's been warned that's he's off to Battersea after his next offence - a threat as likely to be carried through as a warning from a RWC referee.

Highly sociable and we've put a lot of effort into his training which has largely paid dividends, but he's still perfectly capable of being a world class git. Furniture largely intact, electronic devices are more his thing - bone conduction headphones, heart rate monitors and Sky controllers have all fallen victim to his fine set of gnashers.

Unfortunately he's got hip dysplasia. We did all the right checks when getting him but sometimes that's the way the dice roll. One side only which is good and not causing him any problems. We'll be talking to an orthopaedic surgeon in the New Year to discuss whether to leave or have hip replacement surgery. We'll do whatever's best for him and if surgery is needed, where we live means it will probably be done by the Supervet's team who have an amazing track record. If it has to be done, no current reason to suppose that it would be anything other than straightforward (although trying to ground him for a while post op would be a total mare).

That's for tomorrow. For today, happy first birthday J-Pup. Couldn't love you more and look forward to seeing you unwrap your zillions of presents later!
 

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