Backyard Aquaponics
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Hahaha, classic. I bet he lives in your fridge too...

in this picture my brindle staffordshire blue nose (pit bull) known as Mars is only 3 months old where the shih-tzu we call Star is 2 years old... now at month 4.5 for Mars, there's a bit of a size differential, and over the next few month we're expecting him to gain about 8-10 lbs per month until he reaches 10 months old... lol. my sister charted the growth of he last litter of pups that were a staffordshire and bully (2 breeds of pit bull) and the weight gaining range averaged 8-10lbs monthly. her runt only gained about 6-7lbs monthly while the biggest of the litter averaged 11-12 lbs monthly. Mars is going to be a horse. lol.

That's my old puppy! his name was stricko. best dog i ever had he only ever wanted to be with me and so well behaved so long as I was the one telling him wat to do

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That's the way mars is. He listens to me very well. When it comes to other people its a coin toss.

This was my pet until he chew through the power cord while we were away...
2nd pic is him malting his shell

Cool!

Is that an Atlantic stream cray?

here is minnidog and microdog

It's a Murray River Cray

my 3 current "kids" Hugo on the left is the dad, Barkly in the middle is the son/pup, Squishy on the right is mum.

poor mum has been quite busy from time to time (litters were kept to a year apart to let her recover etc). first litter of 12, second litter 9, 3rd litter 11 and her last litter was 14. because of the big litters i also had to supplement bottle feed... poor me as well lol. i only planned on having pups till mum was 5, so shes in happy "retirement" now.


even at a week old rottys are ferocious.... ok well.... actually that one was actually just yawning. cute tho i think.


and lastly... my old bunny "StewIt" the first time i took him to the vets for his shots the reception chic was horrified when she asked for the bunnys name. "its stewit" "do you spell that Stewart" "nope, its spelt how you would cook it, "Stew, It"" poor fella ended up dying of natural causes after living a long and wonderful life.



and many many years ago curled up to squish on the lounge. who says rottys are big scary animals?

My two great dane/english mastiff pups at 4 weeks old.



Our anatolian shepherd



Petey our Bonnett Macaque.



And Harley our Java Macaque.



Here is a pic of them together.



And we have a cat also, but I don't like cats enough to take a pic of one.

JESSY AUSTRALIAN RED DOG !! MIXED BREED, DINGO, BLUEY, RED CLOUD, STAFFIE GOOD DOG

AND MISSY AUSTRALIAN STAFFIE

This is Lucy - well she is a little older and a little bit bigger now. Red Cloud Kelpie X

Not to fussy with sleeping possies eh Arbe hehe, thats funny. Looks like she pretty much runs the show at your place hehe

She knows I am the boss and always tries to please me.

She will always sit on command, drop is a little more 'challenging' for her though.

She also knows her left and rights.

do you use hand signals rather than just words to give commands? dogs arent very good at speaking human, but hand signals work REALLY well. something i lernt from my years taking dog obedience classes with my 3.

some info i found on hand signals. "drop" is basically an open hand waved across the front of the dog ending in sorta pointing at the ground. i have exactly the same issue with my dogs as you. they know "sit" just fine but never quite understand the word drop.

pages.swcp.com/~trish/files/HandSignals1.pdf