** I have moved from Urangan. **
** Now located in Pialba at Tooan Tooan Creek **
** I normally respond within 30 mins **
** If you haven't had a response via Mad Paws within 1 hour please phone me on 0424 872 715.
(Mad Paws messages cause an SMS alert. Very occasionally the SMS doesn't make it through, and I won't see your booking request until I check my email, or log in to my Mad Paws account.) **
** TWO 45 minute walks usually included **
** One on beach, one along Esplanade **
** IMPORTANT !! For your dog's safety please **
** Ensure they arrive with collar and/or harness **
** that they cannot slip out of when on a walk **
** Animal First Aid (advanced) certificate. **
I am a dog lover, and have kept poodles and border collies for 25 years. I speak ‘dog’ – that is am good at reading dog’s sounds, looks, and stances to know what they need. I was a professional groomer (washing and clipping) for about 2 years – and never got bitten! (A lot of dogs find bath-time a bit stressful, clipping more so. – you have to be good with dogs to earn their trust – and not abuse it). I’ve also worked my own dogs in obedience and agility – just for fun, not at the serious competitivete: During off-peak times I require payment 24 hrs before start date, and cancellation policy is 'Flexible'.
During peak times I require payment within 24 hrs of accepting booking, and cancellation policy is 'Moderate'.
During Christmas and Easter I require payment within 24 hrs of accepting booking, and cancellation policy is 'Strict'. Rates are higher at Christmas and Easter.
Puppies:
I charge a Puppy Surcharge.
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Doggy Quotes
It is said that as 'docga' had replaced the Old English term 'hund', the scribe-monk Nigelus of Nowich, who was always accompanied by Fido (a common name for dogs, meaning faithful), disliked the way both were used as a perjorative, and promulgated the spelling 'dog', saying let all be reminded that d,g, and o, can be rearranged to spell the two greatest sources of unconditional love.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
- Josh Billings
Underneath my stroking hand, startled eyes of hazel bland, kindling, growing larger. Up thou leapest with a spring. Full of prank and curvetting leaping like a charger. Therefore to this dog will I, tenderly not scornfully, render praise and favour: with my hand upon his head, is my benediction said therefore and forever, and because he loves me so, better than his kind will do, often, man or woman, give I back more love again, than dogs often take of men, leaning from my human.
Blessings on thee, dog of mine.
- Elizabeth Barett Browning, extracted from
'To Flush, My Dog'
Once in a cold, dark, winter forest I howled at a full moon - just because.
From across the valley a wolf howled back. It sent a shiver through my heart that was not fear.
I felt a brotherhood that goes back before we domesticated pig, goats, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese and cattle. We partnered with the hunter 30,000 years before we thought of penning the food. Today there are 20,000 wolves in America and 20,000 in Europe.
Welcome back my amber-eyed friends.
I salute you!
- Njáll Arthursson
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