kimlovesbarney

I was just wondering what type of benefit's are available when pregnant. I am in full time employment doing perm nights. my work is physically demanding and involves chemicals. I have just found out i am pregnant. my question is i don't think i will be able to work till maternity leave is due. i just wondered if i was signed of work due to pregnancy problems what money i would be entitled to. I only get statutory sick pay which works out to about £85.00 per week. so cant afford to stay off if that was the case. but i know for a fact i wouldn't be able to get my duties changed so i could continue with work.

thanks hope that made sense.

Hi was watching Glastonbury yesterday and saw shakiras performance. She was wearing a long White vest top with a skull design that has a snake pattern in it. The designers logo looked like a big Q which inside has a lil c. Thanks looked everywhere on the Internet.

Hi i have alot of experiences with dogs but usually get pups at 8weeks old. The last pup i was stung with and she was only 4weeks old (i was told 8 weeks but the vet said she was only 4 weeks anway!) I understand the socialsiation of the pup and learning with its litter mates s crucial at 5-8 weeks but i have 3 other dogs so wont it learn from them. My 4 week old has overcome everything even thuogh i had alot of work for me to-do but shes a happy healthy dog now!

the pup is an english mastiff so would prefere getting it abit younger so he learns to be gentle with my smaller breed dogs.

thanks and best wishes Kim

Hi i have had dogs all my life but only males. I have 3 small male neutered dogs and one un-spayed small female (this is her 1st season so i was told by a vet i had to wait after her season before neutering). I take all my dogs out together and they are all off lead. But im unsure what to-do about her. I don't want to leave her in on her own and she hates being carried around the park. But i don't want her to come in to contact with any other males. as my males who probably fight to protect her? also obviously don't want her getting pregnant.

sorry this may be a really stupid question but im great with male dogs but dont know much about females.

thanks and best wishes kim

Hi i have 3 male dogs all neutered and get on great together. They are 2 1/2 years old 15months old and 7 months old. Now ive received several complaints from my new neighbours about the dogs barking. Ive lived in 2 previous address and no one has ever complained. the dogs are well used to me going out for a few hours a day. Ive left them for like 15minutes and waited outside the door and they have stopped barking in a minute and sem to settle ive also done this for 30 mins and nothing. when i return from longer trips they have not been barking. They do obviously bark sometime like when i can come in or at the postman but the barking only last for about a minute tops. Ive tried talking to next door but hes quite aggressive. Ive never been nothing but nice and even offered to give him my mobile number so if they do bark i will get home asap! Im just worried about losing my dogs. I hardly ever go out anymore and only leave when i know next door are out. Ive missed allot of uni as i am worried for his reaction. I don't want to upset anyone. I don't want to use anti barking collars as ive used them before and they would go off if another dog barked or the dog even scratched. So are these DAP and Zylkene alternatives are any good? Just so worried now. I also walk my dogs before going out and leave the telly on with toys and chews.

thanks and best wishes Kim

Hi I already had 4 male guineas living really happy in a very large cage they are about 12weeks old. I rescued today a mum and 4 babies. 2 of the babies are female so i have a seperate cage for them and the mum. Now the baby male cavy is 5weeks old and i introduced him to my 4males and they were humping him and he was getting quite scared. Now is this cause maybe he smells of the females or a dominance thing?

Ive removed the male baby and put him in a box but unsure whether to try and find him a new home asap or try and introduce him back into my gang of males?any advice would be great. Dont have anymore room for another large indoor cage, and cant keep him outside as i have dogs that use outside for the toilet area.

thanks and best wishes KIm

Hi im really pale ive used sunbeds before and have used 12mins a day for a few weeks and i dont burn or go any colour! Hows the best way to tan i dont seem to have much reaction no matter how long i go on for? Any ideas on how i can tan better using beds?

thanks and best wishes Kim

I have a creative zen vision m and the battery has broken on it. It only charges so far to critical battery then turns itself off and starts again. My laptop is broke and ive lost the drivers for it. Where can i download it. And once ive downloaded it can i get all the music off it without needing it to switched on? So i dont have to redownload all the music that was on there and put it on my new player.

Sorry im crap with electronics so this maybe a stupid question.

Thanks and best wishes

Kim

hi ive recently had to give me female pup to a new home:( She was 61/2 months when she went and i never had her neutured. She is a rhodisain ridgeback and had a great pedgree from respectible breeder. The new owners decided to get her neutured and when the vet opended her up all there was, was scar tissue so it looked liked she had been neutured. I phoned the breeder but they had no clue i thought that they were puttin me off a bit though. Ive had this pup from 12weeks and saw her at 9weeks. So is the breeder not tellin me sumthink or could she be born without her bits?

Thanks and best wishes Kim

Hi

im getting a french lop rabbit in about a month (cant wait!). I wanted somethink big and robust. But my previous rabbits have all lived outside and been small.

I want this one to live indoors (hes gonna have his own room). But do i just let him have free roam of the room or do i put a cage in it? How big should the cage/hutch be for such a big bunny? Also litter tray advice!

Thanks Kim

hi im thinking of getting a kitten but have no clue how to take care of them. i have 4 dogs but would love a cat. Any advice or good websites? Also i live in england and we let our cats outside by themselves to wonder? im sure this cant be safe and would be worried about her gettin hit by a car or sumthink?

thanks Kim

Hi

I orginally just had my one little daschund cross to walk, then i rescued a dobe pup from a puppy farm (he was is v.bad health, but hes doing well now.) Then i rescued a ridgeback pup same age a week later. I love walking and being active so its no problem with the 3. Ive also had dobes and mastiffs beofre so im just to walking large dogs.

But ive never had to walk 3 at once and its really hard! Im continuely changing hands and being tripped up! Ive had them for 6weeks now the 2 large dogs and there 41/2months old.

Any ideas as i want be able todo this for much longer as the dogs get bigger. Ive tried using a chain that links two dogs to one lead but thats not workin!

Help any ideas is great as i dont want to walk them seperatly as they love playing together!

Thanks Kim

ive seen a lovely pup that i am intrested in buying. I love big dogs and have had 2 before. I love ridgebacks and ive seen some but they are black and tan? Ive never know balck and tan before they have no papers but are purebreed? Ive looked on the internet and cant find anythink!

is this unusual are they crossed with maybe a doberman?

Thanks and best wishes

Kim

Im getting a doberman in a few weeks but not sure what sex to get? Ive got a small cross breed male dog who is neutured he lives with a female mastiff now and loves her. but im movin into my own place in a few weeks and the mastiff is my mums and cant come.

Ive had a doberman before and he was amazing the easiest dog by far (expect the walks!).

But he was a male and didnt like other dogs he wouldnt attack them he stayed well clear off them and when one did attack him he'd just stand there!

Any information would be great. As im in two minds, i prefear male dogs but would a female get o n better with the little male.

If i did get a male would he need to be neutured aswell?

Thanks sorry to go on!

Regards Kim

I am extremly pale and have arburn colour hair and freckels. But i want a nice glowing tan, and no matter what i do i never even go red! I just to use the sun beds but even after 3months of going on them regualry nothing! Im fed up of false tan and cant use the beds anymore cause of my tats!

Thanks any advice would be great!

Is he getting enough nutrition from just eating meat. Ive had terrible trouble getting him to eat. Ive tried everythink all different brands of foods dry and canned! One day he'll eat some then the next nothing. Ive mixed meat into his dry food but he just takes his time picking out the meat. Ive been really patient and stopped giving him treats but he will go 5 days before eating and just look at his bowl like im not eating that! Ive changed his bowls and everythink. Ive spent alot of money and buy quality food from my vet, but nothing! Somethimes he even wont eat chicken if hes had it the day before. The vet has run tests and theres nothing wrong!

So will he get most nutrients from eating meat or any other ideas?

Thanks i no this may sound stupid but ive never had a dog that is so fussy and headstrong. Hes been the same since 8weeks old.

Hi

i took my mastiff to the vet for her final shot and the very said she looked on the small side and was she a full pedigree! She is, as ive seen both parents. She is 19 weeks and 50lb. Is this normal? Her mum was around 10st and her dad 13st. Shes eating regulary (good quality dry complete food designed for giant breeds) and exercises in small amounts. Any info would be great!

Thanks and best wishes

Kim

Hi help

i have a 10month old daschund cross pup (had him since he was 8 weeks old). I was told he was a dominat dog so i got him neutured at 6 months old. Ive never had a problem with him i can take food out of his mouth take toys of him ect. Hes been well socialised since he was a pup, gone everywhere with me. But recently a couple of incidents have worried me.

He has always been great of the lead and loved playing with other dogs, but yesterday a dog ran over and he went for the other dog. This has happened twice. And today i had to pick up my little cousins from school and when a child came over to him to stroke him he growl and barked aggresively. He also wet himself! He was shaking and growling. He is always guarding the house and follows me round everywhere and when we meet someone new he wont leave my side. We also got a new pup 4 weeks ago.

I am really shaken, is there anything i can do to stop this? I thought he was a confiedent dog who loves people and other dogs?

Hi ive had my english mastiff for only 2 1/2 weeks and now shes just come into season, shes only 17 1/2 weeks old! Is this right as i thought it was at least 6months before they come into season? I got her from a proper breeder and she has all papers ect so i know she is the age she is. Any advice (this is the first female ive had). I was going to get her sprayed just before her first season at around 6months (earliset in britan).

Also shes haveing her puppy injections tommorrow is she stil ok to have them?

Thanks i know i proberly sound stupid but i really didnt think i would be dealing with this problem.

Thanks for all your answers!

Kim

Ive been to this dog groomer twice before and have always stayed with my dog. But this time barney was going with my anties dog Daisy, so i decided to leave him. I thought they would be around 3 hours as Barney usually takes 2 hours. But an hour later i was called to collect the dogs. The groomer said she had accediently cut a wart of my dogs belly ( i never noticed a wart before and i groom him everyday and notice everythink). But he was really short so i was shocked as he looked like a different dog so never took much notice of the gash and left. I paid her £25.00 or around $55.00. When i got home the coat was very patchy and uneven. The gash on his stomach was deep and he also had a nasty one on the base of his tail!

Shall i complain, or just leave it? How could she cut him so bad?

Thanks for all your answers!