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  1. Thank you all - really appreciate the responses, absolutely terrific. We're back at the vet's tomorrow for a routine visit following some unrelated surgery.
  2. Hi - I have mongrel dog called Ben - smaller than a lab but bigger than a terrier. He's a sandy coated cross lurcher / whippet border terrier thing, probably. The vet's advised I now need to feed Ben renal food. Ben seems to be trying to drink more water, needs to wee more,often during the night, and it seems his renal function is reduced. It would appear that I need to feed him food which provides a different kind of protein to he does not have to separate it out so much. Have others had any experience of this and might there be food recommendations? (He like a steak now and again but I guess I'll have to knock that off.) All insights & observations gratefully received. With thanks. Jonathan
  3. thanks all - I'll try these solutions. Knew I could rely on SF's dog lovers for top quality advice & expertise!
  4. I've never left him for this long, no. And he's more attached to me than my wife, definitely. Tends to be me that walks him, usually.
  5. No, he wasn't neutered. The dogs trust gave us a voucher to have him done but my kids (who, erm, have 'issues,' to put it mildly) couldn't deal with the idea. I don't feel too bad about it - he's never out of our sight line so procreation is not a problem that's looming large. ---------- Post added 03-08-2013 at 16:33 ---------- thanks for the responses so far.
  6. Does anyone have any advice? I just took a fortnight's holiday with my 2 younger kids, leaving my wife and oldest son at home. While I was away our adored mongrel dog Benny, who I'd left at home with them began to do something he's never done previously - weeing on furniture. He was being provided with all his walks and outdoor time as usual and his diet was unchanged. Now I'm back he's still doing it...shld I approach the vet? Or put it down to separation anxiety and just monitor, to see if it ceases? He's a half whippet half terrier thing, bout 9 maybe 10 years old if that helps. He's a much loved beastie, provided by the dogs trust 3/4 years ago. I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks, Jonathan
  7. The House Skatepark, Shalesmoor, celebrates its 15th birthday this weekend. I'd just like to put on record my congratulations and thanks to Rob and the team. The house is a terrific resource for the city - it's given countless kids the chance to do something constructive and healthy with their time and countless parents a break. Well done and here's to another 15 years.
  8. I for one would be grateful if you would keep posting please - I'm keen to see what response the council offer. As I say, when they're on form they're effective, and will regard anyone failing to look after a dog (by allowing it to be loose and dangerous) as negligent. I'm particularly interested in this at the moment - my normal dog walk on the bole hills has been spoiled a couple of times by a gormless couple with what look like 2 rottweiler pups, off the lead and beyond their control. I'm monitoring but contemplating what action to take at the moment.
  9. in my experience the council will investigate this. That's what they did when some muppet's neglected beastie was giving my son grief on his paper round. Give them a call, it's worth a shot.
  10. Hi - wondered if anyone had seen my missing keys? On a silver coloured teapot logo fob, lost around bole hill rd walkley mid may. Very grateful for any info. grateful thanks. J
  11. On Saturday 21st April 2012 at the Sadacca Sheffield & District Afro & Caribbean Community Association, Wicker, Sheffield 1, Cuba Solidarity Campaign are organising a Latin American day School - I'm going to attend to participate in the session on human rights in Cuba. Contributors to and readers of the thread might wish to come along. Jonathan
  12. Amnesty International has called on the Cuban authorities to release an activist on hunger strike who was detained for his human rights work three months ago and is set to face trial at the end of March. Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina, the president and co-founder of the Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy, was arrested last December in relation to a meeting he organized at his home in August 2010 and anti-government banners he displayed outside his home. Néstor, his brother Rolando Rodríguez Lobaina and three other members of the Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy - Enyor Díaz Allen, Roberto González Pelegrín and Francisco Manzanet - have been charged with public order offences relating to an attack on his home by a mob opposed to the meeting. The five men were arrested in August 2010 but released the following month. Only Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina was rearrested. "Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina has spent more than three months in prison for expressing his opinions, defending democracy and promoting human rights in Cuba," said Gerardo Ducos, Cuba reearcher at Amnesty International. "Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience jailed solely for exercising his right to freedom of expression and is calling on the Cuban authorities to release him immediately and unconditionally, or bear the responsibility of the impact of the hunger strike on Néstor’s physical integrity. "Néstor's imprisonment is yet another example of the suppression of the rights to freedom of expression and association in Cuba." Held at Combinado de Guantánamo prison, Nestor started his hunger strike on 15 February. The next day he was transferred to an isolation cell and denied water for eight days. Nestor's health deteriorated during his hunger strike and on 28 February he was transferred to a health post in the prison. He was then transferred to Augustino Neto Provincial Hospital on 1 March. Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina was arrested by state security agents in Guantanamo on 9 December 2010. He was pepper sprayed and manhandled into a police car in front of his 10-year-old daughter who was left alone in the street as her father was taken into custody. While in detention Néstor says he has suffered beatings and threats from other inmates.
  13. And please might I add in Cuba itself there is better news. The 75 political prisoners have now been released - many of them forced into involuntary exile, but released nonetheless. Those released to Spain have been in contact with human rights campaigning organisations and have expressed gratitude for the support offered. Their view of apologist organisations who attempted to shore up the Cuban regime's line isn't known. So, we need to keep up the pressure on the Cuban authorities more than ever now, to bring an end to the repressive laws and practices which are stifling the most basic human rights in Cuba and to ensure that the 2003 so called `Black Spring' is never repeated.
  14. The case of our council and the choir continues to lurch along. Because I'd originally been sent an initial `fob off' reply by my councillor instead of one that actually addresses the point I'd made, I put the further questions I've listed in the thread above (who's cash are you using, is the choir that's coming over a set of Castro stooges, etc) to the council in an e mail. I was then sent a holding reply but I've had no detailed formal response, as yet. When (if?) I receive one, I'll post its contents on this thread in case folk wish to see. My original challenge to Sheffield Socialist Choir (last April, a full year ago) was `put something on your website condemning the lack of human rights and democracy in Cuba.' And it's this that drove my more recent correspondence with the council. If they're using ratepayers cash or other resource to support this stuff, then as a minimum they need to ensure their partners are signed up to basic rights. The choir have, in the last couple of days, put something on their site. They don't condemn human rights abuses in Cuba specifically - but in fairness they do offer a more generic commitment. Movement, then, of a sort.
  15. Good thread, LC. I'd like to think that anything that moves Cuba closer to democracy would be welcome. All this reminds me of Castro's rapid and influential negative criticism of the Prague Spring in the sixties. That's something the Czechs haven't forgotten, and they've pressed for a wider understanding of the human rights abuses in Cuba ever since the wall fell down. Still looking into the curious case of the council and the choir, by the way. I'll update the thread referred to when a couple of pieces of the jigsaw fall into place. Becoming interesting economically over there. I think Raul Castro (and, some reports suggest, even Fidel Castro) realise that Government control of the minute details of economic life can have a stagnating effect. Cuban national debt is high and without some measure of official free enterprise, they'd be without any means of sorting it out. The newspaper reports of lists of businesses Cuban people can now be licensed to do are baffling, if they're true. Apparently you can work as a clown at kids' parties officially now, but allegedly it's just if you're a particular clown character, sanctioned by the regime. Dunno how true all that stuff is. But it seems pretty clear that people are keen to apply for business licences so they can set up bars for tourists and shops - or just legitimise existing, furtive enterprises. I hold no particular brief for left and right but I think anyone can see there's a point when Government just has to butt out of citizen's lives.
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