Tiff
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Everything posted by Tiff
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we often have shredded and nicked up ears on the running dogs from coon, and have found like Hippychick if it is kept clean and free of buildup (scab, wound powder, etc) it heals much faster, I think it has something to do with it being "dried out" and like someone said, itchy. I use antibiotic ointment and reapply it several times a day, cleaning it well with salt water morning and night as well.
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I should have written this as "WHEN the breeders do the dew claws ..." I wouldn't get a working dog of any type with dew claws intact
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nails might want to be shorter to prevent future injury.
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if it's always been like that it's called a "high toe", some terrier lines carry it and shouldn't be bred as it passes quite easily on genetically
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actually quite nice, makes me want to have caricatures done of our dogs, it would be interesting to see what features and "looks" the artist would pick out to elaborate on.
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In the Dakotas and Nebraska some breeders do the dew claws and they do the stoppers as well to prevent injury when running on snow with heavy ice. When we lived in the desert running with rocks and heavy cactus everywhere we have had dogs lose heavy layers off of their stoppers but they just callous well over and end up smaller
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Kay in my opinion you've given him a completely new life, you could call him Micky Mouse or You Shit or Wanker or whatever, he is NOT ignoring you because you are not using his "given" name. He is living a life unlike anything he has encountered in the past, everything is new to him, he is having to learn how to be a DOG and not a track dog living in kennels. How is he doing on walks away from the house?
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wonder what the story will turn out to be, did the keeper come across him up to no good, or was it the keeper himself who was the problem? Only time will tell.
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of all of ours, Kye's staghound male has taken the most quarry (jackrabbit, coon, fox, coyote, rabbit, hooved, feral cats etc, even the odd poxy skunk and opossum when he feels like it and in 4 years he has only been laid up for 1 toe and for one stone cutting the "frog" of one foot. He is out about 250 days/nights a year on some wicked ground both flat and hilly, they take 1-2 nights a week off during the season, and off during much of late spring and early summer. On the other hand his bitch of similar type has been gored by a buck, broke her neck on a doe, broke her tailbone on another
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best thing to do with a broken toe
Tiff replied to Fieldsporthunter's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
my stag/grey bitch shattered hers, we had it taken off and she's not had any problems even with it being on her outside turning foot -
we've gotten flashing dog collars from Walmart and Aldi, one was crap but the others have all been good and going on the third year with only a new battery needed here and there. They were between 9-17 dollars
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most of the jobs that those same illegals (South American, Indian, Vietnamese, whatever) do are the jobs that the typical lazy socialist American thinks they are too good to do.
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when you say it slowed her right down, was it SHE that decided she was more limited, or did you have to force her to be limited?
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Kye’s colored terrier Agro was run over by a car 3 months ago. The dog was basically unharmed except for a dislocated rear leg. Our vet re-located it (is that a word?) but it popped out again a couple of days later when he was in too-small of a crate, so he re-located it, bandaged it up so the leg was held up against his body, and we completely restricted the dogs movements from crate to short leash for 4 weeks until the week after the bandage wrap came off. Then he was started slow to strengthen and get him back into shape for digging. This past weekend Kye & FR went up to Iowa for
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it's only 7 months old so I should hope not!
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lol this thread is the best advertising you could have had
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I'm glad we don't have them around us!
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glad he's got a happy home, sounds like all is well so far
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Timberland is apparently the "new" Countrywide, not Timberbuild. I would think about changing my company name if I was Timberbuild!
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that's why they are worked UP to 20 miles over about 3 months, their pads need to be quite hard to run the gravel roads, the first couple of weeks at a few miles slow pace they are sore, after the first month we never have dogs laid up for torn/cut pads etc.
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to each their own, our dogs happiness, training, fitness, lack of regular injury and sheer number and variety of quarry taken speak for themselves.
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glad to hear it went well, look forward to hearing the updates and seeing the pics!
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This should start some crap
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LOL gotta love basically being called a liar? you can check my or Kye's posts for more pics if you'd like, you seem to doubt everything I've said, we run a pretty varied and large amount of quarry here over some drastic terrain and need fit dogs. 2 are staghound, 1 is a stag/grey X, 1 is a grey/saluki/stag X ps forgot until Kye reminded me about when Ratkilla off this forum came over from UK for a months hunting holiday last season and they roaded the dogs 23 miles one night, then had a coon about a mile from the house
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they don't do that every night for 5/6 months, they work up to that, they do that number of miles for a couple of weeks at the top end the season. Yes it takes time, it's lucky we enjoy our time together. They normally have some quarry along the way, I had a coon last night with them at mile 9 with a mile left to come back to the house. Right now they are at 10 miles a night, tongues hang for a few minutes once we are back, then they are good to go again (if we were so inclined). if they run something hard before the end they obviously don't road the rest of the way, and if we decide to