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If that's a picture of a "Bully Whippet", those should not be bred for intentionally; they have serious muscle problems that would make it impossible to use them for any kind of running. There's now a DNA test for carriers so that this can be avoided and eventually it will disappear entirely. Most US whippet folks with race bred whippets have tested their dogs and aren't breeding two carriers! Heather ++++++++++++++++++++++ Is that not a double muscle whippet? http://www.google.co...whippet&spell=1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myostatin yeah i think it is its w

If your dog had worms, de-worming once isn't going to do it....you need to de-worm again at the proper interval to get rid of whatever parasite your dog may have. When you deworm, you get the adults, but there are more that are waiting to "hatch" out in however many days that parasite's cycle is. If you don't get those, then your dog is reinfested again. I do not know what parasites are common to your area, so I cannot recommend a deworming schedule that would be appropriate. Perhaps it's not worms, but I would make sure before moving on to other possible maladies. Deworming is not typically h

I've had my dog partially tear one off. Next time I ran him I taped it to protect until it's completely healed. I would do that with any wound that was not completely healed up. I think it took over a month for his to heal but it did heal up. H

No, they do not, neither do greyhounds. Having a carrier would be of no advantage since they are not necessarily any faster than a non-carrier. Thanks again Jen for coming on and sharing all about the study and test available. Heather

No, it absolutely does not mean that. That NY Times things is not true. No one is breeding affected dogs on purpose so that is not true. You would not breed a bully to another dog! Many of the fastest whippets do not even carry a copy of the gene mutation. I will try to have Jen Jenson, the person who helped get the test developed join this list and share the proven facts with this thread. Heather quote name='thurso jack' date='Oct 28 2008, 04:24 PM' post='734386'] so if you breed bully to normal you get a fast type? if so theres a lad in a village near me with a bully

Carriers are not generally any faster than a non-carrier. Someone said that without having a clue. Ask anyone in race whippets in the US who's in the know and they all know it is not true. A bully whippet is not usually capable of running, let alone racing, they are not faster or stronger, they are often in pain from cramping. Heather +++++++++++++++++++

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The real danger is pseudo rabies which dogs usually die from if they eat infected raw pork. If UK is certified free, then there should be no problem. What a chance to take if you don't know though. Otherwise, there's nothing at all wrong with pork, the other white meat. Back to Bascis in the US has a pork based kibble I fed at one point. I think a lot of the worm concerns came from problems with infection by trichinella BUT trichinella isn't a problem in the UK these days. If anyone is worried then just freeze meat for couple of days because that would kill the trichinella

There are a couple of very fast, very good salukis running over here that were bred from dogs imported oo they aren't AKC registerable in this generation but are desert bred registered. One runs in WY and he's amazing to watch. He ran down in NM and cleaned up. Many of the salukis running here are also shown, ie they run what they show. Heather

Ask him about WY whitetails. Running whitetails in MN isn't happening much these days. Same dogs killing blacktails frequently in NM and CA aren't getting kills regularly or at all in WY. Judges that come here from NM and CA soon recognize how tough these jacks are. Dutch did as well after he judged and said as much in his writeup. Can't blame him for not coming up more, it's a long drive to WY when you have jackrabbits in your own back yard. Same reason I don't make down to NM much but will try to finish my dog since he has all his kills in NM just needs more points. Heather

Careful what you say! The dog in the pic carrying the jack is a showdog He's got both of his AKC majors and is well on his way to his UKC Ch. He's wowed more than a few folks out here coursing. So have his housemates and his relations that have been out coursing. He has several that have OFC titles from WY on whitetails, as well show titles in AKC, UKC, CKC. Some are even Best in Show and Best in Specialty Show winners. The greyhounds running in New Mexico are also showdogs and some of them are also Open Field titled. There are some in California that are also showdogs. Same with salukis,

If you want to see some really tough jacks, run up in Wyoming. Heather been invited out there a few times but never gone, will have to go one day and see these jacks run .

Drinking loads of water is a big red flag, in my opinion! Could mean kidney problems. Has he gotten into anything? Been exposed to lepto or antifreeze or something like that? If he's passing through stuff, he's not fully blocked. If he's throwing up whatever you give him or not having any stool, then an x-ray could be useful.

Do you walk as fast as you can so they are trotting, or slow so they are walking? Sometimes I cannot do free running. 2 feet of snow with ice crust on top does more harm than good to feet and legs. It really rips them up. So we have to make do with leash walking. Heather i thats the one slip my dog takes me on road work and they are at a pace right for them and i agree with what u say as gaining muscle and keeping feet right

The dose is quite tricky so it's not a good NSAID to use for dogs. Grapes and Raisin, they think could be linked to xylitol they may naturally produce, same thing in many sugarless gums/candy so keep it away from your dog. Nothing to do with spores that I've read about. For a long time vets had absolutely no clue why this was happening, and I don't know for sure if they do now or not. Theobromine is the deadly part of chocolate for dogs. Milk chocolate contains very little. The darker the chocolate, the more theobromine it contains, ergo, the more deadly it can be to your dogs. So