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    Agree with Bosun11 above, just add that the stomach is a major support as tight muscles there push the back into position from inside. If your belly hangs over your belt then it does the oppersite and pulls on your back in the wrong direction so causing damage. So basically fat bellys mean bad backs along with being a poor git that has to work for a living.
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    The vast majority of greyhounds get well looked after but as with lurchers it's the few nasty feckers that give all the rest a bad name. Please bare in mind that is a propaganda video and could be made about lurchers in an attempt to have a go at us.
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    Bathing weekly is perhaps a little excessive
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    Best are as presribed by your vet. Synolux is a combination of amoxacillin and clavulanic acid and has a broad spectrum of use, including bites, urinary, abdominal and dental infections and so will commonly be prescribed by your vet at the appropriate dose.
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    Succes brings succes keep picking well catchable bunnies if your still working at this time of the year.
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    i think i'm with you Ripstop . A lot of the protein sources that we use ie meat will contain a high percentage of fat and so by cutting down the meat protein you will also cut down on the fat. This is especially true with butchers waste meat/pet mince etc when compared to wild meat ie rabbits, basically domestic stock have unaturally high fat contents. So increaseing the carbs will have an indirect result because it will cut some fat. Perhaps increasing the carbs and going for leaner protein sources might do the trick.
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    Often stinging nettles that cause the problem. Lots of younge ones growing at the mo.
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    Ripstop Protein and carbs have about the same calories so changing one for the other won't make much of a difference. The fat portion of the diet carries higher calorie value so cutting down on the fat a little can have a bigger effect. Kozzi this is an area i have an interest in and would keen to read any research you have re "Based on investigations in the dog and with other species it is likely that dogs and cats can be maintained without carbohydrates if the diet supplies enough fat or protein from which the metabolic requirement for glucose is derived." (Kozzi 08) thanks sandy.
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    It will certainly clean cuts etc, it bleach, but as with antiseptics such as hibby scrib, iodine etc must question if they would be more effective than saline? Healing needs protecting surviving tissue rather then " burning" it off. A clean wound will heal better than a dirty one so cleaning with most things will help.
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    Now I'm the complet opposite of any hippy trippy type munbo jumbo, recon if saline or even sterile water don't heal it then it's infected beyond the normal topical sprays etc but if you want to top cover a wound then honey is sterile so can act as a barrier to new infection, good old british is as effective as any high priced stuff, if it's heals with hibby scrub then probaly would have healed with saline. At the end of the day the dog does the healing we do the cleaning out the muck to give it a clear run. If the dog can't fight the infection then it'll need antibiotics.
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    As Glen says it's not the the stayer speeding up it's the others slowing down that gives a false impression that the winner has saved something for the end of the race. It's the tortoise and the hare. Raced a few some years ago and always peferred stayers as as long as they are in the race thay have a chance were as once an early paced dog is led it's over.
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    Good mixed diet same as yourselves, protein, fats & carbs. Cheap and simple dried food base with added veg ( i pref cooked), meat and bones from the butcher few times a week, table scraps etc. Then what they catch in season thats going spare.
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    Lordy a big cat in this litle island and no evidence discovered? Now if a 1/4 of the posters on this forum work their dogs regulary and there were big cats then we should have lots of evidence to prove they exist from across the country. Also ther would be road kills etc but like nessie it's hard to disprove somehting excists.
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    It's simpler to run with rather than bike with your dog for a number of reasons; You'll not overdo the amount as your both develop together ie pace & distance. You can get off road more so allow off lead running so better pace variance for the dog so fitter. More intresting for both of you, cross country or parkes etc. By next season your be able to do 6/7 miles cross country at a fair pace so the average farmer won't get near you lol.
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    May well pop along.
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    Doen't matter who you vote for the goverment always gets in.
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    Going a little off subject but we must remember that we ask much more of our dogs than any wild animal needs to cope with. A wild dog will run, kill then rest where we expect multiple runs in a session on top of this the speeds and therefore the strain on the body is greater with modern running dogs than their ancesters needed to cope with. Perhaps the nearest comparison would be a cheetah and they are provided for untill fully grown by the mother. What I'm saying is that though different sizes will develop at different rates and exercise develops stong joints those joints are easily dammaged
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    I beleive the book was by Phil Drabble. As for breeding ferrets to weasels it's unlikely that the genetics would match.
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    Should have some good sport with that pair next season.
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    GET OFF OF MY LAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! don't recon it would hold much for long as he's that loud he'd would scare it all off. The missus and i were in a garden centre weekend for last when him, his missis and friends arrived, lordy that loud in a look at me way. Still spect he's proud of himself and where he's to that aren't many that get any fame.
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    Sounds a great idea but you need to decide on where so you can see if any locals can organise a venue. If none forthcoming i'd do cornwall as all the cornish are here in Devon.
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    just to add If you feed a complete food then make it one especially for puppies as adult mixes don't have the required protein for a fast growing pup. Butchers waste meat is a good source of fresh protein and is less likely to have unwanted extras such as medication that may be found in unprocessed pet mince as this may well be from fallen stock.
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    Lordy rather you than me. I'd check out the runner's world web site for info. Wouldn't take a dog, most races won't alow one, if you have a problem then the dog is a worry you wont need.
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    Is the dog alright in it's self?
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