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    Hormones. Post season bitches often do nothing but sleep and eat: a sort of phantom pregnancy. Lena, my red Airedale lurcher, turns into a total couch potato, doing nothing but sleep and hide in a corner after a season. She stays like this for around 2 months after her season, then gradually comes back to life. But she still wants to hunt like a demon during this time. When she's not like this she plays quite happily with the other dog. Shuck, her sister, on the other hand, seldom plays with any of the dogs at home. She's a grouch, intense and moody, and she spends her life waiting to go out
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    We have dog that are in the house when we're there in the evening, and they go to bed in their kennels outside: dogs adapt better to temperature changes than we do, and as long as there is a good bed and no draughts they are happy: I'm sure your bitch is happier spending time inside with you for a while in the evenings rather than being stuck in a kennel all the time. Routine is what counts: once they accept your routine they are happy.
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    Yes: some very old, some young, but they still manage to have a bit of fun out on exercise, even if the number of foxes round here gives me even more grey hairs each time we go out. The old ones are not at all fit as they let the young ones do all the graft: they just step in when needed, and cut corners: canny old things
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    yeh thats right, and i had another bullx same way bred 3/8 bull 5/8 grey, and went the same but died , went over but never came round.Vet said some times the genes of the 2 breeds dont gell right, they( over heat) and carnt get oxgen quick enough to the brain and it kills them.I know of few bullxs that went the same, where as you could still get a big dog say 70-80lb x deerhoundx ,gsd x colliex and it dont happen, Had Blaze who was 3/8 collie 5/8 grey same size as what Tod was , but could run all night all fed the same and all were fit to do there job,Its the genes as my vet said so
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    Congratulations! Now there's a man who knows just how much his dog can take and do, and to have got it super fit to do that amount in the first place.
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    All dogs hunt for themselves: it's an old idea that dogs want to please us. They want to please themselves, and it's down to us to get them doing what we want them to do while they still think that it's what they want to do. All my Saluki types have retrieved over very long distances BUT the odd occasion they haven't has been when the run only lasted a few seconds: almost as if they are loathe to finish the 'game' so quickly. Getting this type of dog to retrieve is all about the relationship you have with the dog, and getting it to feel good about bringing you stuff. I know I bang on about
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    There's a very simple test to make sure that your dog has recovered enough to give it another run: feel its heart beat beneath its ribs with your hand. This won't, of course, tell you if the dog is about to keel over through sheer stupidity on the part of the owner who has already run the dog inside out on God knows how many runs, but it will tell you if the dog has recovered a resting heart beat and can run again short term. If a dog is not panting hard, most people think its OK to run again, but feel its heart beat and it may still be racing, trying to oxygenate organs and muscles. I've
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    I see what you mean now! But I'd still feed a bit of tripe as part of a well balanced mainly raw diet. Any fresh food is almost certainly better than heat treated and processed food, and tripe does have a fair amount of goodness in it: a perfect calcium/phosphorous balance for one.
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    You must be one of those people who think that fast foods and pot noodles is a healthy diet for humans as well
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    That makes sense: I'm lucky to have a very large fenced in garden: a jungle. I pretty much let pups do as they please for a good while when they are outside, before calling them to me. No sense in expecting a young mind to ignore all those smells and interesting things it can find outside. The urge to explore and follow their noses is a damn sight stronger than to come to you at this stage: quite normal.
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    If you continually tell a puppy off, tell it NOT to do things, you are straight away making the pup look at you in a negative way. By always saying "Don't do this, don't do that", or "No!" or anything that doesn't make the pup feel happy to be around you, you create a barrier between you and the pup. Pups want to do things, they want to learn new things, they want to play and have fun with their owner, BUT ONLY IF THAT OWNER BEHAVES IN A WAY THAT REWARDS THE PUP FOR BEING WITH THEM. You should remove any negative 'training' from the pup's world immediately. Have fun with the pup. Don't te
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    Found this: http://devinefarm.net/rp/rpabsorb.htm
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    That is a real shame. Just how common is it for bitches to reabsorb pups during pregnancy?
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    Too right Bosun. We're all on the tip of the iceberg: trouble is, the rest of the iceberg has already dissolved and the hunters we are and see today are probably the last of a fast disappearing generation. Fast forward 100 years and everyone will be living in Disneyland.
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    I've only just seen this thread, and what a great idea it is. In my view, a forum is like a group of people in a room together. It makes sense to introduce yourself to the others, with a little bit about what you do, or if you don't actually hunt at the moment, your reasons for joining the forum. You don't have to be a brilliant speaker or writer to introduce yourself, but a few words of explanation help the other people get a handle on who you are. Long may the 'clean up' continue!
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    Nice pup: always fancied that cross as a ferreting type dog.
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    It's also a lot quicker and easier to put staples in than stitches: with stitches you have two 'ouch' moments for each stitch. With staples it is just one 'ouch' per staple. Also important to put them in properly by pinching the two sides of the wound together so they are raised above the underlying tissue. I'd never use stitches again as staples are so much better. Generally take them out in 7-10 days. 5 days may be OK for very minor wounds, but IMO better to leave in for a good week to avoid the wound breaking down again, though of course it does depend on the cause of the wound and where it
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    My mistake: most people take 'nervy' to mean 'nervous'. This was a bitch who could go past a bin bag on the side of the road 6 days out of 7 without batting an eyelid, but on the 7th day she'd act like she'd never seen it before and spook at it. Dan: when we got her mated, it took a muzzle, my partner at her head with the bitch in an arm lock. Someone mid way to hold her body still so she couldn't throw herself on the ground, and me at the back end holding her hind legs still. Took a very confident dog she'd known all her life to get on her: one who didn't mind that the bitch was surround
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    This bitch was pretty weird all round, but one of the best hare dogs I've had, so I took the chance. She wasn't nervous as such, just very highly strung: something I could live with considering how good she was in the field. Her pups were much more laid back, but nowhere near as good as she was.
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    Casso's dead right on this one. I had a bitch who would only stand for a dog she lived with and knew very well indeed. Even then, it took three of us to hold her steady, and she wasn't happy about the whole thing at all. She whelped fine and looked after her pups very well, though she had always been a bit of a nervy bitch: never happy around dogs she didn't know well.
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    It's not what they say on the programme, it's the underlying emphasis on the countryside being purely a beautiful place for people to observe and wander around in. Now't wrong with that at all, but they steer clear of any mention of certain species being a pest to certain people: i.e. foxes being nuisance predators, and when did they last mention rabbits as pest? They are clever at only portraying certain aspects of country life, and ignoring others: this, to me, paints a rather too rosy picture of nature and very seldom the conflict that some species cause between those who work in the count
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    It's not what they say on the programme, it's the underlying emphasis on the countryside being purely a beautiful place for people to observe and wander around in. Now't wrong with that at all, but they steer clear of any mention of certain species being a pest to certain people: i.e. foxes being nuisance predators, and when did they last mention rabbits as pest? They are clever at only portraying certain aspects of country life, and ignoring others: this, to me, paints a rather too rosy picture of nature and very seldom the conflict that some species cause between those who work in the count
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    Crazy, awesome: couldn't stop watching it: I like how he says he's now going to retire and take things easy flying a mountain rescue chopper: :laugh:
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