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  1. skycat

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    skycat replied to raymond1's topic in General Talk

    I too was hoping to hear good news when I came on here this morning: this cast cast a shadow over the morning, and made me realise how fragile our lives really are, and we never know when it will be our turn. Condolences to Craigy's family and friends.
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    Had the same thing with a terrier. Once on raw food, never did it again. A lot of tinned and dry food has stacks of flavour enhancers and preservatives in it so the crap still smells and tastes (to a dog!) like food!
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    That's good advice, but I'd go one step further: take dog to where there is no rabbits, a park or similar: throw a dummy, rabbit skin covered, put the beam on the dummy, send dog for it. Practice this a lot, then send dog out to end of beam without a dummy being thrown. Dog will be looking for dummy, but then you call it back. Reward with dummy when it gets to you. Let the dog grab hold of the dummy for a moment, then tell it to give, and throw it again, put beam on it and let dog bring it back. The idea behind this is that the dog comes back to you the moment you tell it to, whether or not i
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    When you compare these numbers with shooting, that makes it all the more impressive, and it didn't cost a fortune in bullets or cartridges either! And no carcases blown to bits or full of pellets.
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    He could have put a vertebra out of place, trapped a nerve, torn a muscle, not necessarily in his back either. Get the dog to a good back/bone man if he isn't right in a couple of days: more dogs do minor damage to themselves pratting about than you'd believe.
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    Soft bones, like the wings of chickens produced for human consumption, and killed when only 2 months of age, will dissolve in the stomach whether minced or whole. I also have a 17" dog that literally swallows them whole. Never throws them up and you can't see any bone in his shit.
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    Dog getting constipated is nothing to do with minced or whole carcases: more to do with the amount of bone being fed, whether minced or not. Bone should only form a small percentage of the entire diet. If mine get a whole chicken carcase, by which I mean what the butcher throws out, so already minus most of the meat, they would get equal amounts of meat or tripe and meat mixed, plus a small amount of minced veg and either a couple of slices of brown bread, a handful or raw oats, or cooked pasta. That way you give enough fibre to stop the bones from clogging up the dog's guts and coming out li
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    Many apologies stig: I didn't read properly
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    Well, that was very good of you to step in, but there's no way you should have judged your own terriers: even if they were the best there on the day, it looks bad to all onlookers. If you hadn't been prepared to leave your dogs in the vehicle, you shouldn't have offered to judge. Just my opinion, but one I know that many will share.
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    Quite agree grant_c : Many's the time I've like the look of a dog from a distance, but when you get up close you can find soft muscles, long claws, dirty teeth, fleas etc etc. Some people would argue that it is a beauty show, and that the bits you don't see from a distance shouldn't matter, but IMO the condition and cleanliness of the dog are part and parcel of that beauty. I once judged a show where the most obviously beautiful dog was, on close examination, literally riddled with fleas, to the extent that it's coat looked darker from a distance than it really was simply because of the amou
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    Lovely shots there: was the black and white out in broad daylight?
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    You must be doing something right to keep him fit in his old age
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    Cheers reddawn: I shouldn't really want to watch that sort of thing as your'e right: watching those sort of shows just increases the amount of negativity in the world today. When did anyone last make a series about some really great people doing really interesting and good things!!!
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    I know it goes against the grain, but I'd sooner have a dog put down than let it go just about anywhere these days: I'd now only let a dog go to someone I know and respect as a good dogman/woman. There's just too many idiots about and I'd sooner know the dog was dead than wondering if it was being abused or neglected somewhere.
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    Looks like some class dogs there: wish I'd gone.
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    WTF? Anyone got a link to it? Snapped his toes off: for real? Can't find it anywhere on t'internet.
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    If I may make so bold and try to explain why your initial post might have ruffled a few feathers.............the words TOP CLASS don't mean a thing to most people. Especially when we're discussing working dogs. Anyone can label their dog as 'top class', but those words are seldom backed up by hard facts, especially in the field. Making such a bold statement is bound to incite a fair bit of scepticism. Don't forget, those who work their lurchers are not interested in whether or not the dog has won shows, or if it has unintentionally pulled down some animal whilst out on a walk. There is a g
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    I can really sympathise with you as I've been fighting the stuff for years and years: it is a full time, on going battle to even keep it under control. Even half an inch of root left in the ground spawns forests of the stuff in only a few weeks. I've not yet found anything that kills it permanently without frying every other living plant at the same time. Along with rats, cockroaches and mosquitoes, it must be one of the most successful life forms on the planet
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    Lovely post and there's nowt wrong with those photos at all: seeing as you like hedges so much, fancy a trip over our way? :laugh:
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    Lucky lad there. Always fascinating to see the layout of the land from above.
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    Work her on her own: simple. She may well calm down later as she matures and the sight of dead rabbits isn't such a big deal, but for the moment, she needs to work in a situation which doesn't arouse those possessive instincts. A lot of Saluki types are like that, especially when young, but expecting the older bitch to 'sort her out' won't help anyone at all, and could well divide the two bitches for good. If the pup is already being arsey, do something about it NOW. Or you'll end up with badly damaged or dead dogs. Bitches are worse than dogs for bearing grudges, and if the pup is showing
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    Jeez! All these mad old wives recipes for drying a bitch up> epsom salts simply dehydrates the bitch, galastop does the same, and as for asprin: thins the blood as not bad as a pain killer, but for drying up milk: the mind boggles. Most bitches start to milk up around 5-6 weeks after the end of a season, around the time when, had they been pregnant, the pups are starting to show. Expect the milk situation to stay like this until the imaginary pups are around 3-4 weeks old! Nothing gets rid of the milk entirely except for the natural change in hormone production, but the only thing I h
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    Most vets advise spaying and castrating pups at 5-6 months :censored: Poor pup isn't even mentally mature, let alone physically, but that's what most pet owners want: a perpetual puppy.
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    Is that really the law? Not putting cows and calves on the same ground as public footpaths? There have been cows with calves all summer on the common land with public footpaths running through them round my way: always are.
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    Just been and picked up a mixed box of chook carcases, wings, lamb ribs, lamb tops, beef trimmings, off cuts of liver etc etc: one of the many advantages of having a village butcher: and all for free, though we do supply him with rabbits throughout the winter, in exchange for which we get what we want from his shop, but especially whole breast of lamb: lovely cut into ribs, splash of balsamic vinegar, salt and garlic, very slow roasted in the oven, and all that lovely fat to cook with afterwards: does it get any better?
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