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The Swiss don't have it all their own way. They are tied to free movement by their trade agreements with the EU even though Switzerland is not an EU member. -
The most horrible sort of fence as the dog doesn't see the second fence until it's in the air and too late to avoid getting hung up on it.
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So glad for you Phil. Al came to my aid too a few weeks ago. What a totally top bloke he is. We live in this strange unreal cyber world where we can accept (and give) help to people we have never met. For someone of my age this is a somewhat weird situation, brought up as I was in a world where friends were people you actually knew in the flesh. But I guess it's never too late to learn new things. Like guns, the internet is only as bad or as good as the one wielding the computer.
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Love the idea of a bit of astroturf in the dog run. So many dogs don't like peeing on hard surfaces.
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And on the topic of wire: how the hell does a bitch who jumps the same fence every day to go and run a few rabbits round a field manage to get caught on the top of the fence and put a nasty hole in her groin?????????? I can only assume she slipped, or misjudged her jump. Grrrr. Happens to even the most sensible and experienced if they put a foot wrong.
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The first three photos are great. Nice little tyke too.
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Probably about a quarter of what it would cost to spay a bitch. Maybe less.
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Interesting: only ever had this happen once, and the nest was hay. Ever since I've used straw, and no problems. The thinking being that hay is too soft and more likely to wind around the umbilical cords than straw. Maybe it's got nothing to do with the bedding and more to do with the jill not chewing the cords off close enough to the kits' belly.
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Shallow bowls only once the pups are mobile. Don't want a pup getting in and then being stuck in there.
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It's a good point about them learning where to toilet penny, one of mine was reared on shavings so goes wherever and isn't bothered about standing in it either. IMO shavings are the worst thing as pups get them into their stomachs, gives them diarrhoea and doesn't do them any good at all. And, worst case scenario, can clog their guts up.
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Make the box according to the size of the bitch. The box needs to be wide and long enough for her to lie down comfortably on her side with her legs stretched out. Also worth making one side of the box removable, so that when the pups start getting old enough to crawl off their bed to pee and crap for themselves, they naturally try to get as far from their nest as possible: once they hit around 3 weeks. Making the nest bedding out of vet bed or something easily washable, and the bit outside the box of a totally different material (I use newspaper, not shredded, but in sheets laid flat) so the p
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Stress will also make a dog's coat dull and scurfy. Seen mine go scurfy as hell when I used to take them to shows: they hated it. Even a trip to the vet can bring them up in scurf and make their coats look harsh.
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re boyo's post: a litter I bred many years ago. Me and my OH each picked a pup. Mine looked like a bear at 6 weeks, his looked much finer. After a year, mine was taller and finer, and his was shorter and much more heavily built. Also, a terrier litter I bred: sold a huge, retard of a pup to someone: it ended up half the size of the one I kept, and fine boned too. Just goes to show you can't really tell.
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Phil: that dog is just cruising the wire with a nonchalant look on her face: she's saying: "Jumping? Any fool can jump, but do they have my style?"
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I'm not as fatalistic as some of you. I've seen some horrendous tears from barbed wire on young lurchers who weren't properly looking where they were going: usually when there's other dogs messing about and distracting the youngster. Yes, I teach mine to jump, but I never teach jumping on to concrete or slabs or rock hard ground, and I never send them pinging back and forth over fences over and over again for the hell of it. If that sounds poncy, so be it. Gaz: that photo you just put up, we have only that sort of fencing round here, and it is easily 4 and a half feet high round here. No prob
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I pity any athlete these days: they have to perform well, and then they have to do the PR bit with a big smile on their faces and saying all the right things as soon as they've finished running, fighting, driving, whatever, and most times they're having to do a post mortem on the game/race/match before they've even got their breath back. It's no longer enough to win, they have to be all people-friendly as well, or suffer the trolling/comments/harsh judgement of their character.
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Then again, there could be a bit of bull in there somewhere, and the muscle is a throwback to that blood.
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Terrier looks well muscled . They both do, but you don't often see that definition on many small terriers. Not talking about bull types.
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It's not just the blame culture that gets worse every day, it is society as a whole. What sane, healthy and right-minded society encourages young people to get legless on cheap booze????????? Of course you can blame the stupid girl for drinking too much ... but I remember drinking too much when I was that age ... only there weren't rapists cruising the streets in those days. Or maybe I just lived in a 'nice' area. But it has to be said that 40 years ago there weren't these sort of clubs, and there was a much smaller population in the UK, and they were made up of mainly indigenous British peop
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Fat gives energy, and pups use a lot of energy. If the meat you are feeding her isn't very fatty, then you should be feeding her extra fat every day. If you think 'whole carcase' when you feed raw, and by that I mean a carcase in the prime of its life, there will be a percentage of fat, more muscle meat than anything else, and a percentage of bone and organ meat: heart/liver/kidneys. If we fed nothing but rabbit (european rabbit that is) an active or growing dog would not get enough fat. People get what is called 'rabbit starvation' if they try to live on nothing but rabbit, or other very l
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Forget giving percentages of body weight in a feed. Feed the pup as much as she wants to eat at a sitting (a raw meal should take 5-20 minutes depending on how much bone she has to crunch up). Make sure the protein is first class: red meat: beef/venison/lamb etc. Also make sure that there is enough fat: hard animal fat is best, the sort you get off beef and lamb. Heart/liver should also form a small part of the diet. Chicken is OK, but I'd sooner be putting more red muscle meat into a pup: more iron and Vitamin B etc. If you are going to feed kibble, make sure that meat is the primary ingredi
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A massive thank you to Al who is, to me, a wizard with magical powers, though he's probably an ordinary human being who actually knows what he's doing on a computer. Thank you so much!
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That is very kind of you indeed. I can't do it tonight: when is a good time for you over the weekend? That's always providing I can find my id number! Where would I find it?
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Oh my God, Phil ... that's a real disaster. Surely some technically-minded wizard could retrieve them, somehow? It is always said that once on a computer, you can never truly lose something ...it's in there somewhere!
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It's all a bit confusing for me . I think I'll have to pay the local IT man to sort it out. I just hate being so incompetent with these things, but I can spend hours and hours trying to sort things out and still get nowhere except extremely ratty!
