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    Course of broad spectrum antibiotics a week before mating is sometimes used by breeders. Go and buy a little paperback called The Book of the Bitch: it will tell you just about everything you need to know about breeding and whelping: brilliant book.It would take far too long to write it all on here: maybe if I had a few weeks LOL, seriously, buy that book, you'll not regret it.
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    I've also heard the same said about garlic: semi crush a whole head of garlic, in one of those net things they sell them in, then hang in kennel: if you can bear the smell! Garlic is a powerful antiseptic, very powerful indeed: not to be used on wounds:ouch!! It burns skin if it comes into prolonged contact so keep well away from dogs.
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    This link has trojans on it!!!
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    MOst young dogs go through this stage: what you need to do is make life more fun and more interesting for the dog: whoever looks after and walks the dog must play with it, interact, train it to do any number of daft things, just to get the dog focussing on them, not other dogs. It is normal for a dog to want to meet and play with other dogs: if the dog doesn't get this dog interaction at home (only dog) then it is bound to want to see other dogs when out walking. Can't you meet up with people who have like minded dogs and let them play for a while? Continually stopping a dog's natural beha
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    Sad news: any sort of hunting dog is in danger but those boar dogs take their lives in their hands every time don't they. I wonder if the puncture wounds by the front leg damaged the sac round the heart, allowing bleeding into the sac which in time clogs up the heart. I had a terrier killed like that from a bite between her front legs: only a fox, but the teeth or tooth must have been long enough. Or maybe a punctured lung?
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    The only time our rabbits bounce back into the field is early season if they miss their run: hedges are no good at slowing them down round here: just dive in and gone. Need very fast hard striking dogs to catch them. One missed strike and that's it.
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    pup

    skycat replied to tommy9's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs

    I hope you didn't think that I was bullying anyone into feeding raw S. but if a pup is a picky eater I have always found that they do tend to eat better if they are on meat, bones etc. I've yet to see a pup that wouldn't dive into minced beef or fresh tripe, even when they only want to pick at dry food. That's all.
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    I remember the third one in the top photo when he was rough coated. Do you rmember the banter between a man who could run almost as fast as his dogs: he was ribbing A. about his long flowing bleached (by the sun) hair and making out he'd just come from the hair salon: to which A. replied, looking straight at R's bald pate: "Well at least I've got some hair to style" Got that exchange on video somewhere: I fell about laughing at the time.
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    That's a cracker!
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    She's a little 22" bitch who comes down from Merlin/Eve lines on her sire's side and rough coated lurchers on the other. A proper little mongrel with the heart of a lion. Takes anything; A bit strange in the head sometimes but I can't fault her in the field. The two rough coated pups are related to her as they are out of a cousin back to another cousin with similar bloodlines: gets a bit complicated :wacko: but they're a lot bigger. The one I kept is about 25" and still maturing, very rangy bitch probably more suited to big open ground: very slow to mature and she'll be 2 in July so
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    Just got this: not bad. Rather too much filming the dogs digging at holes in the ground, but the way they hunt and the range they cover is awesome. I guess the whole film is a bit like real life: you win some and you lose some. Those lurchers are covering miles, just like foxhounds would, searching continually for scent: then a fox will jump and the action is on. A couple of great bits footage of dogs and fox running, but rather too much ragging and digging in comparison. Still not bad though, and as I said, their nose work is awesome considering the speed at which they're going, and I
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    AS has already been said: the edges of the wound need scraping to make fresh edges which can grow back together. YOu can't do this without knocking the dog out without causing it a lot of pain, besides which I doubt very much if it would let you. Then it needs properly suturing. Trying to patch up a badly healing wound after its gone wrong is never a good scenario. IMO, if someone can't cook they should stay out of the kitchen, or at least befriend a chef who can show them the ropes BEFORE they start cooking, if you get my drift. What really pisses me off about today's society is that
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    Quite amazing that footage: those coyotes are really weird: you wouldn't get a wolf behaving like that would you! How I'd love to come over and see them for real, plus a few other types of hunting we don't have in the UK. Maybe some day when the boat comes in LOL AP: I think my Airedale has some of those lines in her, but as none of her breeding is written down I just keep forgetting what the guy told me: doh! Whatever, they are, in my inexeperienced opinion, one of the most versatile and intelligent dogs around. And I thank you guys over there for keeping those working lines going when t
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    pup

    skycat replied to tommy9's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs

    Ditch the tinned and dry food: give the pup some REAL MEAT. If its only 3 months old get you to the butcher or supermarket and buy some beef mince, NOT the low fat variety, just the cheapest. Get some chicken wings, some breast of lamb and watch the little pup tuck in. You could of course also read up on BARF: do a search on here or Google it. Believe me your attitude to commercial dog food will never be the same again! By the way: tinned dog food is about % water, and Beta dog food is mostly cereals, not exactly what a growing pup needs. Don't worry, most people believed that buy
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    One of the reasons I first wanted an Airedale is those Dales in the pics you've put up: first saw them on the Coyote Gods site. Now that my Airedale is 2 years old certain things got me wondering. Obviously an Airedale is more than a match for a fox in the UK, so do these tolling dogs never actually just kill the coyote without a shot having to be fired? Or is it down to speed: coyote just too fast for the Airedales? (was the tussle in the slide show on a wounded coyote?) They are obviously totally different to foxes: imagine being able to pull foxes in with dogs over here! There'd be n
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    I can't believe there are no canine chiropractors in your area: it is a growing business all over the country. Google canine chiropractor and you'll find some: some travel to your home. If you have a greyhound track near you they will be able to tell you of any greyhound vets in the area. Portamags are brilliant, but they won't untrap a trapped nerve. Proper sports massage can sort out a lot more problems than a Portamag but you need to know how to do it. I once had a bitch that 3 vets said was having problems with a flat toe on her front leg. I ended up taking her to a chiropractor as
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    Here's a few: all many generations of lurcher to lurcher.
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    What have you wormed the pup with? Only a good multiwormer like Drontal Plus or Milbemax will kill all types of worms.A heavy worm burden can actually stop the dog eating properly as their guts always feel irritated. Dogs do eat grass if they have an irritation such as worms in their guts, but mine all eat loads of grass at this time of year even though they are regularly wormed. This is normal, especially in spring when the grass is growing and full of nutrients as they get tiny amounts of trace elements, vitamins and minerals from vegetation even though they can't digest it very well.
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    Cracking photos there: brilliant fun ain't it!
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    So glad that healed OK Lurchergrrl: I've never seen anything as bad as that in my life, and never seen a vet do as many tension sutures either, though admittedly my dogs haven't been quite that bad. I wonder how much experience that vet had! Horrible wound that, and not one I'd want to put in the book: just too much really, shame though as it would have shown just what a dog can recover from given the right sort of care and enough time.
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    You know the old falling cage trap? Well it works just fine with certain birds. Get used to feeding birds in your garden in a certain spot: then place a bottomless cage at an angle propped up just over the corn. Get them used to that for a few days, then tie a piece of string to the end propped up and hide: pull string when bird is under cage. I used this method to trap my own pigeons that went feral and were crapping everywhere and making a nuisance of themselves: needless to say I got a few unwanted other birds in my trap too: of course I released them.
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    Aussie pig dogs: awesome looking animals.
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    Thanks very much for your support folks: it would have been a damn sight easier to have written a nice story about a lurcher's life or something like that, but I'm so far along now there's no turning back,so back to the keyboard for a few more months graft.
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    my own fault ??

    skycat replied to a topic in General Talk

    It's not about the number of dogs, its about who is boss, as Duckwing said. You can keep umpteen dogs together as long as they know there is to be no squabbling. I won't say that mine live in fear of me, but they do have great respect for me, and I only have to raise my voice to restore calm if there is the slightest sign of silliness. I've never (I know one should never say never LOL) had a fight, BUT I don't mix lurchers and terriers together with the exception of one 14 year old terrier who is very quiet and likes to use the lurchers as hot water bottles, which they don't mind: she's olde
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    A wooden shed's as good as anything: depending on where you live and how exposed you are you could insulate it with expanded polystyrene fitted between the uprights, ditto the roof and then cover with ply. Cut a pop hole in one side, preferably not the door as that will weaken it a bit and site it not facing directly into the prevailing wind/rain. Put a roof on the run as well: helps to encourage the dogs not to mess/pee in the shed.
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