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    How horrible for you: its the worst feeling in the world: I had it happen once and never went near the place again for 3 years. could you not put some wire netting in the gap yourself? At least it would serve as a temporary barrier.
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    Quite a lot of dogs that are hand reared or otherwise living with humans at an earlier age than normal are very hard to house train, especially if they believe they are on a par, status wise, as the humans in the house. Pups in a house from a very young age will also invariably have accidents when very young, which also 'helps' them to feel that they can pee or crap wherever they feel like as they get in to the habit of doing it in the house. Also, no matter how well you clean up after them they still have the memory of doing it in a certain place and will always go there again if caught sho
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    Metronidazole is an antibiotic for anaerobic bacterial infections: in other words, infections where the bacteria don't need oxygen to survive, unlike surface wound infections: often normal broad spectrum antibiotics don't work if the wound is closed over or there is internal infection. My vet has always presribed Metronidazole for bone infections.
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    One of mine, the black bitch, needs to kill stuff regularly or she'll go for anything: she just goes stir crazy: like has already been said: they're bred to kill and they need that fix to stay on the straight and narrow: I don't care how highly you train certain terriers, their breeding and instinct will always come to the fore and override the training sooner or later. OK so some less 'kill minded' terriers aren't like that, but the stuff that has been bred to kill its game really need to be killing to stay right in the head.
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    Cracking shots: my favourite is the first one:
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    Mars: the bulk is something that worries me a bit: compared to the English KC Airedales she is like a tank: and not very fast: she is also very stiff in her movement compared to the English ones and has absolutely no bend of stifle at all: gallops along like a rocking horse and although she's very agile for all her bulk I don't know if the shape is just too heavy to make a good lurcher. I ask myself if this conformation could be helped by crossing with a Greyhound: the only way to see is to try it I guess! Weasle: that is a great looking dog: is it a first cross Airedale/Grey?
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    Someone brought back some decent working bred Airedales from Canada a few years ago: Redline types as well as a mixture of working strain dogs. There are a few on the ground in the UK now but the guy won't breed any more as there were too many messers and swappers getting hold of his dogs. I've got a female which I'm hoping to breed from in a year's time, but I noticed in this months's EDRD that someone had put up a male for stud from similar breeding. Be interesting to see if people use this dog and if the idea catches on over here. I've only ever had the one Airedale but she is everyt
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    Brave but not stupid. Anyone who really loves their dogs would try and save them: it would take a very strong minded person to just stand and watch their dog go under. If anyone called my dogs to them they would get such a ear battering it ain't true: I don't like my dogs going to strangers at the best of times: hope this woman gets her's.
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    What do you feed the dog on? Have you thought of changing the diet? Some food intolerances show up as catarrh/phlegm/sinus problems. Does the dog live in or out? If it lives in the house are you smokers? When we stopped smoking in our house 2 lurchers which had previously snorted and retched as though to clear their sinuses and throats stopped doing that almost immediately. Dairy and grain intolerance often shows as sinus/catarrh type problems. That's the only thing I could suggest, though I'm sure you've already been down that route: just wondering.
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    Good Salukis and Saluki lurchers are superb in every way, and whilst they do have the stamina to go the distance on a strong fen hare, the best are also capable of picking up in a short time and adapting their running/hunting style to the terrian and prey they are running. I think that a lot of the dogs (certainly not all of them) you see on the DVDs have been turned into plodders by over running: seen it myself: some owners run and run and run their dogs when they should have left the field. The dog, through experience and sometimes fatigue learns that it doesn't have to run flat out to
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    What is the result to the dog if you feed dry food wit raw meet ? It can give some dogs diarrhoea, but even if it doesn't the raw meat won't give as much goodness to the dog if itis mixed with dry as that goes through the gut faster which means the meat side of things won't have time to be absorbed as well. Some human nutritionists say that the same is true for humans and that we'd get more benefit from what we eat if we didn't mix up carbohydrate and protein in the same meal.
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    Does she usually pee on grass? If so, put a piece of turf in her run for her to go on. If she doesn't usually go on grass put a piece of whatever she does go on in the run, or you could try a patch of wood shavings: some dogs don't like to go on a surface that isn't absorbent.
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    Well they should have lots of stamina that 's for sure: are they spotty like Dalmations? Just curious to know which way they threw.
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    Why is the person in the photo holding the dog's tail in the air like its a terrier? Sorry to be picky but if your'e trying to sell a lurcher at least let it stand like one!!! Just looks plain daft like that. And it does look to be a very nich bitch .
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    Good tip that I also chuck down lumps of fat that the butcher gives me: they love it.
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    Old layers will have a prominant breast bone, but I always feed mine a warm mash in the winter: just pour a little hot water over their layers pellets so they go crumbly moist, not sloppy. I've also discovered that chickens just love Vitalin (dog food) which is pretty much the same price as layers pellets: mine have put back a lot of weight since feeding them a mixture of layers pellets and a bit of Vitalin. They also get mixed corn in the aftenoons. You could also try giving them warm water to drink in this very cold weather: even birds don't like having to drink nigh on freezing water: it
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    It's got nothing at all to do with his ear shape: I've had Saluki types with big floppy ears that turn inside out all the time for years and years and not one has ever had an ear infection. More likely to be either an environmental issue: dust/straw mites in bedding, not cleaned often enough (the bedding I mean. Not accusing just asking) Incorrect diet can also play a part in recurring infections: dog's immune system compromised by something lacking in its diet. If a vet charged you for a prescription for anything from Johnsons then they should be struck off: absolute rubbish stuff as ha
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    Why would anyone want to stop feeding fresh meat and eat dried biscuit? My own dogs would turn their noses up at most dried food as they are fed on raw, though a few 'piggy' ones would eat anything! If the bloke really has to (still can't think why though) feed dried then at least make sure it is a feed of good quality. All cheap (under £30 a bag) feeds are cereal based, not natural food for a dog. Pay more than £30 a bag and most will be meat based which at least should have slightly more appeal to a dog's nose.
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    Like has already been said, terriers have been bred to be agressive. It is not just the physical damage that can occur but mentally too one or both of the dogs can be affected badly. The one that is the most agressive will learn to be dog agressive, which is hardly what you want in a working dog which may at some stage have to work with dogs it doesn't know. And the one that is coming of worst may be ruined and either turn into a gibbering wreck or turn very nasty with other dogs: a case of I'll bite you before you try and kill me! Split them up permanently before it gets any worse
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    Make sure they are contained in a cardboard box or similar to cut any draughts as well. There is no point in heating them from above if the cold air can still get at them from the sides at floor level. Make sure the box is big enough for the pups and bitch to move away from directly under the lamp: I usually selotape a piece of cardboard across half the top of the box as bitches like to be slightly hidden when they've got pups and it will also help to shade them from the heat. You want to use something the size of a box which a small washing machine or similar would be packed in, and of cou
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    Interesting and good thread with good replies. I've not personally had a lurcher with a lot of Bull in it as I've never found much lacking in my own lurchers, though I was given one as a pup, but with only an 1/8 Bull in her. From what I gather she is typical of most Bull lurchers, (although she only has such a small amount of that blood in her) in that she is always up for anything, tries hard, really wants to please, is very intelligent: of course those qualities could have come from the other breeds in her (what are they? Don't know! LOL) She is also about as sensitive as a lump of wood
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    Hopefully next year. She's only just 2 years old and I'd sooner wait until she is at least 4 years old, but in my heart of hearts and from the evidence I've seen so far I think that she is worth breeding from. I'm trying to do as much as I can with her this season but her big problem is that she has massive phantom pregnancies which last at least 3 months after her season, which means she just isn't on the ball mentally or physically during that time. It's a real pain as she goes a bit stupid, deaf and plain doo-lally!! I've never had a lurcher or terrier bitch this bad before, and ther
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    My own terriers are likely to fall over with shock if I shout at them; they never look agressive at other dogs, quite the opposite. My black Pat is almost scared of strange dogs and yet she kills foxes to ground without batting an eyelid. Just because a dog doesn't act 'hard' or tough in daily life means f*ck all: IMO the very best dogs are laid back, easy to get on with and a doddle to handle until they are at work. I've seen no end of so called 'hard' dogs mouthing off at other dogs and even snapping at people: but they've been no use at all down an earth. If someone has told you that yo
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    A dog's coat shouldn't be crap at any time of year if it is being fed correctly: certainly an increase in the fat content of the diet is good in the cold weather if the dog lives outside. Some dogs also look bad if they are wormy. Worm the dog properly with Drontal or Milbemax. If the dog isn't already on a decent meat based diet then get it on to a good complete meat based diet or even better on to raw food with plenty of animal fat in it. And make sure that the dog isn't bedded on anything which could irritate its skin such as Vetbed (that's if the dog is scratching a lot)
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    The dog's tail absolutely DOES NOT need to be docked (amputated) if it is a clean break with no bits of bones sticking through the skin which could cause infection. As long as you immobilise the tail within a rigid tube (empty syringe case for example: not cardboard which is not strong enough and will go soggy) until it has healed then all you should be left with is a possible kink in the tail. I have had 3 broken tails in lurchers over the years and only one needed to be amputated as it was broken in 2 places and there were bits of bone sticking through the skin: she wrapped it round a barb
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