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I stopped getting stuff from Landywoods for the reason given in the earlier post: slightly high meat is fine, but slimy chicken mince that crawls away on its own is a step too far for me plus my dogs really hated it and only ate it after starving for 24 hours. I don't weight any food for my dogs: I look at them and feel their backs and sides: if they look a bit podgy I feed them less for a few days, and if they look as though they could do with a bit more weight on them I feed them more. Easy! In winter we fed minced whole rabbit with veg mixed in, plus chicken carcases, breast of lam
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Nice clear x-rays. How old is the dog? What diet is it on? From experience I do think that the foot should be completely immobilised and the dog kept up, not allowed off the lead at all until it is healed. There are slightly differing opinions amongst vets as to the type of immobilisation needed. Most modern vets no longer put plaster casts on dogs, preferring to use a type of soft fibre cast held together by an elastic bandage: less likelihood of causing sores under the cast etc. Make sure the dog is on a good RAW FOOD diet, plenty of red meat as well as lamb and chicken bon
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No her neck is fine Ive read on the net that its common for kits to have prolapsed rectoms when they start eating kibble. Hoping it will be ok over the next few days but if swelling dont go down by tuesday Il go to the vet again. OMG! If it is known that feeding kibble can cause these problems I'm bloody glad I never do: only to adults in an emergency which happens once in a blue moon. Can't you feed it as nature intended? On rabbit? Never get any problems with rabbit.
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If your local police or environmental health won't deal with the problem then go higher up: I'm sure there must be a higher power to go to when all else fails. Try Googling it.
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I've noticed one or two people using the word 'simples' to state that something is easy or not rocket science: I wonder how many people realise where that little word comes from! :secret: OK, lets just put a 'squeak' after the word 'simples' LOL And another one: I've been searching for the song that accompanies the FiveUSA advertising line for certain series: took me a while to understand the words properly and several frustrating hours googling madly Finally found the band who did the song All Lined Up: turns out they were an obscure band from the 's called Shriekback: anyone
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Mine are out bushing every day of the year, summer included if its evenings or early mornings. Winters they work the beat on a couple of shoots all day twice a week and Sundays is digging day if we're lucky to find anything to ground: with the winters so mild down here they lay out in brambles all year round nowadays. IMO people who walk a terrier to an earth on a lead won't have a fit dog if that's the only walking it does. The fitter the better for earth work: otherwise its a bit like a Formula One driver thinking he's fit just walking to his motor.
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BTW, food guarding isn't necessarily a dominance issue at all: it is a completely natural behaviour by most predators. Also wanted to say that a lot of pups go through the really possessive over meat and bones stage: if they are treated correctly they grow out of it once they know they can trust you and that there is another meal coming soon. Dogs are biologically programmed from birth to eat as much as they can at any one time in case the next meal is a long time away. It takes a while for a developing pup to learn how to cope with human demands and behaviours. Yes, occasionally you
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Well said 6pack. There are many stages in a pup's development, and fairly ealy on, whilst the pup is still with its litter mates it learns to growl and guard tasty bits of food, bones and such like, from its siblings. I keep Saluki crosses, which are known for being very possessive both of their food and what they catch. I understand that when a pup gets to the age when it is away from the bitch, either to a new home, at about 8 to 12 weeks old, that pup has already learned to guard its food from other pups. What the pup now has to learn is that you, the owner is not another pup to b
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Heavy birds like layers will trash your lawn and garden in no time at all. The only poultry I'd let loose in a garden are small bantams that don't have the weight and foot size to scrat up the surface. The small bantam varieties with feathered legs don't scrat much at all: they can't! Barbe d'Ucles are very nice and sweet little birds as a fancy fowl, but don't lay big eggs or all year round. Keep the layers penned up or you'll regret it: and yes, their droppings do attract flies!
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Barrel Houses ~ Anybody use 'em?
skycat replied to Little Butch's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
If your'e going to use barrels use a wooden one: plastic is cold in winter and creates condensation from the heat from the dog's body which collects in the roof and runs down to make the bedding all wet. -
Wow! That was a closely guarded secret! Are you going to be moving Foxyjo? Might see more of you if you do:
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That's the best way S.! Sex and field sports should remain separated or there is a serious risk of getting earth/muck/other unmentionable substances in places you'd rather not imagine LOL Erm, if you've never tried getting a grass seed out of delicate places you 'aint missed much Me, too, far too old to worry about my make up getting smeared during a dig, or my hair all mussed up out lamping. The more mature years do have their positive side, eh! And Jigsaw: serious dog women may be far and few between but they do exist
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Love the ground to dog angles: a bit dangerous sometimes LOL! (For the photographer at any rate)
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Just a bit of advice here: don't let a lurcher pup rough house it with adult dogs of any sort, not even little ones like terriers. Lurcher pups have a lot of growing to do in the leg department: the growth plates (the knobly bits on the 'wrists' and hocks are very delicate and if damaged by a knock can affect the healthy growth of bone. Yes of course you want a pup to be socialised with other dogs but take it easy and always supervise play. Here I go again with the diet thing! LOL Get the best quality protein into a pup that you can afford: if you feed cheap rubbish expect a sub st
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BLess her little socks (sorry: pun unintentional LOL). Clearly a great future for this one: lets see some pics of her now.
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How to get to the Fens from oxford
skycat replied to The black Mist's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
...........not to mention that it is usual to take a dog that you don't care for as it is bound to get taken off you: and of course the ensuing ASBO which is bound to follow! -
Get a small shallow dog water bowl: ceramic: put a stone in it which is big enough to stick out of the water so if the kit gets into the bowl it can use the stone to climb out: water should only be about an inch deep for a kit and you'll need to scrub bowl and stone out under running water EVERY day.
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Do you havea local friendly butcher? Ours gives us all his stripped chicken carcases: wings, legs and breast taken off. Also lamb trimmings. All you need to remember is not to feed large animal leg bones: weight bearing bones, pork skin is also pretty undigestable, and if you feed too many bones of any sort your dog will get constipated and crap dry white golf balls for turds which can be pretty uncomfortable for the dog. For young and growing dogs I reccomend about half red meat, 1/4 chicken wings or carcase and a small (couple of ribs) chunk of breast of lamb. But don't forget to vary
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my bitch first season
skycat replied to beddlington/greyhound's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
A bitch's first season can be very light, hardly noticeable, or it can be very heavy with prolonged bleeding: large breeds such as Deerhound crosses swell up like a giant ferret jill would: no problem for a dog with bad aim! LOL Also, a bitch can almost come into a first season, show blood for a couple of days then stop again and not have a proper season until a few months later. Once a bitch has had a proper season her nipples will get a bit bigger: this is not to be confused with the nipples of a bitch that has suckled a litter. Before a first season the nipples are the same as on a -
I would definitely not take a runt: but what are you calling the runt? Is it just a pup that is smaller than the rest? But OK proportions and health etc. A true runt usually looks malnourished, often has a head that seems disproportionately large for its body, is sometimes bug eyed and pot bellied as if it is carrying worms. Good litters well reared and with the bitch well fed and cared for shouldn't even have a runt amongst the pups. A true runt will be only half the size, or less, than the other pups when it is born, which is completely different to a small pup. Lurchers often h
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I don't think many people realise just how gruelling your type of work is: hats off to you: we'd all be in the brown stuff without you lot. Look after yourself and chill!
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Cheap food equals rubbish food: check the ingredients on the side of the bags. If the first ingredient listed is cereals then there's not much meat in the food. Dogs do far better on food which is mainly meat, and I know that thousands of dogs live happily for years on rubbish food but I really notice the difference if I compare my dogs with dogs that are fed cereal based commercially prepared food. If you only have one or two dogs then you only need a small freezer to store their meat and there's lots of outfits that deliver BARF (raw food) nowadays and it doesn't work out any more expen
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Pups' ears do sometimes stick up at funny angles when they are teething, but your pup is too young to be teething yet (4 to 5 months as a rule) and if the ear is hurting her you need to get to the vet in case there is an infection in there: bad infections can cause all sorts of problems and even make the dog deaf if bad enough, let alone causing a lot of pain: get it sorted asap.
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Not again! IMO Beta is crap, and no I didn't get out of bed the wrong side! Why don't you try feeding raw food: meat and bones etc?