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    I'd say he has 'sprung' the toe: that is, damaged/stretched the ligaments that stretch and contract to allow it to move as the dog moves. Claws usually grow like that when the toe is flattened: does the claw point upwards when the dog is standing still? Nowt you can do about it but keep the claw as short as possible so he doesn't catch it on something.
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    Heart in mouth stuff there! Great read: lets have some more pics please: though I appreciate that you can't actually take photos when you're driving along at that pace LOL
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    My apologies! Just shows how these rumours are perpetuated:
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    Feeding naturally (raw meat, bones and veg) will help to keep a dog in much better all round condition than feeding it on commercial, heat treated food packed with preservatives etc. I've had rescue dogs come to me suffering from sores/wounds etc that the previous owners said would'nt heal: after a couple of weeks on real natural food for dogs 99% of skin problems and wounds have healed with no extra intervention from me in the form or antibiotics or whatever. Happy, calm and well exercised dogs will also have a better immune system than dogs which are stressed or unhappy (e.g. badly tre
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    Just received this in an email from a friend: Please share this with your sisters, daughters, nieces, mothers, female and male (because they have mothers, daughters, sisters and nieces, too) friends . This Incident has been confirmed. A man came over and offered his services as a painter to a female putting petrol in her car and left his card. She said no ,but accepted his card out of kindness and got in the car. The man then got into a car driven by another man. As the lady left the service station, she saw the men following her out of the station at the same time. Almost immediately
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    Tripe isn't necessary for pups and doesn't contain much protein anyway, although most dogs love it. Stick with what your'e doing, sounds good enough IMO. But as already said, don't water down the yoghurt, and no, you don't need to freeze human grade beef mince.
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    From the look of the photo, and this is by no means a conclusive diagnosis as that would be impossible from a photo, you have a serious amount of swelling going on in the area of that scar, on the outside of the foot. There could very well be a bone infection in the joint beneath, as in, inside, where the scar is. At the very least some bad bone bruising, which could take weeks to heal. I would restrict the dog to lead work for at least 3 weeks, hot and cold poultice the area every day, and if things have not improved dramatically by then take the dog to the vet: an infection that is not
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    I'm thinking you mean Hydrogen Peroxide (not the hair dye stuff though!) Get it from the chemist: dilute 50/50 with water and use for cleaning out infected, pussy or dirty wounds. Don't keep using it over and over again on the same wound though as it cauterizes the flesh and slows down healing. Don't use it on a clean open wound for the same reason. What HP does is bubble dirt/infection to the top where you can then clean it off. Great for infected bites too.
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    A great read loved it. I had a Rottie once: brought up with terriers and lurchers: great nose and huge drive: would smash through cover like a bulldozer. Sadly she was from crap stock and her cruciate ligaments, hips and elbows meant that I rehomed her to a pet home as she just couldn't take the work. Like so many badly bred Rotties nowadays I'm afraid.
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    As they say: never judge a book by its cover! I rather like him myself.
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    My Saluki bred pup broke a toe at 12 weeks old: was in a cast for 10 days then I realised that he was in a lot of pain: I took it off and his whole leg was horribly twisted: like he was trying to walk on the inside of this wrist! Took him to a good Greyhound vet who said not to worry. Light exercise for the next couple of months: by the time he was 6 months old the leg was perfectly straight and you'd never know he'd done anything to it. It did take at least a couple of months to straighten though: wish I'd taken some before and after pics: it looked dreadful and you'd never have thought it
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    Bedding

    skycat replied to Hunting Lad's topic in General Talk

    Like TT: vet bed in summer: just for something soft to lie on: stops kennel sores and dogs are more comfortable. Straw in winter: lots of it: wet cold dogs back in from work can burrow into it and dry off fast; roll around in it and mud just falls off their coats. Change it every week and burn old. The only thing to watch out for is ticks and fleas from straw: I regularly spray the kennels with Acclaim 2000 or Indorex (not for use on the dogs themselves: kills eggs and larvae as well as adult fleas etc)
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    I doubt, and hope, that you wouldn't do that over barbed wire fences! When jumping wire a pup needs to learn to clear it with confidence:not get dragged over so it hurts itself. Success breeds success and confidence. Set up a low wire fence in your garden or yard: getting a dog to jump something it can see through is completely different to jumping solid objects. If I'm out in the field with a pup and we approach a barbed wire fence, I always find a low bit that has been squished down a bit, then I take of my coat and lay it over the top at the same time as putting a foot on the wire to kee
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    Yes and no! A lot depends on what the dog has been fed on throughout its life. Basically once a dog has its adult teeth there is not sure fire way of telling. If the dog has always been fed on raw, carcases and plenty of bones its teeth should still be nice and white up until the age of about 6-7 years. After that a little yellowing is normal, even if there isn't any plaque as such. Dogs fed on soft food often get really shitted up teeth early on, swollen red gums (gingivitis), greeny black plaque along the gum line.
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    Incredible footage: thanks for putting that up. I wonder how often the birds are injured by the foxes? Not thier natural quarry. And that one of the eagle carrying the chamoix, or whatever it was: just awesome.
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    Wash daily with salt water: don't bandage: let the air get to it as that will help to dry it up. Lead walk only until the quick has shrunk back and is covered with new nail growth: usually takes about 3-4 weeks.
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    It depends entirely on the type of lurcher you have: a little Bed/Whip cross will mature far earlier than a Deerhound cross. The bigger the dog the longer it takes to finish growing, both physically and mentally. I have in the past taken 9 month old pup out for a couple of runs: small lurcher to lurcher cross: she was 22". And I've waited until nearly 2 years old for a great heavy lump of a thing to finish maturing. Best thing is to get them out in the field mooching about from an early age, not pushing it but letting the pup learn a bit of field craft and how to negotiate fences, brambles
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    I always use a penicillin cream that comes in a plastic syringe: its made for cows with mastitis: ideal for syringing into deep cuts and bites: things that need to heal naturally from the inside. I buy it from my vet and its about £4 per tube: a tube usually lasts me a good season: clean the wound well with salt water and insert the tip of the syringe nozzle as far as you can into the wound and press the plunger gently until a little cream oozes out. You will usually find that once a dog has been bitten a few times the reaction to bites is not nearly so severe as the first time as the dog wi
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    Brilliant vids: especially the third one: you can see just how fast that coyote started running when it realised the dogs were coming: it really went down a few gears: just shows how very fast those dogs are. Very impressive animals they are: I guess something that has been bred for the sole purpose of catching coyotes must by now after a couple of hundred years, be as close to perfection as you can get.
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    Yes, a couple of my lurchers have done it when tackling fox: the second one I was wondering why she didn't go in hard and kill it like she usually did: realised afterwards when she was licking her chops a lot: had to pull the lip out over the tooth: healed well and quickly.
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    FAO INAN

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    One set of tyres down! Awesome!
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    Great to se some stag pics at last: impressive looking bunch, and a great read too: thanks for posting!
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    I put this on another thread yesterday: I have pups of 14 weeks here at the moment. Their breakfast is live yoghurt: couple of spoonfuls each in the morning. Then scrambled eggs and toast OR cooked rice and pilchards or some other oily fish OR minced raw rabbit with lamb fat added and a handful of rolled oats for roughage. they generally get a big meaty bone or a bit of breast of lamb for lunch. Something they can sit and chew for ages tearing off bits of meat and fat etc, but at this age nothing they could grind up and swallow: they've only got baby teeth! Supper is meat: either m
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    Don't expect a bit 26" dog to be fully mature until it is at least 18 months old. The skeleton alone will take up to 15 months to finish growing: then add on another 6 months for the muscles to develop fully. Big dogs aren't physically mature until 2 years or even more: untold damage can be done by running them hard before then: a few runs out on the lamp is fine, but serious sustained work must be worked up to gently. Another thing: the heart is also a muscle! Everything needs to be built up to gradually: so many dogs are ruined before they are 2 years old. Yes, they might appear fine but
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