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I know this wasn't aimed at me but I do have the answer for you It is fine to feed raw and 'complete' kibbled foods but it is not advised to do so in the same meal since they are processed at different speeds and are alleged to cause problems (I have no first hand knowledge of this since I never feed them both at the same time). Agree there But I will say that since I've had to buy a couple of bags of complete due to a cock up with our butcher and delivery of tripe and mince I noticed their sh*t stinks something horrible. I just have a problem feeding any animal with stuff where
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Why do you want to keep your dog on dry food? Is is just for convenience? If you switch to a raw diet you'll see a big improvement in your dog's overall health, and long term you will have a healthier dog which is better able to shrug off illness and injury. Google BARF and read up on it.
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Its all too common that we think our dogs are fairly fit, but endless road walking and even a burn up round a couple of fields playing with another dog are absolutely nothing compared to the sustained effort of running a long ear. You know when these exercise fitness teachers tell people to 'go for the burn' (when the muscles are burning). Well imagine doing that for a long time: minutes on end: what happens is that the muscles are actually being subjected to tiny tears in the tissue. This is how body builders put on muscle: each lift of the weights actually causes tiny tears in the muscl
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Either it might have been clipped by a car on the head or just plain exhausted. Is is eating and drinking OK? Good on you for taking it in.
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I haven't read all this: just a few pages here and there: I would just like to say that this thread shows just how easily people are brain washed and manipulated: talk about crowd hysteria! Maybe this thread is just a timely example and a warning to everyone to only believe a quarter of what they read and half of what they hear (even from the horse's mouth: so many people have hidden agendas that the rest of us know nothing of) when it comes down to politics (this is after all a really good example of politics innit?) LOL And also just not to take everything so damn seriously for f*ck's sake
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Made illegal a few years back now: just like docking in non working breeds of dog: you can only do it for medical reasons nowadays.
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Last night I bit the bullet and took the brindle express train out on the lamp for the first time: blowing a good gale: made up for the almost daylight conditions. I'll take the camera up there some time and get a pic of the surrounding lights from the towns. LOL Mog has done a lot of day time work but I've held off and held off from taking her out at night: why? A combination of things: her size and weight on this very fast ground, (32 kilos and 26"), her age (she'll be 2 this December), but since she had her first season back in the summer, went through the mopy fat stage and has finally
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static shock collars for training terriers
skycat replied to garfyd's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
thank you a bundle: I just hope that some people will take the trouble to read and digest all this. And yes I agree about terriers retreiving: they love it! Easiest way to get a recall IMO, and stuff the so called hard guys who think that training is for pet owners and women LOL -
Not having a go at you mate, but if I've said it once I've said it a thousand times: GET IT TO A GREYHOUND VET pronto. Ordinary vets are like GPS: not specialists in anything. A running dog, be it greyhound or lurcher, is a specialist running machine> they trap nerves, tear muscles and damage tendons/ligaments just like human athletes do. A jab of pain killer and anti-inflammatory won't sort the problem out, just mask it for a while. A good Greyhound man will identify your problem, untrap a nerve, manipulate the spine if necessary, and reccomend a course of action: massage for torn/str
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Great to see the little lad in action.
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static shock collars for training terriers
skycat replied to garfyd's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
Brilliant! But is there any chance you can explain it in slightly more lengthy terms for those of us who just cannot 'get' exactly what you are on about? Please! -
Line Breeding Explained
skycat replied to labsnlurchers's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
My poor old brain is trying to absorb all this and struggling with the jargon Seriously though, it is a fascinating subject. My line contain dogs that are both long coated and medium coated: the way it works with these is that the medium coated sire of two fulll brothers will throw both long, medium and smooth to a smooth bitch who carries the long coat gene without showing it and one or two smooth pups to even a rough coated bitch depending upon her breeding. The really long coat sire will only ever throw long and medium coats no matter what bitch he goes over including smooth all the wa -
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Being a southerner I've always wondered why exactly there are so many rabbits in the Dales! Those pics say it all: endless miles of lovely lush grass! LOL Surely its not usually that lush at this time of year?
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Once you have a lurcher for her to work with you'll be pleased she makes a noise: see my first post.
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It's a terrier: terriers yap through all the reasons that have already been given: you'd have to stop it chasing if you want it to stop yapping! I like the fact that mine yap when working cover and chasing rabbits: that way the lurchers know where the quarry is and get themselves in the right place for when it bolts.
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Cracking looking dogs: and in beautiful condition aswell.
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Exactly how old was your pup when you got him? He did look very young in your first pics. If a pup is forcibly weaned too early and more to the point, taken away from its litter mates and mum too early, it is deprived of several vital learning stages: how to respect its mother, how to play with litter mates. I have seen one or two pups that were taken from their dams at a month old and put into a new home: unless brought up around lots of other dogs who can teach it how to be a dog, they can turn into horrible little sods: bit like imprints in birds. They also don't know how to behave
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I always leave the bitch to decide when she's had enough: she can get away from the pups at any time by hopping over a board in the kennel, but I'd say that at 5 weeks they still like to have a suckle at least 3 times a day. Most of my bitches still have the milk bar open a couple of times a day until the pups are about 8 weeks old: but usually tell the pups to p*ss off after a couple of minutes as their teeth are hurting her. Why do you ask?
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Was his back very sore before he lost the mucsle: this sounds like a classic case of running a dog's back off. It happens when a dog is run very hard over a long period of time: like a hard course on a hare, rather than a few runs on rabbits. What happens is that the lactic acid build up in the over taxed muscle causes a break down in the muscle fibres. Like has already been said: this can actually kill a dog as the kidneys can't pump the acid through quick enough: dogs will often pee dark red coloured pee as well straight after being over run, and they often drink and pee endlessly: known
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Quite agree: pups chill very quickly. Keep it out of the water until next summer when the weather and water are a lot warmer. Had a terrier pup go hypothermic after falling in a ditch once: almost died and it was only in the water for a couple of minutes until I fished it out. Had to carry it next to my skin all the way home!
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Just a quick update on my dogs with kennel cough: it is only affecting the dogs under 3 years old: the others have all got slightly swollen glands which is a good indication that their immune systems are fighting the infection, but as they have had one strain of kennel cough in the past (there are many strains) their bodies at least recognise the invasion of the virus and fight back immediately and successfully: they might have been a bit quiet for a couple of days. (The ones who are coughing have also got swollen glands: but more so) All my dogs are on raw food, and only two have been
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Well all I can say is that the vets mentioned in this thread who failed to PTS dogs quickly must be really not up to the job. I have, over many years, had various dogs PTS by my vet, and EVERY time the dog has slipped quickly into unconciousness followed by death in under 2 minutes with no stress or struggle at all. This included ill and old dogs with poor vein quality as well as young healthy dogs who had suffered horrendous accidents. I reckon I must be very lucky indeed to have such a good and competant vet. Whenever possible, circumstances permitting I have asked the vet to come to my
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Antibiotics won't kill the virus: they are only used when there is a secondary infection such as pneumonia for example. A normal healthy dog will fight the virus itself like you would a cold or flu.
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You have answered your own question there already! A lot of lurchers won't retrieve when there is another dog present: in fact I'd say it is the fastest way to ruin a good retriever. If you are standing near your mate and his dog when your dog catches, all your dog is thinking about is: "I'm bloody well not going near that dog: he might nick my rabbit!" Go back to running the dog on its own, or at the very least, work separate fields then meet up to chat about what you have caught. That's what we do: work separate sides of very big fields so the dogs can't see eachother.