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Used their stuff for quite a few years now: excellent quality. I use Keeper's Mix: really helps bring out the best in their coats, and if the coat looks good then you know that the insides are in good order too. Also use Tree Barks powder for dogs with gut problems: diarrhoea etc. And Raspeberry Leaf tablets for stopping phantom pregnancies and to help easier whelping(only to be taken in the last half of pregnancy) they also have a homeopathic range as well especially for dogs: well worth a look at instead of convential medecines for a lot of things.
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Sorry to be picky, but the fact that the vet said it was a soft tissue strain to me implies that you went to see an ordinary vet: like going to see a GP. The words: 'soft tissue strain' imply that the vet hasn't a clue what the dog has done, but they've ruled out a broken bone! Did the vet say exactly WHAT soft tissue the dog had strained? Not knocking ordinary vets, but they are not specialists in these type of injuries: you want, as I said in an earlier post, to see a specialised Greyhound vet: they are the ONLY ones who will correctly diagnose your dog's problem. I must admit, alb
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I would separate the dogs altogether: I often found this would happen if I kept 2 together: a sort of territory marking thing: not fair on the JRT if this is the case.
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Just to correct the statement that said that bitches fight when in season! I have NEVER known this: they are far more likely to spend their time mock humping eachother. We have bitches and dogs: the dogs are kenneled at night even when the bitches are not in season, that way they don't have too much of a problem when they have to be kenneled full time when there are in season bitches. But we also separate in season bitches so they can't go and wind the dogs up in front of their runs! Not fair on the dogs. Bitches often bring eachother into season, or rather their heats come to coincide
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Mine has just had her first season, which really knocked her sideways mentally. She is so submissive to my other dogs that she was apologising all the time for daring to be in season! Now, nearly 3 months later, she's lost the fat and is back to her very keen self. Going to try her on the lamp for the first time come the dead moon. All she's done to date is a lot of bushing and a bit of ferreting last season. Very switched on, unbelievably fast, (its that huge stride),excellent strike with very fast reflexes: big down side is her intolerance to warm weather: goes wobbly very soon if she
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I didn't mean whole milk as in liquid milk: what I meant was whole milk yoghurt: yogurt made with whole milk: non of that skimmed low fat rubbish! Pups shouldn't be on low fat diets LOL
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Dogs sometimes drop dummies and game short of their owner if they are lacking in confidence: they need to have complete trust in their handler, and they also need a perfect recall first! Try going back to basics: getting the fast, enthusiastic recall: give food treats to begin with, and very occasionally thereafter just to keep the stimulus going. Then try playing with an object: an old plastic water bottle, empty. Roll it around your feet, tease the dog with it, but don't let it grab hold. When the dog is well and truly desperate to grab it, throw the object just a couple of yards, the
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Whilst tripe may contain vits and mins, it is very low in protein, so you need to make sure the pup gets enough red meat, as you are doing. Calcium is VERY important: whole milk natural live yoghurt, chicken carcases and wings: with very little pups I either mince the chicken carcases or smash them into tiny bits with an axe!
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Well said: some people just don't realise the trauma a puppy can go through when it is separated from its litter mates. If the pup hasn't been properly socialised the problems can be 100 times worse. I always sleep downstairs with a new pup for the first few nights: pup in cage next to me: that way I can touch it if it needs reassurance, and take it out for a pee if it needs to go, which it undoubtedly will. After a fortnight the pup is usually clean over night, and more to the point, has never gone through that feeling of being abandoned in a strange place all alone. Dogs are pack an
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Another OAP - they do like to prove you wrong!
skycat replied to mistwalker's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
Brillliant write up! he looks in great condition too. -
An explanation on my topics I started today..
skycat replied to swanseajack's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
Keep on putting the posts up SJ: I don't often feel it my place to say anything on a terrier thread as I have nowhere near the experience of some of you, even though I've worked terriers for 20 years: I'm still a beginner compared to some old timers LOL I just can't understand why the young kiddies that come on here just want to insult the real deal people when they could be learning something. -
Hey, guess what you sad person: a well handled ferret is a damn sight better to work in the field than one that hardly sees a human hand. I've a friend who regularly wanders from warren to warren with the ferret sitting on the back of his neck: leaves his hands free for carrying/picking up /laying nets, and if you want to be out for a wee while without the bother of carrying boxes etc, then a ferret like that is just what you need. You never heard of ferrets that will happily sit in a pocket? Obviously before your time. Try learning something instead of criticising every one.
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That was a great tribute Mike: I must confess to feeling quite a bit of affection for my ferrets, and I'm gutted when one goes. One of my best was simply called Mother: she was great with her kits LOL. She did me well for quite a few years, and seldom laid up, though killed quite a few as she got older: you had to be quick with the mark if you wanted to dig to them cos she'd be off and killing the next! A fault maybe, but she was a great little worker.
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It's called Comfrey (old name: knit bone) Also as a homeppathic remedy: symphytum. http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:9AEJg...;cd=7&gl=uk
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Sod all the bickering, its the vid that AdamR put up that got to me: if everyone with Pits put as much time into their dogs as that guy obviously did the breed wouldn't have anywhere near the bad press it does.
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Milt
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A really good result for a pup! Well done!
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I was once exercising my dogs up a country lane, just at the start of the silly season for hares (late Feb), one dog spotted a hare mouching about a field. took off after it with another dog. Luckily the rest were on leads. As the 2 dogs ran up to the hare a second hare clapped down in their path and they ran straight past it, coursed the first hare round the field, back towards me past the second hare still clapped down and past me into the next field. The second hare jumped up the moment the dogs had come past it and started chasing them! The whole lot, hare, dogs then the second hare disa
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He looks so much better already, and his eyes are telling a different story now: must be the bacon sarnie! It is actually illegal to sell an animal to someone under 18, not that that makes any difference to a lot of people.
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No problem: freezing is the best way to preserve vitamins etc. Though just don't leave too long in the freezer, don't quote me on this but I think veg etc should be used within 3 months.
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Miss T: I've seen a lot of bull crosses with very flat feet like yours. In my humble opinion some of it is to do with breeding: a bull terrier of any kind was not bred to be a running dog: they were designed to have feet that could be planted firmly on the ground when pulling on something: in olden days it would have been a bull's nose! They don't need those arched toes we see on Greyhounds etc. I also think, and again, this is just my opinion, rightly or wrongly, that some Bull crosses have these flat feet not just as an inherited thing, but also because they are heavy dogs: the amount o
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Quite common unfortunately: she's ruptured the tendons which keep the toes up. Sometimes happens as a result of cutting through them when they run over a sharp stone, but can also happen with no external wound if the dog hits a stone or something in the ground. Imagine running barefoot over stones, your toe stubs a stone sticking up, and is wrenched upwards: now this doesn't really work as a comparison as our toes aren't long and arched like a lurcher's, but you can imagine that if the toe is suddenly wrenched upwards not only would it hurt like hell, but the tendons underneath, (the on
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Your'e probably right Dawn: neglected dogs get very depressed, though some people may find that hard to believe, plus malnourishment/starvation can lead to depression too. Seen it too many times for comfort, and taken dogs in that seemed quite lifeless, no spirit etc. Good grub, getting out on even a short daytime mouch on ground lifting with scent, and lots of TLC soon perks them up. Dogs have an awesome capacity for recovery if they know they are valued and loved, and just as importantly, have a job to do, even when they have suffered abuse or neglect.
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Unfortunately no one can ever be 100% sure of someone when they sell a dog. I even got it in writing once that the dog must come back to me if the person ever got rid of it: 3 months down the line the bloke made any excuse he could to fall out with me, then sold the dog on: there's b8stards in all walks of life but when you have the misfortune to sell a dog to one of them, then it's always the dog that loses out. hope you get him back to full strength soon.