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The dog is now yours: you paid for it: if you DON'T take it to the vets you could be done for neglecting it if there is something seriously wrong with the dog internally. Could be suffering from dehydration/kidneys packing up due to lack of fluid intake. Most b*****ds who don't feed a dog properly also don't care if it is not getting enough water. That dog needs to be put on a drip straight away if it it not eating: it may be too late, but you need to try to save it. Take it to the vet NOW: tell them the truth and get the dog treated professionally.
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lets see your pics of your toughest lurchers
skycat replied to 00taz11's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
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Someone really should set this lad straight. Yes, in an ideal world a jill should be brought out of season, either by mating or the jab, but providing you keep their court/hutch clean (cleaning the shit corners daily etc), you feed good quality fresh food and there is always clean water available, there is no reason why your jill should die. I think that a lot of the old wives' about jills dying if they were not mated stems from the fact that in the past a lot of people kept ferrets in disgusting conditions: tiny cages, never or seldom cleaned out, maggots crawling through festering
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She looks quite racey for the breeding: it will be interesting to see what she makes when she's older: keep the pics coming!
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When you say that it has already calloused up, I presume you mean that the break is not a new one? If the toe has healed incorrectly, with maybe a joint fused, or a mishapen bone with extra calcification on the bone, there is not a lot you can do now apart from having the toe taken off if it is causing problems. Pin firing can only work if the damage is relatively new, as far as I know. What firing does is aggravate the site, thereby bringing white platelets in the blood to the site: they're the ones that heal injuries. Can you put a pic up of the foot? Difficult to offer any advice wi
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Good home wanted for handy padderdale
skycat replied to patterdales rule's topic in Optics and Night Vision
Just as a point of interest, my terrier recently sired a litter: until they looked and behaved like smaller versions of himself (at about 6 weeks old) their noise and movement to him said "prey"! He is absolutely fine with them now, though grumbles if they jump up at him and moves out of their way: when they were little squeakers his eyes alone told me he saw/heard them as things that needed killing. IMO, any terrier, working or not, should not be allowed near small children unless, as Oneredtrim says, it absolutely does know that its place is at the bottom of the human pack, and that inc -
Get some Tree Barks Powder from Dorwest Herbs: just google the name to find their website. Brilliant stuff. AND get him OFF complete manufactured dog food: he may well be allergic to some of the crap they put into the bags and sell as dog food! Do a search on here for feeding raw meat or BARF: there's been loads of threads about it: you know it makes sense!
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I think ( I could be wrong) that it was Parson Jack Russell who said if you have a good working dog then use his brother at stud! the actual reasons he gave were little short of insane: something about the working dog's seed would be weaker as he had worked so hard LOL! I'm sure someone who has read the books will remember exactly what was written. Anyway, I lined a lurcher bitch with the non working brother of a very good lurcher dog who for some reason just wasn't interested. The brothers were out of and by some very good dogs indeed, and the whole litter I bred worked extremely well,
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Bearing in mind that mine is only a pup still, and I haven't had personal experience of the working adults in the USA, I suggest an Airedale! A working bred Airedale from American working lines. Better still, and Airedale x Greyhound: I doubt the straight Airedales would be quite fast enough for rabbits, though mine is trying hard LOL However, as yet, no one has yet bred the Airedale cross in this country, and I'm not talking about the KC registered ones here: a friend of mine knows of 2 KC Airedales which he says are as thick as two short planks, and totally divvy with it: the working line
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Well in that case it is even easier to keep them separate: garden shed/garage...the possibilities are endless!! Even if you only have one kennel and run, human ingenuity should enable you to sort something temporary out.
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Good stuff: nice to see a lurcher being used with the gun too: like undisputed said on another thread: Lurchers: the mose versatile dog there is.
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Excellent idea,would'nt it be great if more people thought of that. I agree, it's not rocket science is it? I think he was being sarcastic!! Meaning it was a pretty daft answer! If i could keep them seperate i would. And optiob 2 isnt an opinion. As i have now spoke to 3 vets about it, and it is said to be quite danger to stop a dog haveing a season, as it traps all the toxins in her body... Why can't you separate them? Can't you beg/borrow/buy a cage which you put up in another room for the bitch to go in while she's in season? I've currently got a couple
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Ah! I couldn't see what it was, though I did think it's head was too high up in the water to be a dog!
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Great vid: loved the music. Someone like you who is dedicated to their dogs will always get more out of them than someone who just keeps them in a kennel 24/7 to take out once in a blue moon. P.S. Was that a Saluki swimming out to sea? Scary stuff: I wish you had shown it turning round and coming back to shore: that image will haunt me now until you tell me that the dog came back OK. LOL You can tell I'm a landlocked dweller!!
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So sorry to hear of your loss: it seems only the really promising die young. A bloody tragedy.
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Scallywag: Yes, I agree with you, but I should have said that I was talking about dogs that were in foster homes, rather than actually being in a shelter. Many years ago I worked in such a place, and yes, the lurchers/sighthounds seem to suffer far more than some other breeds. Having said that, GOOD rescue places do put the time into individual dogs, playing with them etc, and the really good ones, like The Dog Trust, don't even try and rehome the dogs until they have sorted out the problems that are visible in a kennel environment. I have a friend who works there as a 'behaviourist', and
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Villebones: I just wanted to say, not being funny or anything, but if this is going to be your first lurcher, then why not take someone experienced along with you when you go to see a litter. That way you have someone with you to assess the different pups, someone who won't be influenced by how sweet, appealing or whatever a pup looks like. I know that we're all attracted to something or someone primarily by what it looks like, but you need to go beyond the physical appearance and look at character, temperament and responsiveness when your'e getting a dog.
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Villebones: please listen to everyone on here: we took pity on a 5 month old Hancock pup he had there after we were daft enough to drop by. That pup had never been out of the pen it had been reared in: it took the poor thing 2 weeks before it learned that it was allowed to walk across the threshold of the run we had it in when we got it home: it was terrified of everything and anything. Months down the line, and the dog would now be about 14 months old and he was still as phobic about anything new, virtually p*ssiing himself at each new situation. There is no happy ending to this story a
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If your ferret is just getting rabbit she may need more fat in her diet: I agree with Stubby: we always keep ferret complete food in with them and the jill eats this before she eats her rabbit: its much higher in fat content.
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If you saw how my young terriers behave to begin with you wouldn't give them the time of day! Theyr'e in and out of the holes like bloody ping pong balls, and yes, it can be a pain as the fox will keep moving about: I often end up sticking a seasoned dog in if the fox won't bolt or we'd be there all night! LOL It can take them an age to really get going, but once they do they'll be working until they're 8, 9 even 10 years old, barring horrible accidents of course, and once they do cotton on to the fact that they'll be dug to you won't see them until you break through. 2 digs last seas
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The police look for confident dogs which can be trained to target specific things: out and out agression is not the be all and end all, but this dog sounds as though it may be a bully boy with no real balls to back up its attitude: just dodgy with a soft target: ie kids and its owner. Like Simoman said, it sounds as though this dog thinks it is the boss of everyone, including its owner: very dangerous situation.
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Says it all doesn't it! Just have a look at this rescue place: many of the dogs they have up for rehoming are ex breeding stock which just get dumped on them when they can't breed any more: http://www.freewebs.com/manytearsrescue/
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That is your choice at the end of the day, regarding the adoption red tape etc. As far as whether the dog will be any good: can you not take it into a safe fenced in area: throw a couple of things for it to chase and retrieve? Tie a long string to a toy/dummy and whirl it round you almost at ground level, let the dog chase and grab it. Does the dog just go bonkers trying to grab it or does it learn quickly that the thing is whirling round you and does it then stop and try to intercept the toy rather than just chasing it round in a circle? In other words, has it got a brain, does it h
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I put mine in a wire cage: mesh all round with just one solid wall to protect from prevailing wind and something on top to stop the rain getting on her. Preferably put it on grass and move it every day: food and water bowls in there too obviously. The idea is to a) as has already been said, to deprive her of a nest area, and to get her body temperature down to non broody status.
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Undisputed: hats off to your half cut state for that just about sums up the lurcher perfectly! In vino veritas methinks LOL