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How true!
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1st cross Picardy/Greyhound. Dam to our pup. About 25" she is, the dam that is. Belongs to Mark Treadwell who bred her from imported pure Picardy dog. Not many in this country. -
From one grumpy old git to another: welcome!
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I reckon one of the most important things is to teach a child not to disturb the dog when it is sleeping. Taking on two terrier pups at the same time will of course be a lot more work than just taking on one: don't forget too that terriers are a bit different to lurchers: if they get really hyped up when playing they can go into the 'red mist' zone and lash/bite out at anyone interfering with them. Personally I'd not have the pups running round loose unless you are there to supervise every second of the time: it only takes a second for something to go wrong, and I'd NEVER leave a child un
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Easy solution: rig up a shelter for her where she likes to sleep so she doesn't get wet or cold in the rain! Just a table with a tarp over it in this weather: ut something on the ground underneath it, and you have a result! No unhappy pup and no unhappy you either! She'll grow out of it sooner or later. BTW, you don't say how old the pup is: because if its a tiny pup the last thing you want to be doing is soaking it with water at night, even in the summer. They chill very fast. Do you think she is trying to get closer to you by sleeping where she does? Think about it.
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Has the pup been wormed properly? A heavy worm burden can play havoc with their guts: and by worming properly I mean with something like Drontal Plus or a proper course of Panacur. The constant diarrhoea will also have partially stripped away the mucous lining of the gut, so now you have a vicious circle which won't be cured until you get that gut re lined. Stop all forms of raw meat (raw liver is particularly bad for giving the shits), get yourself some Tree Barks powder from Dorwest Herbs, which is similar to Slippery Elm for human diarrhoea: if you can get the old fashioned sort of
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Have a look on here: http://www.nobs.org.uk/
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I've always weaned my pups straight on to meat: you put a nice fresh rabbit carcase in with ferret kits: I do the same with pups. Gutted rabbit: they go mad for it. Don't worry about the worms at this stage as they should be on a regular worming programme anyway. This is from 3 weeks on: some won't dive in straight away, but keep offering it to them and by the end of the week they are all tearing meat from bone like good 'uns. Then introduce minced beef: (better protein and fat content for growing pups than just rabbit). Never had a problem. And like DS says: select your buyers. A
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Thanks for all your interest folks. Dingo: here is a link to the Airedale forum I have joined. Al, the guy who runs it is obviously very experienced with Airedales and you could try contacting him for more info. Everyone I have spoken to about the Airedales says the same thing: that once you have one of these dogs you wonder the hell why you didn't get one earlier! LOL http://xsorbit26.com/users5/traditionalwor...action=register Erik: I know, she's a bit on the thin sad side isn't she :11: Seriously though, when she's playing with the lurchers who are much taller than her, they d
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When I was a kid, and my folks were very poor, we ran barefoot all summer to save shoe leather: its true, your feet get so hard that you can run on literally anything: pretty much like a dog I guess.
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I was about to say are you sure its a first cross when I read down to the bit where you said its only 11 months old: my old Deer/Grey was smooth until she was 18 months old, then by the time she was 2 years old she had a really rough coat. Apparently that's quite common with these dogs.
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Dill is now just over 4 1/2 months old, though I have to keep reminding myself that's all she is because she is so steady, calm, measured and switched on. She's already hunting cover with the small terriers, and gets excited when they catch a rabbit. The other day she went into a nettle bed where my old terrier had caught a little rabbit, then picked it up and brought it to me as proud as punch. Different mentality to anything I've had before: very watchful, curious about everything, no nerves at all, ever, apart from when she met her first cow: young pup looks at big cow then goes 'w
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I've copied this from the Ozziedoggers forum: thought it was brilliant.........and scary too. This is what they're cranking out of college these days...pretty pathetic! They Walk Among Us and Many Work Retail I was at the checkout of a K-Mart. The clerk rang up $46.64 charge. I gave her a fifty dollar bill. She gave me back $46.64. I gave the money back to her and told her that she had made a mistake in MY favor. She became indignant and informed me she was Educated and knew what she was doing, and returned the money again. I gave her the Money back .... same scenario!
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That is quite amazing: my great great uncle had a couple of cheetahs, long before I was born, but my grandmother remembered seeing them at his home in England: they were very dog like in mannerisms and attitude, and history tells us they were trained to be used out hunting from the times of the Pharoahs. Beautifull animals: I'd have one like a shot! The ban says nothing about coursing with cats!
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Some of those little cage type traps look fascinating: the one at the top left of the pic: how would that work and what would it be for?-
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Freeze first for 3 weeks to kill the worm eggs/cysts or you'll be loading your dog with tapeworm straight away. Or have a very regular worming programme.
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This is ours: a bit tatty, but spacious with pipes running up and down the walls, with a very old 3 tier hutch at the back. We left the bedroom doors on and took the main door off the bottom compartment, and the ferts go up and down via 2 lengths of pipe which link the 3 levels. Straw all over the floor, and its in the shade of a willow tree and built up against our big shed and a lean to so 2 sides are solid, as is the roof (onduline laid over mesh.) Ours shin up and down the whole height of the mesh walls, and prat about on the roof of the hutch as well, access gained via the wall pipes: t
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That's an excellent film isn't it.
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One of my lurchers once had a litter of 10 bitches and 1 dog! How lucky can you get! LOL
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They look like they should make really handing little rabbiting/bushing dogs. I'm not a fan of white dogs, as the ones I've had are usually a browner shade of mud though I've had them and still do have one with a lot of white on, but for bushing it is quite useful as you can see them more easily when they're rushing through cover! A bit like white ferrets! LOL I'd be very tempted if I wanted another dog. Love the look of the bitch.
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I stopped watching after the third retrieve! Lovely dog and obviously willing to please BUT you are going to sicken her of retrieving if you carry on like that! Give her one retrieve then carry on with your walk, then sit and stay her, and go and hide the dummy, then walk back to her and tell her to go find it. Make things more interesting for her or she'll get fed up with it. I personally wouldn't do more than one or two retrieves during a walk, and try getting her to retrieve other things as well: hide one of your shoes, but make sure you know where it is if she can't find it!! LOL
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I've got netting on top of my 6 foot fence too: stops the wild birds getting and nicking the chickens' food, but it does depend on whether you get heavy old layers, or little banty types. The big layers couldn't go over 6 foot with one wing clipped, in fact I think they'd have a job even without a wing clipped, whereas my bantams fly like pheasants all over the place! LOL
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How many of us I wonder could depend on our local 'community' to give a hand if a fellow human is in trouble...........not many I fear nowadays unless you live in a rural type of village. Poor you DS> once a back always a back: I've just spent the last week creeping around hanging on to walls and not daring to sit down: lie flat or walk: standing is as bad as sitting! And all because I bent over to move a bit of paving slab and forgot I'd got a dodgy sacroilliac joint. And this is for you young 'uns> (though I know it will fall on deaf ears for we were all young once and though
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We got ours from them, pretty good for the price, but don't expect prompt delivery! We waited nearly 2 months after their original delivery date! I was so pissed off that I demanded my money back and said I'd go elsewhere: they gave me the money back, then delivered a fortnight later and I paid up then and there. I think they just can't keep up with orders and they're only a small firm: they should get their act together and not promise delivery dates they can't keep, but apart from that they're fine.
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Wow! Cracking litter of well reared pups there.