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  1. skycat
    I normally don't say a word when I see things that p*ss me off but here I just have to say: what a tw*t! Apart from the obvious damage that will eventually be done to the dog crashing back on to the ground time and time again, it won't help it much psychologically either. You'd be far better off teaching it to retrieve by throwing that ball the length of the garden. It will get far more of the correct type of exercise (running) than leaping into the air and crash landing. Is the dog just a pet, or does it work? Teaching it to find a ball on command when you've thrown it into undergrowth
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    This is one of these threads when I think: Thank God for the Internet!! reams of common sense and good advice....so hopefully those people who don't understand their animals' needs can come on here and read and learn and there will be one or two more ferrets, dogs or whatever which can start to live happier and more useful lives.
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    I hate to admit it but the glass fell out of ours months, if not a year ago. It's on a post on top of the shed so about 15 foot up in the air, and it still works fine, even facing side on to the prevailing wind and rain.LOL. Your post just reminded me that I keep forgetting to replace the glass!
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    Pups are like kids: they go through phases. She's getting the most important food and that's the important thing, and she'll probably go back to the veg etc as she grows up. How old is she now?
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    WEll done to you and the dog. 2 years old and already had 6 homes???! What chance did the dog have as no one would have had him long enough to give him time to settle. Not all terriers have the insensitivity of a rhino! Good on you for giving him the time he needed.
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    Lights contain very little goodness/protein. Ferrets really need whole carcasses: pigeon, rabbit: ours even get the odd squirrel and pheasant carcase once we've taken the breast off. Don't weigh the food, just put in what you think will be enough: if they eat it all at once then give them some more. They are small animals with fast metabolisms and need food little and often. Our 5 adult ferrets will go through a whole rabbit in 24 hours and be looking for more. If your ferrets have been underfed then expect them to eat a lot more until they have reached a decent weight. If you can't get
  7. skycat
    They look very sharp and alert! It sounds as though he's either not been handled at all or been frightened by being grabbed too quickly/roughly. He'll have to unlearn that fear first. Dont try and pick him up straight away: stick your hand in a bowl of milk then put your fist in front of him: knuckles towards him: that way it won't hurt so much if he tries to bite them! With any luck he will lick the milk off once he realises your hand tastes of milk. Once he's seeing the fist as a source of milk then put your hand on the floor in front of the hob's nose with milk all over your hand an
  8. skycat
    The next simulated coursing event will be held at the Cock Inn, Henbury, nr Maclesfield on Sunday 10th February. For all information and entries please phone Deb on 077460 14180
  9. skycat
    The next simulated coursing event will be held at the Cock Inn, Hensby, nr Maclesfield on Sunday 10th February. For all information and entries please phone Deb on 077460 14180
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    I remember seeing the whole documentary on TV a few years back: they said that the male wolf coursing the hare was actually 13 years old at the time! They'd been studying that particular group for many years: amazing really, though you can see how stiff and arthritic the poor old thing is really: just that the hare has no where to go. In the original programme it showed the same wolf coursing a hare all over some rocks for several minutes: got it in the end.
  11. skycat
    Welcome: very attractive looking dog.
  12. skycat
    5-7 miles every other day next to the bike. The other days free running mooching and rabbitting. Make sure the dog's weight is right too: over weight will sap its strength: as bad as underweight. Stick a pic up of the dog: side and rear views if possible. Feed correctly as well: cheap sh*t dog food won't help at all: what are you feeding the dog? Does it fade quickly even on the first run? How long does it take for its heart rate to return to normal after a hard run? The other thing to remember is that a 3/4 Grey 1/4 Collie wasn't really designed to be a regular catcher of anything tha
  13. skycat
    Measure vertically from the floor to the top of the dog's shoulder blades: as though you were measuring a horse: to its withers (same place!). Easiest way to do this is stand the dog next to a wall: get a ruler or other straight object, place across dog's shoulder blades until it touches the wall: make a mark on the wall. Remove dog (LOL) measure with tape measure up to mark on wall> much easier than trying to stick a tape measure up against the dog!
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    I was waiting for someone to comment on the fact that the skeleton is not fully fused, i.e. ready to run hard, until 14 months. Hopefully some of the people who enter their pups to hard work early will read this and realise that even a lightly built dog isn't really mature enough to work hard before this age. I've been as guilty as the next person of letting a 10 to 12 month old lurcher do to much: and it always shows in the long run: usually in damaged shoulders and hip joints.
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    Confuscious he say: The smallest sword is often the sharpest!
  16. skycat
    Found this on Ozziedoggers: put on there by Grubbavitch. Very interesting reading. http://saluqi.home.netcom.com/belkin.htm
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    I wonder if the tendancy to gastric torsion can be genetically linked: I know that some pure breeds are more susceptible than others, but is it something that can lurk within the genes of a particular line? I've never fed even big (over 28") lurchers off the ground, and never had a problem. Alaskan wolves can reach over 30" and they don't have raised feeding stations! Thank God I've not encountered the problem as it must be one of the most distressing things to happen to both dog and owner. I usually feed once a day unless its a pup or working very hard. Feed in the evening before s
  18. skycat
    Her smile says it all. Great to see kids out. Your land looks about like ours at the moment: under water! Not LOL, if you see what I mean!
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    Very interesting thread. My old lurcher had to go on Pred. when she had meningitis as a pup: these steroids are only a last resort IMO. Yes, she needed them to get rid of the meningal inflammation, but it knocked her immune system into a paper hat! She tore herself, just a little on barbed wire about 3 months into the treatment, (she was already much better by then and running around like any normal 7 month old pup, but the steroids neded to be gradually reduced over a long period of time) which lasted a total of 6 months, and within 12 hours had the beginnings of septicemia! Massive doses
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    That was good! I love to see a good dog reading a hare like that: and retrieving too:
  21. skycat
    Unfortunately there have always been those people who seem to think that trying to make a dog jack proves just how game it is. I have heard people say with pride that their dog was pissing blood and could hardly stand yet still it didn't jack! Words fail me when I hear stuff like that! those people don't deserve to own a dog let alone run one.
  22. skycat
    : Only putting up what I was told by the organiser! Now the advert in CMW is wrong too! Apologies folks: thanks mate for the correction.
  23. skycat
    Dry food often gives dogs shits: their bodies aren't designed to cope with masses of cereals, carbohydrates and all the other crap put into so called 'complete' dog food. Get them on to raw meat and bones etc and see the difference! Do a search on BARF either on here or Google it: read and learn! I guarantee that if you feed your dogs correctly they will never pass loose stools again, unless they pick up a bug, which is also less likely if their guts are in good working order from a decent diet.
  24. skycat
    A truly appalling thing to happen: just how bad this is came home to me when I was on the Ozziedoggers site: a post on there said that the UK has a 'dog stealing culture'! That's how bad a name these lowlifes have given our country!
  25. skycat
    The next simulated coursing event will be held at the Cock Inn, Hensby, nr Maclesfield on Sunday 10th February. For all information and entries please phone Deb on 077460 14180
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