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Lurcher pups tend to grow long for a bit then their legs take a turn in growing. Lurchers often look really weird when they're growing up, all legs one minute then long back the next. It's the little bones that grow the fastest: which is why some pups seem all big feet, long tail and head for a while. They all even out eventually. Just enjoy each stage and learn from it all: good fun rearing a pup!
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Running a bitch in season is OK as far as it goes, though I wouldn't over do it. It's after the season when you need to be careful. A lot of bitches lose condition due to their hormones: their muscles, tendons and ligaments all slacken and soften as though they were expecting a litter of pups. My bitches would be physically incapable of catching a hare (before the ban) as their conditon is just too soft. Plus trying to run in that state can really damage them badly: the time when they tear their muscles the easiest. The real danger time is from 5 weeks after the season to when the pups (if
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Dog started urinating every morning?
skycat replied to jultaylor1972's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
Good point: mine hate going out when it's pissing down with rain or it has been raining a lot and the yard is awash. I have to put them out the front on the grass: and I always make sure I actually SEE them pee before they come back in. But get her to the vet anyway if this is not the problem. Bladder stones, urinary infection both possible. -
That's a beautiful dog! I bet you were well pleased with her: and high as a kite yourself to be back out: how's the foot now?
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I used to put it in ginger cakes and parkin instead of white sugar etc. Even spread it on bread and butter before: definitely an acquired taste! Doesn't it contain a lot of iron? Or something like that! Much better for you than white sugar I guess, though I don't fancy it in tea or coffee LOL
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Great read and a beautiful dog too: ah well, we can think on to those long lost times can't we.
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. yes get your facts rights after breeding bitches at least 3 ayear coz of my job for the last 10 years you will find that some bitches will come into season six weeks after they have giving birth. Interesting: what sort of dogs are they? Having been involved with breeding lurchers and terriers for over 25 years I have never come across this yet, though my vet tells me it is not unheard of with some pure breeds, which I haven't any experience with personally. I'd be interested to hear what type or types of dogs theses are. Are they in a large breeding only kennel set up or are they
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It's all about common sense: being out and about having the odd run is good, good, good. Putting a pup on dozens of rabbits on the lamp at night, or letting it chase stuff that doesn't go to ground and runs the legs off the dog is just plain silly. Everything in moderation is the way to go: as long as the dog isn't exhausting itself or becoming disheartened from failing to catch rabbit after rabbit then it's all education and good exercise.
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The digging thing is usually provoked by internal discomfort. Some bitches carry on doing the digging thing for up to a week after having pups as the uterus is still contracting after having stretched so much to accomodate the growing pups. Quite normal. Just provide her with some paper to shred: make sure she doesn't bury a pup then lie on it! I wouldn't reccomend putting newborns in either shavings or hay as it can clog their nostrils and mouths. Vet Bed is the best and safest bedding to use, failing that an old blanket: just keep checking to make sure pups don't get buried under it.
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Some bitches do discharge for as many as 6 weeks after giving birth: it is not usual, but in older bitches or if there has been a difficult labour the area where the embryos have been attached to the uterus wall can take a long time to heal. Sometimes there can even be an infection: normally a cause for immediate concern, though some bitches are obviously tough as old boots and able to get over it themselves due to a strong immune system. Just another reason not to work a bitch hard for at least 3-4 months after she has whelped: quite apart from the fact that the poor thing wouldn't be fit a
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I think that it should be more like a tenner to join the site: its still hardly extortionate at that price. My opinion has nothing to do with keeping antis or idiots out: I just feel that it is unfair for one person to have to pay a lot of money to keep the site going when there are 100s of people paying nothing and enjoying the site. I too had no idea that it cost such a lot of money to run a site: and I agree with not showing who are donators either. There should just be a flat rate to join in my opinion: even at a tenner a go it's still a lot less than a monthly subscription to EDRD, for
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Bleeding tail tips are a bugger to heal as the dog just keeps knocking it again and opening it up. Get a narrow plastic tube open at both ends: something like a syringe case. It needs to be slightly wider than the tail. Bandage the tail tip fairly loosely: you don't want to cut the circulation off and fix the bandage with Elastoplast strapping over the hair about 4 inches up the tail. Slide the tube over it and fix that with Elastoplast too: sticking it on to the hair so it wont' slide off. The end needs to be open for the skin to breath, so don't use waterproof bandaging either. I've u
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It would be a serious loss to us all if the mag finished. I wonder does he have any plans to involve anyone else to help him out: surely he can't keep doing it all on his own.
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I haven't a clue about ferrets in extreme heat: thank God we don't get that over here! But the first thing I'd ask myself is whether the ferrets are getting enough salt in the heat. I know ferets don't sweat from their bodies, same as dogs: just from their tongues and pads: dogs benefit from getting electrolytes in the drinking water if they are dehydrated: maybe you could try doing the same for the ferrets. I use Recharge for my dogs, don't know if there is one specifically for ferrets, but I'd say that Recharge wouldn't hurt a ferret. Try it and see.
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That is one beautiful looking animal: and in good condition too.
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Just look at the Whippet pup! Cracking pic LOL. Love that little grizzle bitch: and she retrieves too! You kept that dark :clapping:
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Please get your facts straight before giving out wrong information! Bitches DO NOT come straight into season after giving birth: horses and other herbivores yes, but not dogs! A prey animal's gestation period is far shorter than a herbivore which carries its young for a long time in order for the new born to be sufficiently developed to get straight to its feet and run from a predator minutes after it is born. Wolves, for example, being similar to dogs, carry their young for 9 weeks, the young are then born helpless and blind, and need many months feeding and caring for by the parent
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How good to see her back to full strength after her injuries: is her tongue quite back to normal now?
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It's not just the rescues that don't want dog to go to working homes: some, not all, of the dog wardens (the ones who actually pick up stray/lost/stolen and dumped dogs) will do anything to avoid the dog either going to a working home, or even back to its owner if they know its a working home: seen it happen! A terrible abuse of their power! I actually worked for a rescue once: when they found out I worked my dogs they asked me to either give it up or leave: I left! I get sick of seeing these dispirited lurchers walking round the village on harnesses, never off the lead: its no life for
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Bob Martin stuff has never worked very well in my opinion: get Frontline, and don't forget to do the house too where the flea eggs and larvae live. Use Acclaim 200 or something like that from Vetmedic or the vet: Nuvan Top used to work, but most fleas are resistant to it now.
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It really makes me laugh: 1/2 an inch of snow on the ground and England comes to a standstill! FFS anyone would think we're expecting metres of the stuff.
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I know how you feel: it's a bit of hassle putting a load of pics on and then no one comments, just looks: but well done anyway and the dog looks a wee cracker. I guess we get a bit spoilt at this time of year with so many hunting posts being put up.
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Your'e not wrong at all: millions of years of evolution didn't prepare the dog to eat biscuits did it!!!
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Taking the toe off should be a very last resort: and if the lump is not bothering her at all I'd be inclined to leave it: is your vet a Greyhound vet or just a pet dog vet? Makes a big difference you know. Pet vets just don't realise the implications of taking toes off a working lurcher which needs to turn at speed on rough ground etc. We've only ever had to have 2 toes removed from lurchers, and both times it affected their turning abiltiy and damaged their shoulders after a season's work with no toe: they were both outside front toes. Get a second opionion from a good Greyhound vet bef
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At least a fortnight lead work only, then try a little run around but only if there is no tenderness, swelling or heat. Any tendon/sprain type injury can take weeks and weeks to heal, and although it might seem better in a few days if you don't treat it properly for a month it will reoccur again and again. Like has already been said: run a cold hose on it for 10 minutes a day or ice pack it every day, twice a day for a week.
