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Some breeders give a bitch a course of antibiotics for the week during which mating takes place: just in case the dog introduces some nasty bacteria into the bitch. It is not uncommon for a bitch to spontaneously abort if the foetuses are abnormal or there is a bacterial infection. Usually the owner isn't even aware that this has happened: just a bit of dark discharge 2-3 weeks after mating. So, yes, if I was using a dog that I didn't know (unlikely to happen!) or a dog that was being regularly used over bitches I would probably give her a course of antibiotics to be on the safe side. As
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How can you get milky does in stubble stubble is from August onwards and does are milky aip/may. Where have you been for the last 10 - 20 years? There are leverets around even now: its called global warming. I reckon the only time you are unlikely to find milky does now is from late Novemeber to late January: that's been my experience anyway these last 10 years or so.
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Just found this thread: it happened to my Deerhound/Grey many years ago: her first trip out on the lamp: fell into a huge dyke: same scenario: OK for a bit then slowed right down, breathing very shallowly: rushed her to the vet: it was 2 in the morning. They stuck a needle into her to let the air escape that was building up in her chest cavity: they said if she hadn't had such a deep chest it would have been curtains for her well before: took over 3 pints of air out of her chest cavity. I next ran her in 8 weeks and she was fine ever after. Dead worrying at the time though. Yours is only t
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That 20 minutes or so in the Portamag works wonders on a stiff tired dog: if your'e small enough to get in the Mag box yourself: try it!!!! I lie in it with my legs sticking through the door: and I know it works LOL.
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We've got the same one: £500 new. 18 feet long by 6 high and 5 deep, (I think!). Not the best quality in the world but does the business: from Countrywide Kennels. You'd have a hard job to buy the materials for that price. Be prepared for a wait though: took a couple of months for ours to finally arrive: actually I think it was £600 delivered and put up for us. Visit My Websitehttp://www.countrywidekennels.co.uk/ Actually just loooked on their website and the prices have gone up! Come to think of it ours was a one off that had been made for someone else who then changed their minds.
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I thought I'd ask this question after seeing a post by someone on another thread saying that the first thing they did after lamping was go to bed!!! How many of you a) wash your dog's feet and check it over? give it a drink of water or something else? c) give it a light easily digestible meal? I do all three as a matter of course when my dogs have been out all day working, or lamping, IMO just chucking the dog back in the kennel after it has worked hard smacks of bad stockmanship and a don't care attitude: even if you only consider your dog to be a tool for work, doesn't it make se
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Get her to puppy socialisation classes right away: pups often feel less threatened by strange dogs if they are puppies too. If you can't do that make sure to expose her to non threatening well behaved dogs EVERY DAY, even if it is a hassle for you: if you don't do it know you'll never do it. Also, at 14 weeks old the pup is in a critical period of its development where it is very aware of who is 'it's own pack' and who are strangers. This is why pup socialisation classes like to start them off younger before this phase kicks in. Obviously not all pups show such a strong reaction to strang
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You've switched to 'outline' mode by accident! Go to 'options' at the top of the page, click on it, then click on 'standard'.
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You can dig to your terrier if it is stuck in a tube, in order to release it. Make of that what you will!
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That is fantastic news! Is the dog OK? And did you find out who the lad bought the dog from?
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Shaggy inkcap.
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Brilliant! However I do think that the wireless mouse is a more testing quarry than the wired: a better turn of speed and very nippy when its batteries are fully charged.
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One of my bitches has two nipples on one mammary gland. One is a normal sized nipple, the other a small one, about an inch from the normal one: and it produced milk too, there used to be 2 pups on the one gland, both suckling away busily.
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It looks as though the tendons have been damaged when he was very young: unusual I must admit: OR is there an actual 'design fault' there, such as malformed joints? Hard to say from a photo, but you certainly shouldn't be able to do that with the toes: not without causing a lot of pain! I'd get it checked out with a good greyhound vet.
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If you want a terrier to be part of a team then make sure you look at the parents carefully, preferably see them working. terriers aren't known for being pack animals but some can work really well with other dogs. Just a tip, what sex is your lurcher? Get a terrier of the opposite sex and that way you won't have some of the problems that running same sex dogs can bring when your'e mixing terriers and lurchers. And before anyone jumps in and says that's nonsense this bloke is obviously new to the game, and unless you have loads of experience sorting out pack problems can be a nightmare for
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the only way to be sure!
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Some of the so called 'rescue' centres have appalling records regarding how many dogs they put down. Nearly all of them have a non working home policy, and that even goes for ferrets as well with a lot of them. Can you not get a friend with all the necessary requirements regarding fencing to go and get the dog out? Failing that, would it be worth seeing the manager/director of the centre and put your case to them: explaining that the person who bought the dog off you reneged on the agreement to let you have the dog back? I know that without anything in writing that won't amount to much, or
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Couldn't agree more Groverdog: my pet hate is people that blame anyone but themselves for being fat (actually: we're not even allowed to use that word now, are we! Big is the new word for fat unless your'e actually obese!) If the FAT gits got out more and ate correctly instead of sitting in front of the TV or PC all day (although I'm on here a lot I just dive on to the forum every now and then to catch up: then I'm out again dogging, or training etc, and I work from the PC too so its all too easy to look like a computer hunter LOL!) and night they wouldn't have a problem: eat to live, not l
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Hi Bigbird: is that you ?...............where the Beetle came from? Welcome!
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Training, in many cases is something you can never do once then assume the dog will be perfect for ever. I know as I've got complacent about superb retrievers, especially the 'natural' ones who seem to need no training at all. They may start off bringing you every rabbit to hand and of course you're over the moon. 6 months down the line and the dog may chuck it all in and refuse: just like yours. I often do little refresher courses for dogs, even older ones, during the summer, and they all love that individual attention. Half the thing about retrieving, IMO, is the bond between you an
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I agree with Stabs: there's little or no muscle there which indicates long term lack of food and proper nutrition. Bad, bad, bad!
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Most of mine are fine: just put up with it, but my old girl who's nearly 13 is terrified of the screamers that end in a loud bang. One year I was having a bath when it all kicked off and she was doing a good job of digging through the bathroom door to get to me for reassurance: she's fine as long as she can sit on my knee! So I let her into the bathroom and she jumped straight into the bath full of hot water and foaming Radox and sat there while I finished my bath: she was trembling so much that the bath looked like a jacuzzi! And covered in suds and froth: jumped out when I got out, I to
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EAST OF ENGLAND LURCHER CLUB SHOW
skycat replied to skycat's topic in Gamefairs, Meet Up's and Events
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EAST OF ENGLAND LURCHER CLUB SHOW
skycat replied to skycat's topic in Gamefairs, Meet Up's and Events
Its good to hear that people enjoyed it: I can't claim any credit for the organisation as I only look after the Supreme thingy bit of it, but Debs has the whole thing organised down to the last thumb tack! Something my sanguine approach would find downright impossible! Hats off to her and the team: and the fact that the sun shone all day like it nearly always does! -
Go to the top of the page you are on: click on OPTIONS at top right hand side of page, click on STANDARD, and you're back to what you want. I've done that in the past by mistake and its come up on OUTLINE without me meaning to!