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Here's one having a mad 5 minutes or so, before crashing out.
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to maxhardcore. Excellent advice there: I do the same: Drontal is perfectly safe to use. I know from experience that Panacur has to be given over a period of days to do any good: one dose just aint enough. Drontal every time.
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Was it on the lamp or by day? Yes, show us some pics
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go ask any bodybuilder what his basic diet is....for bulking,egg and milk has no equal when it comes to sheer quantity/% protein. But dogs aren't human! Why do people insist on treating a dog the same as a person?
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I was always led to believe that a carnivore (dog!) simply excreted the protein it didn't need. As for 'froting': do you mean FROTHING? And do you mean that white salivery gunky stuff they retch up after running hard for the first time? IMO it is purely a sign of a somewhat unfit dog coughing up phlegm etc. (I'm sure Socks will correct me if I'm wrong!) If the dog is conditioned properly i.e. got into running condition over a sensible period of time with slow and steady work and fast work interspersed then it does not do this. My dogs have never done this as they get enough free runni
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Well done: nice to see someone putting the training time in. She still looks as though she has quite a bit of growing to do (knobbly wrists still). I wouldn't ask her to jump more than she's already jumping until she's finished her growing as landing from a height can damage the growing joints.
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Good for you: its great to see a dog being used to its potential.
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The land of the foxes: lucky you! What's the breeding of the lurcher, looks a handy sort, nice and strong.
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Why did they have to operate/stitch what up? Just curious: always like to find out new things: you never know when it will happen to you!
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In an emergency I've used a small plastic bucket with the bottom cut out: make holes around the edge of the bottom with a hot nail (held in a pair of pliers and heated in a flame!!) and tie on to the dog's collar: it needs to be just long enough to just overhnang the end of the dog's nose. Make sure that you give the dog wter with it off as a lot of dogs can't figure out how to drink with it on. They sometimes panic for the first few minutes, then either totally accept it or just won't move at all! The best collrs are see through plastic so the dog doesn't feel 'blinkered' and scared of not
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One of these, from the vet: who should have provided one in the first place!
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If it feels as if there is something loose below the wrist I'd take it to the vet: pups can crack bones surprisingly easily, and if it is favouring the leg then it is obviously causing pain. I'm not a fan of rushing to the vet all the time, but if you want to be sure that your pup is not going to grow up wonky legged, I'd get it checked out.
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I had a bitch some years back who's first litter was by c-section. She had 3 more litters after that with no trouble. Depends on if your bitch had any other problems with the opp or if the vet saw something amiss. Scar tissue is stronger than normal tissue so she should be fine in that respect. I too had a Lakeland bitch: first litter by c-section, two more litters no problems at all. And a lurcher bitch who had to deliver the second half of the first litter by c-section, perfectly normal whelp[ing for her second litter. Just a point: when feeding raw food(meat/bones/whole carcases) t
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It doesn't affect their desire to chase/catch, but in my limited experience (had 2 bitches spayed for medical reasons only) their muscles do lose a bit of power and it is very difficult to keep them lean and fit. Not for the first couple of years after it has been done, but after then the fat settles on to them and is virtually impossible to shift: like I said, I've only had the 2 it was done to, and I would never do it unless it was a medical necessity. It altered the temperaments of my 2 as well: but that could be as they were part of a pack: they both turned very dodgy with other bitches:
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I coulddn't get it out of my mind and I DIDN'T even watch the vid. I spent a little time fantasizing about what I would do if I could get away with it: such as gettting over there and blowing the b*****ds away with a machine gun: you know, that sort of thing: but starting at their legs as they tried to run and progressing up their bodies: SLOWLY. I think I agree with DS: there is nothing we can do about it: their attitude to animals is so far removed from ours as to be impossible to understand: if you can't change the attitude of your own politicians how the hell are you going to change tho
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Are they very different in temperament generally: you say the timid one started limping: could it be that the bully one sensed her sister was under par and deccided to put the boot in sensing the weakness? Is there a problem betwen them at home? Are they kenneled together or do they live in the house? Do YOU like one of them better than the other? See where I'm going with this? Think outside the obvious and you may find an answer to the problem yourself: let us know more about them: its a bit like detective work when trying to sort these problems out: the more info you have the better chanc
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I apologise in advance if I offend you.............but if this is happening all the time why the f**k haven't you stopped it? Yeah, the timid one may make the better dog, or maybe she won't, but unless you stop the bully upsetting her she's not going to get a chance to build in confidence and agility/strength/ability etc etc. I have been in the situation where I can only let one dog off lead at a time, and its not fun. I also have two sisters, and they CAN'T work together as one is so much more dominant than the other, psyching her gentler sister off a rabbit when they are chasing. So i
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Are you sure it wasn't a fat Chinese Water Deer! We're heaving with muntys round my way too: I'd say that the tallest buck I've seen probably went about 25 inches: an ancient skinny old thing, but have had them a lot lot smaller, specially does. We seemed to catch more bucks than does, thank God, always put out by the terriers out of brambles. They are really hard to find at night as they slip out into the open for a bit of a graze, then disappear back into the cover and are invisible again. If you got them out in the open they could turn as quick as a hare, but any dog should be fast e
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Just to add my ten penny'worth: I've never had a dog do what your's does and go on to become a totally dedicated fox killer: yes, some of them have held the fox until I got there and finished things, but more often than not they lacked the confidence/bottle to get a grip and hold on hard. But I have had dogs not tackle fox until they were 3-4 years old then switch on and do the business properly. IMO they either have it in them or they don't. Not saying that yours is like either of the types I have dexcribed here, I've just not seen it happen otherwise.
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It depends a lot on the type of dog too: small ones like Bed/Whips etc are physically mature much earlier than big ones like Deer crosses. Mentally it depends as well on the make up of the dog. My own line aren't really mature mentally until about 2 1/2 years, though they're doing the biz long before that on rabbits and general hunting. Personally I would say mine are pups until the are 18 months or so. They are medium sized (23-25") lurcher to lurcher.
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I'm fairly sure that if the cat comes into your garden (and you haven't enticed it to come in!) then the owner cannot sue you if your dog kills/eats it. Cats have and are a law unto themselves, and they are deemed no one's property once outside their own house/garden. I find that a hose pipe turned on the beggars full blast usually teaches them a lesson: they only come and sit on my aviary twice at the most and then learn to keep away.
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Wow! Hasn't she changed: really got leggy and what a lovely length of neck: beautiful shape to her now.
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GSD X GREYHOUND PUPS AT EIGHT WEEKS
skycat replied to heart of wales's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
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Great post: love the way you write Just can't imagine that sort of cold over here. Go on, tell us about another day out!
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There ARE good homes out there for lurchers which for whatever reason don't make the grade. I had to let a promising youngster go after he had damaged the tendons in a hind foot very badly: it would not have been fair to expect him to tackle a hard working life with a badly damaged foot. He now lives with a woman who adores him and he still gets to go out and catch the odd rabbit that mkes a mistake. The only downside to this sort of home I have found is that the owner takes the dog out, lets it run about loose and the dog runs the risk of gettting injured/killed/run over etc as the o