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Nearly all dogs lose the ability to come when they are called after being out 24 hours or more in a stressful situation: they revert very quickly to being wild and just trying to survive: so don't try calling him if you see him.he'll probably just run off. Try and take other dogs with you, preferably a type or dog he knows/recognises: it has worked for me in the past when I was involved in rescuing dumped lurchers. If anyone spots him, start messing about with the dog you have with you, playing with it, talking to it: completely ignore Tag: hopefully he will settle down and his own domestic
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Condolences: its a bugger when they die young, but at least you now know there's nothing you could have done: I'm sure she must have had a good life with you.
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Just a thought: whilst human long distance runners top up with carbs, dogs derive their energy from fat. I usually take a small amount of concentrated complete food (Purina Proplan Performance) and give my terriers a handful in warm water when we stop beating for lunch. Its very very high in fat as well as protein. If they don't get that they come home looking like hat racks, and also struggle to keep warm.
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What suits one dog can starve another: they are all different. I have one dog who will do really well on a complete food, and another who will lose weight, and it goes straight through them. Each dog has a different metabolic rate as well, and it could just be that this dog of yours needs far more food: Have you tried her on raw meat/whole carcases./meaty bones diet? Although I've always fed meat, I've only coverted to mainly carcase/meat diet over the past year and most of mine look great on it: though there are a couple who do need extra carbohydrate. (Saluki types.) Look up BARF on
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What exactly are you feeding the dog on?
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A small enclosed sleeping area is better than a big space: the dog will keep a lot warmer if its body has only got to heat a small area around it: you don't need 6 foot of air above the dog at this time of year: put a false ceiling in the kennel if its 6 foot high, and try hanging plastic strips (though some dogs may chew them!) over the entrance to cut the draught/cold. Make sure the entrance to the kennel is only just big enough for the dog to get through, that way the warm air stays inside with the dog.
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Lovely sharp pics
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All mine are bitsas, with the exception of a Collie cross I bought in. When I bought into this line over 20 years ago they were bitsas then, and I've only ever bred them to other bitsas: all proven in the field. All mine are related, though some have more Saluki in for big rabbits: I can't see the need to go back to a first/second etc cross when mine do everything I want them to. Bitsa Bitsa (cousin to first bitsa) Dam to first bitsa!
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A long time ago I had a similar experience with a young dog faced with a partly flooded earth for the first time: she just did'nt know what to do: and it was only her third time out to ground. She went on to work consistently and well, finding in very big earths and never ever quit again: and even though she hated water she went in later years to succeed in flooded earths and all sorts of awkward situations. I'd give him a chance, if he's only just started working. Its far too soon to write him off yet.
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Thanks ferret, but i thought if i used one of those it might ruin her sounding when she goes to ground? [ They soon learn that it's the collar that produces the unpleasantness. If she's not wearing it, she barks. As soon as she's got it on, she doesn't. This then generalises to the point where she rarely barks in the garden, as this is where she used to wear the collar. This doesn't stop her barking elsewhere though. I'm sure that with the excitement of the hunt and dig, yours will be baying when you need it. I would certainly recommend one as it worked for me. Ferret Agree
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Cracking looking terrier
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I don't like the strong taste too much, so I simmer the joints in water: add an onion, stick of celery, herbs, salt and pepper, until the meat is really tender and can be taken off the bones easily. Then make a stew of it: fry another onion in fat (I always use lamb fat that has been drained off when we slow roast a breast of lamb) add carrots and anything else you fancy. Then if you want to cheat you can add a cookin sauce, or do it the proper way and add a bit of flour to the frying veg, then slowly add the stock that the hare has simmered in: add the pieces of hare meat and simmer for abo
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A friend of mine once reared 2 cubs with a litter of kittens. Even from an early age one was much wilder than the other, and by the time it was a few months old it would come near no one but him. The other one was much tamer and he kept it for many years in a big pen on his small holding along with a lame fox that had been hit by a car. The wild one was eventually released by a vet nurse who fed it for nearly a year: she lived in the middle of nowhere and the fox would come to her window at dusk and scratch on the glass to be fed: and it even brought its cubs the following Spring, in true B
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Muscle size will depend a lot on what breeding the dog is as well as how fit it is. The more Greyhound in a dog, the bigger the muscles: like human sprinters. Collies and Salukies are distance runners and have nowhere near the same type or size of muscle: who ever saw a pumped up marathon runner? And of course the heart is a muscle too, and exercise helps it to operate more efficiently in pumping the blood rund the body.
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When you say she is walked, what exactly do you mean? On the lead only? In town only? She needs a mixture of free running and lead walking AND training: EVERY DAY! She also needs to have plenty of "you" time, if she is an only dog, where you are giving her your FULL attention, not just wandering along with the dog on the lead. Puppies of this age need constant stimulation unless they are asleep. Try and tire her out mentally more than physically. Play retrieving games with her, hide things for her to find: if she is as clever as you say she will really benefit from doing problem solving
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I deliberately take my pups into woodland, through barbed wire, set aside etc, so they can learn to pick their way through the dangerous/prickly/stingy things: but never with older dogs as then the pups are just tearing about playing and following the big dogs and not looking where they are going.
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I find that where barbed wire has been put up it gets left there, even when its not longer needed: round the common land where I exercise( :whistle: ) my dogs there is no end of old barbed wire fences: it used to be farmland before there were gravel pits, and now it is mostly nature reserves and fishing lakes the same old barbed wire is still there: rusting, sagging, in loops etc: deadly dangerous to running dogs. The worst was when 3 dogs went through the same piece of sagging wire at speed after something: result? One broken tail, one torn back, one ripped leg: cost us a fortune at the ve
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High powered rifles may have done away with a lot of foxes, but on one of the shoots I do the terrier work on they can only get so many at night: miss one and it'll not come in again to call. They have shot I don't know how many already this season, and we've already had 10 with the terriers in an area no more than a mile square since the end of October. Yes, in some places the riflers have made a huge dent in the population, but we're lucky: either they're not very good shots, or there's a lorra lorra foxes in this area.
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I was wondering the same thing yesterday as we drove out to the fens on yet another game bird preservation mission: just how many foxes are going to die in one day, from various means. Yet their numbers never decrease: they are shot, dug, run over, and caught by other means. Same goes for the rabbits. It would be interesting to get an ACCURATE figure just for the foxes on any one day: though I know that would be impossible.
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GregD's absolutely right: a dog's teeth aren't properly bedded into its jaw until about 11-12 months old: that's one of the reasons they often go through a rebellious stage about 9 months to a year old: the roots continue growing long after the visible adult teeth are through.
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I know these haven't got bent knees, but we use these and the jackets and I think you'd go a long way to beat them: quiet, tough as hell and comfortable, and completely waterproof and breathable: and we've been out in lashing rain and still come home dry; in fact that is their claim:::'home dry or your money back' www.kammo.co.uk/ - 7k -
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If you are on about the dog where the ad said that the dog had been given to him by 'Jeff': I would think, looking at the pic of the dog, he means Jeff Burrell, the Tumbler bloke from Wellingboro. .
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Hasw anyone seen the film Arachnaphobia?!
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Antibiotics destroy the gut's natural bacteria: tht's why its a good idea to give dogs (and humans) natural live yoghurt to eat when on a course of antibiotics. Could be your dog is trying to salvage the bacteria that should be present in his system: ..........or......maybe the antibiotics have changed the flavour of his turds!! Try giving him natural live yoghurt for a week or so to see if it helps: and maybe try giving him some tripe as well as his beef brisket. I haven't fed brisket, but IMO feeding just one type of food may possibly lead to some defficiences which your dog may be try
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Cheers folks: taking the camera beating on Wednesday: figured it wouldn't take too much of one (beating, that is!) Just gently strolling through a few fields of rape and the odd cover plot: might get to see a bit of game anyway.
