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    Yes
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    Aw, I love you men These comments really made my day: especially the dog chasing the car one: maybe I should start a female 'you know you're getting old' thread too, though knowing you lot I think it may degenerate into cruel abuse Anyway, all the posts made me feel I'm not quite so old after all but it is embarrassing to find yourself dancing (trying to) to an old Stones record then realise you're back's gone into spasm.
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    I'd sooner offer them cheap on here first; if I don't get any interest I'll have to put them on Evilbay.
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    We have for sale some of our kennels, only about 7 years old, and in good used condition apart from the corner of one floor section which has suffered a bit of rot due to damp. Sorry, no photos of this as I haven't got my camera fixed yet. The photo of the kennels is how they were about 5 years ago. All the rest of the wood is in good condition, and the metal bar panels and gates are good galvanised quality. The main kennel is a double, with central dividing gate section, and although the photo of the right hand side of the double kennel isn't ours, it is identical to ours apart from that the
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    Chances are it will keep happening as the scar tissue won't stretch like normal tissue and skin: the skin beneath the stopper is under incredible strain when the dog runs and places its foot on the ground: lot of flexion in that area. You may be better off getting the stopper pad permanently removed at the vet. Then protect the area when running with a piece of soft rubber taped over the area.
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    Really scary: I swear she can hypnotise me into doing what she wants me to do!
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    Long before I had a camera: a lurcher of mine leaping into the air to catch a pheasant, then turning a somersault in mid air and coming down on her feet with the pheasant in her mouth. Another one: lurcher running across a field chasing a duck at head height and catching it: all she did was open her mouth as she got close enough: crazy sight. And so many other times when I wished I had a camera to click at a precise moment.
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    ... and slacken that collar a bit!
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    Aye, we soft southerners do love a bit of sun wall to wall blue sky, burning hot sun ... summer is on its way, warming my bones. Great photos too: all the geese are paired up down here, birds nesting, frogs spawned already.
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    It will take around 3 weeks for the pup to adapt to new surroundings and routine, so don't get in a worry at this early stage. Once he understands the routine) in house when you are there and during the day, and in kennel at night) he'll be absolutely fine. I do the same with some of my dogs and they are perfectly happy. Routine is security to a dog: they need to learn the hours/routine to feel calm and relaxed. Agree with Casso on this one.
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    Just get a light weight sack truck and fix rucksack straps to the handles and away you go
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    Or it could have something stuck down its ear: not uncommon in bushing dogs. If there is no gunk or discharge then maybe worth having a vet look deep inside the ear to see if there is something in there.
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    Don't forget that dry food contains virtually no water, and raw meat contains a lot of water, so if you dried out minced beef the protein content would show one hell of a lot higher.
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    Lack of minerals is why I let this bitch go to a ferreting only home, something she enjoyed and was very good at, funnily enough. But I stand by what I say in that I make things as easy as possible for a young dog out first time, walking out to the rabbit rather than slipping it on something in the distance. This has always worked for me: I want it to catch that first time out and I'll walk around looking for the ideal rabbit, ignoring anything running in the distance. Once it has cottoned on to what to do then it can be slipped on stuff up and running or squatters at the very end of the beam
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    I think it is a mistake to treat every lurcher the same. Fact is they ARE different depending on the breeding. Some very sensitive dogs which may lack confidence may well be put off running and missing time after time, no matter how well they have been reared. Others will carry on running and trying regardless of how many they miss, but even the dumbest and most driven of dogs can be sickened through many failures. Surely it is up to the owner to understand and know their individual dog, what sort of mind set it has, but this is where it gets difficult for the novice owner who has little o
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    I would love to know what Bob Grass' products contain: but can't find any ingredients anywhere.
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    Makes the soles of my feet tingle just looking at those photos
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    Last photo: looks like a real chip off the old block .. real resemblance, in the best possible way.
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    If the dog has a bacterial infection, often seen as diarrhoea that doesn't respond to starving or diet, then it will need treating with antibiotics. So long as the bacterial infection is there you won't cure it without appropriate treatment, and by antibiotics I don't just mean a coupe of days on a mate's left over antibiotics. Any antibiotics need to be given correctly: usually a 5 or 7 day course of the type necessary to treat a specific bacteria. Some bacterial infections respond better to certain antibiotics than others. Get the dog to a vet before it loses too much condition. Edi
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    Dog may be able to run on that, once it has healed properly: months rather than weeks to heal. BUT, running on anything other than soft grassland may always pose problems.
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    Kennel

    skycat replied to jakk's topic in Gundogs & Retrievers

    Only thing I'd say is that with only one narrow end open to the sun, the amount of sunlight the dogs can get is going to be quite restricted to an hour or so when the sun is directly opposite that narrow end. I had a similar problem with my original runs which were south facing and approximately 2 metres wide: the dogs only got the sun for a relatively short time. I'd be tempted to put bars on a long side and that south facing. Also you said that it will be completely roofed in, which means that during the middle of the day in warmer months the sun will be too high overhead for any rays to ac
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    Running in the dark lit only by a small patch of light is something that a dog has to learn how to do; If you've ever stood 100 yards away from someone else who is lamping a rabbit, even from human height it is hard to distinguish much at all, let alone see detail. Now get down to dog height and try to see and run after a rabbit surrounded by darkness all the while being occasionally blinded by the beam when you turn into it, and the problem is obvious. IMO you practice on targets that are much closer to begin with: let the dog build confidence at short range before slipping it on somethin
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    Bearing in mind that photos do make dogs look fatter in general, I still wouldn't say she looks underweight. Look at her legs; they are very fine boned, and that type of build wouldn't easily carry any more weight; and you can only see the last couple of ribs, which is how a running dog should look in my opinion. I wonder what 'a couple of lads' are comparing her with when they say she is underweight?
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    50 yards is a long way for an inexperienced dog to sight a rabbit, and if the rabbit is up and running the chances are that the dog won't try to cut it off without experience in doing so, so it will be running to where it first sees the rabbit, more or less, then have to run like the clappers to get up on it again, if it has managed to follow the beam: fine for experienced dogs, but for a first timer I'd be creeping along the hedgerow/dyke side and looking for a squatter I can walk out to, purely to get the dog practice in actually running the rabbit and learning how they dodge, stop and set o
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    Much too far: if you really mean 50 yards. Rabbits in this area are on speed, especially at this time of year: anything that has survived the winter is pretty clued up in survival technique, even if it hasn't been lamped before. Plus lots of light pollution round Cambridge: never truly dark at night. You need to find squatter, like others have suggested. Walk it up with bitch on slip until you are only a few yards away, then put it up, don't slip her on a squatter she won't have seen. Maybe even let her watch it run while you keep the beam on it for the first time, without slipping her. Le
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