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Lovely bitch
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You are right to be paranoid. Dog could have easily damaged something in her spine. Get her to a good Greyhound vet asap. Breathing shallow and fast indicates a high level of pain: dogs don't necessarily scream and yelp if they are suffering bad internal pain: inside the body as opposed to an external wound. Hopefully it is just bad bruising, but better to put your mind at rest and know what you are dealing with. Just to really put the frighteners on you: I once had a lurcher rupture a lung: air leaking into the chest cavity: that can cause shallow breathing. In cases where the rupture is
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So good to see that ferret with your dog: she'd obviously had a good home before, and she's probably overjoyed to be part of a team again. I wonder how she got lost, given that she's used to both dogs and people.
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Just read your original post again, and the fact that she may not have been brought up in an ideal situation may also have had a part to play in how the accident affected her. If she hadn't been exposed to game in the correct way before you got her, or, given her sensitive nature, been inadvertently been put off chasing, then combine this with the accident ... well, there's so much that she hasn't had go right for her. Like you say, let her enjoy what she does enjoy, but who knows, give her another year to mature and forget, and she may still surprise you.
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A bad injury can have a lasting effect on an animal psychologically, even if the physical damage has healed. If the dog did not have a high drive in the first place, or is an extremely sensitive creature generally, the accident could affect how she feels about everything in life. From what you are saying it does sound as though she wasn't a very driven dog to begin with: reading between the lines, and apologies if I'm mistaken. Just like some people could be put off doing something for life if they've had a bad experience, some dogs just won't get over the trauma for the rest of their live
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Good idea
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Cricket is 17", but can get most places, though he pays the price in shredded tail end and battered ears and round his eyes. Midge, terrier, is still better than he is for pushing rabbits out of maze like runs under deep brambles. I wouldn't like to run a 'pack of Crickets' Whilst he works very well with others, he doesn't 'pack' in the true sense of the word, and because he runs only with bitches he, as the male, is the one that lays claim to a rabbit caught in cover and retrieves it to me. He's very obedient to me, but a dominant character with the other dogs: this works in my situation
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You're all just jealous of me as a female white van man And I was a rally driver in a previous life, so being a passenger is just too scary
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Lol you talking about orientating love?? Lol He (note my OH is a he ) did say that it was because he'd done orienteering in his scouting days. But it does my head in when we're in the van going somewhere and he's map reading
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Wrap it up so it is fixed on top of the dog's head: use Elastoplast sticking fabric roll and fix in place with a dab of superglue: only enough to stick it to the fur in a few places: not too tight round the throat mind: dog has to breathe and drink and eat. First fold the ear on top of the head, with cotton wool wrapped round the injured part. Hold in place while you wind Vetwrap or Elastoplast right round the head, leaving the uninjured ear free as seen in the photo. The amount of wrapping in the photo is a bit over kill, but better to have a wide amount of wrap round the throat than
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Are you one of those people who can only read a map if you hold it so it's facing the way you are going? So upside down if you are going north? My OH is like that: something to do with the wiring in your brain.
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thanks penny, I feed dry food that I've used on all my dogs for a good few years , I also feed butchers scraps which last a few days every other week, I can't see any movement on his skin although he has bad dandruff I seen dogs with it, and I haven't seen anything moving either. It wouldn't hurt to treat for Cheyletiella anyway. And as far as food goes, dogs can appear to do fine on a particular food, but then show signs of intolerance as the bad effects of a particular diet slowly build up. Manufacturers can also change the ingredients according to how cheaply they can source them: one o
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A lack of fat in the diet can contribute to dry skin as well. Best fat is lamb fat, followed by chicken then beef fat. What are you feeding? Many manufactured complete foods are very low in fat content, as well as being high in cereal content which is not the best type of food for dogs. What appears as dry skin can also be caused by 'walking dandruff': a type of mite that lives on the surface of the skin and can cause itching and loss of fur. Read about it here: http://www.petwave.com/Dogs/Health/Cheyletiellosis.aspx
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For me it's got nothing to do with snobbery: I don't like feeding myself on anything I can't recognise, and I do the same for my dogs 90% of the time. In other words it needs to be fresh food, not processed or manufactured stuff that is full of additives, artificial colours, preservatives etc etc. Behavioural problems and allergies are linked to processed food in children all the time, and the same is true for dogs. And they have now linked certain cancers with an unnatural diet or lifestyle.
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You can get terriers that never go to ground on rabbit, only on stuff that they are meant to. It all depends on how you bring the dog up, and the amount of exposure it has to different game in different situations. I once worked my 'all rounder' terrier bitch, many years ago, along a massive bank covered in bushes that was all rabbit warrens. She worked loose, and ignored every hole until she came to one that had a fox in it. Luckily the lurcher told me where she was or I'd have been all day trying to locate her below ground. That particular lurcher would also never mark a rabbit hole if we we
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Have to say that the pied dog is a powerful looking animal. Looks like it could gallop a bit as well.
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If they're anything like Cricket, my Whippet/Border cross, they'll be little dynamite dogs ... nice to live with and full on in the field. Multi-talented too: a dog that can switch from ferreting mode into flat out nose dog/hunter in cover at the flick of a switch.
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A good Collie lurcher is worth its weight in gold. But then again, I've had plenty of others with no Collie in them that were pretty amazing. Good comes in all sorts of packages.
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Great to see them playing together like that. Often find that a pup rejuvenates an older dog, once the pup has grown big enough to behave like a dog and not a blob.
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When Will My Pup Start Showing Signs Its Ready For The Bunnies?
skycat replied to Leesy's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
No, take the pup out alone, just you and him and a ferret. Find a small warren, a two holer if possible, or at least somewhere shallow and open. If you take another dog with you chances are the pup will be more focussed on messing about with the other dog than learning about ferrets and rabbits. Obviously don't expect the pup to mark, though some do instinctively. If the pup shows particular interest in a hole, then put the ferret down: this is good practice for letting the pup see the ferret in a different situation than the one it is used to at home, even if there is nothing in the burrow. -
Congratulations Mrs Tomo ... and Tomo look forward to seeing some baby photos!
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Dog walking is big business in some areas: commuter owners etc. And yes, insurance is a must, and as there's whole websites devoted to dog walking there's a lot of competition as well.
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You must be joking: I sincerely hope you are Worst crap of all of them is Wagg, and Beta ain't a lot better, though of course 1000s of dogs manage to survive on rubbish, but there's a big difference between surviving and being in top health.
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Perfect upbringing by the looks of things. Learning about different surfaces: grass, paving. Getting sun on their backs, getting to run about, chew stuff. Lucky pups indeed
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Good write up I see the routine of animals all the time out bushing. Rabbits usually bolt from cover in the same direction, if they can, taking the shortest route back to their burrows. Foxes usually take the same route to safety. Bushing lurchers usually learn the routes and put themselves in the right place for a catch. Many years ago I had a very smart lurcher, as in brains smart, who, after just one missed catch when we were working out an old orchard for foxes, put herself back a little way from the route that first fox took, and was rewarded by two more which took exactly the same line
