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It's caused by the groove the tendon sits in not being properly formed: they shave a bit off the bone to deepen the groove which should stop the tendon slipping out. Good success rate providing the owner follows post-op advice to the letter. This link explains it very clearly: though not all dogs will have the same level of problems.http://www.vetsurgerycentral.com/patella.htm
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Why not let Lurcherlink rehome him for you: you won't get any money, but you will have the knowledge that he'll go to a really good home even if it isn't a working home. Much better than selling him to someone you don't know.
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I've got a litter of terrier/whippets and they've been grinding up chicken carcases (not a whole one of course ) from 7 weeks of age: amazing the power in those tiny jaws: chicken wings and carcases have very soft bones as the birds are killed so young.
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Sent you pm.
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Exactly the reason why natural feeding is best. People think that raw meat is very high in protein, but as it contains a large percentage of water, it is actually lower in protein gram for gram than those super-high-powered dry foods with levels of over 30% protein: that food is measured as dry matter as there is very little water content. The only time a dog may need such high protein dry foods is if it is performing at very strenuous and stressful competition levels such as the sled dogs in races like the Iditarod. Feeding a raw balanced diet takes all the guess work out of what protein
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You should be feeding the best protein you can afford WHILE the pup is growing, not only when it starts working. Quality protein (MEAT) is needed for healthy growth. Not just any old vegetable protein (as used by 99% of dog food manufacturers) as this is less well utilised by dogs than humans or herbivores. The difference between a litter of pups reared on a natural raw based diet, and those which only get cereal-based kibble is enormous ... in terms of general condition and overall health. Not saying that you can't rear pups on crap food, as dogs can survive on pretty much anything, but it ma
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When was this video made? Back in 1998 they were already talking about referendums county by county: http://www.lgcplus.com/country-wide-referendums-on-fox-hunting/1440038.article
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So sad to read this. Never easy to lose a dog, but really tragic when it's a pup which you had such hopes for. The sadness never really leaves you when a pup dies.
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There are two types of umbilical hernia, which is what I guess you are talking about. The one is a sealed hernia, where there is just a little bit of fat that didn't get left inside the abdomen when the umbilical opening closed over after birth, and this is not really a true hernia. The other is a true hernia where you can push the lump back inside the abdomen, which means the opening never closed over properly: these are the ones where it can cause problems if you breed from a bitch with one. If you're not sure which one your bitch has then get a vet to check it out.
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Doctors are beginning to realise that one of the main causes of Crohns is the westernised diet: high in meat, dairy products and refined carbs, and low in fruit and vegetables. Japan, which historically had a very low incidence of Crohns, is now seeing a big rise in cases due to a more westernised diet. I've had IBS for years, but manage it with diet very successfully: and a friend of mine has Crohns and manages her condition almost entirely through a high fibre, low fat diet with very little meat and dairy.
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A good all round mooching/rabbiting dog won't have its head stuck down a hole unless you have ferrets with you. Dogs that know the score will only mark a hole if they're actually out ferreting, not bushing or mooching about.
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You're right willow: even a wonder dog can't be everywhere at once: the reason my dogs catch so many rabbits out mooching along hedgerow is due to their numbers: two or three little dogs in cover panic the rabbits even if they can't catch them, and two or three lurchers on the outside make sure that not a lot get away if they do bolt. If I had to have just one dog out of my current crop I'd keep my 24" Airedale lurcher: she gets into cover like a small terrier, catches in cover as well as out of it, and all because she's totally, fanatically, desperate to find and catch, and coupled with an
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Yup, definitely a whirrier: something small enough to get into cover easily, with a thick skin, good nose, masses of drive and enough speed to nab bunnies at the edge of cover after a run in from the open as well.
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No true working dog man or woman would even want to buy in an adult dog, let alone one with no history.
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I seem to remember that illness can cause brown staining: if the dog was ill as a pup, even before the adult teeth came through. Certain antibiotics can also cause staining of the enamel.
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If you'd got the camera an inch lower it would have looked as though you had circus dogs sitting on top of the lurcher Nice trio there
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That's maybe what my problem is. Bit he has been well socialised and is around strange dogs all the time as I work on a lot off different farms and places that all have plenty of dogs. But like you said about them meeting a aggressive dog my neighbour has 6 terriers and there all horrible little t**ts and have ganged up and attacked him a few times when I haven't been able to protect him totally. I knew it was that I just didn't want to blame my problem on someone else. What are your thoughts on that? A pup or young dog that has been attacked during the formative months/weeks of its life ma
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If the teeth are becoming discoloured then they could be rotten inside. Once had a pup that developed brown stains on its teeth after having been vaccinated! The vet couldn't say why, and the teeth haven't rotted inside, just stained brown on the outside. Neal: yup, I spoil my dogs rotten but I'd sooner look after their teeth throughout their lives rather than have them suffer from gum problems later on which could cost a fortune at the vets. Leave plaqued-up teeth in a state and they can lead to rotting gums (gingivitis) and the bacteria from this can migrate through the body and cause
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Sounds like a very unsocialised animal to me: and as for allowing another dog, whatever the breeding, to 'give it loads' as you put it, doesn't do anything for a dog's confidence at all. FFS, what is this: the battle to see who has the hardest pup? The only way to get a 'hard' pup (please read confident, driven) is by getting the right pup in the first place, from good breeding, and socialise, socialise, socialise at the same time as protecting a puppy from aggressive dogs whilst it is growing up. It is easy to ruin a pup or create a wimp if you don't know what you are doing. But there i
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skycat replied to skycat's topic in Working Dogs & Livestock
Oi! Leave your off topic comments off my sweet little puppy thread Sorry Joe, my camera has been kaput for ages and I've not got it fixed yet. I'll try and get my neighbour to take some more. Very impressed with their trainability and temperaments. I've decided to keep the black and tan one as well, for the moment: she's so responsive and eager to please, despite being the fattest greediest pup of them all. I only had a couple of enquiries which came to nothing, but I'm very relieved to be honest as I'd have found it hard to let her go. A litter of 3 is pure joy to rear after having had -
It's possible he's carrying an injury to his neck or back: see a good Greyhound vet or good bone man. Here's a link someone put up of vets and bone men: http://www.questhousekennels.co.uk/info/page8/page8.html
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I reckon it's down to the amount of saliva a dog produces. People with dry mouths tend to get more decay than those which produce a lot of saliva, so it must be the same for dogs. I've had dogs of 12 years old and I've never had to de-scale their teeth, and they've all had very wet mouths: yuck And you can tell just by opening the dog's mouth, feeling its gums and looking at its tongue, and it's got nothing to do with how much they drink. I've always de-scaled their teeth using a fairly blunt small knife, like a butter knife. The dog needs to be completely trusting of you, and for me, the
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Still looks bloody unnatural.
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Better still: dig in and stay at home and become a prepper!
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Personally I wouldn't want to go anywhere near one of the old concentration camps, still less take selfies or any sort of photo of them. Whilst it is good that we are reminded of the holocaust, I see Auschwitz as a cemetary, somewhere to be held sadly sacred. It should be off limits to the morbidly curious, and anyone who doesn't have a personal interest (dead relatives etc). I visited Pompeii as a child and was struck by the eerie quality of the remains of a society and thousands of lives brought to a horrific halt ... and that tragedy happened hundreds of years ago, and wasn't man-made
