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Beautiful animals. I'm interested in how the 'swamp forest' actually works: obviously it's not all knee deep in water, but the deer seem to appreciate the artificial higher ground that has been created, but before the bank was made, what other dry land did they use? Presumably they've adapted to living in very wet places partly for protection from predators. Also, are they endangered purely due to shrinking habitat? Are they protected at all? And if not, why not?
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lurchers " English shepherd dog " anyone tried them?
skycat replied to kevin-Day's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
Funny how wild canines, and foxes all have prick ears: you'd have thought they'd have died out by now or developed flop ears if grass seeds got into prick ears more than flopped ears -
Now that is a sensible use for one of those weird contraptions ... erm, what are they called again?
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That is a really good portrait Millet: I found a link to her FB page: http://www.(!64.56:886/photo.php?fbid=459591944087107&set=a.459591550753813.105378.459583240754644&type=1&theater
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This link explains it very well: http://www.homevet.com/browse-articles/item/513-how-do-i-treat-soft-tissue-injuries-in-pets
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A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS to all the THL nutters: :laugh: have a good one sighs Skycat blearily from the bottom of her glass of Irish Cream: now relaxing on the sofa with a heap of dogs ripping the Christmas present wrappings to bits :laugh:
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Yes, Jon Bickley's were superb: we used to give them out as trophies in the coursing club at the end of the season for quite a few years.
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Paid, however was not dead: thinking quickly he'd played sham to avoid the dreaded advances of Lab, though to tell you the truth, he'd actually fallen into a swoon at seeing Lab's rippling torso, but the, as he came round, he decided to stay there while listening to the reactions of the others: he wanted to know what the others truly thought of him, if they thought he was dead. Baw, meanwhile, having emptied his bladder, and shaken the last few drops on to Lab, turned to Skycat and demanded an explanation: was she really going to get it on with Lab? Skycat couldn't care less about who did
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Hang on a minute: I thought that the story was supposed to continue from post to post Skycat is leaving to have her Saluki triplets, because Baw didn't realise that he too had the blood of the desert hound running through his veins, result of a dalliance many millions of years before when humans and animals were still one: and whilst he couldn't stand the bloody things, he was strangely drawn to them, like a moth to a flame, somehow realising that they would eventually be his down fall. Happy Christmas!
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........................but Skycat, realising she'd been duped by, whisper it behind your hand in lowered voice, BY A SALUKI HATER, plotted her revenge on Baw. Stuffing her voluptuous breasts (thanks for that Baw ) back into her torn T shirt, she summoned the ever voracious Airedales to approach the camp, where they'd been lurking just out of sight all the time, and instructed them to work point. They were to look for a particularly strange animal, which looked on first glance just like any other Collie lurcher, BUT, only an Airedale would be able to sniff out the dreaded desert blood running
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"The hills are alive, with the sound of music" ........... oh, sorry, that was Julie Andrews............. Can't I be Judi Dench instead, and I'll play the part of Skycat who fell from the sky in Skyfall and converted Baw to Salukis
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Or it could be stress at being left: you say she doesn't cope well when you aren't there: being unable to control her bladder can be one example of what stress can do to a dog.
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Some dogs just don't make good ferreting dogs, be they lurcher or terrier. One reason can be if the dog has hunted a lot before you take it ferreting, it is used to action, all the time: it is used to being the 'doer', working to find stuff, rather than sitting patiently and waiting for a ferret to push out a rabbit from a warren.I have found in these cases such dogs just never adapt to hanging around quietly: like I said, they want to make things happen themselves. Occasionally, this sort of dog can take to ferreting once it gets a lot older and calmer, but there's no guarantee in my experi
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Now Baw had a guilty secret: he was embarrassingly addicted to snipping the buttons of other men's trousers, and he had a special fondness for Whin's: something to do with the fact that with his trousers round his ankles, Whin couldn't keep up with his dogs, who were, of course, the most highly trained of all ........ except when they smelled a ginger haggis on the horizon. To this end, Whin had started to tie his trousers up with string: a much safer thing to do, but today he had used the string to tie up said haggis, keeping it safe for a meal a bit later ............... what he didn't kn
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Apparently it is the most successful virus on the planet as it can be transmitted so easily: I heard of some concert hall where 500 out of 1500 people got it all because someone threw up on the entrance steps, and the heating system sucked up the virus and distributed it throughout the hall via the hot air ducts.
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Unbeknownst to all, the Airedales, beasts known for their keen sense of smell and bottomless drive, had been waiting behind a wall, their eyes fixed on what to them was a beautiful feast. At an invisible command from their owner, they crashed through the stone wall (well, I never said they were bright, just driven!) and leapt on Lab's lab, sucking the meat from the poor dog's bones with the speed of piranhas, then realising they were still hungry, one of them fixated on Gnasher, who was desperately trying to pull the ram's horn out of Lab's rear where it had become lodged during the attack....
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Just got in from work: ..........meanwhile, Skycat was mega pissed off that her Saluki had been devoured, and swore revenge on the culprit, but she couldn't really blame the dog as it was only a dog, and dogs do eat things, so she turned her dastardly plans towards its owner instead. Realising that she was heavily out numbered, not only in terms of male versus female, but from the point of view that there were no Saluki fans in the camp, she had to come up with a plan, and she quietly slipped out of the camp and headed for a small wood not half a mile away. The others saw her leave t
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:rofl: Go on......what happened next?
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I've been reading too many horror stories
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.......while Gnasher was snuggling up with Lab, poor old Tomo was alone under the stars, or so he thought! He tried his best to get comfortable in a masochist's bed of gorse, but something kept niggling him, and as he put his hand behind his head to see what the problem was, he realised ... to his utmost horror, that he had in fact made his bed amongst the stinking remains of a long dead ram. In case you're wondering why he hadn't smelled the rotting carcase before remember the chloroform! Lab had administered a dose of the same to Tomo in an attempt to get him into his tent, and Tomo's nos
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The thing is Sandy, most people don't know how to massage correctly: massage done correctly can help speed up recovery time no end. My osteopath would never try and 'wrench' my back out of spasm: you can't manipulate or do anything much to a muscle in acute spasm. But there are various mechanical aids which can help alleviate the spasm. Last time my back did a real bad spasm: laid up for a week, when I eventually managed to crawl to the osteopath she used an ultra sound machine, and something else, can't remember what the name was now, which worked on soft tissue as well. That was the fastest
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I'll tell you the truth: writing that story made me well up even as I was writing it :icon_redface: Soppy thing that I am, I can't even read stuff about the special bond between dogs and humans without getting all teary. And when I think about the 'wild' predatory side of a dog, and that dog being totally bonded with its owner and wanting to bring back its catch: even more so: I know that we have manipulated their genes for ever, but it still gets to me every time.
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Agreed: all pain killers and anti-inflammatories will do is mask the problem. Dogs need to go to get their backs sorted out the same as people going to a chiropractor. Pet dog vets don't 'do' these unseen injuries just as GPs don't do back problems apart from prescribing pain killers.
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Here is a Christmas tale I wrote some time ago: ............if only all true lost dog tales ended as well as this one of my own invention........... A CHRISTMAS TALE High on the cold moor a wicked wind hustled the first flakes of snow across the darkening land, and the skies took on a brownish hue, ominous forecast of real winter just around the corner. Deep in the heather, had you been looking closely and treading softly, you might have seen a brindled shape all but hidden, virtually camouflaged and already speckled with one or two spots of snow. The lurcher shivered, burying her
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Love that story.