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  1. beast
    this goes back to the idea that wild carnivores dont eat every day because they dont make a successful hunt every day. most zoos give their big cats one or more starve days a week. BUT it fasting our dogs doesnt allow for the fact that a wild carnivore will LOAD up when it kills till it physically cant eat any more, then it doesnt actually need to hunt for a day or two. this is a totally different life style to a lurcher which might well be required to work 5 days a week or even more, never stuufing itself on a carcase then followed by 48 hours of lying around, then perhaps a day or two to fin
  2. beast
    there is loads of information available on training dogs, and obedience training should be done BEFORE you let your pup start working. but once you are happy with your pups training standard the most important aspect of creating a good working dog is to give it as much work as it can get. obviously you have to take age fitness etc into account, but the more work it gets, the better a dog gets.practice makes perfect!!
  3. beast
    i agree with casso, although i would use different words. this sounds like what the behaviouralists call stereotpical behaviour. lots of intelligent animals develop strange habits if allowed to become bored or stressed for long time periods, such as the bears you see swaying in a zoo or chained elephants trying to pace in a circus. the dog has developed the habit in kennels as a response or coping mechanism to boredom, and once these habits develop they are very hard to stop. if the dog starts diging when you are there, distract it. dont tell it off andd certainly dont smack it. and DEFINITELY
  4. beast
    even if the merle comes from a collie, it could be many generations ago and hardly any collie blood left, but the merle gene still can be passed on separate to any other characteristics
  5. beast
    seen a couple of dogs with similar (weell, from your descr4iption anyway).give them a good clean in hibiscrub then once they are dry rub olive oil into them and leave it to soak in. keep them as clean as you can and above all make sure the dog isnt allowed to stand in pee or poop or anything else which cause a secondary infection. hopefully you'll see an improvement in a week or two. if it comes back again you might want to consider a trip to a different vet.
  6. beast
    but sandymere, you will find someone who has used it for years with no scientific knowledge and no eveidence of effectiveness yet still swears by it!!!!!!
  7. beast
    bestb to let her run with it and just take all sensible precautions, i agree you shouldn't tinker with hromones too much as you can get nasty surprises later on. i saw some pictures once of saluki bitches in season and the bedouins who owned them had wrapped layer after layer of rags round them like a nappy to stop the dogs getting at them, not sure you would like to try this though!!!!!
  8. beast
    yep, rest and a bit of swimming
  9. beast
    i have seen this a lot in dogs which are allowed to start hunting at a young age, before they have been fully trained. you really need to teach recall and teach it PROPERLY way before you let a dog hunt, because it will quickly learn that there is nothing you can do to compete with the excitement of working. you could learn to live with this, but it obviously bothers you or you wouldnt have put this post up, so i suggest you go back to the very beginning as if he was a little pup and dont let him see anything until he is PERFECT in his recall
  10. beast
    i have my pups off the lead from the off, tehy are always looking to you as they are not brave enough to explore and this way the recall is easy. they grow up never really questioning if they have to come when called, its just something that they have always done so its second nature. if your pup is nervy and sits in the bushes, you need to be very gentle and non-threatening anf crouch down and call in a soft voice. when she comes reasure her and be kind, and she will soon realise that YOU can stop the big wide world being quite so scary, and she will look to you for encouragement and guidance
  11. beast
    hard to say without a picture but moll and skycat are right, saplings often look VERY STRANGE!!! for a while! i shouldnt worry too much. unless the dog still looks like that aged 12 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  12. beast
    i dont think that getting a pup chasing stuff will help, it will just teach it that the most fun exciting thing in the world is to be found AWAY from its owner, and before you know you will have a dog which fecks off as soon as you take the lead off, and will only come back when its tired or not at all. how can anything the owner offers EVER be as much fun as chasing? DONT let that pup chase stuff until it is obedient. what if it did catch a young rabbit before it has learned to retrieve? it will probably eat it, or at best leave it lying on the floor. its not going to teach itself to retrieve
  13. beast
    look up convergent evolution, this the name given to an evolutionary process where two unrelated species become similar in appearance, habits etc because they fill a similar ecological niche. by this i mean they evolve to hunt the same prey in similar habitat, or feed on similar plants, or whatever so they need the same physical tools and skills to achieve this. an example would be the recently extinct Tasmanian tiger, very dog-like in appearance and habits but totally unrelated
  14. beast
    does look rather saluki=ish but who knows. is it just me or is that pup a little lean for 8 weeks?
  15. beast
    hope you get her back.get loads of posters up ask at dog wardens, police stations vets pet shops etc any public place if you can put them there. if you ar elucky you might just make her too hot to handle and she may get dumped and end up in a rescue. is she microchipped? and offer a reward (genuine people if they find her wont take it anyway)dont give up good luck
  16. beast
    supposedly 20 odd years ago there was some sort of big cat living up around caithness or sutherland i forget which and killing sheep, and calves and deer. in the end they had a massive drive through a huge forest area and shot a big black lurcher. as i remember the story they found loads and loads of animal remains in the forest and reckon it must have been there for ages. anybody remember anything more about this?
  17. beast
    yeah dont worry shes just a baby. you did right by not getting frustrated and angry with her. if you find a place with myxy let her pick up as many as she likes, it will let her get used to squealing and struggling without losing them if she does drop them. good luck
  18. beast
    i've used 30.06 and 243, both will drop them if you hit the right spot. yes they may run on, but i've seen fallow run on too. i dont shoot deer unless i have a dog with me these days.........
  19. beast
    i have boxes of books in the loft, will go sort through them when i get some free time and let you know what i have
  20. beast
    spoke to the vet via email, he said that when the muscle cells break down they release a lot of free radicles which cause a lot of damage. the idea of the vitamin e is because it is an antioxidant and helps to oxidise these radicals which stops the damage. he said ideally you should supplement with dietary vitamin e for some time after the initial injection. not saying this is right sandy and you obviously have your doubts but just throwing another persons opinion into the ring. i also asked him about bicarbonate of soda, as someone mentioned it on one of the threads. he said that feeding it
  21. beast
    very interesting, i understand some of this stuff and am struggling on with a medical dictionary in the other in an attempt not to get left behind. i dont know how relevant this is, but my vet spent some time in south africa working with some local vets to capture wild animals. these were mostly hoofed stock (antelope, gazelle etc) and these species tend to be very "stressy" and liable to suffer from what the vets call capture myopathy, which seems to be rhabdomyolosis brought on in part at least by major stress events. the one thing they do is to inject every individual with vitamin e as thi
  22. beast
    some very good advice here. the only thing i might add is that as the dog begins to accept strangers being within throwing distanmce then let them throw a bit of tasty food then walk off, until she thinks that the approach of a stranger = treat. you will need some willing volunteers to help with this. also use her friendship with the other dogs to help, dogs are social animals and get confidence from each other, as well as following another dogs lead, so take one or more (the calmest!!) of the others with her on her walks. the presence of another dog can also help to stimulate the willingness
  23. beast
    any pictures please?
  24. beast
    3/4=75% 1/4=25% i'm getting quite good with this calculator now..............
  25. beast
    was it the woman, sue something? she was excellent and very efficient when i had some dealings with her a little while ago
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