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a lad i know is hoping to get a platts bred deerhound cross and was asking my opinion. to be honest ive never seen one so i was wondering if they are any good as workers and also what lines his deerhounds originate from. many thanks for any information
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Obedience and training, how much ?
beast replied to freelance's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
i work on recall and retrieve from day one i think you can almost get a young pup to think that doing those things is never an option, its just so instilled in them. i enjoy teaching dogs stuff, i feel you never get the best out of a dog unless you do some degree of training but you need a balance, some border collie crosses for example can lose their initiative if you are too intense. i expect a pup to know come, fetch, sit, stay, down, and to be calm in the car or when left kenneled, to be housebroken, good on the lead and to be respectful to cats sheep and poultry by about 3-4 months althou -
whatever mix of meat/veg/ etc you go for, (and there are a multitude of different opinions!) introduce it gradually. the different bacteria present in meat will be alien to your puppys gut and if you overload it you will end up with bad diarrhoea which can be very dangerous for little ones. some people like to start with a little cooked meat and gradually reduce the cooking time until the meat is raw over the space of a couple of weeks. personally i just give a tiny grape sized piece of raw meat, two or three times a day then over two or three weks i slowly replace the dry food with meat. some
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son, just learn to keep your gob shut and smile at the landowners for a couple of minutes and then you get hours and hours of sport. simples!!
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thats right, there are never any guarantees but careful breeding from quality stock can help reduce the chances of producing poor specimens. trouble is there is so much crap being bred from unproven stock that its hard to filter out the good stuff! just look on the working dogs page on facebook!!!!!
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there are muntjac everywhere round here, evry garden, tiny wood, patch of nettles seems to hold one.almost impossible to walk the dogs without them scenting one. they pop out a youngster about every 8 months round the estate dont know if the quality of feed affects the gestation at all and they get bred almost straight after giving birth. i seen a doe still cleaning a fawn and a buck getting all excited around her. so they have 3 young every 2 years. the fawns born in winter have less chance of surviving but just as many are born as other times of the year. bucks are tough tough little critter
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when i lived in norfolk i knew a couple of old boys who used to a bit of shooting on the mud flats as well as a spot of rabbiting and they both swore by labxgrey or even better they said flatcoatxgrey as they were a bit taller and slimmer and the cross threw a better coat. this would have been just after the war until the mid sixties and they said that both these crosses were popular at the time, both along the north norfolk coast and on the broads as all-round hunting/shooting dogs.
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A historical question: really carefully formulated LOL
beast replied to skycat's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
afew points spring to mind. at one time, before stud books etc the greyhound was the name for any running dog/lurcher/deerhound etc. and before the normans came over with their scent hounds the saxons were using longdogs for a very different hunting to the slow noisy french type, the saxons were coursing with their dogs. hell, before the saxons the celts were breeding wolfhounds, deerhounds, whatever you call them theyhad big tough running dogs that would take wolf and deer. i bet they would run foxes to protect their livestock, especially when you think that all the primitive sheep they had t -
How can a dog be too smart? that doesnt even make sense. If it stops running certain rabbits, there is a reason , and the reason is that it has learned what its capabilities are. what do you expect the dog to do, keep on running after them even when they have gone through the fence? smash into the fence? what? have a bit of a chase then turn away? think about it, any dog which kept running them bunnies wouldnt be welcome in my kennel, collie x or anything else.be grateful you have a smart enough dog to know its limits and aint gonna knacker itself out or bust itself up on no-chance runs
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personally i'm not convinced about electrolytes. as sandy mere says there are plenty of salts and sugars in a good balanced diet, and water is going to allow a quicker more satisfactory fluid balance through osmosis, it would have a higher osmotic potential than any solution
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when i was working with driving horses we were always tol "walk em out and walk em back" to warm the horses up and cool down for 15 or 20 mnutes at a walk before putting them to hard work or unharnessing. same with dogs, good warm up and cool off works wonders. and i've only ever used a towel for a good rub or bare hands for a slow more penetrating massage. dont thibk oils, embrocation etc do much for a dog. they have limited blood supply to the skin anyway, compared to a human
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i agree with skycat, there is no rush just keep to the roadwork and gradually get the dog going a bit further and a bit faster. you got all summer, dont spoil it for the sake of rushing. but i really would get the vet to check kidney function, that can be a long term issue
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thers some good advice on here already. this bitch is scared so you need to be very kind and patient. do whatever you can to build her confidence, especially in her relationship with you. play with her (maybe not rough games at first but build up gradually to exciting games), get her playing with toys (sometimes if you just sit on the floor and play with one by yourself this is enough to get her interest).roll about on the floor at her level, dont be afraid to make yourself look silly. just get her reacting in a positive way, but do it in a gradual way if that makes sense. once you get there s
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never had this problem with my dogs, but it can be very serious. first you need to make sure the kidney function isn't affected, the vet can check this from bloods. when you get the all clear, gradually build up exercise and good-quality protein intake. muscle is a pretty resilient tissue and regenerates pretty well so you should get most of the mass back, if not all. good luck, keep us posted
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Yep, the only way to absolutely guarantee how a dog will turn out (genetically, i mean) is to get a genuine first cross. even then, remember that most of the breeds we use to create lurchers vary a lot (collies, greys, bulls all come in a variety of shapes and sizes). As soon as you breed on from the first cross you are, to a degree, guessing. i've seen 3/4 bred collies come out just about pure grey, and just about half-cross looking. and if you add a third or fourth breed to the mix then the hotch-potch can come out just about anything. i've seen things that looked like rough-coated bull terr
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its the bambi-factor, plus very dramatic which equals = news story. if some dogs killed a fecking mouse or such it wouldnt even get a mention
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There is some good advice here already, attack fe;ll terrier and skycat and others. dont ever try to call the dog when it obviously wont come, wait till it is not particularly focussed on anything else then call it. otherwise it just learns that your voice menas nothing. even if you have been waiting an hour, when the dog comes back you must praise it and get it really excited and happy to be near you, then let it go again. and again, and again. the hard bit is to get her attention, if she is actually running you will probably not be able to, but if she is sniffing or just staring then a stran
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any dog is worth exactly what somebody is willing to pay for it.....
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twice a day. some bones in the morning to keep them busy and main feed last thing before kenneling the fact that the other bloke on ly feeds every third day is a worry!!!!!
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COMPLETE REST!!!! if she isnt right in a day or two get her to the vet, but she will probably be fine if she is putting weight on it
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personally i would advise you to gradually switch diet over a week or two as raw food has more bacteria which the dogs guts may not be used to. this could make him a bit loose for a day or two. but once he is used to it it is a lot cleaner than what you are used to now!
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wise words skycat. i might just add that i have seen a few dogs used for racing which learnt either that they were too slow to compete with the other dogs , or that once they caught up with the lure their was no outlet for their hyped-up state. in both cases i've seen dogs which learned that it was much more fun to start playing "chase me" or "fight me" witth other dogs instead of racing. best to leave him at home cos you won't cure it if you keep letting him do it, he enjoys it too much
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cant speak for all "bone men" but Robert Meek is a fully qualified human osteopath who specialises in dogs as well and he is brilliant. and just a tenner a throw!!!!!
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best thing for dry skin is to make sure the dog gets plenty of fat/oil in its diet, and brush well eveyr day, first few days it will look worse but then the coat will pick up. and even when the coat looks good don't stop the brushing its good for the circulation to the skin
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