LaraCroft
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Have you got enough work for 3 lurchers/ whippets ??? personaly I,ve 3 in the house and to be honest its too much, wife keeps nipping my head to get the kennel built, I tend to think though dogs that are kept in the house develope a much better bond with you Agree about the bond - I find it helps, but I am sure others are just fine with kennels. I have no kids, and a reasonable sized living room, so 5 don't really make it feel cramped, but it would be different in a different house.
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mine are only kennelled at night the run door is open all day, even when its shut the run is 16 x 6 so hardly stuck in a shed :laugh: I was thinking of my shed - which is full of horse rugs and a knackered lawn mower.... I have seen some great kennels/runs on here, and given how posh your man-shed is, I am sure the dogs kennel is actually nicer than my house
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I think age has a bearing - my 3 oldies are 12-14 years now, and don't do much. An hours walk morning and evening, and they can go out into the yard whenever for a pee if needed, and they sleep the rest of the time. I wouldn't want more than 2 that need proper exercise. But the same as BPR, they are pets first, and happen to keep the freezer full second. Mine have to cope with car journeys, trips to London, going out with the horses and waiting in the truck while I am busy - but they are happier doing that than stuck in a shed with nothing to do or see.
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5 at the moment 2 collie x whip x greys, and 3 mainly grey x lurchers (these are elderly and retired) If all 5 being left alone (rare), they are all crated, as the young 2 play and annoy the older ones. More often than not, the younger 2 are with me out and about, the older 3 sleep wherever in the house.
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fooking spell checker :laugh: mind funny you should mention that :laugh: uh huh ! I'm not answering any more of your health questions though - not after last time you have to admit, i did say it was unusual Very true, you did - and when my eyes had stopped watering, you were right, I have never, ever seen anything like it before.
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It was really interesting - and no I don't like VW either, but her aside the rest was good. I'm still a coffee monster though !
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fooking spell checker :laugh: mind funny you should mention that :laugh: uh huh ! I'm not answering any more of your health questions though - not after last time
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Just pics of the land and the dogs though, no need for pics of the leaking willies
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Agree about unprocessed - mine don't get packet or tins, or anything like that, and I don't eat that sort of stuff myself either. I make sausages and burgers - that way I know what is in them. My gang happily eat raw meat, raw veg, cooked meat and cooked veg, and the odd bit of pasta and rice. Whether it is cooked or not, it is "decent" and not processed.
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My Grandad - my beliefs, manners, love of the countryside, and ethics. And some books - Vera Brittain "Testament of Youth" made me want to be a nurse - something I love. "Black Beauty" - for making me be the sort of horse owner that does right by the animal. You can laugh at the books, but never under estimate the power that an idea read, can have over someone.
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They made 'em tougher back then Scroat! Speaking of hospitals, in Northampton General there is a photo on display (1940's I think) of an old boy sitting chuffing away on his pipe in bed - and he is being given a light by the Director of Surgery ! Very true - love that pic - always makes me smile and remember the first vet I worked for - would be operating with a fag hanging out of his mouth, squinting to avoid the smoke, and completely unfazed by the piped oxygen that was around. He'd drop ash into the wound sometimes, and swear... then apologise for swearing, and ignore the ash....
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I know it's a long road to recovery, but glad they have found a reason behind it. Fingers crossed he is on the way back to full health soon
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Super pics, as always ( but that ain't dust behind Ruby - you need to clean your camera lens ! )
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yep, Ruby looks pretty normal in comparison ....
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I love cooking - always trying new stuff, and once you have made ( and tasted ) own made things like bread, pastry, cakes and pasta etc, you'd never go back to shop brought. Making bread 15 years ago got me into doing pasta, then growing veg and herbs, and now half the garden is growing food ! The one thing I could never do until a few months ago, was Yorkshire Puddings, but thanks to a very very helpful person on here, I now can who said THL was all about saluki's, matches and crabbing other peoples dogs !
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Agree. Human tablets are based on a person weighing 70 kg, not a dog, so the amounts in them, and the amounts needed, will be different.
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LMAO !
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Unbelievable And I Wouldn't Believe It .....
LaraCroft replied to socks's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
Nice ! I believe you, some are very able at that age. -
Staying on the freezing part of the topic - and I know it is very un-scientific - but I wondered about the difference between my indoor normal fridge freezer freezer ( keep up ! ) and the industrial origin outside freezer that usually takes the bunnies etc. I put a bunny in each, on the same day, same size, gutted the same etc, and took them both out a week later. Putting a knife through each, the industrial freezer was solid all through - could hear the crunch and feel the pressure of the ice etc - not so the indoor freezer - first 2" yes, middle no, last few inches, yes. Not scientific, but
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some nice looking hounds there lara i really like the look of the collie cross. Thank you - he's a star ! ( IMHO, obviously lol ! )
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Make sure you say that on the (potential) website then - show pics of the sort of thing you do, and the sort of thing that can be done - large square runs on small coops, dog kennels , if you are doing wooden framed stuff - consider pallet size wooden base, with slat sides forming a box, about knee high, and advertise as winter horse field hay feeders, to stop hay getting trashed in the field. (you can move them, to stop field getting rutted, and they don't hold water, rotting the hay) Good luck
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I struggled to find chicken coops with small accommodation - maybe for 2-6 birds max, with decent runs, that weren't those toblerone shaped ( sorry, couldn't think of proper name for shape ! ) runs that are tiny. Lots of people these days want a few hens, but want them to have a bit of space to move around - might be a gap in the market.
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An inflammation that has stripped the villi from the lining of the gut ? kind of like Crohns in people ? often associated with wheat intolerance
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Is he passing normal pee and poo ? If his body is processing food normally, then is his body not " using" it correctly ? or as Sandymere suggested, is it an autoimmune thing and he isn't using the nutrients - although I would have thought ( but not 100% sure ) white blood cell count to have shown that ?
