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    Save your money - it is vitamin B ( which they get plenty of in food, and pee out any extra given ) and sugar and a few other non essentials. If you feed a decent diet, they don't need extras like that
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    I've not tried stilton in with rabbit before - I am not a big fan of blue cheese if it is strong, but I like it mild with broccoli - if I can't be bothered to make a proper pie, one of the frozen puff discs thawed out, and then covered in chopped broccoli and crumbled mild stilton, with an egg wash base makes a lovely quick meal to use up extra greens. What amount of stilton did you use, and strength, and was it a strong blue flavour ? The local butcher here does some amazing faggots - just the thing with mash and gravy after a long day, especially given the recent weather ! My polytun
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    puff or short crust lara and did you hold the mix together with a white sauce ? I made a batch of puff pastry - I tend to do a load at once, and then split it into bags for the freezer, rolled into discs the right size for the pie dish, and then I just defrost one as and when I need to, to be a top for a pie. I end up with a half dozen discs stacked up like pizza bases, ready to use, in the freezer. They only take 40-45 mins to defrost once out, so it saves a lot of time. I didn't put much of a sauce in, as I knew I was going to have some cold the next day, just the rabbit flash cubed an
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    Gaz has it sorted - only have to look at his dogs to know they are fed properly, and worked properly - they look fantastic
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    In future I shall grab the phone and take a photo before I grab the knife and start cutting !
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    Did a rabbit, bacon and greens pie, and it was lovely. Rabbit loin courtesy of my dog ( he had the rest ) and then pork from my neighbours pigs ( I help move them, and graze them in return for cuts) and greens from the polytunnel. Made a fabulous pie - great hot that evening, and then cold with pickle the next day, and then in sarnies the next day with the pastry chucked at the dog. It won't help his waistline, but won't won't be on mine either !
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    Polytunnels are awesome ! Fresh veg in January snow !

    1. Chaff

      Chaff

      I can't wait till I retire have my bees piggs an polytunnel bliss

    2. LaraCroft

      LaraCroft

      The chickens are fabulous slug killers if you can keep them off the greens !

       

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    Depends on the op really - some vets will remove the ball part of the bone, leaving the rounded off end of the bone to sit inside the joint - can reduce the pain considerably, but has its own issues, as the bone remaining isn't designed to be a surface for the joint to move on. In an elderly dog, it can be a good enough fix that it is far better than what the dog had before, but isn't designed to last that long, or be a *replacement* - more like those funny skinny spare tyres that can only do 40 MPH and only get you to the nearest garage for a proper replacement. If the dog is only going to wo
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    It can depend on the cause - often it is something they are in contact with (detergent on bedding, cleaning solutions on kennel floor ) or that they are eating (grain in dry food) - if it is a specific area ( feet and chest ) it is often a contact thing. The treatment depends on cause - remove the cause, or try to stop the reaction if it isn't anything you can remove.
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    A decent warm up before any exercise is sensible. Walking or trotting on lead before being expected to do some decent runs can really help make sure that cold muscles don't take a hit. Either on lead ( and you get a work out too ! ) or with other dogs in a smaller area. On cold nights, it is good practice. Same with cooling down after - a hot, panting, tired dog needs some gentle walking around to allow the muscles to cool, get rid of lactic acid, and allow the dog to chill down gently before being checked for wounds/injuries, fed ( if you do that ) and allowed to settle down for a well earned
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    Great news that he is happy and the signs are good - fingers crossed he continues to improve
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    It is worth trying a higher dose - the caninsulin is a medium acting one, so it won't be starting to do much for the first hour or so after injection. The normal reason for saying jab after food is so you know the dog has eaten before having insulin - if you jab the dog, then it refuses to eat, you have insulin in the system with nothing to work on. The same insulin can ( on vet advice obviously ) be given twice daily in a smaller dose, which can again make the sugar/insulin/food/exercise balance easier to control, but obviously the downside is having to double the amount of jabs, and who is a
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    It can be difficult to get the balance - especially if the dog had an infection to start with that was altering the dogs system - I personally found it easier to feed smaller amounts 4 times a day than just twice, so you don't get such a swing between high levels of sugar after a meal, and lower levels just before the next meal - not always easy to work into a day, but may be an option. If the sugar is still high ( and the dog is happy to do so ) then a longer walk would be fine to help use up more excess sugar in the blood. Slower, steady exercise for longer is better than a short burst of en
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    You're welcome. I hope the antibiotics sort it out
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    A cough can be from lots of things - mild heart failure causing a bit of fluid on the lungs, cysts on the lungs, fungal infection of the lungs ( won't respond to antibiotics), tumours of the lung etc - without an x-ray and/or other type of checks, impossible to say. It depends on the dog, and the owner, and the finances ... you could have the x-ray and find it is a small foreign body, easily removed by a small surgery at a reasonable cost - the dog is lovely and worth it. You could decide that money is tight, the dog is lovely, but priorities have to be accepted, and allow the dog to be a
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    They need to make post bashing sleeves for short people - I can't reach that high !

    1. TUFFTY

      TUFFTY

      I can ;)

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    Good to hear
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    It's not bad to manage once you get the hang of the injections and the routine of being strict with giving the same amount of food most days. Once the blood sugar is over about 18 they are lethargic, and pee some excess sugar out, which makes them more likely to get water infections - and as the sugar in the bloodstream makes them ( by various means ) more thirsty, they drink anything they can find - so as soon as the insulin and the routine kicks in, the drinking/peeing thing settles quickly. Don't get caught up being too worried about what the blood sugar is, or checking the urine for
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    When you live so far from civilisation that they don't deliver anything, and all you want is a kebab. Sigh .

    1. LaraCroft

      LaraCroft

      I added chilli sauce to an omelette and promised myself fish and chips on the way back from the beach with the dogs tomorrow !

    2. treecreeper

      treecreeper

      if you seen where they make donna meat nobody would eat it

    3. LaraCroft

      LaraCroft

      Its a grilled chicken one, in a wholemeal pitta, with lettuce , from a lovely lady who sells homemade/homecooked stuff and homegrown veg from her shed ! In the list of things that are going to kill me, it's quite far down there !

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    I am hoping for goslings in the new year - never had them before. My male is 9 and the females are all this years eggs. I have had the male 9 years, with his female partner of 8 years, who was 25y when she died. She had stopped laying a while ago, and when she went, he was so lonely I ended up getting 6 girls for him. They have an acre of meadow to roam in, and a nice dry, secure shed with nest areas to sleep in - do I need to do anything else ? They are bedded on shredded paper, and eat pellets, wheat and as much bread as they can con me out of - I haven't had eggs before, so I am looking fo
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    A lovely link, thank you Blackbriar. We lost a lovely military guy not long ago - a few years after his return with injury - we, and him, worked so hard to get him back, but it wasn't to be, and it was gutting. To have come so far, from injury, to flight home, rehab, and physio and then die anyway was a harsh lesson. Knowing that some people don't even know what the silence means is shocking. Not to mention that they don't care. They should try sitting there for months at a time with a loved one abroad fighting, and live in fear of the knock on the door and perhaps learn a few thing
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    It works great - just be VERY careful with the dose for bodyweight - you need to be precise.
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    Works well on nails cut too short as it stops the bleeding on the small vessels in the quick, but no good on wounds as it damages tissues. I have used it on small ear tears too, but is does sting, so you need to know that before you apply it, and restrain the dog accordingly.
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    Sorry to hear this - losing a young dog is always horrible I hope things improve for you.
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    Yep, and Hysteria is from women, whose female innards went wrong ! To be fair, there really is something about night shifts on a full moon - more nutters than usual.
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