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    I've got one but can't find any land to use it on! Public land isn't possible round here so it's finding a field to rent to run on and they're hard to come by.
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    Glove puppet...
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    My idea of "morning" is 11.55 a.m., and they say dogs get like their owners...
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    Cool! 8.30 entries though. Eek!
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    I'm interested in this one as my dog came to me with a "healed" damaged toe, the same left front third. When the foot is on the floor, the toe looks flat and is longer than the same toe on the other foot (you can sort of see in the photo although the camera angle makes his feet look HUGE, they're not actually that bad!). My vet (not a specialist sighthound vet but she owns greyhounds and whippets) said as it was stable, to leave it alone but keep an eye on it, and suggested a joint supplement. I have him on a glucosamine/chondroitin/msm/omega 3 tablet every day. He's never gone lame on
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    Morning xxxxxxxxxx

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    I think they call them melanistic squirrels... there used to be a colony in a park in Essex a few years back.
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    Hmmm... are there issues, then? Ground-wise? On the website they say they are racing throughout the day on the Saturday...?
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    Hmmm sounds familiar (I recently discovered I own fifteen hairbrushes)! And I come complete with a thumping great lurcher who at some point will headbutt said bloke in the trouser area, rip the pocket out of his jacket and cough up sea water all over the back of his Land Rover. I have no complaints. BUT... if I was really, really, REALLY pressed I would say: Step away from the TV remote! You CAN watch the same channel for more than point five of a nanosecond and they won't have changed what's on yet since the last time you looked!
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    People working in rescue shelters unfortunately see the worst of people - and that's "pet" owners as well as "working" owners; but unfortunately lurchers being what they are, there's a high percentage of damaged (in one way or the other) ex-working dogs that come into rescue and a lot of shelters are wary of rehoming to another working home for fear of it being a case of "out of the frying pan and into the fire" for the dog. It's unlikely that these damaged - sometimes downright wrecked - dogs come from genuine working homes as those would do the right thing by the dog in the first place.
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    I have one a friend made for me, works very well, but it's finding somewhere to use it that's the problem!
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    xxxx hugs xxxx

    Hello you!

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    Just to add a touch of female perspective... you SAID: "So me and my big mouth went and said if you let him have a pup ill get rid of Blitz". That's what she HEARD, not what you were THINKING, which was "hoping she'd let me keep the lot". Don't say what you don't mean! It only causes trouble... Simples But if it was me I'd let you keep the bitch and get a pup.
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    That sort of thing does my head in. I live near a place that has a really big Saturday market / car boot sale and you often see a few teenagers with "staffy" (or whatever!) bitches, still with huge teats, wandering about; they generally carry a pup or two each and offer them to people for £100 a time. Presumably they've had no luck offering them on Epupz at £500 a pup Next stop, the pound, assuming the poor little unvaccinated devils survive the diseases they pick up being touted round the market.
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    Aww... looks good! I wanted to come to this, but Sykes isn't fit enough yet... next meeting with long jump, I hope to have him ready.
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    Enjoyed those a lot! A day well captured.
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    That's cool! I remember seeing a nature programme a few years ago where they were trying to film martens, and the "bait" that really floated their boat then was Custard Cream biscuits! That was in a pine forest in Scotland somewhere I think, cameramen staking the place out for days on end and all that... and there they are on your doorstep.
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    And you know this because ...you're an expert on rescue dogs or have put plenty in the pounds ? please tell us more of your experiences of pound hounds i would be interested to know more Edied to add :- well done to the guy who took a pound hound and turned its life around just common sense have you not been to dogs home??? why would anyone hand in a good working lurcher when they could sell/give it to a good working home?? So you have no experience of pound hounds and yet your qualified to comment ..dogs are not just put into homes because of their working ability ...how about
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    Possibly the nearest thing to a domestic bear...
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    Unless your real name is Stephen King and this took place in the Pet Sematary, animals don't generally "come back to life". Call me an old softie, but wouldn't it have been better for all concerned if the coyote had been actually, properly dead before you started skinning it? There's a saying about once could be an accident, but twice looks like carelessness. Hmmm.
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    These things are easily said, but we don't actually know what went on. Woody was two-and-a-half and was off-lead, and recalling, every day. Sometimes dogs get distracted, or panicked, or caught up on something. We don't know why he didn't recall, or why he was shot. He wasn't being walked on the day of the shoot but the day before, it's not as if he was deliberately put at risk, and the shoot were advised that day that he was missing in the area. His owners did everything they could to find him but were not allowed onto the land of the day of the shoot. It seems somebody got to hi
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    There's now been confirmation that Woody was shot, probably around 10.00 am on Friday morning. His presence on the land had been advised to those who needed to know on Thursday evening. His owners were still looking for him on Monday evening when they first heard rumours of this. Nobody has reported shooting Woody, whether by accident or deliberately. We do not know the whereabouts of his body. A silence has descended. His owners have asked for his collar as confirmation but this has not been forthcoming. What a sad end for a dog. And whatever the reason (or lack of it - it seems w
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    Please see the attached thread. Lurcher missing - Kent
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    Unfortunately there are rumours - currently unconfirmed - that this dog was shot, possibly on Thursday or Friday last week, in the area he went missing. A "greyhound type" dog was seen in or near a pheasant pen and it seems shot at. No body has been found; the landowner says he has never shot a dog and never would. That does not rule out others, though nobody has come forward to report it. This was a much loved pet dog which strayed once, and those using the land were advised of this immediately. He was wearing collar and tag and was microchipped. His owners spent five days se
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