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  1. 6pack
    Is it not hard to find a proper farm bred collie nowdays? Wouldn't some of the collies used for stuff like agility bring the same to the mix?
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    I don't read the suggested feeding guides. They are simple guidelines. A dog that runs more than another will need higher quantities. I go by eye. If the dog is looking a bit skinny, give more, if a little heavy, feed less.
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    Just ask - what does a working collie bring to the cross that a non worker doesn't? I thought collies were used to add some brain to the speed. Would you not still find that brain in a non worker? Would think you wouldn't want your lurcher herding bunnies
  4. 6pack
    I have issues with the death penalty, so at least you can say someone you have conversed with doesn't agree
  5. 6pack
    But that's quite contradictory in terms because a line bred dog will also be the breeding folks are looking for and have a known pedigree for generations to be able to exactly determine the breed and the breeding.
  6. 6pack
    Running through undergrowth?
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    That well and truly cleared the cobwebs.

  8. 6pack
    Think you need to re read!! That isn't what I said at all
  9. 6pack
    You would just leave it in the field??
  10. 6pack
    The number of dogs I have,
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    Snowy
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    Culling a big litter at birth is OK in my book. But afterwards....how long do you give a dog to prove itself capable? I think sometimes peeps have very high expectations of a very young dog. It's the big ego thing to brag about your 9month old pup bringing in huge numbers. My dogs are pets first. If they don't do as hoped in the working field I don't really care, they still bring me great pleasure in other ways. But I don't care about big bags either. Some don't keep their dogs if they don't 'work' properly, doesn't sit well with me, but each to their own as long as you take the respons
  13. 6pack
    New to ferret owning so this is all new to me. Lee - have you ever had a jill die prematurely?
  14. 6pack
    There has been studies comparing injuries between dogs ran and walked solo to those in groups. They showed dogs that ran with other dogs from an early age were less likely to injury than those exercised alone. Not an exact science I would have thought, but a big difference.
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    It's just another game to play with your dog and can be great for boosting the confidence of a nervous pup. It doesn't let your dog think it's top dog. Like everything else it takes training, and can be used to help teach a retrieve and a give. The dog will get excited, but then it's down to you to teach it what is and isn't acceptable. Any interaction with your dog is a good thing.
  16. 6pack
    Raiye, im being good and not saying anything
  17. 6pack
    Can call my Borzoi off mid chase, but not the bull cross.
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    You can have his hearing tested. It's called BEAR testing. Simple procedure involves light sedation and electrodes placed just under the skin and they measure what hearing the dog may have in each ear. It could be that some tones or volumes can't be heard, but others can. This can just mean whistle training instead of vocal. It's not the be all and end all, and deaf dogs are really quite easy to train, just takes a little more time and repetition. Hand signals come in handy when you need to be quiet too
  19. 6pack
    sorry but no it didn't look bow legged when i picked it up otherwise i would not have got it i don't expect her to do nothing it just got my back up when i seen she had bred from the dogs again when my dog was as bad as it was you would have understood why i had her pts if you seen how much pain she was in . it would have been dam right cruel if i kept her in pain like that she could not walk . and what if her feet stopped that flat and her bones wasn't as strong as they should have been should i have spent all my time training and bonding with the poor dog to take it out working and the fir
  20. 6pack
    yea i can see your point do the police attend a report of two young lads caught trying to pinch a motorbike ????????????? or do they attend a report of a possible assault think about it Police arrived, 2 young lads caught, no assault and no theft. Sorted
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    Why because most folk dont want what other folks have dumped or cast off and dogs and pups in rescues what chance of ye got of finding out the breeding lines etc in them i certainly would never dream of taking 1 on for that very reason Not all dumped and cast offs, and some we do know the breeding and lines - you would be surprised - but we don't share that info, we want you to want the dog, not it's breeding. Some cracking dogs come in at LL. If they were that good they wouldnt be in a rescue center would they,and ye have said exactly why i wouldnt entertain one I consider
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    Even the best bred litters run the chance of carpal deformities. Carpal Varus is simply the scientific term for the angle of the deformity. Did your pup show signs of bow leggedness when you picked it up? And if so, why did you buy it? If it didn't, what do you expect the breeder to do about it? Considering most cases of bow legged, knuckling over, what ever you want to call it, correct themselves through easily managed structure, I still don't understand why you had the pup pts, but I imagine not an easy choice to make.
  23. 6pack
    Feed mine twice a day. Always one meal of dried complete. The other depends what I've got in. Meaty bones, chicken wings,sardines, eggs, pasta or rice, mix of...
  24. 6pack
    People take good healthy greys retired from the track and consider it 'rescued' Or a neighbour wanted to rehome their Saluki and they 'rescued' it. Rescued and from a rescue, 2 totally different things. Slag this woman off for over breeding from her dog, and for lieing about it, but the repeat breeding won't be of any damage to the pups. Folks need to get it out of their head that she is breeding some genetic disorder. She isn't.
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    Nature dont work like that. It happens all the time. Pups are too big, need C sections. Especially with bull breeds, heads bred too large leave a bitch struggling. Natures way would be just a couple of pups.
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