QUESTION....

[SLiP tHe DoG ! 129]

There could be two issues here: the first being that she's been in season. Some go moody, depressed, lethargic, not wanting to do anything much. Others run like demons for the first few weeks after a season, then become bags of lard as their muscles go soft, they lose power and can't turn to save their lives. Most of my bitches have gone soft until at least 3 weeks after pups would have been born, had they been truly pregnant. And their muscles, tendons and joints can take a while to get back to proper fitness after that.

 

The second issue could be that the bitch has tendon damage: running on bumpy ground could be jarring her legs a lot more than running on flat land. Fast dogs are more likely to suffer from damage to the main flexor tendons which run down the backs of the front legs: I've had very fast dogs which, unknown to me, damaged these tendons as young dogs, trying to do more than they should at an early age on bad ground or when not properly fit. That sort of damage isn't apparent when the dog runs on level ground, and only if it is really busting a gut to get to its prey. What quite often happens is that the tendon sheath is damaged a bit, not torn or ruptured, which means the tendon can't slide up and down within the sheath as it should. The scarring on the sheath means it is no longer a smooth surface, so the tendon is compromised. When a dog hits the dips in bumpy ground it is more jarring as the dog drops into these hollows. The pain involved could make a dog wary of putting its heart into running hard on ground it knows will hurt it. Just a thought or two.

 

Well i thought that also but she ran spot on after on the flat ....

shes been out a week , first few runs she was like a tank when turning so i just thought shes just started anyway at 15 month (lamping) and she hasnt done any work for a good couple of weeks with her being i season so i thought it was just her being rusty but it just got worse from there until the end of the night on the flat where she was running fine so if there was an injury it didnt bother her there ......

 

and another thing i forgot to mention is her jumping , she will jump now and then and is a cracking jumper but there was a few times she just didnt jump and would panic , but she usually jumps everything it was as if there was no confidence what so ever , but not becuase she wasnt catching just in general ? it feels like shes gone back to a pup and needs learning all over again when it comes to fences ?

its got to be something to do with her being in season

Thanks skycat

[Guest born to run1083]

No shes not in heat now i dont run my dogs when they are in season shes been out for a week now

and the dog stays here either way i couldnt give her away becuase of it but she got started late so ill give her more time

 

im gona keep her off the rough for a bit but that means she aint gona be coming out much with me and the other dog thats all . which is a shame

ill stick at it for another 12 month or so and hopefully she will come good

 

I had a feeling this would be a rare one even for the oldies

around here the ground is very rough the contours of the land is also an issue as we hunt the mountains and hills, your dogs vision might be perfect but as said there field of view isn't the same as ours, get down to her height if you can't see it neither will she lol we do have a prob round here with it. our dogs are used to it but others that arnt just don't seem to do as well, brows everywhere. some people read to far into a problem when normally it's very basic.