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The vet may want to remove what's left of the tooth as it will likely become infected, or they may just say keep an eye on it and if it does cause a problem they'll remove it as and when. One of my dogs knocked her big back molar clean off at gum level striking at a hare going through a hedge: must have done it on something charp and hard as whatever it was made a hole through her 'cheek' to knock the tooth. It never bothered her at all and didn't appear to become infected for the rest of her life: each case is different.
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To be honest if you went and bought the materials at your local B&Q or similar you'd be hard pressed to make the thing for under £100. Can't wait to hear what you have to say about it.
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Young male moles seeking a territory for themselves travel over ground, so its about the right time of year to find a few on top.
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I'm sure it's a fly: look at the eyes and the rear end: just off to try and identify it!
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B.A.R.F..........Bones And Raw Food ...........Raw meat and vegetables and raw meaty bones Does that mean the veg is raw as well ? Yes the veg is fed raw too: mince it up finely or put in a blender with a bit of water: the reason you do this is cos dogs' stomachs can't break down plant fibre the same way they do meat: when I used to get whole tripes from the slaughterhouse I always got it unwashed: there was loads of half digested grass stuck in it and the dogs loved it: that's one of the reasons dogs like eating horse and cow shit: for the vitamins and minerals from the plants.. B
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Also: someone said: Feed a puppy a stricktly raw diet and ul end up in bother rickets(calcium deficiency). How on earth can a pup suffer from rickets if it is getting whole carcases: meat bones etc? If you only feed red meat then of course it will be defficient in a lot of things, but NOT if you feed correctly: see my earlier post. Don't get sucked in by the manufacturer's horror stories! I will admit that if you have neither the time or inclination to feed the raw diet properly then you might just as well go and buy a bag of good quality food, as long as it isn't packed full of beet pulp,
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Not being funny either, but why give milk once an animal is weaned? Also, filling up a pup's stomach with watery milk is simply leaving less room for important stuff like meat: the protein that makes them grow. Wild dogs and wolves don't get slops and they grow just fine. Re SA37: this is just to make sure that you haven't missed out on anything important in the way of vitamins or minerals, though I do agree that a PROPERLY COMPLETE DIET should contain everything necessary. Pic of pup reared totally on raw food. No milk, no cereals: just meat, bones, a bit of veg and the odd eggs and fish
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Happy birthday:
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OH dear: the great dog food debate AGAIN! For what it's worth, my tenpence worth: I used to feed complete, but ONLY a food that was meat based: Purina, Eukanuba etc. If the first ingredient on the ingredients list on the bag is meat then the food is meat based, if the first ingredient listed is a cereal then there is more cereal than meat. I have now reared my last two pups TOTALLY on raw and the difference I've noticed is that they have NEVER had the shits, only crap small hard stools, have superb coats, amazing teeth and far more energy. BUT, I make sure they get bones, quite a bit
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It's quite normal for the bitch to have a bloody discharge after having pups: one of mine discharged slightly for that long BUT this is not usual. Make sure the discharge doesn't smell vile: if it does then she has an infection and will need to go to the vet for antibiotics. If it's just a small amount of fresh looking pinky blood then it could be that one of the sites where a puppy was attached in the uterus hasn't healed up completely: make sure the bitch doesn't have hard exercise or running for at least another month so it can heal properly. If the discharge is green, black yucky or sme
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What this lad needs is an experienced person to go to his place, show him the ropes and generally give him a hand: IF his posts are genuine and honest. We all started somehere once upon a time in ignorance, but this lad needs some serious help or there's going to be a f*cked up dog pretty soon. 3-6 miles a day at 12 weeks old? You gotta be joking, no? Elustrudo: if you are genuine and you really want help tell us what area you live in and if you are really sincere in wanting to learn, and I'm sure that someone will be willing to help you. Edited to add: have you wormed the pup?
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Condolences to all the families: what a waste of good young lives in a war that wasn't theirs.
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If you ate a bisons ribcage you'd be bunged up for a month Yeah: there is a bit of a difference between a bison and a lamb LOL!
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have a good one!
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Well I'm finding that my pup 1st cross GSD Grey has a seriously high prey drive. I'd say that these dogs need a lot of sensible training to make good lurchers: not for the wannabees who think they'll look cool with a big prick eared dog on the end of a lead. Don't get me wrong, but although Shepherds are relatively easy to train, they do need an owner that is prepared to put in the time on the training, and they're not the sort of dogs to just lie around until you want to take them out: they need serious quality time and lots of it from their owners. Like all guarding herding breeds they
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You are just soooo cool! Bet you feel a million dollars right now: maybe the police should employ you!
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Just had a nasty fright: 2 of my terriers out rummaging in the brambles after rabbits, the usual crashing and yipping as they tore after a rabbit, then suddenly silence. Not a yelp, not a sound. I started calling them and after what seemed an age they both staggered out covered in stinging wasps! They just stood there swaying. I was flicking and crunching wasps all over the place, and as luck would have it a bloke I know was passing with his dog: and he started pulling the wasps off the dogs too: the b*****ds were burying into the dog's coats to sting them. Neither dog made a sound, and there
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you could well be right there! Seriously though, a lot of Collie/Greys do have very strong heads and I've seen some that I knew for a fact were just Collie and Greyhound that you would have sworn had Bull in them. Having said that there is a drop of Bull in Greyhounds anyway!
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I just love Tick: looks a little cracker: good to see she's doing well too.
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All you need to do is get a syringe, the little plastic ones, with no needle on the end. Fill a cup with COOLED BOILED WATER, fill the syringe then hold her eyelids as open as possible: might need two of you to do it and hold the dog. Then sluice the eye out very gently: don't force the plunger down hard or you will damage the eye: just run the water over the surface of the eye starting at the corner of her eye nearest her ear, so it runs out naturally at the front corner, where her eye would naturally weep. You'll see sort of wet 'sausage' shapes of sand coming out at the front corner of t
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Like the others have said: it's a brave and good thing you've done. Mourn for him as is right and proper, then go and find another dog who will love you and be loved in return. Your old dog would have wished this for you.
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I should say that this was on a farm where the farmer was digging up the fenceline round his barns: rats were in open ground and bolting in all directions: the lurcher could see further than the shorter legged terriers. Similarly at the edges of a small spinney by a cover crop cut down. I can't say who would have been better around pig pens piles of rubbish etc.
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I had a 22" lurcher, no Airedale in her: out ratting she beat EVERY terrier (and they were seasoned ratting terriers too,) to the bolting rats without fail: as she was taller she covered the ground quicker and could see the rats from further off. I've never seen anything else to compare with her: OK, so she was lightly built, lurcher to lurcher for years and there was Beddy'Whippet in her too. I can't see why a smallish Airedale bitch couldn't do as well.
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Lovely strong looking pup:
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I think it's a good way of keeping them active and happy during the summer, but obviously it doesn't do anything for their feet regards toughening them up: couple swimming with trotting by a bike for example and you've probably got a good all round body work out: though of course nothing beats galloping for getting galloping fit.
