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If I had a £ for every time some tw*t said 'you've got your hands full' I be rich beyond my wildest dreams! OK, slight exageration maybe, but like LB said, their crazy spoilt little sh*t is giving it some and trying to eat my dogs, who are standing there making like the little sh*t doesn't exist until it gives one of them a real nip, then the owner gets all precious when they flip the little sod and stand over it snarling. Another one: lunatic on push bike giving his Husky x some exercise, hurtling along tarmac bike track across the common: dog galloping flat out towing bike, wait for it
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So we'll look for a little fat bloke covered in grass stains then will we?! LOL
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like the eskimo one the best!
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Like Tomo says: and I remember a place we used to go where it was all big woods surrounding big fields: but if it was or had been raining the hares stayed in the woods, and even a line of beaters couldn't get them out: they just ran round in circles inside the woods. Also if the ground is what we cold a 'cold' ground, clay or other heavy ground, they don't like to sit on that in the winter, even though their favourite grub might be growing there: they tiptoe on to feed at night then vanish off again for the day: might move a few fields away or to lower, warmer ground.
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You might find that yu will always have to bandage that stop up in the future to stop it opening again. Scar tissue doesn't stretch like normal tissue, and the stopper takes a hell of a lot of hammer when the dog is running. Seen quite a few dogs that had to be be bandaged up when running: or try and get some stopper protectors, available from the Greyhound Shop: they've got a website I believe: just Google Greyhound Shop. Failing all else get the stopper removed: but that's only a last resort as you'll still end up having to bandage the area to proect the joint the stopper would have prote
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They'll definitely keep the blue eyes if they are pale or bright blue and they're merles: normal puppy eyes are dark blue, and change to their adult brown/black colour at about 7-8 weeks. I wanted to know if my merle pup would keep her electric bright blue eyes she had as a tiny pup: but of course they changed and are now very pale: spooky! 5 weeks or thereabouts: and at 5 months:
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That last pic's a beauty: class looking pups there.
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That has to be just the most perfect set up I've seen: and a real labour of love too I should think. Thanks for sharing it
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Black stools are often caused by bleeding of the stomach lining: OR by eating lots of raw heart and liver.
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Life is cheap in some parts of the world: both human and animal life. I think that the vid shows just how bad an existence those people suffer: I was shocked when visiting Morocco many years ago at the state of the donkeys pulling carts in Casablanca: my Moroccan friend said to me: "look at the bloke with the donkey: in rags, skinny etc. How can you expect him to treat his donkey any different to the way life treats him?"
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When the dog gets these pains, does he then have the shits or gets constipated? If he does, then its possible he is intolerant to the type of food, even though it may be hypoallergenic. We had a similar problem, but without the pain: the dog just got the shits really badly every now and then now matter what food we tried her on. Since feeding BARF we never had any more problems. I reckon that this sort of intolerance just builds up over a period of time and then....blast off!Have you tried him on a raw meat and bones diet?
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to Maxhardcore. I've seen a couple of ex track bitches working the field, smallish animals, about 26", lightly built, and they hunted as well as many lurchers I've seen, very quick reactions, good strikes, and of course very fast: only downside was that their determination, or tunnel vision: seen some nasty injuries when they went flat out through hedges etc. They had really good feet though.
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I could call my old bitch out, but only if I screamed myself blue in the face and gave myself a headache by bawling into the hole for long enough! Quite useful when I think of the number of times she has gone to ground when she shouldn't have: couldn't do that with her daughters though, or not until they had finished the job. Which do I rate more: make no distinction between them, they all stay until dug to or it has bolted. Edited to add: Just reread that last post: about having no respect for a terrier that bolts its quarry: so the dog goes to ground, quarry decides its too hot in there,
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ARE there dogs that could deal with a big cat then?
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Who care's as long as she's what you want and your'e happy with her: I've got a wee lurcher with no whippet in her, (that I know of, and I know the breeding 5 generations back) and she looks more whippety than yours!LOL
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Makes all the sense in the world: I met a woman when I was out exercising the dogs the other day: she had a rescue lurcher she was having problems with...anyway, to cut a long story short, after chatting for a while she said to me "You are so lucky to feel so passionate about something (she was referring to my life revolving around working my dogs), most of us just have to muddle through life not having something that drives us on and we settle for the easy, safe or middle road, only now and again having a feeling that we are missing something." I reckon that says it all!
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I think he means the carpal bone, one of the ones above the metacarpals on the front foot: the equivalent to our long bones in our hands that go down to the knuckles. Yes, 6 weeks on lead, no jumping up and down either! Don't forget to knock the dog's food dwon a bit in quantity, though not quality, and give it some of those huge rawhide chews to keep it occupied: bones as well, but you could find the poor thing is trying to crap concrete marbles if it gets too many bones.
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All the best Frank: just remember that life has a funny habit of rushing by faster and faster as you get older. We only get one crack at it, so don't waste it. As in the words of the Pink Floyd song: "one day older, one day closer to death." Not trying to be morbid or anything but its something I remind myself of every now and then.
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ferret saves working bitch
skycat replied to deerhound working's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
That's just brilliant: just amazing that the ferret went that far to find them. -
I know this sounds really pathetic, but how do I put money into my Paypal account: I've only ever bought stuff where its used as a link: I want to use my debit card to do this.
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I know this is a long shot, and the symptoms don't sound quite the same but we've had 2 dogs get meningitis (not the sort you can catch of someone else, but the auto immune sort). It doesn't respond to antibiotics (obviously). The first dog who got it was 6 months old, she trembled, was very stiff, very high temperature, eyes a bit glazed. She was at the vet's on a drip for 4 days before they decided to do a spinal tap (only way of diagnosing for sure), then she was on steroids for 6 months. She looked like a skeleton covered in fur at the end of the first week, could hardly stand, but she
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So she's bringing her toys to you without you asking: mmm! In a nutshell, she thinks she's your boss. She's calling the shots, trying to get you to play with her when she wants you to, not the other way round. Until you make her understand that you are the boss you are always going to have a problem with the recall. Firstly: NEVER pay her any attention unless she has earned it. IGNORE her when she comes to you with toys or even for a fuss. NEVER go to her when she is resting and give her a fuss. EVERYONE in the household must follow these rules or you won't get anywhere. I know a
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I'll agree with Duckwing about certain Saluki types: b*stards they are, a lot of them. Got given a pup last year: very vocal you could say. Eleven months old now and can finally kennel or crate her overnight without getting stressed out (me, that is). I think a lot of them just have that wilful 'I want' attitude in everything they do and can't stand being confined, restrained until it finally (sometimes never, I'll admit)sinks in that they can't always have their own way: IMO it seems to be a freedom thing: they just gotta have it. Only when they're older do they accept restraint/confineme
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Condolences to the family. RIP fellow hunter.
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I would have thought that if the break is a few weeks old then healing would already have started, but not how it should: surely it now needs plating or pinning> or it'll not heal together properly at this stage.