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How long ago was her last season? If it was 6-12 weeks ago she could have been having a phantom anyway and the desexing has just made her worse. Let her do whatever she is comfortable with but try to ignore her and don't give any sympathy. Unfortunately the best cure for a phantom is more exercise and that isn't an option at the moment.

Siberian husky not that i,m worried as that are putting on about 30grms to 40grms each a day .for instance my smallest pup weighed 440grm at birth born the 29th now i don't have anything weighing less than600grms. 440gms is a largish size for a BC and I would expect a puppy that size to put on about 50gms a day but sometimes they are bit slower on the first couple of days. How they continue to gain depends on how many are in the litter. If there are 8 puppies they will probably continue to gain about 50gms a day but if there are only two or three, by the second week they can gain up to 100gms a day. Most puppies don't gain the same amount every day, it flutuates so don't panic if some days they gain a bit less and others more. They should double their birth weight in 7-10 days.

I don't like pin brushes at all on Borders. The only brushes I have needed for over 25 years on show dogs with huge coats, are a Mason Pearson Bristle/Nylon bought in 1985 and still going strong, plus a soft slicker for legs and occasially stripping tangles. I also use a Collie Comb with metal teeth widely set into a wooden handle and have a double sided finer comb that is rarely used. Peters of Kensington are usually the best price for Mason Pearson brushes. The one I have is called the "Popular". To strip behind the ears, either just pull it out a few hairs at a time or buy a really cheap, one sided stripping knife. The expensive ones are super sharp and much harder to use without leaving cut marks when you are only tidying up, not stripping a whole coat. Edited to add that I now have a really efficient way of stripping dead coat from the ears. Just buy a Jap Spitz puppy and the Border's ears will be neat in no time with the JS hanging off them.

I'm glad the puppy has gone to the pound in case the owners are looking for it but your friend or anyone else would be nuts to adopt it if they cannot afford the ongoing medical treatment that could run well into the thousands. Heart murmur surgery can be $5000+ and if that can't be done heart medication can easily be $200+ a month for as long as the dog lives. That is without ongoing mange treatment and god only knows what for the blood problem. With so many healthy dogs pts every day it is better to pts the ones that nature never intended to survive and give a healthy dog a chance at a full life.

The greyhound trainers remedy is to treat the wound then tape a hollow hair roller to the end of the tail. It allows air in to dry up the wound and protects the tail while it heals. Tape it on by running the tape down the tail rather than around it so you don't cut off the circulation.

Personally I wouldn't put any weight on the back of a Corgi. Just too risky.

Do you need an official sperm count or just need to know if there are plenty of mobile sperm? Our vets can tell you if it it looks normal under a microscope for well under $100. Freezing or chilling is different to just having it tested so the price should be a lot lower to just collect and test. Even if you were freezing the other prices quoted here seem very high. I haven't had any done for a while but think it was about $400 all up when I had my dog collected and frozen.

Another problem is owners that don't know what they own. When I worked for AWL many years ago some people came looking for a dog to replace their one who had disappeared and never been found. They were quite irate find their dog in our kennels when they had rung and reported him missing. They had reported a crossbred Beagle but they in fact owned a purebred Foxhound and didn't know what it was. The really sad thing was that the pound and none of the other staff (besides me)at AWL had a clue what it was either but they at least tried to find out what the reg number tattoed in the ear was for. The hound was registered to a hunt club in Vic but had been picked up on the road by a trucky and given to his friends in Sydney.

Same here. I have never had to use an E collar on any dog after any sort of surgery. They used to be the exception for dogs that just wouldn't leave the wound alone but now they seem to stick them on every dog and I have no idea why. I always ask for minimal clipping because I find they worry far more about clipper rash from a large clipped area than they do about stitches.

It actually is a human anti rejection drug originally used for transplant patients called Cyclosporine. Its cost is based on weight, so for my 30kg dog it works out to $360 a month. Any good (reasonably priced) Holistic vets recommended in Victoria eastern suburbs? Dr Anne Neville at Sth Rd Animal Health in East Bentleigh does Traditional Chinese Medicine as well as normal vet work. Any dog with allergies has a wonky immune system that needs to be fixed if possible. Some are born with it (which is harder to treat), others have problem triggered by a drug like the heartworm injection, antibiotics, etc or a food additive. Cortisone and cyclosporin stop the symptoms but do nothing to normalise the immune system. No matter what treatment you use it will take a long time but at least with alternative treatment or desensitising you are treating the cause not just symptoms. I also agree with those that suggest an elimation diet. A vet I used to use would recommend that any itchy dog be tried on an all raw diet for a few weeks and then if the syptoms were still there, they should come back. At least half were fixed by the diet change. Sometimes a food or additive allergy will sensitise the dog to react to other more obvious allergens.

A lot depends on breed. Some breeds will mate before ovulation and therefore seem to whelp late. Others never whelp until after ovulation so go a few days early from the matings. My breed is the latter and letting them go over 63 from mating usually results in dead puppies. I would be getting a vet check and ultrasound to check the number and heartbeats and take it from there.

If puppies were only available from reputable registered pure bred breeders, who take back their dogs if they need re-homing, there would not be any need for rescue. After working at a large shelter I often wonder, if there were no shelters and rescue organisations and people were obliged to have unwanted dogs put down, would they be more careful about getting the next one. Most dogs end up in rescue shelters because it is just so easy to dump them there and the dumpers live with the idea that there are all these wonderful homes lined up to take the untrained monster they created. Then they get another puppy and the cycle continues.

My guess is the little girl reminds her of one that has frightened/hurt her or has the same mannerisms. Borders pick up on the most subtle body language that you might not notice and they never, ever forget anyone that mistreats them. With a rescue you have no idea what history the dog has so anything could have happened to her. It is very risky letting young children mill around and pat her until you have owned her a lot longer and worked out what she reacts to.

Ok, the expanded recall only dated yesterday, was posted on FB and I didn't see the other posts so thought I had better put it up. Even if it is a different plant you would have to worry about a company that allows it's food to be made there.

Food recall For anyone feeding imported dog food.

I am surprised no one commented on the bit bolded above. How tiny? I would expect a 7 week old dog that matures to the size of a Cane Corso to be somewhere around 8-10kgs which is hardly tiny. Young yes, not fully vaccinated yes, but tiny, no. If the puppy is a lot smaller than that it may in fact be a lot younger than the supposed 7 weeks.

Same here. If they aren't down by 6-8 weeks I wouldn't want to breed from the dog anyway. I know they can come down later but that trait is hereditary so you wouldn't want to perpetuate it. Could be very useful before neutering dogs with undecended ones though.

Remember dogs cannot talk so diagnosis can be a bit of trial and error but some vets, like some doctors have better diagnostic skills than others. I know of lots of things that truly incompetant vets have done over the years but don't think your vets fit that category. Even the best vets can make an honest mistake too, they are only human. The case with your first dog could be explained by drug reaction and they would need a couple of days to see what happened if the drug was withdrawn and I wouldn't expect any vet to have picked up the liver shunt without clear symptoms. Re-occuring urinary tract infections that seem to go on forever are quite common so most vets wouldn't be looking for anything much worse. By all means look for a better vet but there is not really anything specific to complain about the old vets other than the fact that they are just ordinary vets. Really good vets are few and far between. I can highly recommend Dr Sandra Hodgins at Summer Hill Village Vet as being one of the better ones I have come across, having excellent diagnostic skills.

Definitely return the puppy for a refund. The breeder may never have had a deaf puppy before so didn't know to check for it and when they are in the litter they all follow each other. Can I ask if the puppy has white on the ears?

It is 63 days from ovulation, not the end of the season.

That's insane!! Dog or bitch? Even for a bitch that's outrageous (unless it was a pyometra??) Dog One retained testicle which they charged me 10% on top of the nromal rate for a dog, same rate for a bitch- people where I live are up in arms about the cost as we have no choice on where we go You must be somewhere really remote. A lot does depend on turnover. Our vets are very busy every day with about 9 vets working the 2 practices and most appointments booked out days in advance. They do allow time for emergencies though. They mainly deal with breeders so do several caesars a week and lots of desexing as well, besides other surgeries. Whenever I have had one desexed there are usually at least 4-5 others being done the same day.

I will add the absolute worst agreement I have ever heard of was a large breed where the owner was expected to whelp and raise the large litter incurring all costs but the breeders got to sell the puppies and keep the money, before signing the bitch over to the owner. That is a totally unfair agreement with the owner doing all the work and trading a litter of about 10 for one bitch. Most of the successful agreements have the person who shells out for costs and does the work, keeping any income from the puppies. It can be one party or the other, or the costs and income can be split, regardless of which prefix is used. Co-owns, leases etc are very common in BCs and rarely have contracts or go pear shaped. The golden rule for breeders is to never let a bitch you cannot afford to lose off your property to anyone. Keep the really valuable ones for yourself just in case things do go wrong and work these agreements with bitches that could add to your breeding program but are not essential for you to carry on.

Keep his toes warm for winter. If I'm not showing I can be slack about feet but try to trim under the paws if the weather is wet to avoid wet paw prints all through the house.

Some trim the chest and belly in the US and they look weird like sculptures. It is never done here. The only time I have ever trimmed belly coat or feathering is if it starts to drag on the ground , then it is trimmed to give about 1cm ground clearance but carefully blended so the cut hair isn't obvious.

Do not trim like an Aussie except for the feet. Just trim around and under the feet, then the back pasterns to the hock to neaten them up but not short. The only trimming of the ears should be dead hair behind the ears that needs to be plucked out or removed with a stripping knife. That's it, you don't trim anything else.