Rebanne

which Vic greyhound rescue?

I wouldn't worry too much about it, plenty of greyhounds race with a dropped toe, not sure of the correct name either, gone blank! My first grey actually cut his foot and must have sliced a tendon or something cause one of his middle toes on his front foot suddenly stuck out a mile. It never stopped him doing what he wanted to do. Piper, my oldest boy, has shocking toes on both his back feet, all the outside toes are weird, he copes.

one out of four bitches, 3 spayed at 6 months, one at 3 years. The one who became incontinent was spayed at 6 months and incontinent at around 8 years after a UTI. Tried stilbosterol (sp?) tablets for a few weeks, had a break, incontinence came back, went on tablets again and ended up on one tablet twice a week for the rest of her life, nearly 3 years. eta the breeds, 3 GSD, one who became incontinent, all now deceased and one crossbreed who at nearly 14 is still going great guns

Nothing wrong with supercoat, all my dogs are doing wonderfully on it.

My whelping box doesn't have a floor in it and I put a foam dog mat on the floor, took up about half the box, with tarp over the whole area, then put the box on top, then newspaper, blankets etc. I figured my princess wouldn't thank me for making her lay on just a few layers of papers and a couple of blankets, pups or no pups to distract her

I was always told give them some bread if they ate something sharp. No idea if it works but have heard it several times.

agree, all the senses would be hightened, mine would be super stressed to find themselves lost.

I took my dogs outside and gave them a pigs ear when the 1st lot of fireworks was on and we were all tucked up in bed and asleep when the next lot was done at midnight. I never heard a thing and the dogs mustn't have reacted as they didn't disturb me

I see there is no answer on whether George will be back in stock for when I need him :D

she's a large/giant breed, it's not uncommon for judges to act as above. The breed I show is the one I want to live with.

congratulations Missymoo

yours? Congratulations

yes there is such a thing as a trolly holder that fits on the tow bar. Put a wanted ad up in the classifieds Mind you I bought a small dog trailer that holds all my stuff, the dogs never go in it, and I love not having to unpack it.

As Piper has aged I have found I can't feed him raw meaty bones at all because he nearly always throws up some hours later and I am sick of the bile spots in my carpet. I had to give up on chicken necks for him years ago because of his throwing bits up.

I actually can't believe this was running around my head for the past few days and I couldn't work out the answer So I post, AnnieK gives a great reply and it's as clear as. Oh well I will blame too many night shifts

I wasn't asking if it was okay to feed 100% dry. But one of the main reasons I am is cause my girl was never fussed about raw, strange I know, a dog turning it's nose up at a nice bit of meat or similar, but loving dry.

eta I tried Proplan sensitve and their coats went bad. Tried Nutro - Cowboy had soft poos. So even though the dry is a small % , I have to say it must be the dry great answer, thanks

Been reading some topics lately about how good *insert whatever brand you want here* dry food is but what I have noticed is how many people are also feeding extra's, ie, one feed might be dry but the next is raw etc. I have seen this about brands from woofbix to blackhawk and everything in between. So how do people who feed both know that the improvement in their dogs health, coat, poo etc, whatever makes you think the dry food you are using is the bees knees, is from the dry food when there is a lot of extra's? How many feed a dry food pretty well exclusively? At the moment I am feeding Supercoat to my dogs, I've fed cheaper and I've fed more expensive dry, I've fed dry half and half with raw, but this brand all the dogs like. And are doing well on. No gas, firm poo's, maybe a tad more of them but as I pick up twice a day not a problem. So that is all they are getting except for recreation chew bones - marrow bones cut in half, once or twice a week. Mind you once the marrow is gone there is not a lot of chewing going on. I fed all raw for at least 10 years and to be honest never saw any difference in my dogs to when they were fed only the cheapest stuff. The last few years it's been a bit of a mixture. Overall I've been feeding dogs for over 30 years now, most of that multiple dogs.

I had aircon on 24/7 and ice bottles, covered, when Fern had her litter in Jan 09. Pups were very quick to find the bottles when they needed them

will George be back in stock by end of Julyish? if so I will book him please

gee you don't want much do you

agree introduce yourself to your neighbours, have a friendly chat and take it from there. If you are really bothered by the thought of the other dogs breaking into your yard, maybe you could get some pine poles or similar and place them along the bottom of the fence? Drill holes in them and peg them down. I know you shouldn't have to and they might not be needed but if makes you feel better to be proactive then go for it.

mine all slept peacefully

I would agree with that

look up Susanne Clothier's article "he just wants to say hi", very enlightening