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What meds is she on? My dog has ulcers in the throat and that has been a drama to get healed. Main drug is Carafate which coats the ulcer and helps it heal. I would imagine you would use something similar in the mouth

Juice, I would be very tempted to take your dog to a human foot specialist. I have had problem feet forever but one visit put me on the right track. She actually used the dremel to sand off the dead skin and then a special lotion. Said only lotions that have Urea will be effective. I am currently using Neutrogena and find it great. I would use it on a dog if I had to as it is non greasy, only issue is they really like the smell of it

He is maturing very nicely, looking good

Totally agree. I have whelped a few litters now and oxytocin is best in vet hands. The one thing I do use is something to stimulate the pups. Can't quite think of the name but you put it under the tongue and it can give the deadest looking puppy a jump start

Looks relatively normal until you get to the 8th puppy. Personally she would have been at the vet with that amount of time between puppies. What did you do to stimulate the stillborn puppies? How old is this bitch and how fit is she?

I only allow people who I have fully interviewed and checked out for a puppy to visit my home. Anyone else I am happy to talk to them on the phone or by e-mail and if they want to meet my dogs I will tell them when the closest show is and they can do it there. I am very cautious about giving out my home address to strangers. Once they are on my puppy list it wouldn’t be unusual for them to visit 2-3 over the course of the litter and I am fine with that. Great socialization for the puppies and part of having a litter. Of course I don’t breed very often so not a huge drama for me

There's a fair bit of shyness around. You want a more drivey, resilient dog for performance. Good Shelties ARE out there.. you need to ask performance folk where they get theirs. A sheltie by breed standard is meant to be reserved with strangers. Don’t mistake reserved for shy. A sheltie is very focused on his owner and not really interested in strangers to any correct degree, this is a correct temperament. A shy sheltie that is terrified of the world is just as incorrect as one that bounces all over everyone with terrier type temperament. I would hope most breeders would be breeding for correct temperament. Personally I used to do obedience and to a lesser degree agility with mine and found rather than lines it was a certain type of sheltie that needed a job. They are generally very easy to spot as they are the first into everything in the litter box and are busy babies. They can be ideal as not only are they very smart but they are also fast

Not really. Over the years I have had a few instances that required stitches and quite a number of puncture wounds that I have had to treat. When you run numbers the odd personality clash is inevitable. I always separate mine by age and personality and even then do have the odd issue. I would never run big with small or old with young etc tec. Personally I would be seperating them, woudl be handy to have one somethign set up for new fosters anyhow as there is no way I would leave unknown dogs running with mine unsupervised

I have had to make the horrible decision to pts a dog because she was seizuring. I could not keep her safe is the short and the narrow of it. I was not able to stablise her to a point where she only had the odd seizure so she couldn’t be left with any of the dogs as they would attack her and I had stairs everywhere so on several occasion when she had a seizure and was running round frantically as she was prone to do afterwards she fell down stairs and injured herself, once laying in a ditch down the back of the section for hours until I found her. I quite simply didn’t have the set up to keep her separate and given her age (15yrs) I didn’t think that was fair on her anyway. She was frantic after a seizure and if I wasn’t there it went on for hours. She was too nice a dog to have to live like this, no quality of life for her Broke my heart doing it but at some point you do have to consider the family as a whole and what can be worked round for everyone. To be fair the deciding factor was she was facing a partial foot amputation as she got gangrene in on of her legs as a result of this.

There are so many, I really am a terrible handler. I spend a lot of time watching my fellow handlers and know exactly what I should do but can never quite manage it on show day. Once I had been watching someone in another breed casually throw the lead over their shoulder when they were stacking the dog on the table. I thought great idea, would solve my constant problem of getting the lead tangled in their legs (don’t ask). Come show day I place the dog on the table and casually throw the lead over my shoulder, it whips round my neck and gets caught and the dog on the table feels the pressure and attempts to jump off nearly choking me – judge had to rescue me and I had totally freaked the poor dog out

I have a Toyota Estima which works out great. Have put a raised floor in the back so all luggage can go under it and still comfortabley takes 5 adults. It drives like a car with all the advantages of a van.

Are you in CHCH Kiwi as the factory is there and they have a factory shop.

I have had to do a newborn puppy and they are too small to do anything other than inject directly into the heart which was quite frankly horrific. My friends vet always uses the gas mask to gas them down first and then injects them and if I am ever unlucky enough to have to do this again I think I will ask for it to be done that way. Dog wise mine have never been sedated and I have always been there. I am lucky enough to be able to get the vet to come to my house. Cat wise I have wondered if sedation might be the best way to go though. My older cat is very high strung and I don’t want her final moments being highly stressed about being restrained

Two bitchs might work but they are really nasty when it does go wrong. If they fight there is generally an issue for life whereas 2 males can have a tiff and minutes later all is well. A desexed dog is not that different to a bitch and far safer

My friend has been having a drama with one of her shelties. She had a 17cm lump removed that had adhered to her spleen and bowel. Test results have come back and confirmed this as a Osteocarcoma. This bitch has been extensively x-rayed and scanned and there is no signs of it in her lungs or in any bones. We have tried googling it but every reference is related to bones. Has anyone ever experienced this tumor not related to bones?

Sorry to hear the news. If it is benign it may be worth consulting a specialist. My friends sheltie just has a similar situation, 20 cm growth attached to the bowel, spleen etc. Normal vet said no chance but the specialist removed it and she is recovering well

Could be a wide variety of things from a simple tummy bug to a bowel obstruction. I have just been through this type of thing myself and if I could go back and do it again I would do bloods and get her scanned right at the beginning

The best dog on the day is the one that is going to win. Judges don't and shouldn't take into account age as who knows how the dog is going to develop. Many a promising puppy has been an ugly adult so the judges have to judge what is in front of them.

True but then i just use the blur or is it smudge tool and it takes the sharpness out

Thank you so much, they look great

Isn't vetbed and drybed the same thing? Just different colour backing?

I have a tutorial saved that shows very simply how to do that. PM me you e-mail if you would like me to send it, is in word

2nd and 3rd picture

I have been out today and taken some pictures of my friends dogs. Not the best pictures as the light was terrible but I thought it would be really nice if the 3 pictures of her oldies could be combined as one in a neutrel (perhaps black?) background. I have had a go myself but my attempts look terrible. Could anyone please have a go for me?

My oldie was on the Phenobarb. It takes their bodes a wee while to get used to the dosage but the sedation effect does go away with time. From memory it took about a month for Kell to be a relatively normal dog and it did take a bit of playing round with the dosage to get there. Good luck.