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Angela is in Qld and is extremely successful in agility with both her Greyhound and her IGs.

IGs have a habit of eating way too fast and then crying/screaming whne they get indigestion as it goes down.

Mine also did the sawdust poos on ecopet. I think it has something t odo wit hthe fibre in it.

Try cutting it up into really small cubes like bitesize pieces that he cant gulp down, or a big lump he has to chew on.

Thumbs up for Quakers hill vets

138 Burdekin Road,

Quakers Hill NSW 2763

Phone: 02 9626 9561

Ok, we took our last pup to Matt at Q. Hill - he just did one vacc though, we lost our boy way too early so it was hard to tell from just that one visit.

The only thing with Q Hill was that you couldn't seem to make an appt so could not always get Matt.

I love QHV too. You can see Matt by appointment. I think on Wed and Thurs mornings but if you call they will tell you what days he is on and which mornings are appointment only.

I had a dog do this many years ago. His prostate was very enlarged and he needed to be desexed

Give GRV a call. they should be able to tell you where the slipping tracks are

http://www.grv.org.au/index.html

Have also used Brierdene and can highly recommend them. they are walking distance form the van park also

Nobody wants to share how they taught the see-saw? :D

Or even comments on the videos?

Hi Kavik

Dont know about the rest of Sydney but out here we had a massive storm last night which resulted in a blackout from about 7pm till I dont know when. Power back on this morning though

Great birthday pressie

I have done agility and obedience with several IGs in the past. Now theres a difficult breed. I had one IG that would do a course perfect twice and then sit down and refuse to go over a single jump after that. They get very bored very quickly. All this was back in the days when everything was praise not food, toys etc. Although I doubt it would have made much difference anyway.

I found it was best to back off with the training when they got bored. I could never go to classes for more than a month at a time and could only do maybe 5 mins a week at home.

Give her a break for a couple of weeks then keep your training sessions short and fun. If she's not enjoying it shes not learning anything. 5 mins of fun, quality training is so much better than an hour of fighting her all the way. She will only come to hate otherwise.

I have encountered the same attitiude as you also. The first time I turned up at agility with an IG I was told to go home and not bother as she wasnt a border collie. I told them I was going to join regardless. Showed them what she could do and was immediately put into 3rd class much to their horror. That year she was picked in the demonstation teams and even did a demo at Sydney Royal. It was the best feeling.

My greyhound has a thing for Crown mints but she doesnt like any other type of mint

Have to agree with NAL.

My greyhound has pulled toe ligaments a couple of times. Tape the two toes together with elastoplast (the white one) about 1cm wide. Will take between 3 and 6 weeks to heal so you will have to redo the tape a few times. Toes may remain swollen looking over the joint even once healed. Chiro will do little but a good grey vet will be better

Also she has a bone chip fragment in one toe. this was extrmemly painful. Muchmore than the pulled ligaments. She also had pulled ligaments at the same time. The toe refused to heal and she was lame all the time. After 2 weeks we xrayed an found the chip. The foot was placed in a rigid cast type thing and took over 6 weeks to heal. Since it was a middle toe we opted not to remove unless it refused to heal but now several months on it is good except she still occasionally short steps on that side

My Greyhound does this also.

I have tried putting her in the house when I need to let the others out of their kennels, leaving her in her kennel, ignoring her, giving her commands etc.

Nothing seems to work so if anyone has any ideas I would LOVE to know the answer too.

Not Neo but I have had toxoplasmosis last year

Oops forgot to add

You can also feed them things like lamb flaps which have a larger amount of fat on them

I pretty much feed my dogs vegetables, fruit, the odd egg and dollop of yoghurt here and there and brisket bones and chicken necks. I think they eat pretty healthy and due to the fact that they both have a wonky leg each, I am conscious of keeping their weight down. However, I think Cooper might be a little underweight though. He has always been quite a lean dog, very active when we go to the beach and walking but lately he seems to be thinning down a bit too much. What foods can I give him that would add a litlle bit of weight without filling him up on crap? I don't have scales but I might take him up to the vet to weigh him this afternoon. My OH came home from being away for a week and the first thing he noticed was how skinny he has got.

My dogs tend to thin down in the cooler months. They are also on raw now but have always lost weight in winter regardless of what they are fed.

I just increase the amount they are offered until I am happy with the weight. If they are getting too fat I cut it back again.

Interestingly they eat about twice as much in winter to summer.

I have a greyhound that wants to eat cats, bunnies etc. I have taught her the command "leave it" which means come to heal and ignore whatever you were doing. Works great for small furry dogs, food she has stolen off the counter, rubbish from the bin etc. I started teaching the command with "safe" thing like my other dogs, rubbish, toys until she knew what it meant. Then moved on to friends dogs and now she is great out walking. Of course being a greyhound she has to be onlead and muzzled at all times. I wouldnt trust her with a cat or bunny off lead. I can take her to the park and let her offlead (illegally) so she can play with other dogs and she will still "leave it" if she looks overly interested in a small fluffy. She will even "leave it" mid flight after a dog she is playing with. Of course we only play safely and the muzzle never comes off. Any small dogs and she is straight back onlead. I would never put her in a position to fail and if she is too hyped up she does not get off the lead at all.

There is no instant fix, just lots of training and constant reinforcement. I wouldnt trust her offlead with cats regardless of her training.

My greyhound gets Beta Cell in the morning and Neutral XP (cheap version of Neutradex) in the evening. She also has methionine tablets every second day. If I remember correctly these are to keep the kidneys healthy. She gets Recharge after racing in a bowl of water with a touch of milk added. If she is offered it in just water she wont touch it and she wont drink enough water on its own but she love the milk.

The only time she ever had a problem was when she stepped up in distance and wasnt quite fit enough to go that far. She went immediately to the vet for a check over as I did not want acidosis setting in.

I wouldn't have the test done unless she also has skin sores, is missing fur from her chest and head and is more lethargic than usual.

Greymate, my grey only had thinning hair on her thights. No other thinning, sores etc. I decided to get her tested as her bum was thinning more and more and she wasnt in training at the time. I also show her and needed the hair to regrow for the show ring. I go to Blair Kurtz who is a very highly regarded greyhound vet. Her results came back low so even though there were no other signs she is now on thyroid meds and the hair grew back. Now she is back in training it is falling out again so I have just learnt to live with it. Hope judges at the shows can deal with it too.

I also have two Italian Greyhounds with low thyroid. One had sores, thinning on back, ears, no energy etc. The other was only discovered by "accident" when he was in for other stuff. He had absolutely no thinning and was a little livewire so you cant always tell.

Get a thyroid test.

My girl also had a bald bum. She hasnt raced yet but is in training.

When I got her she was a furball. Now her coat all over is gorgeous but she has a thinning bum. I had her tested and she is now on thyroid tablets. She has never looked better and the hair is growing back.

Dogs can get toxoplasmosis from cat poo. Extremely rare as infected cats only shed it for about one week of their lives but it is possible.

I didnt know dogs could get toxo until a couple of mine got very sick last year. Turned out they got it from the raw meat I was feeding as they have no access to cats (my greyhound is not cat friendly). Meat and cat poo are the only ways to get toxo

His thyroid levels have been tested. They came back well within the normal ranges. He was trialed on Thyroxine for a while to see if it made any difference but there was no change.

Not sure then. Possibly something like CDA (colour dilute alopecia) I have a dog who is exactly the same, including the odd black hairs. He is also low thryroid and has spent years on medication. While thyroxin has helped with his energy levels etc it has done absolutely nothing for his coat. He is a GR Ch and NZ Ch but now cannot be shown and I also dont breed from him.

I think CDA diagnosis requires testing in USA but not entirely sure.

When my boy hit adolecents his coat changed for the worst and has remained that way.

Along his flanks, ears and top of head seems to be kind of sparse, downy under coat. Colour- blue, fawn with some odd nearly black hairs.

Around his neck, chest and down his back is longer....more like normal coat with no under coat but about a 1/4 of the way down his back from his shoulders it goes quite dry and wirey. Colour- blue/ nearly black.

Would stripping the coat possibly help to make it thicken up for winter?

He is a greyhound x mutt.

Get him a thyroid test from the vet. Greyhounds are often low thyroid. (note greyhounds have a lower normal thyroid level to other breeds as well) Easity treated with daily tablets.

Italian Greyhounds frequently break their tails. It can be as simple as shaking or wagging their tail too hard and close to something like a table or door frame. Some people think it is a dislocation, some an actual break. I have never had any of mine xrayed. Symptoms range from swelling, kinked tail, bent tail (at right angle to the rest of the tail ) and "dead" tail. None have ever required amputation and I have one old girl who breaks hers once or twice a year

Treatment is simple. You can either leave the tail and hope it heals straight. If it starts to bend, make a splint for the tail. I have used paddlepop sticks, syringes cut in half longways etc. Depends on how thick your tail is but you can improvise with all sorts of things. Get some elastoplast type tape and wrap the tail. If you have a splint underneath then you can wrap around the tail. If you dont use a splint make a "sandwich" with two pieces of tape stuck together then trim the edges. You DO NOT want to tape too tightly as if you cut off the blood supply you will need amputation. With the tail sandwich this is virtually impossible. Leave this on for 4 - 6 weeks.

My IGs have gone on to win Royal BOB's with broken tails so it shouldn't cut your dog's show career short

I've just been informed by the vet (not our regular one - she is away) that our German Shepherd has a salivary cyst (sialocele). She has a big watery feeling lump under her jaw, on her left side. It is not painful, nor does it seem to be impacting her saliva production (no dry mouth, no problems eating or swallowing etc). Just looks funny and not right. We're unsure as to what has caused it - he said it could be a grass seed that has obstructed it, or it could be trauma to the gland/ducts which has caused it to drain into the surrounding tissue. (Both are possible - we have grass seeds in and around our area, and she did push under some of my poor fencing work last week)

According to the vet, the treatment for it is to have the saliva gland removed. He wants to refer her to a local veterinary surgery as he not performed this fiddly operation before.

Is anyone aware of any alternative treatment for this?

From my google searches, I've found that the most common treatment is to have the whole gland on that side removed. Other than that, the only other thing I can find is to have it drained. Doesn't sound like this will fix it though and will probably fill up again.

Is it possible that it is something else besides this?

If it is a grass seed, will it extract itself? She is currently on antibiotics, which seem to have brought the swelling down a little.

I just don't want to have to send her into surgery unnecessarily. :D

One of my dogs had his salivary gland removed about 2 yrs ago because of this. The surgery at the time was excellent but the condition has now appeared in the other side. I will not bother to have it done again unless essential. The vet advised me against getting it done unless it was essential (affecting breathing, eating etc) as it is an extremely dangerous operation as it is so close to the jugular vein. It was also extremely messy while healing with saliva draining literally everywhere. I never knew dogs produced so much saliva and he is only small. I know of several other dogs that have had it done (and redone) unsuccessfully so make sure your vet is very good at it if you proceed.

There are several natural treatments but I havent tried them. will have to see if I can find where I filed it away.

The best thing I have found is to take the dog off all grains (ie dry food) I was told this by another breeder and thought it was crap but have since tried it and found my boy is considerably better on raw without any grain. The difference is quite amazing.

Looks like a "hot spot" to me. Aparently "cure rash" cream or powder or plain listerine will do the trick although I havent had to try them myself. Very common problem is alot of breeds. I am a groomer and see it in Golden Retreivers all the time. You can also wash the area in malaseb shampoo from the vet