Kirislin

very cute and I like the angle too.

Dick leave? Could you please define that? LOL!!! Best auto correct ever!! I think that's for when someone dicks you around and you need some recovery time Or you need recovery after a horrible breakup. Me: I need to apply for a week off Boss: sure, what's wrong? Me: I just broke up with a complete wanker, I need time to put my life back together, I need to apply for dick leave Boss: oh you poor thing, take all all the time you need. very understanding boss.

can you post the photo here so we dont have to click on a link please.

Dreaming?

Puberty?

He didn't need the op, I think she just deals with it each time, she hasn't mentioned it. He's 12 now though so perhaps it's stopped.

I found the thread I wrote about it and thought you might get some useful info from the responses I got. http://www.dolforums.com.au/topic/151710-sexy-oscars-painful-problem/

I asked for advice here on DOL a few years ago about this very problem, not with my boys but with one I sold. I was told it can be dangerous as it can cut the blood supply. I think they can operated to make the opening of the sheath a bit larger so it doesn't get stuck. I dont know if there'd be any disadvantages to having that op. I sympathise with you, it's awful to see your boy in pain like that.

almost 30 years ago now I had a young dog killed in terrible circumstances. I was distraught and took at least one day off work, cant remember if it was anymore than that. I was honest when I filled out my sick form giving the reason as the death of my dog. I got a call from personnel and although the bloke wasn't sure how to word it, they paid me. I agree with this.

I dont know what my keeper rate is, not very good. I'd guess only about 10% are reasonably good but I often post the crappy shots as well, I have no pride :laugh: I just think some people will love to see the photo of THEIR dog no matter if it's not a technically brilliant photo.

I also love the 3rd one in particular, and I bet the owner of the dog would too if they see it. It's always hard conditions where I photograph too, sunlight and shadow and the angle. I wish I had a longer lens, I've only got the 70-200 and it's way too short for where we run. It was alot easier when I used to help the other whippet racing club on a round track. I think you did a great job. If you felt brave you could try laying down although you cannot follow them as they pass then. Sometimes I slow the shutter right down for panning shots, it's hit and miss but when you get it right it's pretty effective.

How do I do that? I am currently exercising myself to strenghten my lower back and hips, I wouldn't know how to make a tiny psycho Iggy do what I'm doing though :laugh:

I think it's just the same recurring problem she's having with the sacroiliac joint. I dont understand the mechanics of it but I'm guessing because she's had it for quite a while and I only picked it up when I watched her run at the park so then took her to see Barry. If I could get him to fix it and then somehow keep her quiet until it's settled down it might stay fixed. But she'd nearly have to be put into an induced coma for that to happen. (Mr Rolly eyes would go here if we still had him)

Yes, she looks very straight in the back too doesn't she. It is a straighter back than some IGs I've seen but it looks rather wooden here. Her brother has a strained psoas muscle, Barry found that when I took both of them down a couple of weeks ago.

wow!!!! Been a long time since I read such an accurate description. Not sure if this going to be muscular? Wondering if there is a skeletal variation at the bottom of Nekko's spine? Barry would have picked it up if there was. I think it's just due to an injury she's done as a puppy wrestling with her brothers and as she's grown the muscles have got used to being pulled out of shape and want to stay that way. That's how I imagine it anyway, I might be wrong though.

It's a bugger, I take her to Barry, he fixes her and tells me to keep her quiet for a day or so, which in itself is near impossible, but I do my best. But as soon as she starts pelting around and ricocheting off the furniture and playing with other dogs I see her funny canter is back again. I think the muscles naturally want to pull her back into the wrong shape. It's an expensive exercise for me to take her there too, a very long drive and the $$ cost all for about 2 days where she moves well and then back to this. I'm not criticising Barry, I'm sure he's fixing her, it just wont stay fixed.

They're never extended evenly like you might imagine a bunny to hop, one is always further than the other, but she still looks too bunched up to me. I suspect it's to do with the sacro illiac problem than Barry has tried to correct twice, but she keeps putting it out again. I'm going to take this photo to him next time we visit.

This is my Italian Greyhound puppy Neko. I am sure she's got a problem with her lower back. I've already had her to Barry Haywood twice because I'd noticed she looked odd when she cantered. She seems fine at a trot which is all that is required in the showring, but I'm more interested in her being able to run freely and without pain or discomfort. I'm coming from a background in whippets so perhaps it's just a difference in running style, but to me she looks kind of inhibited, as if she cannot really stretch out, especially her left hind leg, which is the same one that looks funny when she canters. I think a whippet would be more extended in the hind legs here. Does anyone else think she looks "wrong"? I notice the 3rd photo of Tag from the left in my siggy at the bottom of my post is a similar pose and although he was only half pace galloping there his legs are more extended than hers, and she was running at a full gallop.

I actually use it as a compost container and it is looking a bit rusty but it's been out there for about 6 years at least now I would think. I would imagine my compost is quite acidic too, I put the yuck from my chook house in it.

Darling boy, enjoy it!

that's a concern that there are increasing numbers in shelters. Makes me wonder how well the breeders are screening their buyers.

I cant see anything ghostly, it's not showing up, I can see photos of a shipwreck and they're very nice but no spookies. oh, that's weird, it just appeared! I think it resized and then I could see it. Yep, bug.

Happy Birthday big girl Tess.

I'm not sure if this is what the OP means though. I've got a lovely Irish marked whippet (funnily though, when I filled his papers out and sent them to the VCA they didn't know what it meant) here but she's called it Irish spotting so I assumed that was something different.

:laugh: Poor Tigger, suffering from small flea holes :laugh: