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There is a 12 month vaccination for heartworm. Ask your vet. Heartworm is in my neighbourhood, the dog next door had it.

but sighthounds come in different shapes and sizes, impossible to give a weight! General rule of thumb for greyhounds is last 3 ribs visible but only slightly. Sometimes you can see the hip bones, sometimes not. Fern is about 1 kilo overweight, no ribs visible, hard to feel, but I don't care, she looks fantastic! I don't consider Warrior overweight at all but it is hard to see his ribs with his stripes (brindle patches), can be easily felt. Plus it's coming into winter, a small amount of extra weight doesn't hurt as I work night shift and my dogs sleep outside while I am at work

also Steve mentioned several times stud dogs must have a 2 day rest after mating. It is actually 2 days rest in a 60 day period.

there is a heartworm vaccination, but a lot of people won't use it for various reasons.

My personal opinion is Supercoat is much better the BH. My pups/dogs do well on Supercoat. Feed what your dogs do well on but I wouldn't be feeding a puppy food to a 13 month old. Then again I don't feed puppy food past 3 months max. Each to their own. ETA check out the health forum, lots of threads there about food.

I would cut him down to 2 feeds a day.

Put on a coat and get a torch. I have a big backyard but always go out with a pup to make sure it goes before bed time. Sometimes I need an umbrella.

and I always think if a judge can't see what a dog's face looks like with whiskers then should they really be judging :laugh: I did take whiskers off a couple of times in my early days of showing but it did nothing for me or the dog. :D

I trim my greyhounds "skirts", don't do whiskers though.

As quite a few of my friends who have bought or bred their Golden retriever/german shepherd/ labrador, etc have learned, clear hip scored parents do not a clear pup guarantee. Same for Patella. The great news is you can blame the breeder, but which breeder? The one who in many cases bought the mum from another, used a top quality male or had one themselves, either way both parents checked and clear. Some who have generations can show you clear vet checks for up to 3 and 4 generations. Today no one accepts responsiblity for bad luck or bad judgement, eg the husky that was shot. As one vet has put on the net. NO one can guarantee faults cannot appear no matter how well the parents, grand parents and even great grand parents passed their vet checks. Even Clear DNA can still have a mutation. How do you think downes syndrome appears? The aging egg can develop a fault and the downes child is born, the fault is now heridatory, Do you really think dna changes only occured in ageing women? 9,999 deletrius and more genes exist, so far there are how many DNA tests for faulty genes? A dozen? If we expect perfection in any new arrival, the bad news is, an awful lot of people are going to be dissapointed. My friends baby has two holes in its heart and awaiting life saving surgery if they dont close themselves while the baby is being stabalised. If that baby was a pup heaven help the person who bred it, in todays climate. Most DNA damage the embroyo doesnt survive, but when it does, who is unethical? The owner of the mother? Or mother nature? Reality is in very short supply today . Excellent answer

I've never given a third puppy vaccination. 8 & 12 weeks here and only a C3.

:laugh: and why would you? You would be blown away with Huddy's 2nd BIS in 2 days! I would be floating on cloud 9 if I was you and wouldn't even be aware if the pink panther came second :laugh: Wonderful achievement by your boy, all at Team Huddy should be very proud of him.

:thumbsup: Team Huddy :thumbsup:

who cares?

cute pic but still no stock

actually while I think this is a great move forward and I see where Troy is going with this, my ads will still most likely just say: litter born on such and such a date, pups may be available, details on website, email me. Happy to include parents but really I only use any ads to direct people to my website.

My GSD's used to sleep outside in a good kennel, no coats, no heated bedding, in minus degrees over winter. They are a double coated breed. I think your main problem is the food.

Ditch the black hawk. You shouldn't have to feed 8 cups a day of any dry food. I feed porridge and/or lamb flaps for weight gain.

I've asked Tralee, on more then one occasion, if he has ever seen these Italian dogs he fawns over in the flesh, but he has never answered. I can only conclude that everything he parrots has come off the internet. Some outlandish claims have been made about the temperament of dogs from UK and USA but again he failed to declare where he learnt such things. I second dog_fans concerns.

regardless no one knows for sure someone let your friends two dogs out and no one knows for sure who started the fight. It's sad one dog has died but that can happen in a dog fight. while I would be most upset if one of my dogs started a fight and killed another I would be less upset if they killed the other dog becuase they had been attacked. They are entitled to defend themselves what ever the size of the attacking dog.

I wouldn't even ask, both dogs and both owners at fault.

Because the person who finds the dog can ring up the owner straight away without needing to go to a vet first to get it scanned. It's more for convenience than anything. I found a BC in my front garden the other day, she had a tag and could call up her owner straight away, other wise it would of been a drive into town to the vet to be scanned. Excactly. Returned many dogs with a simple phone call. But the owners in this case did not answer the phone immediately so there still would have been a delay

How could a tag change anything? When my dogs wore tags it only gad a phone number.

I can no longer access the photo's. Guess I have been blocked.

They haven't blocked me - yet and some Steve person didn't like me very much