Rebanne

if you are happy with your dogs and how they have done on the food you have been feeding why change?

mud was the year before wasn't it , still a great 3 days

:mad the OP's dog is a rude dog and I can't fathom why they think it it ok to behave this way

only if you are prepared to travel. It's the same wherever you are, if you want to go to something you find a way, if you don't you won't. I am passing up 5 shows within 2 and 1/2 hrs of me later this year cause nights away, costs and having 2 aged dogs to look after at home, my choice.

You have no idea if this happened ( the bolded bit ) such awful assumptions being made in this thread. Need I say that experience goes hand in hand with the comments that I have made. I do not make such comments lightly. Yes, you could be right Rebanne and then again I could be right. I guess, at the end of the day, we will never know for sure. you have no experience with this person though so have no idea

I had a dog with with these issues for several weeks and she was under vet care the whole time. How can you make such unfounded statements?

You have no idea if this happened ( the bolded bit ) such awful assumptions being made in this thread.

at least some people have a specialty that they can choose whether to go or not.

shut them both in their crates at the same time to start with

it is perfectly alright to feed raw eggs as long as the whole egg is fed. Yolk are full of biotin thus negating the egg white.

Where did you find this nonsense? A litter from two parents of two different breeds produces licorice allsorts. Go look at some of those designer mutt websites. All the progeny are different in size, coat type and overall apperance. No way can you tell what "breed" of dog you are looking at. + 1

well you need to do your own research instead of continually putting out misinformation. I have been correcting you on this issue for years.

I'm so sorry that this time has come but Kuges is lucky to have you to make the tough calls for him. I have the vet come to the house and have always let the other dogs sniff their pack mates body after wards. I have no idea if it helps the remaining dogs or not, none ever seemed any different. But I personally prefer my dogs done at home rather than the vet.

you keep adding sighthounds, none have a known sensitivity to ivermectin, otherwise there would be a lot of dead greyhounds around.

me too, just cause your dog lets you check it's teeth at home or in the show ring, getting the mouth wide enough, for long enough, to do a proper job would be very difficult.

not a risk when done responsibly, plenty of entire dogs, of both sexes, have never produced a puppy.

Rugerrun has 3 and a baby, dogs are lovely and are pets

I kept GSD bitches together for over 25 years with never a problem ( different ones ) mostly desexed at 6 months but one was entire until 3. My entire greyhound bitch I have to watch with the smaller cross bred, speyed, bitch and I had to return a speyed greyhound bitch due to her attitude to my smaller bitch. So sometimes it work very well with no work, sometimes it works very well with a little bit of hard work, sometimes it is ok with a lot of hard work and sometimes it doesn't work at all.

chipom = no such breed needs to take the dog to the vet

Greyhounds can be genetically brindle without showing an obvious stripe

Can you provide a linky to that? I've heard alot of 'reasons' for HD but not that one. Side note: I wasn't asking you why so defensive, I was asking Rebanne. and I wasn't defensive at all, just don't like people not being upfront about their intentions

Why so defensive? It's irrelevant what the original post was anyway, the dog has HD, no one will ever know how it got it, both the parents were hip scored then at least the breeder was doing the right thing to start with, one would hope the breeder would give you some support and advice upon finding out though? I felt the thread was sneaky. At least I am honest about what I am thinking.

Actually I have a bit of a problem with you. Why weren't you up front at the beginning of this thread?

sorry to hear about your dog but HD can crop up from anywhere, you can have generations of dogs with no HD but then one is produced. Dogs are dogs and things can and do happen. Buying from a registered breeder who health tests only lessen's the chances of your dog ending up with a problem, it doesn't eliminate them. Won't comment on your breeder's reaction because there is only one side of the story being told. You do know how a pup is reared can also cause HD don't you?

hmm 1st prize could come in handy