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On 22/08/2018 at 11:37 AM, mingaling said:

Have the vets considered chiari malformation/SM, or similar. 

It’s a condition of degrees and not all dogs display overt symptoms that are often put forward in the media. Some are very subtle. From a head tilt to licking parts of the body, ear scratching, tongue flapping etc. not all dogs are a screaming mess with it. 

 

thank you just googled that and she shows no signs of any of those thing .. she is 100% happy fit healthy shiny happy dog .. and doesnt fly snap every time she eats.... she didnt respond to the tablets so weve put it down to habit, its fully controllable so no seizure etc present... if shes doing it shell stop when told too. i give her breakfast along side her puppy and she doesnt fly snap then, only at dinner time feed.

who has done this recently? what did you pay ?

i was surprised to get quoted only a few $100 less then importing semen from UK & USA ?? why would you import from NZ when only slightly more u can go overseas ?

He said if the cortisone didnt work its just a habit, she also licks her feet. Talking to other breeders it seems alot i spoke to had a dog that did the odd similar thing, feet licking, tail chewing, fly snapping, air licking. 

vet is not overly concerned has given cortisone to see if shes allergic to the food but has said the same as what i was thinking ... habit/ocd

interesting researching some more and have come across vaccine side effects, one of them is neurological caused by the distemper part of the vaccination and it has reminded me that the same bitch reacted poorly to her puppy vaccine too ... got very sick. 

Weirdest thing of all too, ive changed her feeding, 1/2 cup morning an 1 cup at night (instead of 1 1/2 at night) she doesnt fly snap in the morning , only at night. Ive also changed the dry from a 32% protein to a 25% protein. 

She is being booked into the vet next week. 

well thats why i said above i thought it might be pregnancy related "reflux" like women get cos i know what it can be like when u get heart burn and it feels liek its in ur chest/throat/mouth and i thought it could be just how she was dealing with it. the puppies she had a re 12 weeks old and i only noticed yesterday she was still doing it or starting it again. she is due back on heat soon. 

i dont think it is food related cos she was fed that dry for a long time before the litter. 

No She was on a strict diet of her usual dry food and folate tablets while mated/preg/lactating. It only started once she was preg and she had never done it before and was fed the same thing before. 

since shes weaned the puppies shes not longer on folate and is still getting a dry food ( different but MUCH better quality) the first dry food is Chicken and duck and this dry food is Lamb. 

she never does it during the day or evening and only started it about 5-10 mins after eating and then it goes away later on. 

My bitch has just turned 2 years old and has been fine her whole life...

she had her first litter a few months ago and towards the end of her pregnancy she started fly snapping after eating, i thought maybe as people get it maybe she was experiencing heart burn/indigestion and it would go away after the pups were born. She is still doing it  

She is eye screened all clear, so there is no issues with her eyes.... She doesnt do the seizure type movement she just looks at something then snaps at it. Its only after eating and goes away afterwards. 

has anyone else had this with thier dog and what was the treatment for it ?

thanks 

yup ANKC rules on what WE do with OUR Dogs gotta love it 


yeh sorry i do mean just the once off, not that i would do more then 2 consecutive matings and rules say cant have 3 litters in 18 months. i know people who breed bitches every heat cos their heats are  more then 6 months appart so the litters are being born 1-3 months outside the 3 in 18 months so they get away with it. 

my point on the wild is its natural for dogs to do so... might not be what they want but they do and they handle it just fine. 

in my opinion most people who i know who bitches end up having Pyo is because they havent mated them, very rarely have i heard bitches who have been bred get it ... yes they do i know but 90% of the time its bitches who have never been bred or they wait until 4+ for thier first litter

Been doing some research into this "touchy" topic and would love to hear others thoughts .

im under the belief that mother nature (the wild) dogs will breed every heat in a pack situation. Its only us who think its unethical to do so. 
ive read a scientific studies that showed a bitch who was bred every heat did much better then a bitch who bred every second heat. they dissected the uterus after they had bred the bitches and desexed them and found the ones the most damage to be the ones who bred every other heat. And the uterus of the one who bred every heat to be in fairly good condition. It said that a bitch who has a heat and doesnt whelp puppies doesnt have a cleaning out effect of the uterus (this is part what can cause pyo)

also it said bitches who arent bred every heat are more prone to cancer,s pyo ad false pregnancies etc 

thoughts?

puppies got given some scourban and are doing just fine. They did say "its been going around" and i had the mother at the vets a few days prior. 

theyre fine, very strong healthy active pups scourban has fixed them 

puppies are very strong active healthy puppies always very full from mum no loss of appetite or change in behaviour, but have the runs. If they didnt have the runs there would be no concern at all with them.

anyways to bind them back as being only 16 days old they arent eating only off mum. who is on a plain diet of dry food and mince. 

Thank you , its an added $135 but a friend of mine suggested to do it anyways as its a bull breeds dog going to a country where BSL is high so any proof of its breed would be handy to have 

thank you i got a great quote from moreholme and the buyer imported a pup from oz 8 years ago and paid $1770 AUD and my quote today was $1840 so very well priced and we will be going with him

i was just wondering if you sent a pet overseas that wont be bred or shown and not re registered to any canine body do they need an export pedigree still ?

yup i know this is just wanted to hear other peoples experiences. 

has anyone done this recently and can help me with the process, what was needed, what age the pup can go, and the prices paid 

thank you 

Bitch in question is 2 weeks pregnant and last night we noticed she was fly snapping and she was doing it again tonight... a quick recall and she would stop every time.

She is also a foot licker. 
she fed on a grain free diet. 

any ideas? a new habit?

she was fine before being bred 

yup sounding like greedy stud dog owner... im currently in the process of using australian frozen semen i will be paying 
stud fee 

half of collection cost (as breeder keeping what i dont need, which i was happy with as i only had to pay half) 
50 release fee from thier vet

100 accepting fee from my vet 

then all the usual breeding costs ... but i never paid anything different then i would have a normal mating (of course frozen semen needs to be collected and sent so that cost is of course on me) 

and im the same as mentioned above, when i have stud dogs i charge a stud fee, payable whenever you want and in return you get my signature. if there is no puppies then no fee. i charge maybe $20 fuel if i have to pick up and drop off and airport and feeding one extra dog for a few days costs stuff all so i dont charge that after all if there is puppies im going to be getting a large stud fee so why would i charge a few $$ for some food.  people are getting very greedy now days when it comes to studing out their dogs 

My bitch is on heat and at day 5 her level was 5.4, 2 days later she is full flagging and standing for the dog so i prog tested her and it dropped to 4.2 (day 7) ???

ive never prog tested before and am using frozen semen. i know she should be really high for mating but is it normal to drop and be very flirty for the dog when on the day 5 was snapping at him. 

(not using the live dog he is desexed but still does all the undesexed idiot things) 

Having a conversation with a friends regarding collections and using frozen semen. 
1. Firstly they were blown away to hear a dog with a colleciton being 1464mil count. who else has had this type of numbers at first collection (before freezing) as ive heard of some being 800 and 1300.mil etc 
2. secondly once semen is frozen and tested and given a count.. is the count on the vial the pre or post thaw number? my analysis reads to me that its the post thaw count. 
3. also what is your preferred count on frozen semen breedings ? ive had many vet tell me 100 others say 200. 
4. what is the lowest count AI you have had that was successful

Hi i was wondering if anyone has recently sent frozen semen from Queensland to South Australia and could let me know what you paid, thanks 

just freight semen already collected

HI im looking to see if anyone recently has sent frozen semen from Qld to SA and what they paid ? my first quote was more then double i paid from Syd to Adel.

thanks in Advance