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Alice In Wonderland said:
How are your older dogs coping? Do they play with her lots?
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Only Hazel will play with pup - that's the one you see in the vid. Our 8 year old cockapoo called Copper won't play and avoids pup like the plague - but then she's not quite right in the head and hates the world anyway! Hazel seems to have adopted the pup and mothers it, she's great at correcting pup's behaviour. It's so funny to watch them tearing around the garden together. We corrected a mistake made with our other two dogs by introducing Lyra to different foods early. She now loves to eat fruit and veg as well as meat, fish, eggs. She'll tuck into apples, oranges, nectarines, bananas, cucumber, spinnach (doesn't like carrots much). Trying to get anything like that down the older dogs is impossible making it difficut to provide them with a balanced diet.
 
ChrisLX200 said:
Only Hazel will play with pup - that's the one you see in the vid. Our 8 year old cockapoo called Copper won't play and avoids pup like the plague - but then she's not quite right in the head and hates the world anyway! Hazel seems to have adopted the pup and mothers it, she's great at correcting pup's behaviour. It's so funny to watch them tearing around the garden together. We corrected a mistake made with our other two dogs by introducing Lyra to different foods early. She now loves to eat fruit and veg as well as meat, fish, eggs. She'll tuck into apples, oranges, nectarines, bananas, cucumber, spinnach (doesn't like carrots much). Trying to get anything like that down the older dogs is impossible making it difficut to provide them with a balanced diet.
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Awwwww.
 
I'm VERY p'd off with the dogs right now. Three of them hate my eagle owl with a vengeance and will go to the aviary and go berserk at the bird in it. I have never managed to stop this behaviour, try as I might. The owl will fly down to the base of the two inch weld mesh fence and goad the dogs by hurling itself at the mesh. Yesterday i found the owl near dead, one of the sods had grabbed its foot through the wire and done its leg irreparable damage. I had to shoot the bird, which I have had for over twenty years. I suppose dogs will be dogs and they don't bother about any of the other birds here, but it was very upsetting and frustrating.
 
Chris Wilson said:
I'm VERY p'd off with the dogs right now. Three of them hate my eagle owl with a vengeance and will go to the aviary and go berserk at the bird in it. I have never managed to stop this behaviour, try as I might. The owl will fly down to the base of the two inch weld mesh fence and goad the dogs by hurling itself at the mesh. Yesterday i found the owl near dead, one of the sods had grabbed its foot through the wire and done its leg irreparable damage. I had to shoot the bird, which I have had for over twenty years. I suppose dogs will be dogs and they don't bother about any of the other birds here, but it was very upsetting and frustrating.
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Damn but that's very sad to hear.
 
Chris Wilson said:
I'm VERY p'd off with the dogs right now. Three of them hate my eagle owl with a vengeance and will go to the aviary and go berserk at the bird in it. I have never managed to stop this behaviour, try as I might. The owl will fly down to the base of the two inch weld mesh fence and goad the dogs by hurling itself at the mesh. Yesterday i found the owl near dead, one of the sods had grabbed its foot through the wire and done its leg irreparable damage. I had to shoot the bird, which I have had for over twenty years. I suppose dogs will be dogs and they don't bother about any of the other birds here, but it was very upsetting and frustrating.
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Man... really sorry to hear that, Chris. I know you're very proud of your birds and I can't even imagine how it would feel to do that to something you've looked after for so long.
 
Junglist said:
Man... really sorry to hear that, Chris. I know you're very proud of your birds and I can't even imagine how it would feel to do that to something you've looked after for so long.
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Thank you, and thanks Chris and Alice. You do what you have to do. You couldn't patch it up, in fsact short of a broken wing with no bone protrusion there's not a lot you can do with a bird, and this injury was really nasty. If I'd called the vet I'd have to catch it whilst he injected it and it was obviously in pain, so more stress, shooting was quick and done with. The best advice I ever got about pets was from the proper old countryman across the road, when one of the emus had to be put down. "Chris", he said, "if you can't handle dead stock, don't buy livestock, you do your best and if it's best to despatch an animal, you grit your teeth and just get on with it". I gritted my teeth yesterday, but had a tear in my eye to be frank. Had to take six chicks out of the feed bucket today, I am so used to putting six in every day for it, (for twenty years) :(
 
Chris Wilson said:
Thank you, and thanks Chris and Alice. You do what you have to do. You couldn't patch it up, in fsact short of a broken wing with no bone protrusion there's not a lot you can do with a bird, and this injury was really nasty. If I'd called the vet I'd have to catch it whilst he injected it and it was obviously in pain, so more stress, shooting was quick and done with. The best advice I ever got about pets was from the proper old countryman across the road, when one of the emus had to be put down. "Chris", he said, "if you can't handle dead stock, don't buy livestock, you do your best and if it's best to despatch an animal, you grit your teeth and just get on with it". I gritted my teeth yesterday, but had a tear in my eye to be frank. Had to take six chicks out of the feed bucket today, I am so used to putting six in every day for it, (for twenty years) :(
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20 years is really a long time to have built up that special bond and trust too. :(

I have 100% respect for you doing the right thing though and making sure it was no longer suffering.

Never easy to have to do something like that.
 
Chris Wilson said:
Thank you, and thanks Chris and Alice. You do what you have to do. You couldn't patch it up, in fsact short of a broken wing with no bone protrusion there's not a lot you can do with a bird, and this injury was really nasty. If I'd called the vet I'd have to catch it whilst he injected it and it was obviously in pain, so more stress, shooting was quick and done with. The best advice I ever got about pets was from the proper old countryman across the road, when one of the emus had to be put down. "Chris", he said, "if you can't handle dead stock, don't buy livestock, you do your best and if it's best to despatch an animal, you grit your teeth and just get on with it". I gritted my teeth yesterday, but had a tear in my eye to be frank. Had to take six chicks out of the feed bucket today, I am so used to putting six in every day for it, (for twenty years) :(
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Sorry to hear this. Especially for a bird you've had for so long. :(


Had a hen that broke it's hip. Can't really do anything for them. Thier bones are so light and fragile.

Legs especially are the worst. A chicken with a broken wing isn't a big deal. But a leg?
 
When I was a teenager (nearly 30 years ago) we had a beautiful cockerel called Mercutio.

He fell ill with age and my mum tried to put it out of its misery.

She failed miserably (huge pair of garden shears) and ended up covering him with a blanket in the garage and waited for my dad to come home from work and sort him out!
 
Did a job in the south-east - this made me giggle when walking into the office to set up.

Customer's husky/collie mix I believe.

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New pup! Haven't quite decided on a name (suggestions welcome).

Currently thinking Shan, from Malazan Book of Fallen "Described as "long, black and sleek," Shan's eyes glowed red. In Deadhouse Gates, Mappo Runt described her preferred mode of attack as "a true killer's, an assassin's," also stating that he feared Shan above all the other Hounds."

Far too soft for the name really:cry:
 
godinman said:
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New pup! Haven't quite decided on a name (suggestions welcome).

Currently thinking Shan, from Malazan Book of Fallen "Described as "long, black and sleek," Shan's eyes glowed red. In Deadhouse Gates, Mappo Runt described her preferred mode of attack as "a true killer's, an assassin's," also stating that he feared Shan above all the other Hounds."

Far too soft for the name really:cry:
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I'm hopeless on dog names but it's a, well it's a whatever it is, (and very cute too), but it's not one of your Bully XL things, for which such a name connection would be perhaps appropriate! :)
 
godinman said:
New pup! Haven't quite decided on a name (suggestions welcome).

Currently thinking Shan, from Malazan Book of Fallen "Described as "long, black and sleek," Shan's eyes glowed red. In Deadhouse Gates, Mappo Runt described her preferred mode of attack as "a true killer's, an assassin's," also stating that he feared Shan above all the other Hounds."

Far too soft for the name really:cry:
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I wanted to call my pup Sasha but was out-voted and it ended up as Lyra.
 
We've got a dog that was one of just two brown ones in a litter we bred of otherwise all black pups. It was always known as "the brown dog" as the other brown one was a bitch. Despite us eventually naming it Yogi we still call it Brown Dog and it looks at us askance if we call it Yogi. So Brown Dog it is, much to some people's horror.
 
Chris Wilson said:
We've got a dog that was one of just two brown ones in a litter we bred of otherwise all black pups. It was always known as "the brown dog" as the other brown one was a bitch. Despite us eventually naming it Yogi we still call it Brown Dog and it looks at us askance if we call it Yogi. So Brown Dog it is, much to some people's horror.
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I’d love to bump into you in a bar Chris and have a conversation, I reckon I would laugh and be horrified in equal measures at the opinons shared. Please take this in the spirit its meant :)
 
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Jimbeam3678 said:
I’d love to bump into you in a bar Chris and have a conversation, I reckon I would laugh and be horrified in equal measures at the opinons shared. Please take this in the spirit its meant :)
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No offence taken :) But I have cut down my visits to pubs greatly. Too expensive and add on two taxi fares ( I couldn't be doing with driving and only having two pints, not worth the trip) and it has now become a dear do :(. Unless you're paying of course....? ;)
 
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