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Could be worse, the young lady vet who came to do the TB testing the other week arrived looking very bedraggled on what was a sunny and dry day. I said "You look as if you've been ridden hard and put away wet".

It seems that at the last farm she attended a cow pooed all over her wondrous curly, long, golden blonde hair, so she had to take up the farmer's offer of a shower in the farmhouse. Whether he was fortunate enough to be invited to give her a drying off she didn't say.

It's these sort of things that result in not many girls wanting to be, or long term remain as, a farm animal vet :)
 
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She's healed up wonderfully from her spaying operation.

Took her to the beach today. Big fan of the beach, not such a big fan of the sea.
Finally got her booked in for a grooming appointment, only 2 more weeks of the mop look. :p

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I love her to bits, but she likes to test me.

Of all the toys and bones she has in the house. She decided to gnaw on the skirting board!

Off to the pet shop tomorrow to pick up some chewing deterrant spray.
 
DEL 707 said:
I love her to bits, but she likes to test me.

Of all the toys and bones she has in the house. She decided to gnaw on the skirting board!

Off to the pet shop tomorrow to pick up some chewing deterrant spray.
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Hope it works better than for my dog - she used to lick that 'Bitter Apple' stuff off things I sprayed with it :rolleyes:
Thankfully bad behaviour didn't last long and no real damage done.
 
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Hope it works better than for my dog - she used to lick that 'Bitter Apple' stuff off things I sprayed with it :rolleyes:
Thankfully bad behaviour didn't last long and no real damage done.
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Well, I bought "Simple Solution - Chew Stopper"

I don't know how long it's meant to last, but 2 hours after I sprayed the skirting board she chewed last night, she made attempt to go for it again.
Only thing that stopped her was me. :rolleyes:

So I guess she's staying in the bedroom where I can keep an eye on her until she's out of this teething phase.
 
Got a poorly 11 year old puppy, had a weeks worth of antibiotics and had to go back for an anti-sickness jab as he's been chundering daily and refusing food. Antibiotics changed and managed to hand feed him some treats tonight but won't touch any normal food, even the posh sliced ham from the Deli. Back to the vets tomorrow if he doesn't improve for blood tests.
 
I was tidying up a hard drive this evening and found some photos of two of my Russian Black Terriers from about 10 years ago. A dog and bitch just loved going in the lake, and had what I consider an unusual trait in that they would both dive fully underwater to look for thrown objects that sink.

Anyone here had or have dogs that freely do this? I gave up on the RBT's as the wrong sort of people were after them at one stage, either for dog fighting or perhaps to train as attack dogs, something which they needed little encouragement in! They were very devoted and brave dogs and similar to the Giant Schnauzer in temperament, but bigger. I should perhaps have stuck with them as apparently they fetch crazy money these days, if you can find any proper ones in the UK still.

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When I was a lad we had a labrador that would dive fully underwater, and more recently our Cairne terrier would put her head under water to retrieve stones from the bed of a stream (about 2ft deep) - but she never went fully underwater and would often come up choking. Never did learn not to try breathing under water :-)
 
Thanks Chris, it's not something I really considered until we moved here as in Gatley where I lived before there was no close expanse of cleanish water for my dogs to play in, but here I have permitted access to a neighbour's pond / small lake and take the dogs there in warm weather. None of my later dogs would do this diving lark, in fact some have had to be persuaded to even get their bellies wet ;)
 
Noticed she's been scooting along on the grass/carpet a lot since she got back from the groomers.
Also looking a bit red back there. So had to go buy anti-itch wipes and cream and apply it.

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Should have got a cat...
 
Her anal glands are probably blocked and compacted, does she get any raw bones in her diet, or just tinned meat and biscuits?

If you have a helpful vet, and that is indeed the problem, get him / her to show you how to evacuate them yourself. Very smelly, a very very smelly. job... :)

In nature solid stools squeeze the glands every time they have a poo, transferring the odour of the fluid in the anal glands to the stools, as a personal marker/ If the stools are soft the glands don't get squeezed, the fluid builds up and sometimes go viscous, and they nesd manually "manipulating" to expel their contents. I would suggest you get it looked at fairly soon, as infection can set in and then the vet rubs their hands as the bills skyrocket.
 
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The groomer I took her to was meant to do all that.
I would say her stools are pretty solid.

If there's no improvement by Monday, I'll call the vets.
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^Like Chris said... However groomers won't do this procedure in the UK as it is considered 'internal', though it is commonly done in the USA by groomers. My daughter's Cockapoo has issues with anal glands getting blocked which doesn't seem to relate to how solid her stools are but passing solid stools is how they're supposed to work. She had an abscess in one years ago requiring vet treatment ($$$) which may have been responsible for it being a recurrent problem for her. The glands are located either side 4 and 8 O'clock position and whilst your vet makes it look easy and it only takes seconds to do it does require practice. Surprising your dog by trying this at home without knowing what you're doing is likely to produce... about the same reaction as if someone tried it on you lol! I tried myself and nearly lost a finger when my daughter let go the dog's head :)

edit: Oh and yes, such issues are generally connected to diet. The frequency of vet visits for my daughter's older dog (now 8yrs old) have declined dramatically since switching to a raw diet. My own cockapoo (3-1/2yrs old) has been on raw diet since she was weaned and has never had issues with anal glands. Scooting is a classic sign of this problem.
 
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I havn't given her a proper bone to chew on. I mean she has plenty of toys and a deer antler.
Should I be giving her proper animal bones?
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It's not a matter of the dog chewing a big bone, it's whether it digests crunched up bone. A dog the size of yours won't have the bite force to eat any quantity of a large bone, but it could eat a raw chicken carcass. A big dog can eat a piece of a cow's leg bone, given time and inclination. A few wild boar would leave very little of a whole cow (or person) left to find, hence pig farmers are murderers best mates :)

It's a somewhat contentious subject. In the wild canines eat animals, bones and all, which gives the classic cream to white coloured, hard stools. But there is a risk that a bone splinter may get stuck or penetrate something. Cooked bones are definite no, but i have always fed my dogs a mixture of tinned meat, dog biscuits and raw chicken carcasses. I have never had any issues, and more to the point neither have my dogs. But if you use this method I don't want any grief if your dog does have issues... :)

I would ask do you see anyone filleting a fox or a wolf's meat? Have you ever seen a video of them scooting around?
 
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