The Old Folks Home

[drumstick diva]

Mine weren't - I think it has pretty much been bred out of them. Though when I showed dogs back many a year -ago some show folks would cut off the coats on their champions and really hunt them to prove they could.

 

[vehve]

SCG, sorry that your chick didn't make it, but I'm happy you didn't prolong the inevitable.

DK, by the way, have you calibrated your hygrometer?

I'm not that familiar with cockerspaniels, but some still use them for hunting. I'm guessing there's a similar divide as with labradors, and many other breeds, you've got the ones that are bred for looks, and the ones that are bred for utility.


If I were to take this girl to a show she'd probably be disqualified, but she does okay in hunting trials, and loves to go hunting for birds.

 

[ozexpat]

Back in the day when i lived on a 1000 acre sheep farm we got a call from our neighbor that he has our dogs because they killed one of his sheep. I raced out to check on the working dogs but they were in their kennels.

The culprits were mini silkies.

We gave away 2 of the three

 

[vehve]

How on earth does one of those take down a sheep, Oz?

 

[Amberjem]

 

[ozexpat]

How on earth does one of those take down a sheep, Oz?

Not 1 but 3 - hunting as a pack. run it till it drops


Fortunately the neighbor was amused or astonished or something. He is known for lead poisoning uninvited dogs.

 

[vehve]

Ah, lead poisoning can be bad... especially when injected at high velocity.

Our dogs are usually a bit afraid of sheep, especially the dachshund, she was really freaked out when the sheep ganged up on her and all wanted to know what she was at the same time. The sheep we've had over summer have been really weird for a species that should be prey, they have all been very nosy.

Älize can be pretty deceptive though, she's a great mouser and the chicken she killed was very well dispatched too, broken neck. You wouldn't expect that from a little 5 kilo couch piggy.

 

[Bunnylady]

That's the problem with trying to correct a lead deficiency - it's so hard to get the dosage right.

Prey animals can be pretty aggressive if they think they have the upper hand -er- hoof. I had a goat that would attack anything dog-like that entered her pen. The other goats would just stare nervously, but this gal butted first, asked questions later!

 

[vehve]

Bunny, I think all kinds of dosages can be bad, 9mm, 7.62mm, even .22

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Some random "dude" asked me to post this here for his buddies!


What happens when they send us old car guys to the nursing home!

I work at a nursing home!!!

The deed has been done on both of them. Yes, it was a day early, but we couldn't come to a solution where we could wrap the tendon in place tight enough to improve walking without causing extreme swelling and so we came to mutual decision tonight without argument or reservations. I had spent all day Saturday, Sunday and today doing PT stretches with the first chick, which didn't seem to make much of a difference. It was time. I am extremely sad, but relieved. I also found some posts online that isbars were imported without enough genetic diversity and have a lot of hatch (including leg) problems. I'm not sure how true that is, but it seems to be the case here. There is one splash isbar left in the brooder, so far unaffected, and I think there's a black isbar left as well, but not certain that's the breed.