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Ice cubes in his bowl and a paddling pool

In the hot weather Sitka's shedding has gone into overdrive. Every time he shakes a cloud of hair goes everywhere. Our vacuum cleaner is a Dyson V11 Absolute which picks up the hair well on hard floors, OK on carpets but needs poking around with a knitting needle every five or ten minutes to...

We use - Pawbits Scottish Salmon oil https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pawbits-Litre-Scottish-Salmon-Cats/ Glucosamine with chondroitin tablets https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/286614913 Canine Prime supplement powder Canine Prime - The World's Most Powerful Dog...

Sitka is getting castrated on the 29th when he turns 18 months. I had read some articles on this saying 6 months+ was fine and other saying 24 months+. We took the vet's advice to do it now as he has one undescended testicle that is too warm inside him and a cancer risk.

Sitka is on Natural Instinct too and doesn't have a wind problem. For his birthday he got a cake from the pet shop with things he's not used to. The next day he (literally) cleared the waiting room at the vets.

I concur – a strong whiff of pseudoscience

In case something is missing from his raw food Sika gets supplements - a fish oil capsule, a glucosamine & chondroitin tablet, and a scoop of Canine Prime powder.

We were so pleased with the first three months of recall training, he was 100% on the whistle including a time when he stopped chasing a deer to come back to us. At around the when he started cocking his leg to scent mark and humping cushions it became unreliable. The first time it failed was...

The only food that Sitka has ever refused is raw liver which seemed strange as his highest value training treat was dried liver. It could be the texture then, good to know as we have a mincer.

While on the Halloween gore theme - This afternoon the cat brought Sitka a vole. He used to bring us voles, leaving them on the doorstep or in Patsy's handbag (hee hee) but was underappreciated; he gets a better reaction from Sitka. The cat doesn't eat much of the vole - he crushes the skull...

Breakfast - 1/3 Kg raw beef tripe with bone Lunch - raw egg with shell Dinner - 1/3 Kg raw minced chicken with offal and bone Supper - tiny pieces of roast chicken (for which he must perform) This is a normal day. Yesterday was not - he supplemented his diet with a blackbird delivered by the...

Sitka is on Natural Instinct raw Raw Dog Food | Healthy BARF Diet | Natural Instinct ® which seemed a good balance of cost and nutrition.

We find raw feeding easy and affordable, but we have lots of freezer space and a settled defrosting routine.

We live in an area of red squirrels but the grey squirrels are now only a few miles away. Grant money is paid to landowners who trap greys and there are posters out saying how to report sightings. Hopefully the line will hold.

Please tell us it was a grey squirrel