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If you don't get the Independent, go and get a copy of today's issue and have a look in the 'Extras' or look here The Whippet Snapper well worth a look m

You're my hero! :huggles: thank you! E

What have I done wrong, guys... yesterday, when I logged onto a thread, I could see all the posts on a page, and then work my way through the pages. today, when I log on, there's an immensely irritating collapsed thread of titles at the foot of the page and I have to work out which ones I want...

Stunning.... :wub: Is there a name for puppy-lust? :cheers: hope she's adoreable when she's home good luck m

I think Natalia has the software, so would be the best person to ask - she's on earlier in the thread if you don't get a reply now and nothing to do with this - why do I come up as 'anonymous user' in the list of 'people reading this thread'? Is there a way to become a real-person? :)...

There are no medical benefits at all of having a litter. Trust me, I'm a stud vet... :) there is a debate as to whether it's better to spay before or after the first season - if you spay before, the incidence of mammary carcinoma (breast cancer) is markedly reduced, but there's a risk...

This is her website (if I've got the method of posting links right): Turid Rugaas When I said 'monograph', I meant a small book - too big to post on here in its entirety - but I got it from Amazon for not very much money and read it in an evening sitting by the fire - and have spent the recent...

If you go back to feral dogs/wolves/any non-domestic canids, there's a well-defined system of 'calming signals' which prevents inter-pack carnage. It isn't normal for dogs to attack/kill others of their own species because there are some fairly hard wired behavioural responses that prevent this...

but we have four on our yard, and they're all stupendously amazingly gorgeous, good-natured horses - but yes, I think the wasteage in Tb racing (which was my professional focus for 10 years) is grim and should be stopped. we're overpopulating the planet with humans and with all human-related...

Neither of us is saying every racing greyhound is the same - clearly they aren't, I was trying to make that point clear and failed as she did. She actually said that most of the ones that come into her surgery are gorgeous, submissive, beautiful dogs. In real terms, the rehoming centers start...

Someone on the list also spoke of multiple recurring corns in the feet of their dog(s) - I haven't come across this before but given that corns can (sometimes) have a viral origin, I wonder if this is an indicator of immune suppression - or a breakdown of the dermal junctions at the skin/pad...

You're all going to shoot me for this, and probably ban me from life for K9, but I've just bought and read Dog's Today and can't for the life of me see what the problem is. as far as I read it, she's saying: 1. racing greyhounds have such a massive prey drive that it over-rides the normal...

I was a young vet student when Parvo was first identified and was spreading like wild-fire across Britain - apart from the horror of watching things die in those first waves, we certainly found that it was immensely hard to provide effective barriers. We used plastic theatre covers on our shoes...

I think this might spark a whole new thread, but am interested in the balance people strike between immunity and social behaviour as a vet with a particular interest in behaviour, it always seemed to me that the two were equally important - that the pup is covered to the best of our ability...

Karen - from a veterinary perspective, I can't tell you how much respect I have for your attitude and how much I wish every breeder of every dog (and cat and horse) in the country had your kind of integrity. thank you for this m

Fantastic - she looks gorgeous :) :wub: and however did you make that slide show???? Hugely impressed E

From which this: I think I’d like to see a time where every rescue centre in the country wasn’t stuffed full of animals discarded by an industry using animals for human entertainment and also I’d like someone to actually read the article in the way it was intended instead of going off the deep...

On the face of it, if she's advocating the culling of all greyhounds, then no, it doesn't sound reasonable, but OTOH, the numbers killed each year surplus to racing are painfully huge and always overwhelm the ability of the rehoming services to place them in 'forever homes'. If I were going to...

yep, you're right... I was a vet before I was an author, and for a while, was both. and... I'll check up on the sig file. I rather like it, though.. so maybe I'll just remove the source of the quote. It's that or a Mary Oliver, or both if I can find a way to make it happen. m

This is the article and I stand by every word - it was an opinion piece and this is my unexpurgated opinion... fwiw, we got to two more (Bassett Hounds and Border Collies, I think) before the spineless editor decided she'd had enough flak from the Akita-owning public. Mind you, the month they...