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    Can too much protein cause itching ?

    Hi all Thankyou very much for your advice and apologies for the late reply, well it seems her itching problem has disappeared as quickly as it started and we think we may have found the answer. Both my wife and i walk her , sometimes separately, my wife tells me that her route had taken her...
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    Can too much protein cause itching ?

    Hello all we have a four month old Lurcher puppy who seems to be itching and scratching quite a lot, i have heard it said that too much protein can cause this ( fact or fiction?). She is fed a BARF diet ( mainly minced chicken or beef and green tripe ) which I presume to have quite a high...
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    Raw food diet

    gypsymum2 I think you may well be right regarding onions only affecting certain individual dogs, i vividly remember many years ago our border collie who i occasionally gave ( rightly or wrongly) table scraps  which included fried onions ????? regards Chipper
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    Raw food diet

    Excuse me Many thanks for your reply Her faeces are just normal and very firm, what has surprised me is just how little of it there is !. Many thanks for the info on the Honeys handbook I shall certainly look into it, and yes I did do my homework prior to her arrival, she is certainly thriving...
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    Raw food diet

    Whoops, i forgot to say that I add a little green minced tripe a couple of times a week ( is it really supposed to smell like that lol)
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    Raw food diet

    Thankyou Joanne I'm sure i have also read somewhere that onions or anything from the onion family ( leeks etc) can be potentially fatal to dogs, is that right ?.
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    Raw food diet

    Good morning all I have an 11 week old Lurcher pup and am slowly introducing her to a raw food diet, i try to vary her diet as much as possible so over a typical week I feed her 3 main meals a day plus either chicken wings/chicken necks. Would the following provide her with all the necessary...
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    Nervous puppy, best age to take ?

    Thankyou both for your replies I shall read up right now, regards
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    Nervous puppy, best age to take ?

    Hi Joanne yes I do carry her round the block in my arms, however she's such a wriggler and getting bigger and stronger that it's almost a wrestling match! What we have started doing , which she loves, is taking her in the car to the supermarket car park and park as close as possible to the...
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    Nervous puppy, best age to take ?

    Hi everyone  Just a quick update on our Lurcher puppy Molly (yes she's had a name change lol). She is now just over 9 weeks old and doing extremely well. As you're probably aware we did have a couple of initials concerns regarding what would be the best age to take her and also the fact that...
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    Nervous puppy, best age to take ?

    Thankyou very much, very informative and excellent advice.
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    Nervous puppy, best age to take ?

    Here's Bella  pics taken when we went to vew :)
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    Nervous puppy, best age to take ?

    Thank you all for your valuable advice, i agree with  everyone and it certainly makes sense to leave her with her mother and litter mates till she is 8 weeks old . Just to mention a couple of things : firstly it is the Dams first litter and she is a very gentle and approachable dog as most...
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    Nervous puppy, best age to take ?

    Hi Joanne  Thankyou for very much for the reply and your sound advice, it's very much appreciated. My apologies for not being a little clearer, yes I fully understand your point regarding quality rather than quantity and to not over face her with too many new situations , As I understand it...
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    Nervous puppy, best age to take ?

    Good morning all, first post so here goes. My wife and I have been to look at a litter of Lurcher puppies which are almost 5 weeks old, my wife immediately fell in love with one particular puppy ,however, my concern is that the puppy, although healthy, does seem to be quite nervous and shy , I...
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