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There's an excellent book called 'Before and After getting your puppy' by Ian Dunbar, one of the sanest people in the dog behaviour world - it covers kind, humane (and essential) methods for addressing puppy biting, chewing and eliminating.... well worth the cost - Amazon has it, I just...

In the process of finding the right pup, the book 'Before and After getting your puppy,' by Ian Dunbar can be a life-saver - there are a couple of small niggles (saying 'good sit' after a dog sits has been shown to diminish the value of the cue - dogs truly don't understand adjectives or tense...

There will be good veterinary cardiologists (and radiologists) at both Glasgow and Edinburgh vet schools who will be able to evaluate the degree of enlargement and whether it's within normal limits for the breed or is bigger than it should be - and if there are other changes in the chest. but...

Thank you! Multiple coats it is... just as soon as my purse comes home (w00t) thanks, all Manda

Citycroft it is, then... I've just discovered that I"ve left my purse in the car (I hope) and the car's gone to Birmingham. Will sort it all out when the girls bring it back... sigh e

Hello This isn't strictly a whippet question - but I thought you'd all know the best answer ... My elderly lurcher is really feeling the cold now and tho' I've got a water proof coat for her, it's not very warm. So I wondered where sold the best (not expensive!) but very warm, dog coats...

Legally, 3 is a pack, as far as I remember.... the 'hunting with dogs' regulations defines it, I believe - but someone with more time than me (book deadline = end of year) can probably find it - may be obsolete by now m

Jan, you're completely right.... when this was discussed at enormous length in several posts in the 'showing' thread, I was shot down in flames for suggesting 10 and I had thought the consensus settled on 5 - but to be perfectly honest, I got tired of being accused of voodoo science and rather...

Welcome to the world of controversy. As someone once said, the world is divided into two types of people... those who think the world is divided into two types of people... and the rest... :D and this is no exception. From the veterinary side of this line, it's an exceptionally bad idea to...

Fantastic! where did you get them? (or are you going to put me to shame and say you made them?) m

Could be - that wasn't a criticism, more of a defense of those who might be accused of profiteering. single-handed people are often very good - they have to be 'cos there's no-one else to pass the buck to. :lol:

Can I say in defence of my colleagues (not something I rush at, but in this case I think it's justified)... removing one or two retained testicles can be anything from a minor incision in the inguinal area (groin) where the testicle has come out of the abdomen but not slid down into the...

It makes complete sense to me: A veterinary cardiologist is an exceptionally highly trained specialist. They know cardiac physiology and the potential pathology backwards. They have equipment and training that is second to none - truly - much of the training is done with human cardiologists -...

OK, I am entirely naive here, but under what law is data-gathering illegal? It's been done in a range of other breeds and species - I'm thinking of quarter horses and the HYPP gene which was identified in a particular line in the US - in fact traced back to a particular sire in which the...

That would certainly begin to collate data on incidence, frequency, morbidity and mortality rates (morbidity is numbers affected with any given pathology, mortality is numbers dying) it wouldn't, however, help at all in reducing the incidence - that would need the breeding. I may be being...

My apologies, I wasn't intending to say 'it's not good enough' - I am genuinely impressed at the things that are happening, just that I'd hate the whippet world to go the way of some other breeds where 'x tested clear' was taken as a suggestion that it was actually genetically clear rather than...

Maybe vets (referral centres as well as GPs) and the general public need to be involved too, to make it workable? without something like this, all testing becomes a shot in the dark - and a very expensive one at that if you have to test all stud dogs/bitches every year. m

Hummmm.. yes, you're right, AS isn't totally black and white - in that respect it's a bit more like hip dysplasia in that there are degrees of pathology and some may be below the radar. I also think the inheritance is complex and not a simple mendellian yes/no picture... if we're going to go...

That would be a briliant idea.... a breed database, with a questionnaire (possibly with a downloadable version in email form?) to all vets, breed clubs and dog magazines so that everybody and anybody who saw any kind of health issue could note it down and send it in. Sorting the hereditary from...

It does kind of... but ECG/Ultrasound will only tell you what's happening morphologically and electrically *now* - not what might happen next week or next month or next year. if the conditions you think you're looking for are 'all or nothing' - aortic stenosis, for instance, which shows up as a...