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    How to help dog get out of comfort zone?

    Watching with interest I have a small working cocker Ho is the same with agility , one day happy confident super star! Another day quivering in the hedge bottom impossible to bring her back round :-( Sensitive souls these cockers, see yours is a bitch too um....
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    Protective boots which ones ?

    Thank you hadn't thought about the nettles , makes sense as had same problem last year avoided the fields I thought were causing it , we've moved since so different walking
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    Protective boots which ones ?

    My small w cocker went on a walk last night including some farmers fields to get home have a shower ( she was filthy :-) ) after 5-10 mins she started furiously scrapping / rubbing her feet on the carpets then chewing at them wimpering :-( I washed them again and put Vaseline on them but this...
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    Saddles for Welsh D's

    You could also try silhouette fits my d a treat I had 5 saddles in 2 years before this which I've now had 10 years still looks fab too ! Based in Walsall google them both fitters amazing slight adjustment made on site ( yard) and really reasonable in price I paid £450 and actually don't think...
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    Uveitis

    My Welsh A had uveitis 5 years ago took for ever to diagnose ( id kept saying it her eyes she's in pain!) 10 days hospital home and stabled think was for 2 weeks with drip thing through eyelid I had to give her drops every 4 hours ( including through the night) for 5 days slowly weaned off 1 st...
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    Magnesium for dogs ??

    Got has flashed through my mind briefly ,but soon pushed away . What would make you think this? The personality changes?
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    Magnesium for dogs ??

    She's at the vet most months :-( off there again tomorrow has small lump reappeared on her neck was nothing serious last time but had completely heeled now new scab has formed :-/ She's the most expensive ( vet bills) pup ive ever owned :-0 ate a sock, couple grass seeds , sore throat, infected...
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    Magnesium for dogs ??

    Yes started at about a year old ( foundation stuff ) she is actually very talented on a good day :-/ other days she will just try to hide and tremble :'-( Has been out competing again some times she's fab other times just runs round like a looney, but happy :-) or get in I realease her she shuts...
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    Magnesium for dogs ??

    Not an only dog I have 2 others , 10 year old( Young at heart) cocker dog Buster and 8 year old Cairn bitch but the girls DO NOT get on :-( sadly when young dog Whispa had season at 5 months she attacked cairn Lilly , this happened couple of times so kept separate till spayed and recovered fully...
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    Magnesium for dogs ??

    Wondering if anyone has tried magnesium for a stressy/ worried dog ? My little working cocker is a strange one she's lovely nature but seems so worried about life :-( I was hoping to do agility with her as my other Cocker ( show) is now 10. But she seems to find it a chore and shuts down , in...
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    Canine Hydrotherapy Benefits

    Done possibly be good to have a comments section ? My 2 spaniels do agility my now 10 year old ( show type) started hydro at 6 to keep him supple and fit and to protect his joints he's still competing and wining veteran classes often ask how old he is ,do I know he has to over 7 to be a veteran...
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    Older dog multi vitamin

    I'll have a look at tesco ones guessing the ingredients are on par with some of the others ? Twiggy 2 suggestion very good we have tried this before he will walk in wag take treat off floor but he knows when they want to actually look at him and turns into devil dog :-/ He looks very well in...
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    Older dog multi vitamin

    Hi thank you for your reply, that wasn't something that even entered my head so I'll speak with vet this evening . I appreciate what your saying re vet aggression, but he was a rescue/ second hand ;-) and has always been the same he just gets so totally stressed out so even muzzled to make him...
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    Older dog multi vitamin

    Hi I'm after some recommendations please, my nearly 10 year old cocker has recently started eating soil, the darker the better. I've briefly spoken to vet , he is very vet aggressive so can't really take him in :-(, she advised perhaps try a multi vitamin in the 1st instance So can anyone...
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    Saddler Fitters

    Have you thought of a shilouette ? Saddle it's what I got after 5 non fitting saddles for my Welsh D lovely saddles and reasonable price I paid £475 brand new and fitted about 4 years ago never had a problem i I used a lady called Nikki from Mayhill Saddlery from Derbyshire , quite difficult to...
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