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Growing up nicely. Pointing, retrieving cold game and practicing for Crufts.

£72 a bag is rather steep, is the breeder discount decent? There's lots of options in the realm of similar ingredients cheaper on...

Longer appointments for new grads have been shown to provide a better standard of medicine, as has good mentorship by colleagues.

Ignoring the colour for a minute, if that one puppy in particular doesn't have a malocclusion I'll eat my hat. That practice wants to...

I'm always relieved when I look it up and it's not one of 'mine' 😅 One month to go and I never have to look at a practice page again...

What a wonderfully supportive practice giving their new graduate vets 1h+ appointment slots! The industry standard is new grads being...

Some countries like Sweden have such strict ownership rules that they effectively have little to no stray/rescue dogs available "in house"

Just done my entry! Off to ring craft tonight 😄

You might well get a run from there - I've seen retriever trials get down to the reserves in the 40s!!

Great, it was an upper limit of 10yo at one point and then it was reduced to 8yo as the classes were supposed to be a showcase of Irish...

As I said it's personal preference but I turned out many winners at Dublin over the years.

It's been a few years since I entered hopefully they updated the rules as the 8yo cut off was ridiculous!

ETA: Shorter tail (about 4" below the hocks when carried), Absorbine black on hooves (that's a preference one, some prefer all black...

Measure and see if you could be a genuine 158cm without shoes. If not, I'd have one crack at the LW Mares as it's her last year eligible...

Is she actually 16hh with shoes off and trimmed feet? 16hh puts you in annoying no mans land of being a bit small for hunters/riding...