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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 zooplus I have used Simpsons in the past for a puppy who arrived weaned on it and found it good

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

What a wonderfully supportive practice giving their new graduate vets 1h+ appointment slots! The industry standard is new grads being "allowed" 30mins vs the standard 15 or 20min slots given to their more experienced colleagues. Fantastic to hear of such sympathetic and nurturing mentorship with...

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

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 horses potentially for sale, apparently. It was ridiculous and much argued against at the time (I want to say the reduction was around 2014/5). If they have...

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 hooves and seem say it's sacrilege to black out white hooves). If you go for a double bridle with a Pelham, please use a Rugby pelham with a slip head For a good...

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 and then you'll be able to do Sportsman in future years anyway. I'd also get a wider noseband (Yes, really!)

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 horse and a bit tall for small hunter or small riding horse. I'd probably go for the LW Sportsman but do note they only take the first 20 entries so don't leave it...

There's usually some showing clinics in Spring with people like Joanne Quirke who will help you figure out the best dublin class for her and fine tune your turnout. Worth heading too if you can

Oral would be my choice (or Injectables) to reduce environmental contamination as much as possible

Tick borne diseases and lung worm can both be fatal