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CorvusCorax

CorvusCorax

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God, I feel like I am spamming the board these days so I will try to shut up for a while after this!!!
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B had his check up with the vet today, all went very well, won't bore you will all the details, but he is well, vet is pleased, we are armed for the future and the wallet is lighter
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I was sooo happy with the rest of our day - I took him for a big two hour walk along the riverside on the outskirts of Belfast and he was good as gold. Even a year ago this would have been a major military operation and would have brought me out in a cold sweat...but he was so calm and happy, there were tonnes of people, bikes, joggers, dogs, and he was brilliant.
A greyhound and a JRT both mouthed off at him and he had a look and a prance and that was it.
He walked to heel and moved in when asked as bikers and joggers passed and they thanked us.

Two people even stopped me to ask about him, if he was a special breed, his name etc (I said he was indeed 'special'
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So just a self-indulgent happy post about my gorgeous boy, who didn't do too badly for a Country Bumpkin in the Big Bad City
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Some pics

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At the vets - stressed out, NOT!
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And over my shoulder on the way home - I wasn't driving, obviously!!!
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Only one thing did annoy me, when we were in the waiting room, a man was paying ££££££ for an op on his GSD bitch and another vet was telling him how 'all GSDs go lame in the back end eventually' - EH? All of them? - this is the same one who got me all paranoid about B's hips, when in fact he ended up having a super set of x-rays, he just didn't like her hauling his legs about
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I know it is none of my business, but it made me really cross and I felt like saying something!!!
Pretty funny thing for an experienced vet to say, especially as her colleague has been x-raying and treating sheps for years, he is sought after by a lot of people.

Massive cup of tea if you got this far
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Glad his trip to the vets went well, he certainly doesn't looked too bothered by it.

Love the first picture especially, such an intelligent look.

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He really is a star now isn't he
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Its surprising how many vets still see a lame shep and immediately diagnose HD
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, and also imagine any back end problem with an older dog is CDRM. One new vet at our practice did suggest Buffy had it when he saw her as I mentioned she wasn't very good on her back end, but I soon put him right and pointed in the direction of her notes on the computer and x rays of her spine.
 
Ahh we love ur spam! (esp when it come with piccies! hehe)

He is so handsome!
he looks just like beau at the vets.......... obviously stressed as hell!
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The vet might have been trying to just majke the client feel better, but not a good thing to say in public I do agree (esp the waiting room!)

glad all is ok with him!
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Thankyou everyone
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He may get a rest tomorrow - I was wearing unsuitable shoes on our walk and my feet are killing me tonight - chasey games in the field with his sister will have to do
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He likes the petite types!

Kittie he is a shortcoat in the eyes of the breed standard, but what the Americans would call 'plush' - his hair is thick and wavy! The vet can't get over how thick it is. His sister has a tighter coat but still very thick, she is like a little bear - I think it comes from living up a mountain
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True longcoats normally have a lot of feather on the ears and elbows/thighs and routinely have no undercoat. You can throw a bucket of water over B and he will be dry as a bone underneath, he is a bugger to shampoo, and apparently I have to do it once or twice a week, forever
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Oh, he would love that, he proffers his back up for a select few to scratch
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Yes, all ''correct' shortcoat GSDs should have an undercoat, most longcoats do not (which is why it is considered a 'fault')and that is why, although they are *always* beautiful (I have never met an ugly or bad tempered one) I could not have one - they can get soaked through.

I know you would like a black and gold but all the sables we have had, have tended to have thicker, wavier coats, for some reason, even before we lived here.
 
I'm glad you added the "correct" coat bit there CC, thught I wsa going to have to rap your knuckles for calling your lad a short coat
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. My kids were desperate for a LC when we had Evie, had there been one in the litter I think we might have succumbed, although not sure how I would have felt about having a litter from one.
I too have found that sables tend to have a really thick coat, although the down side is they do moult year round when they live in the house.
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