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Clodagh said:
Great photo. At least it will have pulled the birds into cover. 😃.
My day not so good, Pen has another barbed wire wound and 6 stitches. She’s very sad. When Pen is very sad she’s very, very sad.
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Hope she heals up quickly. I hate the stuff
 
It’s bad enough in fences, but why when those fences fall down do people just leave it on the ground, chuck it in the hedge or half bury it. I was picking up in a field of horses, with very fussy (fair enough) owners who are selective who can go in with them. So if they are fussy why is there a strand of barbed wire looping like Nessy all along the stream edge. 🤷‍♀️
 
Back at the vets again… Scout this time. Barbed wire again, just inside the top of his foreleg. I have no idea where or when he did it, mine don’t jump fences unless I’m there and say over so I imagine it was a loose bit in a hedge again.
They’ve been working since September and have sailed through with barely a lame step… I’m out nearly every day from now until 1st Feb and I’m down to two.
Poor Nobbins, on the plus side I came on my way home and hopefully they can just staple it.
 
Clodagh said:
Back at the vets again… Scout this time. Barbed wire again, just inside the top of his foreleg. I have no idea where or when he did it, mine don’t jump fences unless I’m there and say over so I imagine it was a loose bit in a hedge again.
They’ve been working since September and have sailed through with barely a lame step… I’m out nearly every day from now until 1st Feb and I’m down to two.
Poor Nobbins, on the plus side I came on my way home and hopefully they can just staple it.
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How annoying it's loose in the hedge!

Hope they are all healed soon
 
Actually I think I have to apologise to the imaginary farmer. It looks more like he ran into a snapped off branch, as once clipped there’s a scrape line down to the wound then below it. 10 staples. He was a brave soldier and didn’t even need sedation 😍
 
She has packed them in, but yes it’s a nasty one. I was lucky it didn’t penetrate too badly, it’s ‘just’ an L shaped tear.
The snow was just exactly the wrong consistency today, not much of it but horrible. Ffee seems fine now but I’ve cancelled tomorrow.
Some people never get any cuts… I’m just so unlucky.
 
Clodagh said:
She has packed them in, but yes it’s a nasty one. I was lucky it didn’t penetrate too badly, it’s ‘just’ an L shaped tear.
The snow was just exactly the wrong consistency today, not much of it but horrible. Ffee seems fine now but I’ve cancelled tomorrow.
Some people never get any cuts… I’m just so unlucky.
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I really hate the snow with a frozen crust, which little spindly legs break through.
 
Skaer is sporting some abrasions from the frozen/iced snow too. Also had the joy of taking a 2mm thorn out of another one's cornea after working...bet his owner is wishing he had used the Rex Specs he bought to stop this happening again....!!
 
druid said:
Skaer is sporting some abrasions from the frozen/iced snow too. Also had the joy of taking a 2mm thorn out of another one's cornea after working...bet his owner is wishing he had used the Rex Specs he bought to stop this happening again....!!
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They seem to be gaining in popularity. Have you tried them on yours?
Will the eye recover ok?
 
Clodagh said:
They seem to be gaining in popularity. Have you tried them on yours?
Will the eye recover ok?
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Never needed them but Archer has a permanently dilated pupil from a previous trauma involving running into a stick (he basically had bleeding within his eyeball and nerve damage happened) and we aren't convinced his eyesight is 100% in that eye now. He also hits cover hard still. Thorn was in the same eye almost a year to the day since the original injury... So he should have been wearing his Rex Specs and avoided the repeat injury

Yes, eye will be fine in about 7-10 days.
 
Picking up postponed today, so went out to do some training instead

Rafi is coming on pretty well, just need to work more on handling at a distance, but overall happy as I've not done much training recently

Zazu sometimes doesn't want to come back to me if he's been hunting, only empty mouthed, he is straight back if he's picked. Tried to do some work on this but any ideas welcome!
 
BallyRoanBaubles said:
Zazu sometimes doesn't want to come back to me if he's been hunting, only empty mouthed, he is straight back if he's picked. Tried to do some work on this but any ideas welcome!
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I have the same trouble with Scout. I have resorted to hoping he grows out of it. (Not really but it’s an ongoing battle sometimes).
 
Scout wore a shirt of mine to bed last night as he was trying to lick his staples. He managed to wiggle out of it overnight (but thankfully didn’t then swallow it!).
I accept I may have to put a cone on but any other suggestions? I asked at the vets about a bodysuit but it will sit on the wound. I need a child’s sized T shirt I think but they are in short supply around here.
 
BallyRoanBaubles said:
Zazu is 5 this year id hoped he'd be grown up 🤣

I have booked some 121s with the gundog trainer after the shooting season
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I have 121’s with Steve Kimberley. He is though like the mechanic you call out and your car immediately starts. Scout just immediately becomes FTCh standard. I toddle smugly off to real life and it all goes to pot.
What is it they say in the army ‘no plan survives the first shot fired’… that’s my life some days 😄
 
Hosted our annual HPR trial yesterday - nice to see it won by a GLP with a GLP also taking Gun's Choice. There was also a lovely little show bred Weim doing her FT qualifying cert (equivalent of the SWGC) who put the FT dogs to shame with her enthusiasm for her water retrieve in subzero snow melt!
 
druid said:
Hosted our annual HPR trial yesterday - nice to see it won by a GLP with a GLP also taking Gun's Choice. There was also a lovely little show bred Weim doing her FT qualifying cert (equivalent of the SWGC) who put the FT dogs to shame with her enthusiasm for her water retrieve in subzero snow melt!
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Ahhhh fabulous!! Go team GLP 😊❤️

Glad it went well!!
 
We spent this past weekend in our favourite place in the world, the North Yorkshire Moors 😊

Lovely walked up day over the pointers with friends on Saturday - Ivy HPR’ing her socks off, Erik watching and learning from the sidelines- with the odd retrieve thrown in.

Then Sunday we went back out again with a very kind, very knowledgeable friend helping me and Erik find our hunting and Grouse pointing feet.

Erik has always been very driven by game but Sunday proved just how far we’ve come as he was parking his bum as birds were lifting (before I had a chance to blow the stop whistle), not a hint of a chase in sight ❤️ 6 months ago that would have been impossible. Hopefully with time we’ll be the same with the the furry 4 legged things 😂 slowly slowly!

Erik the blurrrrrr 😂
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Erik on the left, Ivy on the right
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That’s our season over, a week too soon as Erik has managed to do a number on one of his pads. Flinty Norfolk fields were our downfall poor lad!

We did end it on a great couple of days though. Friday T was shooting on an incredibly sporting (windy!!! 😂) .410 driven day

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Then yesterday we were picking up on a new shoot to us, a lovely friendly old school farm shoot. It’s always fab to get a chance to show new people what a GLP is and a bit of what they can do 😊 hopefully we didn’t disgrace ourselves too much 😁. Ivy is the pro, Erik and I came along to watch and learn but he earnt his dinner too, love him to bits.

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