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See the Secret Santa forum for details.
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I'm going to ask for pictures until 22 October. Then I'll start going through and selecting images so I can get this thing ready in early November for ordering.
SO PLEASE POST PICTURES.
Go take pictures to post.
I was using several images per month last year and would like to have enough good photos to pick from. I really want to see at least 2 pages full of images to make my decisions difficult.
I've seen some very nice photos posted on GT during the year - add those to the threads where they fit!
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I have never had an issue not bringing water from home when on the road. If it is a day on the road, their water to go with them for stop is from where we stayed the night before, or whatever is left in my ice water from our stops.
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Ok, all months are now posted. I'd like to have the images for the months selected toward the end of October so I can start cleaning them up and getting them into the calendar.
If people are still interested, we can figure out a donation thing for putting an image of your choice on specific dates (first come basis, and a limited number of days to be pictured in the month). We'll work on that in a bit if there is interest.
Please, if you haven't already, submit an image for each month that you can. The more choices I have, the better the end result will be. Please, only ONE image per month. If you submit more, I'm not going to bother looking at that post. If you changed your mind, report your post and ask us to delete it so you can post again with ONE image (or a new image to replace the old one).
I'll try to only use ONE image per person, so if I use one of mine in July or something, I will really try not to use another of my images in the calendar (unless I stick it in a date). So it is to your advantage to post an image for as many months as you can. Last year's calendar came out very nice and hopefully we can repeat that this year.
So, go through your pics and post them. Or take some and post those. ONE image per month - make it fit the theme.
Now - go to the calendar forum and start posting!
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We don't allow members to register with a free email, so you will get an error saying it is in use (it used to say it wasn't allowed). If you want your email changed to a freemail, submit a ticket
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However, another thing I noticed, all the threads are marked as read, I know I have no life, but there is no way, so this makes it harder to tell if there is something new in a thread I've been following, just reporting it, not bitching
Oh, I use Firefox, if that helps....All threads will be marked as read if you use the mark forum read within a forum and all threads in all forums will be marked as read if you use the mark forum as read on the main page. That's normal. I've not noticed anything different than that since the update.
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You can still use the double click... just double click on "back to top"
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Standing between your dog and a threatening dog doesn't always work.
Jet was repeatedly attacked by a lab down the street in Salem. It was off leash. She was not. Any time it saw her, it would go after her, including jumping off 10'+ cliffs to get to her and leaping over other dogs and people in the way. As a result, she developed a fear aggression with lab shaped/sized dogs that she didn't already know. Took many years to work through it and oddly enough, it was all the friggen dogs running up to her in Kodiak on our walks that she finally relaxed about it. But she was always still happy to go out for a walk, even if she saw other dogs. So I don't have advice to getting her on walks if she refuses.
Might be worth finding a place that doesn't have other dogs, even if it means a drive to go for a walk, and go that route for a bit to get her relaxed and then start working with adding more dogs along the walk to meet - controlled situations at first if you can arrange it.
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Our condolences to you and Kevin.
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I called a couple of local shelters and they couldn't use Ryan's meds and suggested I just give them back to the vet.
So they were in my car when I happened to pass the county shelter and I stopped. Brought in a bag of food I had in the car and the meds and asked if they would be able to use them, if not, they'd go to my vet on my way home. She checked and they were able to use them.
Otherwise my vet could have give them to somebody that was having $$ but their dog needed meds.
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If you need both hands, use a short leash.
If you need both hands, use a short leash.
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Jet loves coconut oil.
And Jet doesn't love much
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Call your vet this morning and see if they want you to bring her in. They may not want to see her. Write down info and if she has another, then bring her in.
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went with the normal tick removal with tweezers and instead of killing it, offered it to the ducks. Ally enjoyed her first tick
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never did find a little thing to remove them with.
So minus the tick remover tool, what is the best way to remove an embedded tick.
Just noticed one in the fold of T's ear.
Plucked one off from Jet earlier today that decided to just walk over her.
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Tuna
in Remembrance
I'm so sorry
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I recently dog sat for a greyhound that the owners had spent thousands of dollars on to try to find out why the dog was limping. Turns out, the dog had corns. This was a first time greyhound owner. How were they suppose to know?
Tavarish has a corn. Was I supposed to take him to a grey savvy vet to have that diagnosed?
There are more important things to me in a vet than if they know greyhounds inside and out.
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yes - GT is online, so your images in your gallery are online. You need to get the image info, not the page info.
I think Jeff updated that in the supporter forum when we upgraded last time (maybe - maybe he didn't...
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Jet wasn't interested in the dog door when I first had one. She didn't like it touching her back (still doesn't). She'd learn to tuck her head under Ryan's butt and follow him out, but she liked to hang out in the yard longer than he did, so she didn't normally follow him back in the same way.
One day, about 2 weeks of me still having to open the flap for her I walked away leaving her on the other side of the door. Went to the front door and picked up Ryan's leash and jingled it and said "Ry and I are going for a walk." 2 seconds later Jet's behind was sitting next to me waiting for her leash. She still doesn't like it, but since then, she'll use it anyway.
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Are you feeding the kibble plain and dry or adding water? Do you know if the group did dry or water?
I personally wouldn't be adding all sorts of stuff trying to get her to eat. I'd add some water and that's about it. And offer her a few treats during the day so she could get something in her belly.
Most likely just new home stress, but if she skips all meals a day for a couple of days, get her to the vet sooner for that first vet visit instead of waiting until she's settled in to bring her to the that first vet visit.
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Don't they have some soft food in pouches that you can just tear the top off and be done?
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How often is going to depend on the dog.
Jet I think had a dental before she was adopted before she turned 2. Not really sure if she did or not. She's now 11 and her teeth are fine with the occasional rawhide or marrow bone. Hasn't needed a dental.
Ryan I don't think had a dental when he was adopted, but again, I'm not sure. He would have been 11 next week and while in Kodiak, his teeth got kind of nasty, but I would NOT let the vet there do a dental (they didn't think he needed one anyway) and once we got down here, his teeth got better on their own.
So neither of mine had needed dentals after adoption and Jet has been with me 9+ years and Ryan was with me for just over 8 years.
I think it was the water in Kodiak as both J&Rs teeth got nasty up there.
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But what would your dogs do, if given a choice?
Sit by the door at a fast food joint looking for hand outs of whatever
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There is absolutely no ethical distinction whatsoever between someone taking a cow's life and someone taking your dog's life. The only difference is that the cow is a stranger to you, and your dog is not - you love him or her very much.
But these cows - these numbers with a pierced tag in their ears - are all individuals. We just choose to ignore that fact.
Sure there is. My greys were bred and raised for a purpose, just like those dairy cows. When they were done with their first purpose, their second was to live life as a pet. Distinction - both bred for a purpose, but only the cow was bred to be dinner for somebody/something.
How many cows do you know are just bred as pets? Very few. Dogs are around typically as pets, some with a working purpose. If we were a society where dogs were bred for food instead of pets, well, things would probably be a bit different.
Some people choose to ignore that fact, but not everybody. I eat beef now and then. I am aware of what happened to that cow before it showed up in my refrigerator/grill/plate/belly. I know the chicken in my freezer didn't lead the happiest life around. Just because I don't choose to NOT eat them doesn't mean I ignore that they are "individuals"
As for Xan feeding her dogs a vegan diet. If she can make it work and her dogs do as well as they were before, more power to her. I don't agree with it and it isn't something I'd personally choose, but I know that if it doesn't work for any of her dogs, she'll change to something that will.
Oh, I use Firefox, if that helps....
Kibbel&bits
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You won't find many (any?) that will suggest either Ol'Roy or Kibbles & Bits.
But, feed what you can afford and what works for your dog. Not everybody can afford to feed a higher end food. Not every dog does well on a higher end food.
The best food for your dog is what you can afford and what they do well on. It may not be what is best for the next person.
As to how much. I have a 12 year old 47 pound greyhound who eats, well, this week she's eating 2.5+ cups a day and other weeks she only eats 2 cups a day. That's a higher quality food and a higher calorie food for active dogs.
Tavarish, the 80 pound go go go go doberman eats 2.5 cups of the same food a day.
I'd expect a greyhound to be eating more than a cup a day.