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    Watching And Waiting On A Racing Doggie

    in Everything else Greyhound

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    Hopefully she takes to Wheeling better than she did Southland. I'm sure she looked good at the farm getting finished for them to send her to SL right away, but sometimes a dog doesn't take to a track surface and other times they guessed the wrong track to send her to because the competition is to tough.

    She didn't like the deep track. In her races that I watched she tried. Never gave up.

    Dehydrated Veggies From Frozen?

    in Food and dietary discussion

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    Both my dogs are healthy and fed a variety of Orajen. No food issues, but I do add frozen veggies to some of their meals, other times they get a sprinkling of the dehydrated carrots. I use turnip greens, spinach, Italian mix with carrots, Italian green beans, zucchini, lima beans& cauliflower, also California mix with broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and something else I don't remember. Also just lima beans, which Grace loves. As occasional snacks they get whole frozen Brussel sprouts. Summer and zucchini squash too.

     

    If I do dehydrating I'd add sweet potatoes too.

     

    Traveling throws a kink into the plan.

     

    Can you use frozen veggies to dehydrate? While still frozen or should they be defrosted first? Then tossed into a food processor.

    Watching And Waiting On A Racing Doggie

    in Everything else Greyhound

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    I didn't know you'd named her! Great name.

    Yeah, halise and Martha met me for breakfast one morning and said they had the perfect name for a Billy dog.. Billy Sr tend to use short phonetic names.

     

    Arctic vortex, spelling it 'R-tic Vortex'

     

    An auction had just come up with 3 pups available for naming. Two fawns, i think and a white with a black spot. I had an early bid in on a fawn, but shifted over to the white dog due to the name. Gave Steve three names artic vortex, polar vortex and I do not recall the third. He picked his choice and put it into the nga.

    Watching And Waiting On A Racing Doggie

    in Everything else Greyhound

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    I'm not trying to bring anybody new home, already got suckered into brought home a spooky racing school dropout whom we love dearly, and 2 is our limit right now. BUT I watch a little tidbit of a distance girl at Palm Beach, name of Horse Chips. Tiny, black, great name, distance runner ... doesn't get any better!

     

    Also noticed that Devious Speed's first baby to race, Polar Vortex, just won her maiden at Southland. Will be watching her too!

     

    I won the rights to name a puppy and she is Polar Vortex!

     

    It was a combined effort with friends Martha and Halise.

     

    She finally won her maiden the other night!

    Watching And Waiting On A Racing Doggie

    in Everything else Greyhound

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    I watched a dog for his many years of racing but never knew if I would be able to bring him home as someone else wanted him, the kennel owners wife. SO i knew I was down on the list as a future home.

     

    But anyway, i started watching him as he had a roman nose, but i had never seen it, those track muzzles hide that wonderful aspect.

     

    I watched what would be his last two races, he was up and down the grades, and tracks and distances, But his second to last race he won, 660, grade C at Derby Lane, next race was a 660, B. He pulled up in the last turn, finished OOP.

     

    Next day I got the word, hed torn a hind muscle, did i want to drive to Abilene to get him? um, no, done the drive a few times, 25+ hours. He got his free ride back to his home kennel, Flying Eagle. After nationals he caught a ride on a hauler going to wheeling, i drove from GiG. Midnight meeting in a motel parking lot in Ohio!

     

    And he came home with me.

     

    Flying Han Solo

     

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    Thank you Shelley Lake for letting me know about him and following along with his career.

    How Your Dog Ran At The Track

    in Everything else Greyhound

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    flying han solo ran 132 races between Derby Lane, Southland, Naples and Flagler all very good to great tracks. He was a dog that early in his career was a poor breaker, but it didn't matter because he could win from 4th or 5th at the turn. He ran top grade at whatever track he was at and moved back and forth between 5/16th and 3/8th races. As he got a little older he learned to break better and was many times in the top 3 to the turn.

     

    He was a real nice racer at our best tracks.

    flying han solo ran 132 races between Derby Lane, Southland, Naples and Flagler all very good to great tracks. He was a dog that early in his career was a poor breaker, but it didn't matter because he could win from 4th or 5th at the turn. He ran top grade at whatever track he was at and moved back and forth between 5/16th and 3/8th races. As he got a little older he learned to break better and was many times in the top 3 to the turn. He was a real nice racer at our best tracks.

    Thank you, he did have some good races and he liked the 660. He retired the 7/8 of April and now is here with me.

     

    Thank you.

    Strange Incident For Magic

    in Health and Medical discussion

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    One of mine had these. I called them dumb seizures. they'd forget how to do the simplest things.

     

    We figured them to be bouts of Hypoglycemia. We would give high cal/sugar snack.

    Like honey or mashed potaoes and gravy. The honey worked the quickest.

     

    She lived to 15 so they really had little impact on her life.

     

    Having also had a real seizure dog, i too belive that seizures and sleep cycles are related. Most of his seizures where in the middle of the night.

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