My Clever Boy!!!

I've been working Tobin with his cart getting polished up for the Draft test at the Nat'l. I know one is supposed to take baby steps when introducing a dog to carting, but today I put Tobin's Siwash harness on Briggand, his 1yr son, hitched him up to Tobin's cart. He took a few steps, panicked a

Re: reverse sneezing-late response, but a good one.

A late response to Jean's post about 'reverse sneezing': My old Lab, Babe Am Eskimo, Klondike go into reverse sneezing fits when there are a lot of allergens in the air (spring blossoms, etc). I give them all the dogs 1 teasp of kelp with dessicated liver sprinkled over their food each morning

1st Birthdays!

Today is the first birthday of our first Berner litter---CH Windraider's Black Oak v Bevs Tobin x Windraider's Manjula v Bev's Jul. All the pups and their families are having birthday celebrations today. We're very proud of these pups--all sweet, pretty/handsome, smart, gregarious pups with

Re: Removing ticks

Rose T. wrote about a local remedy in Guyana to remove ticks--to soak a cotton pad with Gordon's Gin and press gently over the tick, the booze anaethetises the tick and they let go:-) Wouldn't that be contributing to the delinquency of a minor--tick?:-D Kathy

Re: Removing ticks

I used to 'unscrew' ticks---must be turned counterclockwise with slight pulling pressure. That way you get the head out. Any more with big wiggly black dogs, I just grab the tick yank it off. Usually the head comes out with the tick, but if not, when the scab forms, the tick's head will come off

Re: Overhead Trollies

One of my Flat Coat puppy owners (had two dogs from me) moved to a place in the country in ME no fences or dog runs were allowed. He set up a o/h trolly system for his two dogs. The younger pulled out of his buckle collar was gone for several hours. When Duncan found Parker, a neighbor had

6-18mo Berner female pet

I have been contacted by a family who is looking for a Berner girl 6mo-18mo old for a family pet. She will be spayed if she isn't already. The family has 5yr old twins (b/g), has a lot of acerage, horses, mother is home all day. If you know of a possiblity for this family, please let me know I

Re: Nails. Is wear a sign of use?

When I'm picking puppies, even nail wear (front back feet) is definitely one thing I look for. If a dog's front nails are worn down, but the back nails long, it indicates to me that the dog does not have good drive is doing more 'pulling' with his front legs. If his rear is worn down, but not

Re: Papers for flying

Be sure to ask if the cargo bay is pressurized (w/air heat) if the pup has to fly down there. I got one idiot who booked a flight to WI for the Nat'l for Tobin I. The next day, I called back to get one more question answered, got a different guy found out the previous guy didn't have a

A way to protect against viruses

Many people forward jokes, etc leave on all the addresses of other people who have received the fwd email. When a person who has a virus in their computer receives such an email with all those email addresses (sometimes forwarded 4-6 times you have to click, click, click to get to the one that

Long Beach shows - Dec

Does anyone have any idea whether the 3 shows at the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, Calif Dec 13, 14 15 will be majors in Berners? Lookin' for majors for Jul! Kathy Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windraider Kennels California www.windraiderkennels.com Bernese Mtn Dogs - Int Am BIS Can CH

Grapes Raisins--warning!!

I heard on the radio the other day (pet show) not to give dogs grapes raisins.at least for right now. For some unknown reason, they are toxic to dogs several have died. The ASPCA has given out this warning, but no one knows why they are presently toxic. Tests have been done of grapes both

Re: Advice on Low Protein Diet for Burner

Recently I changed to Avo-Derm Adult Lamb Rice kibble. It has min. 20% protein. The dogs LOVE it even Tobin, who has been thee king of picky, chomps it right down. Usually he chews one or two kibbles at a time takes forever to finish eating, but now, he eagerly awaits his bowl gets right

Re: Dog Tag Silencers

Eileen wrote: I have seen where one can purchase the rubber silencers for dog tags (similar to the one used in the military). Cheaper yet, I use transparent tape to tape the rabies license id tag back to back so they can easily be read. There's no noise that way. We've got 9

Biggie Briggs--2pts!

A week late (I've been buried around here!), but just wanted to share a little brag about our 6mo male puppy we bred out of our Tobin Jul (Ch Windraider's Black Oak v Bevs Windraider's Manjula v Bev's). His name is Windraider's Seven Seas Briggand (called Briggand, Briggs, Biggie Briggs). At