Re: dog with a mission

2003-07-15 Thread Dr. William B. Neff
Hunting in our back yard takes on a "group effort."Ben, the 6 1/2 year old German Shorthair, is so fast and he frequently will get a mouse, or a mole, or a groundhog, or a bunny. Both Winston before, and Nicky now, are always in on the chase, but are nowhere as quick and agile as Ben is, s

RE: dog with a mission

2003-07-15 Thread Rose Tierney
Hi Emma, Mature roundworms are easy to see if they are shed in the faeces but tapeworm can be difficult to spot. You might see tape segments that look like a grains of rice at the anus on in the fur near the anus other than that there is no long piece of "spagetti"! Advanced tape infestation can ma

Re: dog with a mission

2003-07-15 Thread Maria Crifasi
Then of course there was the famous cow tongue in the park with Hannibal > incident... > > Pat Long (& Luther) > with memories of the amazing Berner hunters > Berwyn PA thinking of all these wonderful hunting dog stories, I believe that Daisy never really hunted anything -- unless you count hum

RE: dog with a mission

2003-07-15 Thread Pat Long & Paul Dangel
This didn't make it to the List yesterday: Rose, Berners can catch those cheeky chipmunks! Maggie caught one! All right, so Luther chased it right at her and she sort of caught it by accident. But she was so pleased with herself! Then she got confused enough when I gave her my happiest "GOOD GIR

RE: dog with a mission

2003-07-14 Thread us
re: All you can do is keep working on your recall commands and "spit it" which is a term I use to get my dogs to leave their nylabones in the house when they try to take them outside where the lawnmower chomps them up! thanks Rose, we will keep doing this, she will come with her 'new toy' when call

RE: dog with a mission

2003-07-14 Thread Rose Tierney
Hi Emma, All you can do is keep working on your recall commands and "spit it" which is a term I use to get my dogs to leave their nylabones in the house when they try to take them outside where the lawnmower chomps them up! Mice are likely to have fleas hence a risk of tapeworm, birds are notoriou

Re: dog with a mission

2003-07-13 Thread Annes4
In a message dated 07/13/2003 3:08:29 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Also showing my ignorance here is it safe for her to eat the things she catches (we did not let her either time)? >> I would suggest NOT to allow her to eat her "catch" as wild things carry parasites