Author Topic: Introducing my dogs  (Read 24643 times)

grange

  • Joined Jun 2024
Re: Introducing my dogs
« Reply #15 on: July 02, 2024, 12:48:56 am »
beautiful dogs! never heard of shikoku inu before.


T.eddie

  • Joined Jun 2024
  • Essex
Re: Introducing my dogs
« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2024, 07:32:07 pm »
beautiful dogs! never heard of shikoku inu before.
Thank you, yeah they really are an uncommon dog

T.eddie

  • Joined Jun 2024
  • Essex
Re: Introducing my dogs
« Reply #17 on: July 30, 2024, 09:18:26 am »
Major altering a good morning taking a Muntjac off one of the farms, which was his first muntjac track as he has only ever worked roe so far.

He did really well, super proud of him


T.eddie

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Re: Introducing my dogs
« Reply #18 on: January 23, 2025, 05:22:54 pm »
It was a busy end to the year, with the arrival of these ( the 1st shikoku inu litter in the uk)

This was an accidental breeding between our dogs, Luna was due to be spayed and they told us she had come into season again so we brought her back home.  Our daughter (4yrs old) let Major out before I could get a nappy on Luna and the rest is history

That being said, if anyone is in the market for a new pup and wants something that is a primitive, unadulterated and rare breed, do reach out. These would be well suited to a small holding/farm setting

doganjo

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Re: Introducing my dogs
« Reply #19 on: January 26, 2025, 10:25:23 am »
Gosh she's young to have a litter and to be honest too young to be spayed.  I always recommend avoiding problems and neutering at 2 years. Her bones won't have joined up properly yet.  Her hormones won't have fully kicked in. And I know you'll know all that, but vets annoy me when they recommend early spaying

I can't criticise your wee one - I did the same as your 4 year old when I was eleven! and should have had more sense  :innocent:  At least they were normal breeds cocker/lab and easily found pet homes

I would have had a very tender BTM for a while - and can still remember my Dad's anger at 81 :-[ :'( :'( :'( and I've been paranoid about bitches in season ever since :roflanim:

How is Luna doing?  How many did she have?  I'm sure they'll make great working dogs from what I've read about them - possibly more than just farm dogs though. 

Have you contacted BASC or any of the other shooting or hawking associations?  Deerhounds aren't used for working much these days but they probably have similar attributes

Good luck finding appropriate homes for them
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T.eddie

  • Joined Jun 2024
  • Essex
Re: Introducing my dogs
« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2025, 07:16:13 pm »
Gosh she's young to have a litter and to be honest too young to be spayed.  I always recommend avoiding problems and neutering at 2 years. Her bones won't have joined up properly yet.  Her hormones won't have fully kicked in. And I know you'll know all that, but vets annoy me when they recommend early spaying

I can't criticise your wee one - I did the same as your 4 year old when I was eleven! and should have had more sense  :innocent:  At least they were normal breeds cocker/lab and easily found pet homes

I would have had a very tender BTM for a while - and can still remember my Dad's anger at 81 :-[ :'( :'( :'( and I've been paranoid about bitches in season ever since :roflanim:

How is Luna doing?  How many did she have?  I'm sure they'll make great working dogs from what I've read about them - possibly more than just farm dogs though. 

Have you contacted BASC or any of the other shooting or hawking associations?  Deerhounds aren't used for working much these days but they probably have similar attributes

Good luck finding appropriate homes for them

Thank you, she's doing really well, has taken to the maternal duties beautifully. She had 6 total, one stillborn which I tried to resuscitate for around 45mins. And one she bit the umbilical cord to close to the body, essentially allowing part of the gut to come out, vet said the only option would be surgery but the pup wouldn't survive so had to have that one put down. The other 4 are growing really well and all seem healthy, full of life and proper little characters.

Yeah the litter wasn't planned so I would think she was a bit young really as well, and as for the spaying, I was never really for it in the first place but my Mrs wanted to avoid puppies....didn't work out that way. Its a good shout re seeing if I can get basc to post an advert also. We have decided to keep one regardless and think we have a home for one more already, so that just leaves 2 to find a home.

They are fantastic working dogs, I think being on a farm would see them right having some decent land to roam a little. Any others I've met have never worked and as far as I can find Major is the only working one in the UK, though I would love to see this catch on and see others start working, especially if it's one of these pups

SallyintNorth

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Re: Introducing my dogs
« Reply #21 on: February 08, 2025, 09:49:36 am »

as for the spaying, I was never really for it in the first place but my Mrs wanted to avoid puppies....didn't work out that way.


Re: spaying, having had an unspayed bitch have repeated mammary tumours, some of them cancerous, cost me a ££££££ortune twice to have the cancerous ones removed (not to mention the worry), she then got a secondary tumour in her elbow and I chose to not amputate at her age so medicated for pain until it wasn't keeping her comfortable...   :'(  I would never ever keep a bitch unspayed again.  (Oh and she also had pyometra, so another op for that, and it did make her proper poorly, took her a while to get over that one.) 

Check with the vet, there is an age by which you need to get them spayed to reduce the likelihood of mammary tumours. 
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T.eddie

  • Joined Jun 2024
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Re: Introducing my dogs
« Reply #22 on: February 08, 2025, 07:58:04 pm »

as for the spaying, I was never really for it in the first place but my Mrs wanted to avoid puppies....didn't work out that way.


Re: spaying, having had an unspayed bitch have repeated mammary tumours, some of them cancerous, cost me a ££££££ortune twice to have the cancerous ones removed (not to mention the worry), she then got a secondary tumour in her elbow and I chose to not amputate at her age so medicated for pain until it wasn't keeping her comfortable...   :'(  I would never ever keep a bitch unspayed again.  (Oh and she also had pyometra, so another op for that, and it did make her proper poorly, took her a while to get over that one.) 

Check with the vet, there is an age by which you need to get them spayed to reduce the likelihood of mammary tumours.

That is the only thing that makes me consider it, we had our jack Russell spayed for preventative reasonings. There seems to be some conflicting info being circulated now though where some vets are saying there is no health reasons to do or not. Luna will be spayed regardless but it is odd how the narrative seems to be changing at the moment.

We also had our first interested party look at the pups today, our littlest girl has been chosen and seems like a very nice person so quite happy about that

SallyintNorth

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Re: Introducing my dogs
« Reply #23 on: February 09, 2025, 10:56:15 am »

We also had our first interested party look at the pups today, our littlest girl has been chosen and seems like a very nice person so quite happy about that

That's great news  :excited:.  Best of luck finding equally good homes for them all.  :fc:
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

T.eddie

  • Joined Jun 2024
  • Essex
Re: Introducing my dogs
« Reply #24 on: February 09, 2025, 05:08:39 pm »

We also had our first interested party look at the pups today, our littlest girl has been chosen and seems like a very nice person so quite happy about that

That's great news  :excited:.  Best of luck finding equally good homes for them all.  :fc:

Thank you

 

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