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I have only met GWPs that are owned by forestry deer managers/stalkers. They are incredibly driven, focussed solely on the task in hand. Absolute machines.
I have only met GWPs that are owned by forestry deer managers/stalkers. They are incredibly driven, focussed solely on the task in hand. Absolute machines.
Precision designed by the same people who brought you Porsche, Audi etc. The flipside is that they're also sweet, sensitive, goofy and devoted to their people.
I have only met GWPs that are owned by forestry deer managers/stalkers. They are incredibly driven, focussed solely on the task in hand. Absolute machines.
Precision designed by the same people who brought you Porsche, Audi etc. The flipside is that they're also sweet, sensitive, goofy and devoted to their people.
And have no indicators
And have no indicators
To be fair, they do come with loud, though slightly random, hazard-alert siren, plus a twin, front-end only directional pointing indicator device for hunting use. But yes, they do frequently change direction without advance notification when the onboard computer is stuck in 'Predation' mode 🙂
Well, full on puppy mode engage.
Here she is, Islay, 9 weeks
Congratulations @scapegoat and welcome to the pack Islay.
We get Harley on 23rd July when she'll be about 16 weeks old, she's a confident little girl although she's not doing our friend's garden any favours at the moment
The good lady is off to parkrun, the hound is a fan as she gets to hog the bed with me. 1/3 for me, 2/3 for her.
Hard work all this learning stuff. Five mins of “sit” with the clicker and treats, and she’s found her default happy tired place. 
Hard work all this learning stuff. Five mins of “sit” with the clicker and treats, and she’s found her default happy tired place
Awww, she's a sweety! It's hard brain work for a small pup. Our guy, who's four-and-a-half months now, spent yesterday at doggy day care, came home absolutely zonked in a good way and promptly lay down on the cold tiles in the corner of the kitchen and fell asleep.
We're trying to teach him to learn boundaries around playing with other dogs and it seems to be going well. He's proper bold though, just about the only thing that's phased him so far was coming more or less face-to-face with a herd of dairy cattle. He sat down, growled softly and thought about barking, then backed off slowly and came with me down the path. Not a bad thing tbh, I'd far rather he was quietly wary of cattle than trying to play with them or barking like a loon.
Good luck with the pup, it's bastard hard work at first, but worth it 🙂
Last night, the calm before...... 
https://imgur.com/a/8AD8Jiv#OX9MIv0
Rain and thunder totally ignored.
She doesn't need the jacket but its bloody convenient.
We're trying to teach him to learn boundaries around playing with other dogs
The other dogs at daycare will soon sort that out! I'm convinced that extensive and varied socialisation while our hound was little was the best thing we did training wise.
Lytham windmill and Hartshead Pike
Oscar has had a great weekend at festival.
The other dogs at daycare will soon sort that out! I'm convinced that extensive and varied socialisation while our hound was little was the best thing we did training wise.
I hear you. On the plus side, he's the boldest, friendliest pup you can imagine. Nothing much phases him apart from the cows he met the other day and I'm more than happy for him to be wary of those. We try to expose him to something new every day - cafes, shops, car parks, machinery, workmen, odd noises - he came from the breeder conditioned to gun-shots 🙂 - llamas, people with bears, hats, in wheelchairs etc.
We did a puppy socialisation workshop yesterday and he romped over all the 'obstacles' as if there weren't there, did rebound recalls through an agility tunnel about a dozen times without batting an eyelid. Our main challenges around socialisation are that he wants to play with every dog he meets and thinks everyone he sees wants to be his friend. But he's improving gradually with repeated exposure and starting to get the idea that people and dogs are just another thing to note and move on from.
If anyone has any ideas on speeding that up, happy to hear them. Right now he gets to greet, briefly, one dog in five and mostly ignores people. Unfortunately a lot of people won't ignore him despite being asked to, which is a pain in the backside. I must try ruffling their hair unasked and see how they like it.
Anyway... very happy pup at doggy day care last week, now with added proto wirehaired beard 🙂
Any forensic bitemark experts on the forum?
This dog loves to sunbathe.
It's too hot to walk. F*** it, I'll just have a lie down for a bit 😀
Just over 2 years since we got the second dog.
Then and now photo
From a little initial hesitation at the beginning to great pals in 5 weeks..... 
We’ve reached a situation of detente between Islay and Willow. Willow isn’t massively enamoured but we expected her to make herself completely scarce.
Islay is desperate to play with her, but has earned the occasional soft growl and eventually a bark if she pushes things too far. Still early days but Willow is putting up with her more than we expected. 
This is the only thread in the forum where duplicate posts don't bother me. 🤣
Stacey looking especially regal today.
“Furbrain” and “Labraball” in standby mode after an hour of chasing each other round the garden pausing only to dig up expensive plants 
Sprocket suddenly decided to do 'dignified and noble' - 19 weeks old now and nudging 20kg on the scales. It didn't last for long, but it was nice to have a brief respite from full-on GWP goofball mode. Can't believe how fast he's grown.
This is what he looked like at three weeks when we first saw him, blimey...
And when he first came home at 8 weeks...
TICKMAGEDDON!
We're down in Somerset and Devon, walking the coast path with our two cockers. We don't have many ticks back home in Yorkshire, maybe we find a couple a week on the dogs. Having had a few problems last year around Exmoor, I treated the dogs just before we left home with frontline plus type product.
So, Monday, walking west of Porlock. Mrs B decides to have a rest on some rocks at the side of the track. Dogs showing far too much interest in the ditch, so I call them out, to find they've found basically a tick nest (probably some dead carcass in there). Francesca is covered in dozens and dozens of little ticks, I flick off what I can a few dozen at time, then move on a few yards and flick another load off. Repeat until mostly clear.
We get back to the camper van, and have a look at doggos undersides. Oh FFS, hundreds, not joking, many now attached. We sit on the tarmac in the carpark for over an hour taking them off with twister tools. Dropping the ticks into bowl of soapy water.
Then today (wednesday) next section of coast path towards Lynmouth. Even worse for ticks. Could see them increasing numbers of the dogs, stop and pick them off, 200 yards later another half dozen appear. Another hour back at base removing the ****ers.
I'm praying now we're past Exmoor, and out of the dense wild woods, Devon coast will be less ticky.
So, another tick twister session this morning. It's almost depressing giving the dogs a stroke...uh huh, another little lump in the fur.
So recommendation please. What can I get at a vets? Can I just walk in and buy without a consultation? Do any of the the spray on tick repellants work?
Me and Mrs B have been using Smidge, and not had a single tick even on us, never mind getting a meal off us.
Seresto collar?
Currently sat waiting in. Edinburgh veterinary hospital for surgeon, doggo having prostate cysts operated on today, poor bugger been ill on and off for ab2yrs before we got ct scan last week. Very stressed, dog less so.
Was going ride glentress red to distract myself while hes under, but might just do blue as too stressed to focus, last thing I need is spanner myself too.
So recommendation please. What can I get at a vets? Can I just walk in and buy without a consultation? Do any of the the spray on tick repellants work?
MrsEpic looks after this for our two. We used to use advocate drops back of neck, but that was a bit messy, and now with a second he can lick the neck of the other, so now we use CaniTrio which is an oral tablet taken once a month that covers ticks/fleas, and any internal worm based parasites as well. We aren't as infested round here as Somerset (holy moly) but do have sheep and deer. Dogs have been tick free. I got lymes while out running.
I discussed ticks with our vet. Independent cheap Peebles vet covering all animals.
He's anti topical due to affecting watercourses. Bravecto was their suggestion.
Decided come home, 2 1/2 hrs drive then they rang to say couldn't do today, so no surgery until tomorrow.
Could have waited until tomorrow and not used a days leave then.! Ah well, can't do much about it 🤷♂️
Our vet prescribes Simparica tablets. It's prescription only, but try giving the receptionist a ring and they'll probably arrange a prescription without a consultation.
Willow shows a marked resistance to ticks. My son's dogs are always picking them up in the woods where he walks them, and it's more or less a daily ritual to rid them of the ticks. I only ever find ticks in Willow's fur, dead as often as alive, and I can't remember the last time she had one imbedded.
A warm wander around the fields and woods of Baggeridge Country Park, followed by coffee and cake in a cafe in Wombourne. He's a tired little soul now
