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Anyone ever come accross this issue with their dog run.... before you say it the run is hosed daily with water and washed out. Was reading up on the internet and there are bits of information about the dog having a urinary tract infection which could be causing release of additional ammonia/urea ..... and yes I will bring the dog to the vet to get her checked out. Anyone ever had a similar issue?

Absulute class... how did you cut the recess into the handle for the blade?... was it just a handsaw?

Would you use the concrete sealer before using the levelling compound or after using the levelling compound, how exactly does concrete sealer work?

Builders about to be sacked ….. and he won’t be getting paid for that…. So it’s a little bit more complicated.

I’m having some work done in my back garden, one of things I‘ve had done is a new dog run. I got a local builder to do all of the work, however I’ve an issue with the slab that was poured for the dog run…. It’s holding water. Shuttering was put up with a slope for the floor of the dog run, that would run into an eco drain at the end of the run and of course the dope who poured the concrete made a balls of it. He used a sub optimal concrete which is not normally used by builders for finishing. I told him to float the finish…. But of course when the slab dried out it dipped in the middle, and there is no floated finish…. it’s ****. I would have done a better job myself. What is the story with polishing concrete, does the quality of the concrete have to be a certain standard. How do you seal it, would it stand up to power hosing and scrubbing. Any advice greatly appreciated.

This is what they look like right now happy as two peas in a pod, I suppose I could stick a trail cam in the kennel as long as they don’t chew it, but it’s the pup screaming afaik. There’s no way she could get the better of the older dog.

Night terror in dogs…. Or at least from googling I think that’s what it’s called. I have to German Pointers a 7 year old GSP and a 7month old GWP. The older dogs attacks my younger pup in the middle of the night or day, it must be something she does when she has a dream. It only lasts a second but sounds horrific…. Although it doesn’t seem to affect the younger dog because when I rush out to the scene of the crime she bounds out happy out to see me as if nothing has happened . There doesn’t seem to be any bites. The older dog doing the aggression is the most gentle dog going, really placid and always good, great with children etc… I have seen the older dog doing this to a previous kennel mate, who was elderly and I thought it was a dominance thing because the older dog was quite sick before I had to put her down. Thought it was a dominance thing that the younger dog saw the older dog being unwell and wanted to dominate her, or that if the older dog had a fit the younger dog got frightened with her behaviour and lashed out. anyways… any ideas what I could do here?

Great photos and thats a handsome looking dog, what part of the country are you in?

Thanks for the replies, I do have a crate and I do put her in there when she is tired. I have had plenty of experience with dogs before, I have a GSP bitch who is 7 yrs old and they are kennelled together. But this is the first pup that the family have had because all of my other dogs were out of puppy stage when we had the kids, including the GSP because I got her when she was a year old. Problem is this pup is such a novelty to the family now and they don’t understand what goes into training a gundog or any dog for that matter. I do have a crate and I do use it, but it’s hard when they all want to be playing and petting the pup. I think I can read the pup pretty well, because they are a bit like children where they are tired they are cranky and I just calm her down and met her have a sleep either in the room with me or I put her in the crate, I’ve only started teaching her to go into the crate with treats I have her sitting and she knows her name. The kids are the problem the wife is fine. I think the main thing now is to sit them down at home and tell them this is the way we are going to do things from now on or the dog will end up biting someone and will have to be put down, extreme talk.... but that’s the only way that they are going to listen. Might even organise going to puppy training so that they can get familiar on how to handle the dog and enforce the whole idea of being consistent with commands and following through on corrections and brush up on my skills otherwise it’s going to be a nightmare.

We recently got a GWP puppy, a bitch, she is approximately 13.5 weeks now and is a fine little pup. However this evening my daughters (10 and 14 years old) were playing with her in the kitchen. They were giving her a belly rub, the pup loves this and she stretches out back her legs and kicks them in the air. However they were sitting on a kitchen chair and the pup stuck her hind leg through spars on the back of chair and got her leg caught. The pup got a fright and started screeching in pain and clamped down on the youngest daughter’s hand and of course the two girls also got a fright and were screaming their heads off to add to the chaos/excitement…. Anyway the pup didn’t break skin but she did bite my daughter’s hand multiple times. It was just an accident and everyone is okay and luckily nobody got bitten in the face or anything…. The pup does like chewing and play biting and I find when she’s tired she can get a bit cranky and start chewing hands, but I don’t leave her get away with doing it to me. Prior to this happening this evening she was having a sleep by the fire with me as I was watching telly. what would you do next in that situation? I’m going to keep them all apart for a bit and re-establish boundaries… any other ideas? Please and thanks?

Hello LB ould stock!..... hope you are keeping well? Have to correct you there.....Organised game shooting is not banned in ireland, plenty of big and small shoots in ireland and smaller syndicates too. The gun clubs which are pretty much in every parish in the country are the ones that release birds. From what i'm hearing from shooters around the country there are no wild pheasants anymore and its a common theme accross the country, modern farming practices such as the use of pesticides destruction of the envioronment (draining of bogs removal of ditches) and the nitrates quotas have been dethremental to the wild bird population. I think the pheasants that you are seeing may well be released birds. The Green party being in coalition in the government in Ireland and having a Green Minister for the Envioronment who is a self proclaimed animal rights activist has been an absolute disaster for the countryside.

Just bought a brand spanking new Toyota Proace City and was trying to fit my dash cam, does anyone have a fuse box diagram and a recommendation what fuse to use there is nothing in the manual or anywhere inside the fuse box compartment to say whats what, please and thanks. I guess a 2023 Citroen Berlingo or Peugeot Partner would be the same.

I have a Beaufort it has a large game pocket and even though I have more modern jack pike jackets I love the Barbour. I also have the quilted fleece liner for my one, but it’s still a warm jacket without. As for the smell, the wax has its own distinctive high smell, but if you let it get wet and don’t dry it out properly it will smell like a rotting corpse in any case. They are just a classic, buy one you won’t regret it.

This is just so utterly ******* ridiculous. The state of yer woman in her leopard print dress and dreads, beads and paraphernalia … she looks like something out of the Namibian desert… of course the doting old lady in waiting was intrigued to find who, where she was from and what her background was…. I’ld be asking her the same questions. As far as her charity group it seems to be restricted to certain ethnic groups and doesn’t cater for the wider community. Buckingham palace will just have to suspend leaving different ethnic groups in the door until this whole stupid thing is sorted out.

Well what would you suggest saying to them? … bearing in mind the following; that I've just nipped out for a walk, these people are complete strangers and I have neither the time nor patience to build a relationship with them. I just want them to get out of my way while I go about my business How do you react to them calmly and politely, without causing a scene? and just to be clear, I'm not changing my walking habits or route because this is what's local to me.