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  1. It goes without saying that this (below quote) only occurs when another dog is within metres of me. I always “pip” my dogs to turn them (or “pip pip pip” to recall) if they get within say 5m of a dog and its owner. If the dog is loose and away from the owner calmly then I allow them to interact, if the dog becomes boisterous I recall mine to a sit or heel. If we are on a narrow path and an oncoming dog is loose I leave them but will “trill” (which is my annoyed whistle that means for my dogs to heel or woe betide) if my dogs dawdle or crowd the other dog. It’s all good socialisation, my dogs have to be trusted be squeezed into the back of a Land Rover with a dozen others and behave themselves.
  2. I wrote this last night before any replies but decided against posting it: How unusual that she is upset, do you have other dogs with her? Normally they bounce back if the can be around good dogs. I would try to avoid any changes to routine and certainly do not fuss over her when she is anxious, that will encourage it. Ignore the event and ensure that in future you stop the situation occurring before it happens. My dogs have learnt that if it looks like “it” will hit the fan I will give a clear verbal warning to the other dog/owner by way of “ENOUGH” deep and at full volume with downward hand gesture and aggressive body language. If that is ignored seconds later will be flying in boot or stick first before my dogs react. I try not to let them get involved at all even if being attacked. You want them to feel secure that you are top dog, that way your dog doesn’t feel the need to be aggressive in situations as you have their back. The other day a spaniel trainer (unknown) thanked me for “applying corrective force” to her dog via a size 11 boot. The spaniel ran up snarling and barking at my boys but I ran at it and stopped it before it could get within a couple of metres. She had 5 dogs but was sensible, apologetic and polite. I was on my own with a 1 year old, 3 year old and five year old - my own dogs heeling at my side. If my dogs have any aggression when young (barking, chasing other dogs, any snarling, invading people’s personal space) then that is punished by pinning to the floor in a submissive manner by the scruff, they quickly learn civility. I don’t know how serious your coming together was but did you get the other owner’s details? I can be quite insistent and, when it has been required, ensured that I got their address and number on the spot so they can pay my vet bills.
  3. 12 years later I think it may need servicing again 🤣
  4. The ultra light ones aren’t always man enough for dead birds. Had motors give out. The adjustable speed buttons seem to always break too. Try to get one with spikes on the cradles for the wings rather than clips. Get a couple of decent batteries.
  5. We are very fortunate in this country to have access to such a great health service.
  6. I am sure he will love it, let us know how he gets on.
  7. At his recent assessment the senior neurosurgeon at the Walton (a very cheery old man) also revised the initial Alder Hey diagnosis, down grading the injury from a major brain injury to a minor head injury. The blood on the brain he surmised was due to the fracture haemotoma rather than a subdural haemotoma. So my understanding is that the blood leaking onto the brain from the skull, rather than leaking out of a blood vessel in the brain.
  8. Yes, had we or the school been aware that he had lost consciousness he would have been sent in an ambulance. The teacher at school was only 10m away and went to his side, the school assessed him for a head injury at the time and were unaware (and so were we) due to the brevity of loss of consciousness and the lack of other symptoms (normal pupil reaction, no vomiting, no sign of head trauma etc - he was wearing a thick hood and the obvious impact was to his cheek so no external damage to the skin). With a 4 year old it is difficult to know how to ask the right questions, however the paediatric neuro consultants made it look so easy. Post CV-19 I will send them a picture of him playing happily with his brothers and some flowers.
  9. Just an update to say my son is perfectly recovered now. We bumped into the pink-hair crazy-cat-tattoo doctor yesterday whilst all out walking the dogs. If it wasn’t for CV-19 and her being on the phone I would have stopped to say thank you to her.
  10. I feel sad when I see fat dogs or fat children. Someone has done that to them. From my experience it seems 99% of dogs are overweight. Even 50% of working dogs look to be carrying too much weight. The vet asked why my dogs were so lean, I explained that when you watch the London marathon not many of the pacemakers are carrying love handles. My fat friend is worried about his increased risk of death from CV-19, I pointed out that if he was lucky enough to survive the pandemic the odds are he will be caught out sooner or later as for almost every disease obesity is a risk factor. However maybe that comes to us all. My middle son calls me piggy because my 34” waist trousers are now too tight 😔
  11. When we were very little my uncle would stand sideways and “eat” a worm - I.e. throw it over his shoulder unseen. We believed he actually eaten it and tried to replicate 🙈 I also vividly remember sharing dog biscuits with our dogs on the climbing frame.
  12. Also, I’m taking HPR trials so you don’t want your dog on point and the flush stolen.
  13. Luck and good connections 😉 Most of the men and women I know who trial seriously do not use their trialling dogs for anything other than trialling and training for trials. They have their other dogs for that. Once they have been made up to FTCh (or failed to) and retired then they work them like normal. I do not have the time, space or effort for that!
  14. WalkedUp

    stealth

    Will dig around and let you know. My brother used to have one and gave me his pump for my AA when he sold the rifle. It will be a couple of weeks so don’t hold your breath.
  15. It’s almost a paradox as only if you trial do you know the difference 🤣 A good shooting dog should be trained as a trialling dog, a good trialling dog should be worked as a trialling dog.
  16. This is one reason why we cannot get another pup for at least 4 years. A tiny pup considers everything it’s littermate. It has to learn not to mouth. Your hands can get shredded giving treats etc as their teeth are designed for cutting morsels of flesh from bone. I do not want my children anywhere near a pup whilst they are too small to know the consequence of their actions. My dogs need to last until my youngest boy is old enough to follow instruction otherwise I’ll be picking up for myself. My oldest does not consider the dogs as pets because “they have jobs”, they are just wallpaper in the background to him. He is old enough for me to have and train a puppy. I can be very severe and boring with the pups and dogs but as @JDog explains above... the dogs are much happier when we’ll trained as it opens up so many opportunities for them. They can go anywhere and be relied upon to behave perfectly. My sister is moving from Manchester to near me, she is now a housewife and a few weeks ago said she was looking forward to taking my dogs for walks. I said it would be an early start for her, 6.30am everyday. She laughed and said “oh, I meant I’ll take them whilst you are in work so they are not just shut up in the kennels”. I asked her if she was mad. I explained I would never, ever let her take my dogs for a walk. She said “oh but they’re so we’ll behaved..” and before she could say something like it’ll be fine I cut in with “EXACTLY!”
  17. I’ve had a few gundogs now, I am a believer that a dog’s training is never finished. I had my 10 year old dog out today a bit of steadiness then and gave him a bind in long cover, practicing directions and just reinforcing commands.
  18. Has anyone watched the Louis Theroux documentary ‘By Reason of Insanity?’ I rewatched it recently as he was on Radio 4 talking to Jon Ronson and their conversation meandered onto people's relative susceptibility to conspiracy theories. They both agreed that there was no link between stupidity and belief in conspiracy theories, in fact quite it seemed very uniformly spread across intellect. Anyway, I only bring up ‘By Reason of Insanity’ as it was interesting to see that despite other people’s ‘deranged’ beliefs being so clearly false to a 3rd party they are also impossible to dispel from that individual by use of reason and logic etcetera. A good number of the patients’ delusions manifested in heavily religious beliefs. It struck me that 200 years ago they would have been mainstream beliefs. Whilst, 500 years ago they would have been beatified. All cults have their fanatic disciples, if you cannot see the other side of the argument you are probably one of them - militant veganism being the newest religion/cult.
  19. I saw that too, I never miss a chance to ogle naked old men 🤣 Was that stated as a direct result of a failure of the EU PPE scheme? All I can find is that the German protest was due to shortages following a lack of centralised procurement system within Germany.
  20. Do you have a source for this? A quick search and all I can find is three weeks old from Guido Fawkes and the Express, neither of which are reputable.
  21. WalkedUp

    labour

    BREXIT is done. Corbyn is done. Next election is anyone’s guess. The last election was surprisingly ‘close’ if you consider just how much of a disgrace Labour were. If Starmer can sort out his party (a big ask) he would easily have the beating of Johnson. I’m not welcoming it, just warning if it. All the parties are devoid of front bench talent, no big beasts left. The interesting thing for the next election will be the north. Many have broken the habit of a life time to vote Tory, it’s make or break if this 5 year period rewards them with prosperity. Fate has handed the administration a bad hand I feel. With CV-19 the economic recovery will be tedious rather than the courageous battle with the outbreak itself. Remember, the remain alliance won the popular vote in this last election. Anyone who doesn’t see the strength of Starmer is deluded and will get caught sleeping. I have a feeling he will prioritise PR electoral reforms, which makes sense to the politician but most average men do not care about it. His big chance would be to broker an electoral pact on the promise of a PR referendum. SNP, LD etc would be wise to suffer short term loss of % vote share for a long term gain.
  22. Very true, I believe Mr Johnson and Ms Symonds will be hosting.
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