puppies a'commin -- lainie is ready to nurse about 17 hungry pups- her entire milk department is
----shall we say--- exceedingly well developed... we are ready to move along--
case in point -- 2 of our volunteers have gone home with the ultimate thank you...-- i.e. 2 fabulous failures- now perfectly trained-- lovely dogs-- beautiful danes-- just not suitable for service work...
how did they become FF? or as sokme people prefer perfect pets???? #1 our very best of the litter get STASHED away as future breeding dogs- NOT TO BE SPAYED OR NEUTERED IN CASE WE NEED TEHM... #2 SOMETIMES THERE IS A DOG THAT JUST CAN NOT KEEP THIER MIND ON THE JOB AT HAND--- HAPPY CHEERFUL- BUT NOT WHAT YOU WOULD CALL STUDIOUS.
#3.. PHYSICALLY-- THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW WHO HAVE GOTTEN HURT IN THE PROCESS OF THE ROUGH AND TUMBLE OF CHILDHOOD AROUND HERE... ONE EXAMP[LE IS... PACING... IF A DOG PACES I WILL WASH THEM OUT-- I SEE SEEING EYE DOGS.. LABS... THAT PACE ALL THE TIME, BUT PERSONALLY I THINK IT IS AN ABNORMALITY- THAT CAN FORTELL OF FUTURE PROBLEMS..MY FIRST EXAMPLE WAS DONALD--- WHO I GAVE TO COLLEEN-- BIG BEAUTIFUL HARLEQUIN MALE--- HAPPILY PACED TIL THE AGE OF 14.
DOGS ARE SUPPOSED TO TROT WITH DIAGIONAL FEET... WE MOVE SIMILARLY.. TRY WALKING AND SWINGING YOUR RIGHT ARM FORWARD AS YOUR RIGHT FOOT MOVES FORWARD- IT IS AN AWKWARD SWAYING MOVEMENT---- IT JUST IS NOT RIGHT IN MY BOOK...- I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT IT HAPPENED WAY BACK WITH 2 DOGS-- LONG BEFORE I THOUGHT OF SDP.... GIGI- GOT KICKED BY A HORSE-- AND MOVED AWAY FROM THE KICK IN A NORMAL FASHION- BUT 20 MINUTES LATER HER STRIDE WAS SLIGHTLY "CONFUSED" AND WITHIN AN HOUR SHE PACED.... AND WENT ON TO BE UNSTEADY ON HER FEET TO THE POINT OF OUR HAVING TO PUR BATH MATS AT EVERY CORNER IN THE HOUSE- BECAUSE IF SHE SLIPPED, SHE WENT DOWN...-- SHE ALSO WENT ON TO BE A WONDERFUL MOTHER OF DOGS THAT DID NOT PACE-- AND HER SISTER, PIPI, BEGAT BITSY WHO BEGAT THUMPER WHO IS SOMEHOW RELATED TO JUST ABOTU EVERY DOG WE NOW HAVE. THE OTHER DOG WAS POKER - WHO SLID ON THE ICE, AROUND A POLE AND GOT UP PACING.. AND FINALLY PARTIALLY PARALIZED... SO.... WITH NO MEDICAL TRAINING,,.... I DON'T LIKE TO PUT A YEARS TRAINING IN A DOG THAT PACES, JUST IN CASE..
BEING OF HORSE BACKGROUND, I DO WATCH HOW A DOG MOVES, PROBABLY MORE THAN MOST DOG PEOPLE-- SINCE WE ARE ON THE TOPIC......THERE IS ANOTEHR
ABNORMALITY.... COMMON IN PUPPIES AND USUALLY OUTGROWN...TEH NEXT FASTEST GAIT IN DOGS/HORSES IS A CANTER WHERE BOTH LEGS ON ONE SIDE MOVE FORWARD IN UNISON... AND THOSE CHANGE SIDES AS THE DOG TURNS -- THE LEGS ON THE SIDE THEY ARE TURNING TOWARD ARE SUPPOSED TO GO FORWARD FIRST... IT IS CALLED BEING ON THE LEFT OR RIGHT "LEAD" -- THIS TIPS THIER BODY SLIGHTLY TOWARD THE WAY THEY ARE TURNING AND KEEPS THEM BALANCED...
PUPPIES OFTEN "GO ON A SPLIT LEAD" WHICH AS THEY EXERCISE MORE AND GET MORE ORGANIZED.. WORKS IT 'S WAY OUT...
AN ADULT ON A SPLIT LEAD HAS SOME PROBLEM WHICH- I AM SURE A VERERNARIAN COUL.D DIAGNOSE , GIVE A LATIN NAME TO....AND OPERATE ON FOR $10,000.
MY SOLUTION IS TO LET THEM LEAD A HAPPY LIFE AS PETS.
"YES BUT THESE PROBLEMS CAN BE PRE- ARTHRITIC"-
GREAT---- LIFE IS PRE ARTHRITIC...
