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Bloodhound Discussions & Pictures / shedding question
« on: February 07, 2009, 05:31:46 pm »
ok, so one of my darling hounds has a shedding issue, she sheds almost handfuls, like everytime you pet her, you get a handful, she looks good, like there are no bare spots. i asked my vet and he said that it was just becuase she was nervous about being at the office. but it is like an all the time thing, she is slightly neroutic and skiddish. is there anything i can do to help her, either calm her nervousness or stop the lots of shedding? i vaccum my other hound and she loves it, but i can't get anwhere near my other girl with anything that even resembles a vaccum. any thoughts?

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Bloodhound Discussions & Pictures / i need some advice
« on: March 12, 2008, 08:31:44 pm »
ok, so every now and then, my 8 month old bloodhound, piper, will go for usually a day or 2 without pooping. i was just wondering if there was something i could give her to help her go... ya know?

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Bloodhound Discussions & Pictures / Re: nasty bloodhound
« on: February 01, 2008, 12:42:22 pm »
lily isn't allowed to have tenis balls either, she will sit there and eat all the hair off of them. and neither of them can have anything with stuffing... because they tear it open and eat it. right now though, lily is a little sick.. and we aren't sure why, i took her to the vet today because she has been having dihareea since yesterday, and hasn't really been eating. so we are on pills and specail food, and if she isn't better by monday to bring her back. but she went from bouncing off the walls to being so lethargic... like sleeping really deep too... i am kinda worried. :(

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Bloodhound Discussions & Pictures / Re: nasty bloodhound
« on: February 01, 2008, 02:22:33 am »
dude, thats nothing. i had just bought a plastic bowl that bolts to the inside of the crate for my 8 month old bloodhound piper, and i went to work and left her in the car of my mom. well i came home and the bowl and all the peices to it were outside the crate... everything except the nut and bolt... that morning before our trip to the vet she pooped out a 5 inch bolt and wing nut.... so now we call her frankendog... they eat everything...

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Bloodhound Discussions & Pictures / Re: hi folks
« on: December 04, 2007, 06:53:00 am »
ok, so in the past few weeks, lily has been gettin more and more aggresive, and just... well cranky. she has snapped at my mom twice, my brother in law, and myself. i have tried just about everything taht i can do on my own. with out seeking prof help (mainly because i can't afford it) i love her to death, but my parents say that if she tries to bite one of the grand kids, she will have to go. and it isn't just resource gaurding, she used to let us open her mouth and take things out, (she likes to eat things she knows she isn't supposed to) but now... i don't dare try and take things out of her mouth, or brush her teeth. i just don't know what to do, i think she is still bent out of shape because of piper and trigger moving in. but it has been just about 2 months. i just don't konw what to do.

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Bloodhound Discussions & Pictures / Re: hi folks
« on: November 15, 2007, 03:22:35 pm »
ok, so now i have a new issue, my older hound has become very aggresive towards my mom. in the past 2 days she has tried to bite her. once when lily was on the couch in the living room, where she isn't supposed to be (she has slept on a crappy sofa in my room for the last year and a half and has never gotten on the couch in hte living room before) anad my mom tried to grab her collar to take her off, she growled and showed her teeth, and then tonight, my mom had put some double sided tape on the floor to keep a rug from slipping, and lily was starting to chew on the tape and my mom went over to her and agaain she growled and baared her teeth. now, my mom is not an animal person... at all. and ever since lily was a pup she has constantly harrased my mom, and i don't know how to fix this. and suggestions? i have tried just abaout everything, my mom and lily even went to training classes, we bought a shock collar (even though i didn't want to) and nothing works, she is pretty much defiant to the end.

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Bloodhound Discussions & Pictures / Re: hi folks
« on: November 06, 2007, 07:28:36 pm »
well, i have had myka for just over a week now, and he comes when he is called but when ever i walk through the pasture (thats the only way to get to his barn to feed him) he follows me with his head low ot the ground. i know he hasn't been handled all that much in the last few years. which is one of the reasons i took him, i felt bad for him. i mean, i am not new to the horse world. my frist horse was a 20 yo mare, she was half arab half quaterhorse. and for an old girl... she was full of arab fight. but i knew the people she came from, and i knew that the only reason they gave her up waas because they didn't have enough room for her. but with myka... i don't know, when he looks at me there is just something in his eyes... i can't explain it. right now, i haave taken to leading him to the barn when i go to feed him, that way he doesn't have the chance to charge my from behind. also, while he is eating i brush him and touch him, and just taalk to him. though this morning, thank god for layering clothes, he grabbed right a hold of my sweatshirt and ripped it. and i know this is mean, but he promptly got a slap in the nose. i know he is still getting used to me, but i can't let anything slide.

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Bloodhound Discussions & Pictures / Re: hi folks
« on: November 04, 2007, 02:49:54 pm »
so here are the pics of myka, and already... he is giving me some toruble. but thats ok, how do you win a horses trust?

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Bloodhound Discussions & Pictures / Re: hi folks
« on: October 27, 2007, 07:44:06 pm »
just wanted to let everyone know, that i have 2 new aditions to the animal family, one would be a springer spaniel named trigger, and the otehr would be a 15 year old appy/arab gelding by the naame of myca (like the silvery flakey rock stuff).

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Bloodhound Discussions & Pictures / Re: hi folks
« on: October 20, 2007, 06:32:54 pm »
i do want to breed my pup, but i am not looking to breed her to make money, i don't want to sell the pups to make money, i just want to breed her because i want the pups for myself. kinda lame, i know.

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Bloodhound Discussions & Pictures / Re: hi folks
« on: October 19, 2007, 08:35:26 pm »
ok, so i was just looking into stud fees becuase eventually i want to breed my black and tan hound. and the only breeder i could find around me wanted 1100. that is more than waht i paid for both my dogs put together.

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Bloodhound Discussions & Pictures / Re: hi folks
« on: October 18, 2007, 08:28:50 pm »
does anyone know what a reasonable stud fee would be for a bloodhound?

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Bloodhound Discussions & Pictures / hi folks
« on: October 15, 2007, 07:27:47 pm »
hi everyone, i have 2 beautiful bloodhounds. lily, a 2 and a half year old red female, and a 4 month old black and tan little girl named piper. we live in new hampshire and i have read everything i can find on blood hounds. i came here hoping to share and recive advice. neither of my little girls are used for tracking or mantrailing. and i have never wanted to train them that way, i know that is it almost impossible to let a bloodhound just run around an unfenced in yard or walk off leash but this is what i am training piper to do. she is young enough to still want to follow me so i am using this to my advantage. has anyone else had any luck with this? the breeder i got piper from had her two out just wandering the yard. so i know it is possible.

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