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Amazing! Glad Bumble is able to enjoy life again :-)

How are you all doing with your horses? Enjoying the improved weather?

Show jumping always looks the hardest out of dressage, cross country and show jumping, I don't know if it actually is but it seems it, the jumps have to be approached quite precisely.

Thanks for the explanation CP!

What sorts of things are different for a horse living out 24/7? I mean what kind of difference might it make to them health-wise ... or otherwise too I guess. Just curious. Sorry about your Dad Clare. Sending get well soon thoughts to all the poorly neds.

We had this problem last year and finally someone told us to use flea tablets, Johnsons and Bob Martin do them. You can give them while still using Frontline. They will kill all adult fleas on the dog at the time within the hour, they can have one every 24 hours so we gave them a tablet a day until they stopped itching. I did read an article last year about tablets which I think were called Comfortis which last for a month, they are available from Vets. As others have said you need to treat the house too.

Thanks for the update Jackysian. Fantastic to hear how well you and Kane are doing and doesn't he look amazing! Very well done on rescuing Jade

WOW four hundred pages spanning five years! Vicarious horse ownership at it's best, for some of us anyway. Someone should make a book out of this thread Would be lovely to have an update on some people/horses though .. Bradders and Rolo, Mist and Cueva and of course Jackysian and Kane.

She is gorgeous, stunning! Happy birthday Beautiful! I'd love to see puppy pics too!

Any more progress on this? It's rather fascinating and excellent :-)

Wishing hard for a miracle recovery for your lad :GroupHug:

Been able to talk to someone about how you feel, even when they can do nothing to change it, is very therapeutic. Especially if your nearest and dearest is not able to handle the truth. Let him talk, let him know you understand and care

Probably with her false eyelashes, they must surely class as offensive weapons! Lovely voice though.

Thanks for your answer Clare

Similar reasons here although I have never even read the RMF thread. I've seen people really attacked on here which is uncomfortable to read and makes me reluctant to post. This does seem to have an element of whether you are part of the in-group or not. Also, not all of my dogs are rescue dogs which means I don't post about the dogs as I know that is frowned on here.

How do you work out how high a horse can jump? Is it to do with their height? Can different breeds of the same height jump different heights of jump or is it all just a matter of practice?

Christ! BIG healing thoughts for poor Gus! :GroupHug: and for you too

Another vote for sleep paralysis here. I occasionally get this and it's very unpleasant, feelings of terror as well as seeing/feeling a presence in the room and difficulty breathing can all be a part of it.

My friend wasn't saying anything, I was. I put in the comment about the prize money as a surprising fact as mostly people, same as I did, assume that that there is a large cash prize at the end of it as there is with most big competitions. Many people in this country that have been in showing for a while don't regard qualifying for Crufts as a big deal, many that qualify don't bother to go. People overseas and new to showing do because it is such a big show and has that reputation. Winning Crufts obviously is a big deal as winning any major competition is, I don't see why that is a problem. People are capable of being highly competitive without being unpleasant about it, although not this years winners owners it seems, even so that doesn't mean they treat their dog badly or would put money ahead of healthy dogs. People show for all kinds of reasons, many have nothing to do with money, kudos or ambition. Being a pet dog and a show dog are not mutually exclusive. People who show do not necessarily breed, even the ones that are successful.

I assumed that you didn't know about showing because you said; and yes I did think it was odd for you to say something that was factually incorrect as you are generally very well informed but dogs do not have to be champions to reach Crufts nor do they necessarily have to win many times over. Coming from GSDs then you may have the impression that class numbers are all sizable but I can assure you that is not the case in many breeds. If you look at registration figures for the different breeds you will see that whereas GSD registrations are between 10,000 and 15,000 a year many breeds register less than 200. My comments were not intended to be specifically about GSDs although in hindsight I guess they could have been taken that way. I do point out where my source of information is from but that is in a later posting. It was in no way an attempt to blow smoke over any issue, I have made no comment on the dog under discussion. I have said that I don't intend to set myself up as a defender of showing but I have tried to correct inaccurate statements about it, not because I want to get at you personally or make myself out to know more than everyone else but because there are so many misunderstanding about the show world outside of it and it doesn't help the debates about some of the issues involved if they are not based on a good understanding of the topic. I have no idea what it is you mean to say here Ian.

So judges should dissect the dogs to make sure they can move efficiently along side having computers, x-ray machines and microscopes in the ring, or should the whole process be a three week examination in a laboratory? What would the purpose of that be? My contribution to this thread is intended to say that basically some of the comments here are not accurate with regards to the process of dog showing. I think the purpose of showing is frequently misread too. I do not say that the process is beyond criticism and I am not interested in setting myself up as a defender of dog showing, it is not my area of expertise or particularly interest either, however criticism based on false beliefs and no understanding of the subject are worthless. I have asked questions of people who know what they are talking about and listened to the answers with an open mind. The view that judging is "a bloke in an arena who runs his hands up and down the dogs legs" is at best very naive as people can easily find out for themselves if they choose to do some basic research.

From talking to my friend I can say that there is a lot more to judging a show than picking the one you like the look of, it's a very complicated process which is all about what is on the inside, the "construction" of the dog as my friend puts it. I don't have enough of a grasp to explain it properly but it is definitely not the beauty parade that people outside of showing think it is.

This isn't correct, a dog doesn't have to be a champion to be shown at Crufts. Qualifying is much easier than people imagine, for a young dog they don't have to win any class, just be placed in one class. It doesn't even matter how many are in the class i.e. if there are only two dogs in the class and they come second, that will still qualify them. It's not much harder for an adult dog and they don't have to be shown from puppyhood. While I'm on the subject on popular misconceptions; There is no such thing as a 'Crufts Champion' which is a phrase often used in the press. A dog that wins at Crufts does not become a champion. The prize money for the Best In Show winner is £100! This is considerably more than you get for a win at any other show. I only know this stuff because I have a friend that shows her gordon setters, so I've asked her a bit about it over the years.

I'm deeply saddened. My thoughts are with his owners.

I recently bought one (it's great!) from Amazon and got; 1. Nintendo Wii Console (Black) with Wii Sports Resort and Motion Plus Controller (this came with two disks of sports games - tennis, bowling, golf, boxing, sword fighting, water skiing and lots of others) 2. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (disk with all the fitness stuff on and the balance board) and to provide controller for a second person: 3. Nintendo Wiimote with Wii MotionPlus Bundle 4. Nintendo Nunchuk Controller It comes with non-rechargeable batteries, all AA. Four for the balance board and two in each of the controllers so in total 8. You might want to buy some rechargeables.