Happy Birthday to Bailey and her siblings.

Bailey is 1 years old today.  This means she will be in Junior classes for a time now at shows.

We are having a break from shows as we have mentoring to do in different breeds.  But we will be back next Spring for Champ shows and we are waiting for the pets passport to come back and we will start travelling to shows in Europe again. 

We do endeavour to enter some open shows with Jango however. 
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Thank you to everyone who has supported me over the years in my judging.  The Kennel club have notified me that I am now on the A3 list and can give Challenge Certificates in Hungarian Vizsla.  I am now known as a Hungarian Vizsla breed specialist.  You can only be a breed specialist when you have achieved this judging status.  I was put on the A3 list by the Hungarian Vizsla Society before the KC.  I would like to thank everyone who helped me over the years. Mentored me and showed me the finer points of the Vizsla.  Im proud to of achieved this.  

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My educational posts are just because over 30 years of being in this dog industry as they call it, which is showing dogs, having a big interest in health, behaviour and my learning.  I love to share what I have learnt with you.  There are so many breeders who just breed and sell and thats about it, and they have no interest in the mechanics or health or welfare of the breed.
Sometimes I will talk about just care of your dog and sometimes I will go into more in-depth aspects of health which is seen in all dog breeds. 
But when you are interested it opens up possibilities to guide your breeding into the right aspects of behaviour, welfare and health.  

I recently learnt I have ADHD and this is probably why my brain works so fast and I see things that others just do not see.  We knew my daughter had Autism and its in the family but neuro spicy brains can over think, work out solutions. Im never saying Im clever but I just sit and over think it to a point where I understand it.  Im not happy with mrs Jones on the internet saying she thinks it's like this.  I want to know well is their any science backing this statement.  Is their research, is their evidence. 

If I pull up a subject to talk about it I can tell you it's not because ive seen it in my own dogs. It's because Ive read it online, chose to study it.  Like CPD I talked about yesterday.  Ive not had one of my own Vizsla with it, but we saw it in a Pug. But then when I looked into it, tons of cross breeds and pedigrees are seeing it. This then got my interest because it's fascinating.  Yes I should have gone back in time and became a vet but I never had the opportunities as a child to go on for more learning with my family.  I had little choices in life but over time I made my own way.  I now encourage young people when I see them with interests and Im mentoring one young lady who's 16 and has a passion for dogs, extremely clever and I can see in her endless possibilities for her future.  She should go into the dog industry for sure.  Her parents are also so supportive it's lovely to see.  Let's be kind is my motto and if someone asks for help lets guide them towards the right professionals. 

One interesting thing Im now researching is the HARD EYE.   There is a link to Epilepsy with hard eye dogs and that is the Vizsla.  I need to find some more science on it. Im speaking to a behaviour specialist who first told me about this and I just want to know more and more.  Is it to do with the brain being over focused on prey that can genetically cause Epilepsy.  what an interesting fact.  So come back when Ive done my research.  I love to learn and hopefully I can educate others through my learning.  I seem to be getting quite the following on social media and here for my ramblings as I call it. 

CPD for short is a condition seen in loads of dog breeds across the board.  I recently joined a FB group on it to learn more about it as I had heard about it but I wanted to know and learn as much as possible.  We saw it years ago in a Pug when she got stressed.  We did not even know she had it until she was about 3 1/2.  She would sit back on her back legs and sway rocking, and she was not fitting but looked drunk is the best way to describe it.  

It's caused by stress or by over exercise to the muscles.  

Some vets have not seen it or heard of it.  So if you get a vet that has not you may be in for a lot of testing first.  It's often best to ask for a referral and get the money spent with a specialist over your vet if you have a small limit on insurance.  

Some vets will misdiagnose as epilepsy. 


As far as Im aware there is no known cure for it, but management. If you know your dog is going to be stressed by going in kennels, or change of environment try to minimise its stress factors.  If it is because you've done a 10 mile hike, dont.! 

Management means trying to minimise the cause.  

What should you do in these situations?  Make sure if you have other dogs that you put them out of the way.  Leave the dog alone to get over the episode.  Make sure no sharp objects close by in case they fall.   Wait it out.  Put some blankets around the dog so if they go down it's comfy.  The moment it ends the dog will jump up and carry on like it's never had a thing wrong with it.   They can last a minute to 10 minutes.  Your vet will advise on action going forward. They will first suggest an MRI scan to out rule any tumours or anything else it could be. 
Once you have a diagnosis you can carry on as you always have done. 

Now toxins can have the same effect on a dog. The side effects of poisonous flea and wormers.  Read your product information leaflet and if it says "May cause Neurological damage", do not give it again and go holistic.  Remember you can worm count with www.wormcount.co.uk or www.feclab.co.uk. I prefer Feclab because they are £1 cheaper than worm count ha ha.   Add into foods things which parasites do not like.  I will write a blog on this for you.   Just minimise all toxins form your dogs body.  Because sometimes its enough to cure issues your dogs having. 

Hope that helps.  I try to share what I can. 

I was speaking to a friend recently on her dog eating its own poop.  It's called Coprophagia and dogs do this for a few reasons.  It's easier in some ways if it's their poop only as you can treat the dog. But if its other dogs it's more difficult.  You must teach early on the leave it command. 

Dogs eat poop from habit, but also mostly because the poop is delicious lol. It's got nutrient value. 
Dogs also can end up with parasites.  So it's wise to worm count to make sure theirs no parasite in the gut.  

If it is your own dog you need to firstly look at your dogs gut health. Maybe it's not digesting because the gut biome is out of whack.  Giving some additives which help gut biome is a good idea.  We have lots of products we can advise our owners to try. 

But give foods which digest easily.  Add in seeds for fibre and digestion if your a raw feeder.

I often find dogs who are eating cereals are the poop eaters, but of course it be any dog.

Teaching the leave it command and watching dog like a hawk. The moment it's finished pooping go and collect it up before it has the chance to eat it.  This then stops the habit. But be aware it takes thousands of repetitive commands and pick up before you'll see a difference. 

Some dogs just out grow this.  Others do not and they need a bit of intervention from you.  So always teach the drop it command and stand there with the dog.  

​If this is a Silvestre dog you can always contact me for advice on products to try.   

Well done Silvestre Fit as a Fiddle  with 3rd place in junior class.  
We had wanted to do this show but I booked an eye testing clinic instead.  We do like to support a breed club show if we can do. 

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​Lovely to get the girls eye tested today and have Glaucoma clear for another 3 years and also annual eye test is clear from all ocular conditions.  Lane, Birdie and Geri.   Next our boys due in a couple of months. 

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For those of you who follow my page on instagram I am putting products on which we use and find help our dogs a lot.  For those that do not follow it I am writing here so you can buy the products.

Ears - This is not quite so simple as to think ears are clean all the time.  

The Hungarian Vizsla really should not have dirty ears.  If they do have black yeasty ears then sadly there are probably allergies at play here.   You see yeast develops when dogs have allergies.

Firstly out rule ear mites.  Your vet should be able to do this for you.  But then if ear mites are not at play there are some things you can do which I will explain further down. 

Bracco italiano are a different kettle of fish. Those long ears, and all that loose skin makes them a breed which can have dirty ears for life. 

Now we have noticed along side other breeders that vaccines are effecting the Bracco italiano more than some other breeds and two weeks after vaccinating the ears go dirty. This is because it affects their immune systems.  As a breed I do not believe in vaccinating them.   Please look into natural immunity and titre testing and keep away from vaccines.  Use holistic nosodes. 

That is a big subject in itself.

But okay we go back to ears.  We use in our puppies from aged 5 weeks thornit powder.  We have a small brush that we dip in powder then put into ear. This gives just the right sprinkling of dust.  It smells a bit like sulphur but it really works keeping those baby ears clean.   I do it every 2 to 3 days with out daily right up to the date they leave me at 8 weeks.  You can continue with thornit powder until the day it stops working which is usually two weeks after first vaccine. 

We have another cleaner we are really raving about and thanks to a dear friend who told me about it Ive always brought it since.  It's called Peake pet ear cleaning solution.  It has natural gentian in it.  Which is a flower known for its natural properties of anti biotic.  I buy their large bottle and a mixing bottle.  As I pour it into the smaller bottle and squirt into ear.  You warm it first by dropping container into a glass of water.  This activates it.  Then I use in ear.   This product can be enough on its own to keep your dogs ears clear.  

I spoke to someone who recommended this product and she said how much its transformed her dogs ears however since she spoke to me she has stopped vaccinating also and she thinks that in itself is helping his over all health. As he no longer has hives on the body also.

I sometimes wish this was not all true but it is, and the specialists in the breed are all in the same position.  Vets unfortunately do not know this breed of dog.  Do not care that vaccines are the cause of so many health problems.  There is nothing we can do about it.  As all they say is you have no proof.  But the proof is in the dogs health, the ears, the skin and sadly too much is pointing to vaccines effecting these in dogs. 

So what do you need to do if you do not vaccinate?  Do a titre test to see if your pet has immunity.  Again vets are cashing in on this test and your finding some charging between £75 to £220 for test.  This is just ridiculous.  Go to dragon labs down load their titre test kit.  Take this to your vet nurse who will take blood and you send it off.  This will cost you approx £39 for kit.  £30 for blood to be taken.   Because why vaccinate to create an antibody when your dog already has them.  it's silly isn't it.  The problem we have is people honestly think we need a yearly vaccine and we do not.  They do not understand that if the vaccine has done what it should have done then your dog will NOT need another..  All your trying to doing its create anti bodies.  But dont take my word for it. Start following Dr Nick Thompson online and you will learn more about vaccines than I can teach you. 

You will find NO hip and elbow scores of our dogs on any open database.  

Why is this?  This is because during Covid the UK BVA vets were not scoring the elbows and hips.  The waiting list was getting to 24 weeks before they would give you a result.  The whole service became very disappointing.  Now this has changed and they are much faster.  But they are more expensive.  So we use the same scheme which is done in Australia.   But the UK kennel club wont post results online from Australia.  Even though they do recognise the scheme. It's all a bit silly because where ever you have them done countries should publish.

But it is the same scheme, scored in the same way by vets.  But it's cheaper for me to do and the turn around is 2 days and I have results.  

Will this affect the breed average score in the UK now? Yes it does because the majority of dog breeders have gone to Australia.  If they reduced their prices then people would come back.  Everything costs so much in dogs to have done breeders are not going to pay the prices.

So it's that simple we save where we can and our scores are done in Australia.  

One of the other reasons I left them is I emailed them once for them to reply to a question I had and they never even replied.  They should do, and it's a really bad service. How can we learn anything if they are not willing to consult back with their clients.  Where as you can ask a simple question in Australia and get a reply!!  Vets should not be untouchable and ignore the very business's who give them the trade in the first place.  With out dog breeders their would be NO vets. 

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Our Nancy was mated by Eddie and we are going to have her scanned soon.  I will update the website if she is pregnant.  These will be some special puppies for sure. 

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