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Jack Russell health care tips, working Jack Russell terrier health care
tips, Conquest Terriers Brantford Ontario.
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Serving Brantford, Hamilton, London, Milton, Toronto, Niagara, St.
Catharines, Fort Erie, Buffalo New York.
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Health care tips for the Working Jack
Russell Terrier
Feed your terrier plenty of high quality dog food. Don't
skimp and try to save money by feeding a cheap, low protein, high fat
food.
- Feed your terrier the morning you hunt him and take at least
half-ration to give him at noon if he has been working all morning.
Sending a terrier into the field without breakfast can be dangerous as his
sugar level drops and he potentially approaches hypoglycemia.
- Make sure your terrier is fit before taking him in the field. A fit
terrier is definitely NOT a thin terrier. Fitness has to do with muscle
tone and staying power, neither of which your terrier can attain if he is
thin.
- If you hunt your terrier in the ice and snow, periodically check the
pads of his feet and in between his toes for cuts, abrasions, and signs of
frost bite.
- Don't expect your terrier to be able to brave the severe winter cold
or extreme summer heat if he is a house mouse 24 hours a day.
- Make sure your terrier is current on all of his vaccinations. Spending
a few extra dollars on annual rabies and lyme vaccinations may save your
terriers life.
- After the hunt, flush your terrier's eyes with plenty of sterile water
and check to make sure there are no pieces of grit left in his eyes. It is
a good idea to follow the eye wash with an anti-bacterial eye ointment
such as Terramycin eye ointment. Check the eyes the next morning for signs
of grit you may have missed, and if necessary, flush the eyes again and
follow with a sterile eye ointment.
- Make sure your hunting pack is complete. Take along a knife, limb saw,
flash light, tea bags (family size--wet them and hold tightly over a
laceration; the bleeding will stop in a few minutes), post hole diggers,
large and small shovels, a metal bar, towels and blankets to wrap your
terrier in, plenty of fresh water, extra batteries for your collars and
box, and an extra collar and box if you have one.
- It's a good idea to have a cellular phone and the telephone numbers of
several vets in the area. A cell-phone and a local vet may save your
terrier's life if he gets into skunk many miles from home!
- Remember, prepare for the worst and expect the best. Your terrier depends upon you for safety, you depend on your terrier for
everything else.
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Conquest Jack Russell Terriers
For Work, Show or Just
Plain Lovin'
RR#2 Brantford Ontario N3T 5L5
519-484-2509 phone
519-484-9918 fax
conquestterriers@gmail.com
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