I want to get a dog but I have to work, how does everyone on broadway market do it ?

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Cute dog!

Dog insurance - who’s good, who’s shit, and who does it all at the best price.

Ask you vet which one they've done claims from

Petplan

Is there any standard protocol to follow when your dog tries to eat a hedgehog. Let me dog out for a wee and got this sense he was up to no good so went to find him. Trying to eat a hedgehog.

Luckily the hedgehog is fine if a little shaken. The dogs mouth is a bit bloody but he’ll live. He just can’t help himself.

Consider just putting the £x/month in a bank account, because the per injury/illness limits are generally shit.

Our whippet dislocated his shoulder this year and the insurance paid out approx £10k for his surgeries and recovery care.

He is six years old and up to now we had been paying under £30 a month so about £2k in total if my sums are right.

So, it can definitely be worth it

My sprollie was a rescue having been a stray. He ALWAYS wanted to return to the hobo way of life so I walked him on a 15 metre lead. He would regularly pick up a hedgehog if he found one in long grass. He got one in the garden without my knowing which was the only one he killed. If I shouted loud enough he'd let them go. Then, of course there was the roebuck in the "empty field" that he was allowed to be off lead in. He didn't kill that but he did bring it down by the throat.
I had a flood light for the rear garden so I could check for foxes before letting the dog out. One time I didn't check and he dislocated a rear toe and partially ripped a nail out while hard cornering after a fox. 2300 hrs visit to the vet for that. He was two and a half when I got him and was a constant source of disappointment for the fifteen years after that. I loved that dog but he was always hunting.

Hunting dogs going to do what they're bread to do no matter what.
Mines the same. Loves cats.

Thanks!

It’s is a pug/border/Jack Russell cross.

He’s properly gone for a hedgehog twice but it’s like he’s in a trance you couldn’t shout him to leave it alone, have to pull him off.

"He's got the taste" as Matt Berry once said. My dog was a bastard around cats, hedgehogs, deer, squirrels etc. When I'd open the back door he'd thrash down to the end of the garden to try and outwit the squirrels. Every fucking time, night or day. Tiresome as fuck. I put some dry macaroni in a small plastic water bottle having seen Caesar on TV doing something similar. With the bottle went to the end of the garden and lay in wait and then the dog was let out. He'd always go to the same corner first bark loudly, spin around and charge to the other corner and repeat. I waited and threw the bottle right in front of him. He stopped dead, looked at me and then went off sniffing. He never did that mental shit again, except the night when he almost got the fox. That ended with an emergency vet visit for a broken toe and ripped nail. I used to take the bottle on walks because he used to go mental about squirrels. One shake when he was about to start put a stop to it. 3 or 4 walks and he was fine. The trouble is hedgehogs are slow and tricky for us to see. If your dog is off lead you don't stand a chance if he gets an animal. You'd probably have to consult a behavioural expert because you're trying to stop two thirds of your dog doing what his ancestors were bred for.

have to pull him off.

You do your best for your pets I guess.

Errol has been loving our recent gravel adventures. His hair certainly reflects his excitement :)

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Mine hates water, nice photo

Thanks, water she's fine with. Other dogs, not so much...

Mine is the opposite, wants to be everyones pal until they bark at him and he's like im just going to ignore it.

I'd love that! She was attacked as a pup, so can be very reactive. She's fine with dog's she knows but random bum sniffers can be an issue. A muddy field is perfect because we generally have it to ourselves and she can run like a loon.

Dogs and cargo bikes.
How?

Specifically dog plus child in a box on the front of a bullit.

What’s the issue? Or are you just asking logistics-wise. I haven’t done it with mine yet due to weather but the plan is to have a restraint so he can’t jump out, and then work up with short trips, initially just pushing the bike along with him in the box so he gets used to it. We did some initial training just getting him hanging around in the box in the garden before the weather turned rubbish.

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Logistics etc

Mainly it’ll be food based

As early as possible normalise it in a safe place.
Then move it around walking the bike.
Then ride around.
Then add kid and repeat

When do I get a snack and told I’m a good boy?