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About me
About me I have a degree in Veterinary Medicine, to graduate I wrote an experimental dissertation on gundogs welfare. As you might guess, I am interested in behavioural medicine and in everything that falls within “preventive medicine” such as nutrition, complementary medicine (I studied veterinary acupuncture) and anything related to working and sport dogs. I got my first Engish Setter in 1999 and my hunting licence in 2003 when I also started to follow dogs during hunting days and fieldt trials. I have a regular column in a few Italian hunting/shooting magazines and I also collaborated with some foreign ones. In 2004 I was asked by an Italian publisher to…
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Why Gregor?
Why Gregor? Clicca here to see Gregor at work. I chose Gregor for many reasons. First of all, Gregor is a real hunting (rough shooting) dog who hunts regularly in a difficult environment (Italian Alps). Hunting (rough shooting) is essential to verify througlythe qualities of a pointing dog. Things like endurance and natural connection with the handler cannot be evaluated during a trial. Furthermore, dogs who hunt in difficult conditions, such as public grounds, need a an extremely high drive to continue searching for birds without seeing one for ours. Gregor awards in mountain trials certify his qualities. Gregor has been trained and is handled by his owner, which is fairly…
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Puppies…. Briony x Gregor
The puppies I chose this dam and this stud to obtain excellent hunters with a good conformation and size. I think English Setters should be beautiful and smart hunting dog with a sound conformation. I want the puppies to be strong hunters, healthy and have a nice temperament. Hopefully they would also have enough qualities to be trialed and/or showed. A female puppy will be kept by me. I carefully planned this litter and the pups will be reared inside the house (not in a kennel) to be properly socialized and housetrained. Pups will be fed Carnilove puppy first and Carnilove large breed puppies later. My ideal owner is someone…
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Puppies… coming soon
It. Ch./R.S. Briony del Cavaldrossa x It.FT.Ch./Int.FT.Ch./Eu.Ch./ R.S. Gregor di Val di Chiana* R.S = Selected Producer * (all Gregor awards were gained in mountail field trials) Selected Production Puppies (pink pedigree) ***In italiano qui *** It.Ch./ R.S. Briony del Cavaldrossa Click here to see the Pedigree (Pr.Ch/S.R. Gion di Crocedomini x Ansa del Simano) HD A ED 0 PRA (rcd4) Clear NCL Clear 58 Cm. Briony is out of Producer Champion and Selected Producer Gion di Croocedomini (HD/A ED 0) x Ansa del Simano (HD/B), a bitch belonging to a Swiss hunter who hunts with her on the Alps. Briony was purchased as a personal hunting (rough shooting) dog.…
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Own a dark dog? Read this!
Black dogs sometimes turn rusty brown. People tend to attribute this to “too much sun” but, indeed, some black dogs never turn brown, while some others are brownish all year round, winters included. I owned a black dog only for a couple of months: he was a rescued Greyhound and he was, indeed, brown but this was caused by severe anemia and leishmaniasis. We all known systemic diseases can affect coat colour, but nutrition can as well. Yesterday, my friend Lucia Casini, who is professor of Veterinary Nutrition at the University of Pisa, shared this study with me “Tyrosine supplementation and hair coat pigmentation in puppies with black coats –…
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Dr. Schoen and Yin Chiao
When I started this blog I promised myself I was not going to write about veterinary medicine because I already have too much veterinary medicine in my mind but, there is always an exception to the rule! The exception, today, is Dr. Allen M.Schoen, an amazing American holistic veterinary. The first veterinary acupuncture book I purchased was written by him. It might not be the best written book on the topic (I prefer Xie’s Veterinary Acupuncture) but it is still a valuable textbook to refer to. Dr.Schoen, however, is much more than a mere acupuncturist and his books shall be read by pet owners, and by evterinarians, seriously interested in exploring…
