NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS DNA is a fantastic tool in testing for the likelihood that an animal might suffer from a certain disease in the future. It does of course have many other uses, one of which is dating things. I was recently reading a paper on dog DNA. It says that the domestication of the dog […]
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Breed Notes 30th October 2020 Margaret Deuchar
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS I cannot believe that we are at the end of another month. Despite it being such a difficult year the months seem galloping by, probably in some way just as well as hopefully it means that we are nearer having a treatment or vaccine for Covid. Last weekend should have been our Ch […]
Breed Notes 23rd October 2020 Margaret Deuchar
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS A few weeks ago I had a lovely e-mail from Maureen Lake who has Fern (Knytshall Cora Sun Drop of Maubrea). She wrote:-‘I went for a lovely long walk across the fields the other day and coming back met a couple with two bouncy young Springer Spaniels with a ball. Now Fern loves […]
Breed Notes 16th October 2020 Margaret Deuchar
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS Over the past couple of weeks I have talked about Buhunds taking part in Scent Trials, these trials and the training is all based on the training given to the dogs that are used to detect diseases, bombs, drugs and the cadaver dogs that search for bodies. Humans have 6 million scent receptors […]
Breed Notes 9th October 2020 Margaret Deuchar
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS Well, October and Autumn have certainly come in with a vengeance with storm Alex arriving from Italy and France. One minute we were watering some grass seed we had put down on some bare patches which were due to all the dry weather, the next minute the lawn is virtually all under water, […]
Breed Notes 3rd October 2020 Margaret Deuchar
NORWEGIAN BUHUNDS I start with a warning about acorns, this year there are a lot of berries on the bushes, and fruit on trees, this also applies to Oak trees which are laden with acorns .The only large animal that seems to able to eat acorns safely are pigs, and while dogs on the whole […]