Hiya! Been active on the FB group and the sighthound discord for some time now. My silken is now 15 weeks and is a dream of a pup. I'm just wanting to get into some more groups as I'm thinking of showing or learning lure as a possible activity in the future. I'm reading and learning and making as many contacts as I can.
All that to say, does anyone have the discord invite to the Silken group?
📸 of Nori for tax purposes.
I got my lovely girl, Snorkel, from the SPCA about a year ago. She’s around 3.5 years old now. We have had 3 semi serious / serious skin wounds. 1 puncture on her chest from hopping over a stick, 1 serious laceration (50+ stitches on her abdomen after doing the splits), and a face wound from another dog grazing her with their canine. After each event we have analyzed and adjusted our actions, I can’t but a bubble wrap suit on her, and even in the safest grassy fields I still have anxiety that she’s going to split her skin in some way.
My question is, does anyone else have this experience with their silken? And, are their supplements, etc, that you use to help “thicken” their skin? My vet’s advice was avoid wooded areas, which we do, but are there other options? Thank you!
I live on Vancouver Island in BC, and have googled around for active breeders in Canada. I have checked the facebook pages, the CSWS, but all paths to Canadian breeders lead to facebook pages that havent been active in over 5 years or sites that dont exist anymore. Is there anyone still breeding SW's in Canada?