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Welcome to the girls page! Here at Glasgowhill we know our girls are of great importance. All our girls are or will become canadian champions, this is very important to us as we strive to give you the BEST. Lets face it anyone can make puppies !! Here we want both the Sire and dam to be of the best quality. Health, Temperament, Grace, so please enjoy our girls.
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Glasgowhill's Double Dare
" Dare "
8 Points
Dare at six months
By Can Ch Glasgowhill"s Let It Burn ne and Glasgowhill's Double Trouble ne
This is Dare she is a stunning puppy just look at "THAT FACE " Dare made her show debut and in one weekend win Best Of Breed , Winners female And Best Puppy In Breed four out of the six shows We are very proud of her
Thyroid - coming soon
Cardiac - Normal
Hips - coming soon
WSU- MDR1 - Normal/Normal MDR1- #11704
Optigen DNA Tested Non Carrier for PRA and Normal Eyed / Carrier For CEA # 08-4301
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Glasgowhill's Rave Review
"Ravin"
This is ravin she is a clown she is always the one with her feet in the water .If I Could just teach her to wash the floors ! Ravin went to her first show and came home with Winners ,Best Of Winners and Best Puppy In Breed for her first two point the judge was .Dr. G. Bodegard from Sweden. Ravin has a temperment loike her sister Java
Born July 02 2005
Thyroid
- Normal
Cardiac - Normal
Hips - coming soon
WSU-MDR1 -Normal/Normal MDR1-# 11675
Optigen DNA Tested A Non Carrier of CEA and PRA t# 07-11371
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Glasgowhill's Mocha Laté
"Java"
Java Is a very outgoing Girl she is always willing to please she is always happy and she has no fear . She loves to follow me all over the house Wish she would learn to clean up . Java is the mother to one champion Pictured below
Born July 02 2005
Thyroid - Normal
Cardiac - Normal
Hips - coming soon
WSU DNA Tested -MDR1 - Normal/Normal -# 11707
Optigen DNA Tested A Non Carrier of CEA and PRA # 07-11370
Java, and Ravin's Mom And dad
Can Ch Van M That's The Ticket and Van M Take A Gander
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Can Ch Glasgowhill's Adorably Dora
" RUMBA"
4pts
Thyroid - Normal
Cardiac - Normal
Hips - coming soon
WSU-MDR1 - Mutant/Mutant MDR1- #11709 .....eyes
Normal eyed / carrier
This Is Rumba she is a Pure For sable WF girl with a beautiful head and outstanding body ,neck, top line and bone and just look at her eye very nice expression
Rumba's Dad and Mom
Can Ch Glasgowhill's Let It Burn ne and Can Ch Glasgowhill's Devine Design
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Glasgowhill's Miss Muse
"Muse"
FOR SALE
See for sale page
It took a long time to make up our mind whether she would stay or go well we have decided that she can stay she is one of Jackpots last daughters She is a White factored Tri=factored Sable .
Thyroid - coming soon
Cardiac - Normal
Hips - coming soon
MDR1 - Normal/Normal MDR1-# 12123
eyes Normal eyed / carrier
Muse is out of Can Ch Glasgowhill's Winning Ticket XXX Glasgowhill's Keltic Afterhour
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Tale of a brood Bitch
Author Unknown
You buy a bitch, a winning thing'
And make her a champion in the ring.
She's sound, she's lovely, dysplasia free,
You want to breed her carefully.
Taking lots of time, you look around,
The stud ,ust be both typey and sound.
You study the pedigree 'till blind,
Building the litter in your mind.
Several possibilities appear.
You write back "My dog's the best"
Although the stud fee's out of sight,
You breed the bitch, the die is cast.
The next nine weeks don't go fast.
Of course, she whelps in the middle of the night.
With luck and care it turns out right.
The next eight weeks you fret and strain,
Feed and scoop in driving rain.
You take care with the homes they get.
This one is a show dog, this one a pet.
New owners call with problems dear,
You're on the phone for half a year.
AT LAST, the moment you've longed to know,
Your pups have come to their first show.
They all look fine, not one's a dud.
Then from behind you comes…..
"WOW - WHO'S THE STUD ????
PRE BREEDING EM FOR THE
BITCH
A few procedures, performed before the bitch comes in heat, may make the difference
between puppies and a ‘miss’. Also, they ensure the safety of the
stud dog if a natural breeding should desired. These procedures will in addition
ensure the continued good health of your bitch. We like to start about one month
before the coming heat, in ordeto have time to treat any problems found.
CULTURE, SENSITIVITY, AND WHITE BLOOD COUNT
Certainly the most common cause of missed litters is a bacterial infection in the uterus. To determine if a uterine infection exists, a bacterial culture and sensitivity should be done using a ‘guarded culture instrument’. The culture is taken high in the vagina, near the cervical, and is termed a ‘high culture’ or a ‘cervical culture’. We find that even in young bitches which have not been bred before, there are very often significant numbers of bacteria which are capable of being uterine and reproductive pathogens. We always tell people that the reason we have to check on even maiden bitches, is that the bitches don’t wear panties ( and the dogs aren’t circumcised)! No matter how clean the environment, there will be a continual source of bacteria (of fecal origin), present where the bitch sits. Every time she has a heat, her cervix opens and her resistance to infection goes down. The distances between the outside world and the bladder and cervix are shorter in the bitch than in the dog. The dog, with its longer urethra, is less likely to acquire a bladder infection, even though the condition of pus accumulating at the end of the sheath makes it seem likely that males would often be affected. In humans, upright posture and gravity tend to work against infections ascending from the external genitalia. Bitches don’t have this asset. If ‘vaginitis’ (an infection in the vagina) is present and established fairly well in the bitch, when her cervix opens and the ability of her white blood cells to fight infections is reduced during estrous (heat), the infection will often gain entry to the uterus where it may become an ‘endometritis’ or a ‘pyometritis’. An endometritis is an inflamed uterus, and a pyometritis is the condition of frank pus in the uterus.
In order to gauge whether a positive bacterial culture means a vaginitis, an endometritis, or a pyometritis, we must do a white blood count. The culture-and-sensitivity, and the white count are always both required to generate information in a useful form. A normal to mildly elevated count with a positive culture usually indicates a vaginitis. A moderately elevated white count implies a severe vaginitis or an endometritis, and a white count of 30,000 and above is a severely affected uterus; in this last condition, the uterus may be distended with pus which can be felt by palpation and may be visualized on x-ray. This is then known as pyometra. NOTE!! These bitches will either exhibit no signs, or mild depression and perhaps some loss of appetite. There may be a thick creamy discharge, but just as often there is not. If the disease has progressed to the pyometritis point, it is well beyond the point we like to have caught it. One way to monitor your bitch and avoid the problem is to do a white blood count about 3 weeks after each heat period whether or not she has been bred. If an infection exists and the white count is high it is often necessary to administer prostaglandin therapy to open the cervix and empty the uterus in order to get the infection under control, even with concurrent antibiotic therapy. Those bitches with a frank pyometra and an extremely high white blood count may become septicemic, toxic, shocky and die. Of those which are followed in a routine manner, and which receive early treatment, we should be able to preserve about 85% as useful breeding bitches.
A sensitivity is performed along with the culture. This is done in a petri dish filled with a culture medium which will support the growth of most bacteria. The culture swab is swept evenly over the medium, to provide a solid growth pattern. Then, small discs of blotter paper, each impregnated with a different antibiotic, are placed on this surface. Where the growth of bacteria is prohibited in a circle around the disc it is said that that organism is ‘sensitive’ to that antibiotic. Where there is no interruption in the growth of the bacteria around the disc, the organism is said to be ‘resistant’ to that antibiotic. This gives us our third item of useful information; what antibiotic to chose to treat the infection.
The use of a guarded culture instrument or a sterile stainless steel speculum will ensure that the organisms come from the area near the cervix, rather than the area around the vulva. If a guarded culturette or a stainless speculum is not used, the culture will be contaminated by the organisms the bitch last sat on, rather than those which are actually in residence at the cervix.
If an infection is found, four days after treatment has been completed a follow-up culture is necessary to be sure the organism has been eliminated, or reduced in numbers below an acceptable level. It is important to obtain the actual report of the lab on the culture and sensitivity, as many labs are incorrect in which organisms they identify as ‘significant’ in a reproductive infection. A report of ‘clean’ or ‘no significant organisms’ is not sufficient. Also, the first antibiotic to which the organism is reported as sensitive may not be the best one to give. Most of these pathogens are enteric in origin and do not respond well to amoxicillin, for instance, even if the report says they are sensitive to it.
The organisms we generally feel are significant in a properly obtained cervical culture are : beta Strep, E. coli, Pseudomonas spp., and Staph aureas, as well as several others if they are found in large numbers. Additionally, it is sometimes necessary to check for Mycoplasma, which is done on a different culture.
THYROID
Thyroid is the basic ‘trophic’ hormone in the body; trophic means promoting or supporting growth. In order for all of the more specific reproductive hormones to play their proper role in the very complex series of events resulting in successful production of a litter, thyroid must be present at an adequate level.
There is some controversy about what is reported as the ‘normal’ range for T4; additionally, we have no breed normals. Even though the labs have been computerized for a long time, most submitting veterinarians neglect to note this important item when they submit their samples. Thyroid requirements vary with age and with stress and disease demands. The bitch for whom we may recommend l-thyroxine supplementation to assure that this is not the factor preventing a breeding from being successful, is not a bitch which we would say had abnormal thyroid function. If the dog were exhibiting clinical signs of a true thyroid deficiency, she would not be the one you would be proposing to breed anyway. She would be an unthrifty animal, and not the one you would choose to breed. Almost all of the normal breeding animals I check have a T4 in the low normal range. I feel, and this is an opinion I have discussed with several other reproductive practitioners and with endocrinologists, that we should try to have bitches in the upper third of the normal range to assure that thyroid is not a limiting factor. In addition, almost every bitch of 5 years or more will have a measurably low thyroid - and this is a normal affect of aging. As human women should reproduce before 40, bitches should reproduce before 5. Yet through the simple agency of supplementing l-thyroxine, we are most often able to extend that breeding range to 9 years, all other things being equal. The argument as to whether we should be breeding bitches with low thyroids is, in my mind, totally useless until we take a better look at the validity of published ranges. Thyroid varies just like body temperature throughout the day; for a normal appearing and functioning animal, the ballpark is more important than hyperfine determinations of thyroid values. Often once a successful pregnancy has been established and the bitch is checked again after she has finished with weaning and shedding, she may be able to go off supplementation and maintain higher levels on her own. Again, rechecks are necessary to determine needs, if any as the bitch’s age and circumstances change. It is not a certainty that a bitch with a low normal T4 can’t have a normal heat, become pregnant and whelp a litter; rather, it is a matter of trying to cover the bases and eliminate areas where potential problems can occur in order to enhance our chances of producing the litter.