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Just an update ,we have Herbie 2yrs and 10 mths now ,and are delighted to show you his new buddy Molly, we got her after been burgled in May as Herbie slept through ( crazy chilled dog ) so thought we needed a bit more security , I was delighted as have been trying to get 2nd dog for long time,so every cloud etc, she is also a rescue who had been abandoned at a farm and had been living in a shed alone for 3mths . We think she is around 9 yrs old but is still like a pup ,she was an outdoor dog but has adapted to the house very well. Herbie tolerated her for the first few woks but now they are great buddies.

As for Herbie and his skin issues he is now on the raw food diet and tablets , he should be on one every two days but with the help of the diet I have him down to one a wk. his paws were good all summer compared to my previous post , he has so much fur on his feet now you think he was wearing legwarmers !!

Hope you are all doing well and I constantly sing your praises at what a great charity you are, and recommend you to anyone I know who wants a dog. I even did my communications oral presentation on DID ,so spreading the word .

P.s love the album too xx
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well herbie has been with us just over the year now and is coming on great, i changed his food to allergy tolerant food and his paws are great, not sure if it because of the food or that the grass mites are gone this time of year , but the difference is remarkable.
Herbie is getting big and his training has come on so much , he now happily bounds back to us when he is called , are seems really pleased at how it makes us happy.he gets to run wild and free in the farm chasing rabbits.
i’m dying to add a new pup to the household but still have to get around the hubby , maybe next year. so glad that we went with Dogs in Distress or we wouldn’t have this breath of fresh air that makes us smile everyday, in our lives
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Hi everyone, thank you all so much , i have pet insurance so will get test done, and i will update when i know more , Herbie says thanks too
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a very happy dog with his granny and helping her all the way , xx
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some more paw pics
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Well Herbie is doing great , he is getting very big and has us all under his thumb/paw. We adore him, he is great company for us as we have been trying for kids for years and he is our breath of fresh air, and has brought us so much fun and laughter.

We are a tight little family now as you can see from the photos below. My mum has been diagnosed with cancer since we got Herbs and he now goes into her every day and spends the day with her , he really is keeping her going , I really think dogs have a sixth sense and he knows she needs him, he really is making all the treatment bearable as he cheers her up so much. we have one little problem that I would like advice on if anyone else has experienced this, you see Herbie licks and chews his paws until he is raw. I noticed this the first week I got him and checked with the lovely girl who had fostered him if he had been treated for fleas, which he had.

Every evening when he goes to bed he starts chewing , his paws started to get sore looking so I brought him to the vet, he looked at his paws could find no mites etc but gave me tablets just in case( these just made him vomit lots).

When I brought Herbie up to get neutered and showed them to vet Paul and he gave me some more tablets too but he did say he thought it may be a comfort thing. Since then we have been putting socks on his feet at night, which helps some what. Its weird as he’s such a happy dog, a month ago I brought him to yet another vet and he thinks Herbie may have got some frostbite when he was abandoned as he said he only saw this in sheep before, he gave me a elizabethan collar , he said to keep this on 24hrs a day until he got out of the habit, we put it on but he was miserable and looked like he thought he was been punished for something, so that was abandoned too. I have read that collies are prone to licking issues, oh yeah we also bought dermapaw off the internet which seemed to relax him but made them look even more raw !!

So I am just wondering if anyone out there has experienced this and found a solution, our dog trainer said to put lavender on and this does work for a while but he just seems to be moving further up his legs. He is a really happy dog and even when we touch the raw areas it doesn’t seem to bother him but it just looks so sore that i would love to help him. Thanks in adance sorry for long message, Audrey

P.S sorry for the paw photos , i’ll take them down if they upset people just want to people to see how they are ,but pls also see how happy he is in the other pics xx
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well Herbie is doing wonderfully , i can’t believe its only over 2 months since we got him, feels like its been forever, he definately is one of the family now.
i have added some photos , one of him sleeping with my husband though i don’t think he’d be happy about me posting it but i think its so cute , my two favourite men panned out together.
Also with the good weather recently i brought Herbie to the local lake, i think it was his first time to see a lake i don’t think he has swam before, so he entered the water tentatively and found a rock to stand on !!
Now he loves the water but its very hard to get him out now, he loves it and pulls me all the way to it now .
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Herbie being a very good boy watching the dog whisperer, probably wondering whats that dog going nuts for,’ just chill man !! ‘
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well here’s a few more pics of Herbie , he is going up fast , settled in very well and has been out on farm enjoying the sun .
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Hi we got Herbie on sat , he is such an affectionate dog and has settled in wonderfully, its amazing how it seems he’s been here for ages, he sleeps through to 8 every morning with no accidents , actually no accidents at any stage. Every morning after his run in the garden ( toilet break) he comes up to the bed , goes nuts for about 2 minutes and is then back to sleep with me. he is growing so fast i swear he is bigger than sat , he is learning tricks and also learning how to be a sheep dog, which is great for using up his energy, but he likes nothing more than sleeping in front of the fire every evening, so very like us really, we are thrilled at how he has settled in and seems very happy here.
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hi i would be very interested in homing Harper, is he still available, thanks, Audrey

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