Bruce m. Conkey
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Does anyone perhaps wonder what we as owners physically do to perhaps damage the Thyroid Gland in our dogs. I will admit, I do not know if we can damage it. But if a Gland could be damaged by Physical Contact then the Thyroid as to be the #1 candidate in a dogs body.
We put collars on our hounds and tie them out. Lots of pulling and tugging goes on before they figure out what a chain is. I have seen them take off and about jerk their heads off.
We lead or dogs is some harsh conditions and every coonhunter I know has a dog before it learns to lead. Want to go one way around a tree when the hunter goes another. They get tangled in vines and all kinds of pressure is put on the Thyroid Gland.
Haven't even mentioned tying one up at the tree. They take some abuse then. Or how about the "tie one back and knock the coon down".
Now we get to the correction process. The shock collars with the ALPHA coming on the scene are probably at their highest levels of ever of being used.
Seriously think about your dogs body and about every time we come into contact with our hound. Either with the lead strap or connection through electronic signals to a collar. It is in the area of the Thyroid Gland.
I haven't even mentioned the Electronic Collar itself sitting on the dog neck and emitting a Magnetic Field from the battery and electronic signals from the collar.
Also we mention certain lines of hounds being affected more. First thing we want to jump on is "its a hereditary problem and they shouldn't be bred" I guarantee some of it is hereditary. But if you made a list of the dogs affected you would see at the top of the list some of the better dogs in the country. The dogs the competition hunters are looking for without a Thyroid issue. The top dogs are handled more, hunted more, on the leash more and corrected more than other hounds. They also operate at a level, that when something goes wrong it is noticed right away. The owners of those hounds due to the value of those hounds spend money getting to the bottom of the issue. So many times it turns out to be a Thyroid issue.
Now many of you will read this and say that Bruce has wrote a lot of things on here that is the biggest BS ever. You know what I might have to agree with you because I don't know and can't prove any of it. But the truth is. No one can prove it wrong either. So, please. I didn't write this to BS anyone. I wrote it to Friends to perhaps get everyone thinking there might be more to the story.
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