Dave Richards
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Registered: Apr 2015
Location: church hill tn
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Thyroid
There is concern that dog collars and shock collars are somehow damaging the dogs thyroid gland, especially hunting dogs. The thyroid gland sits in the throat area and a dog lunging against a collar can certainly affect or damage the thyroid. Then you have the shocking collars with prongs pushing against the throat area, hummmmmmmm wonder why more dogs do not have thyroid issues, that and feed without iodine. Skeptics may want to look at these causes, but think what you want a lot of dogs develope thyroid issues. Thyroid issues CAN be treated and MUST be treated if you want your dog to function properly. Case in point, we have a young dog that went from extremely accurate on coons to just could not tree right. Had his thyroid checked and his level was under 1, put on thyroid meds and within 2 weeks he was back to being extremely accurate when he trees. My hunting partner was simply amazed that this had so much affect in this dog. Ignorance is failing to get your dog the help they need, if you are to lazy or cheap to give a dog a daily pill, you should not own a dog period. Now a thyroid pill WILL NOT make a slick treeing idiot an accurate coon dog, but for an accurate coon dog with a thyroid problem, it will help the dog to function properly, it CERTAINLY helped mine get back to his normal self. Dave
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