Amanda Gibney
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2006 TBDCA National Specialty Results Puppy Sweepstakes Jusge-Marti Rhyne 9-12 Puppy Dogs 1st-INT/NAT BA CH Kyrie's Thai One On 2nd-INT/NAT BA CH Kyrie's Passage to Bangkok 9-12 Puppy Bitches 1st-Kyrie's Takrei 2nd-INT/NAT BA/JU CH Kyrie's Questionable Virtue Best in Puppy Sweepstakes-INT/NAT BA CH Kyrie's Thai One On  |
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Parsley's owner sent me this picture of her 'smart Parsley puppy' tonight  Amanda Kyrie Siberians & Thai Bangkaew Dogs |
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I've researched raw and BARF diets for years and have been using modified versions of them. One thing that does concern me is the serious problems some dogs have with bone shards. I also study wolf behavior to give me some insight into dog behaviour, the Bangkaew have quite a few Dhole/Asiatic Wolf mannerisms. In my studies I found this passage that was rather interesting: Quoted from: The Whistling Hunters-Field Studies of the Asiatic Wild Dog (Cunon Alpinus) By Dr. Michael W. Fox Fecal analysis of 138 samples: "Vast quantities of fur were present in many of the fecal samples in association with bone fragments, especially from fawns and small mammels (principally hare and occasionally, palm squirrel and field rat; one mongoose was also identifed). It would be highly adaptive for the wild dogs to ingest fur to protect the alimentary tract from possilbe injury, especially from the extremely sharp bone spicules from small mammels. Removing the matted fur that formed tight wads and balls around these splinters of bone was very difficult. Clearly, if carnivores in captivity are fed small mamals such as rabbits, the carcass should not be skinned but left intact so that ingested fur may form a protective bolus around any sharp fragments of ingested bone. The compostition of successive stools passed by one wild dog reflected even more the animals' eating habits. Some stools contained little or no har, but mainly dark digested meat protien and occasional strips of partialy digested muscle and tendon. Other stools contained fur and a lower proportion of digested protien and bones. Bone fragments were never found in stools without hair. The dogs either purposefully ingest quantities of hair when crushing and swallowing bones, or in the process of digestion fur aggregates around the bone fragments and both are uaually voided together, seperate from the meat portion ofthe meal. Fragments of skull, teeth, claws and ocular lenses embedded in fur showed that small mammals were eaten whole."  This makes a lot of sense to me, why wild canids aren't dying of pierced instestines like some dogs fed BARF diets. Now i just need to find a source for whole dead animals. Amanda Kyrie Siberians & Thai Bangkaew Dogs |
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I've noticed that ears on puppies in Thaialnd seem to come up at a very young age. The US born litter it's taken a very long time for the boys ears to become fully erect. Parsely still has one rather droopy ear.  Rush's didn't come fully up until 7 months, in the picture below he was 4 months old and they were very down and floppy.  The boy in Canada, Curry, took about as long as Rush to get his ears up. Thai-ger had his up by 5 months. The 3 girls were all up by 3-4 months. Just wondering if it was common for some lines to have ears come up later. I didn't tape any ears, but did suppliment Rush with some calcium to help strenghten his ear cartilage. Amanda Kyrie Siberians & Thai Bangkaew |
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On July, 2, 2006 at 7 months old INT/NAT BA CH Kyrie's Questionable Virtue won Best in Show puppy at the IABCA shows. She also earned her JU.A youth championship, 3, 1st in Group and 2 Best in Show Bred-By puppy. She even beat out my Siberian puppy girl for the Best in Show win. Judges pictured are: Dr. Steve Keating (AKC & International Judge) Peggy Conger (AKC Judge) Mrs. Honey Glendinning (Canadian KC Judge) Mrs. Glendinning was very impressed with Ree's personality, movement and breed type and likes the Bangkaew breed very much.  Amanda Kyrie Siberians & Thai Bangkaew Dogs |