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Carol,

 

The Ivermectin / combo paste wormers are for additional

tape worm coverage only and do not "replace" the "pancur

purge".  They do replace the double strongid dose, but the

"pancur purge" gets encysted strongyles.  Quest is also

supposed to be affected against encysted strongyles, but

the safety zone on quest is a heck of a lot smaller than

the pancur purge.  You can also use "Safeguard" to do a

5 day pancur purge.  Hope this helps,

Kathy Myers

in Santa Fe, NM

... working too late again tonight...

ps... My mother and I bred shelties years ago.  She is a

judge for shelties and collies now.  Anyways, the origins of

the sheltie is very varried and litters rarely breed "true" to

size.  The collie *is* in the history of the sheltie breed.  I

have seen 19 - 20" shelties and I have seen 18" collies, so

I am absolutely not surprised to hear about purebred shelties

the same size as purebred collies.

 

Interestingly enough, we also started to see the miniturization

gene showing up in some sheltie litters... producing puppies

who were 1/2 the normal size as puppies and adults.

Per the AKC, in the 1970's it was a sheltie "breeder" (who

also won big and sold $1000 pet puppies... a huge price

for the day) who finally forced the AKC to shut down some

kennels.  They did a lot of showing / winning.  They also did

a lot of mishandling of papers.  The AKC was finally forced 

to revoke the papers on some dogs... though at the time

they wanted to "just be a registration listing agency".  They

finally realized that without some sort of accurate registration

policy they had no organization.  They do shut down some

puppy mill kennels and do audits, but I totally agree they 

could do a lot more.  AKC doesn't mean a thing in many

puppy for sale ads.