This is the 2nd year in a row my lab has gotten down and sickly. Her tail is limp and very sore to the touch she won't even let me scratch her base of her tail. She is acting weak, sluggish, pretty much sickly.

She had a pretty hard week on the water, I did run her way harder than I have in the past with retrieves way past her comfort zone and way too many cripples.

Highlight of my season was my little cousin calling me with a cripple green head in some tall grass on the bank wanting my lab to come hunt it up for him. He didn't see exactly where it fell so we skirted the bank looking for it, she finally got a trail and chased it about 50 yards along the bank until it hit the water and the fight was on. Beautiful to watch all your hard work and training pay off with a blind retrieve on a pretty healthy cripple green head.

Anyway, enough bragging. Does anyone else have this problem with their lab? I'll be resting her for a week for sure with me traveling to hunt with other people and the game next week. What are some remedies you guys have used?

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Posted by Da Hammer

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Posted on 1/4/12 at 6:09 pm to GetMoney11

NSAIDs will help some.

I haven't ever found a direct link with over work and CWT. I find it more if they swim a lot and then spend a lot of time in a crampt kennel afterwards. I also find some dogs are more prone to it than others. I have had a few dogs get it and never had one that I didn't/wouldn't hunt with it.

Lastly, it could also be compacted anal glands they can cause the same symptoms as CWT. You can fix that on your own but it's messy!

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