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    Kids and pups can't beat it.
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    Double thickness Vet bed with coats on is best bet. I do like straw but it needs to be very good quality soft wheat straw and changed minimum weekly and fluffed up daily as it breaks down very quickly. Hay is a no, no. It has no insulating properties like straw and clumps up.
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    Must admit I do like them up off the floor maybe around 1.5 ft with a 6" front on the bed so total 2 ft jump up. Hard worked dogs need to be warm and dry out of the wind. But some dogs don't like it. I have had greyhound pups sleep outside and get covered in snow when they had a warm bed to lie in.
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    I have used shredded newsprint and didn't like it the white greyhounds always looked grubby an it tended to clump up. Shredded cardboard was good. I went back to using good quality straw at one point but it had to be changed every 3 days. There was some other white plastic paper stuff on the go put it caused static and stuck to the dogs so they had it everywhere. In the end I went for double thickness vetbed and just rugged the dogs up whenever it got chilly. Cost a bob or two but was worth it washed and dried very quickly but even this had problems and I had to nail it down to stop them
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    Nice kennels Giro. Would pass the NGRC inspection if you ever got into the greyhounds.
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    Like others mine was a Cibie Sport (clear lens) and motorbike battery. At the time 35 years ago there wasn't a motorbike or car with lamps on safe in the whole of West Cumbria
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    5 star canine accommodation. Thought some of you might like this pic of my little dog in her kennel. Rain Hail or snow she is warm and dry when it is full of bedding.
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    not asking you to name and shame but is the "working dog" from an Irish breeders own line? No I think it was an English breed of working whippet a well known one. To be honest I just think I fell for the spiel. She has turned out oversized and wooden. ah right, reason I ask is that I have seen an Irish bred line to throw some big lads The one I have from Ireland has turned out far bigger than I wanted. Bitch around 40lb. Think I may have been duped.
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    not asking you to name and shame but is the "working dog" from an Irish breeders own line? No I think it was an English breed of working whippet a well known one. To be honest I just think I fell for the spiel. She has turned out oversized and wooden.
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    I have owned 4 whippets mainly as house dogs but of course doing a bit as well. 3 from the 4 were from racing stock the other I bought from Ireland supposedly from well known hunting stock. They were a mixed bag. One wouldn't even chase a rabbit but would chase a lure all day. One was good for rabbit and hare if not asked to give to much law. One was Ok for rabbits, but was cat mad, no cat beserk. The one I have now is the working stock from Ireland who is so wooden she couldn't catch a rabbit in a telephone box (stupid too). I prefer the racing stock whippets in every department.
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    When I kept greyhounds I would dose with the sheep wormer Ivomec or Ivermectin if they had mange. Results will be seen within 24 hours and your dogs will also be roundworm free. IMPORTANT IF YOUR DOG HAS ANY COLLIE OT OTHER TYPE OF HERDING DOG ANYWHERE IN ITS BREEDING DO NOT USE THIS PRODUCT. They can be very sensitive to it so be 100% sure any herding dog blood no matter how far back do not use this. It is 100% safe for all other dog breeds. I have used it on 6 week old pups. Do not use Ivomec Plus, Ivomec Super, or any other products that contain additional active ingredients. Use
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    If you have more than 3 dogs in a well insulated kennel with plenty bedding you shouldn't need any heat they will generate their own unless it is very cold. I would just put a greyhound kennel coat on the short haired types.
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    The dog should be respected for the loyalty it showed to its owners, the pack leaders. You only need to look at the dogs eyes, it is asking why!! but still takes it without retaliation. By my way of thinking this Bulldog breed has been bred to do this. Just the same as a greyhound has been bred to chase anything that moves. Just as the APB has been bred to be aggressive in almost all situations (this is a Bulldog not an APB). This dog is true to it's breeding and deserves respect. Far more respect than I would give to the two pieces of human $hit that dealt out the punishment.
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    Phil Lloyd I am sure you could make a great contribution to a new Cur topic I will start one off soon. FUJI What a great post. I would call that bitch a cur but it doesn't really matter what I would call her, any dog man with eyes in his head can see she is the proper sort. Being a day time man at heart I would love to see what your 7 year old dog out of her would produce if put to right type of greyhound bitch or genuine 1st cross Greyhound x Whippet bitch. They would be dynamite with probably zero litter wastage. Jukel I really enjoyed that video. Just like Cur cattle dogs would
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    I think you are correct it is a Minshaw topic and not a Cur dog topic.
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    The pictures are only to give you some idea of what a cur looks like I haven't seen what I would call a true Cur working on the Cumbrian fells for 38 years. Even the ones I bred from 30 years ago were nothing like.
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    In a nutshell yes. Yes one could look a bit like a working welsh sheep dog tri coloured and the next like ragamuffin Border Collie. I have what I would call a sort of Cur on a chain out side my door now. She was a reject from a neighbouring farm who bought her for sheep but she never worked out. She must be a stone heavier now than when she first came so not a great representative of her breed, but if I can find a working camera I will take a pic of her. when she first came she would catch rabbits for fun in front of my rocking horse whippet. Below is a pic of what one might look like IT
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    Comparing a fell cur to a collie is like comparing a saluki to a greyhound. Basically the same dog to most people but they are totally different types of dog more in the way they work and move than looks. I would agree BlackDog. My first experience of a Cur was when I was 15, just left school and working on a farm (live in). We had a cur for the cattle and a border type for the sheep. The Cur was to hard on the sheep and the Border didn't have the bottle for Cattle (bullocks) they were a wild bunch of ba$$tards who could kick front ways back ways and side ways and would always face
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    To me it is lol Apart from the big fellas, don't think the land holds the numbers like it did 20 plus years ago, and good posts toblue, keep them coming squire I am sure you are right about the numbers especially Hares. Since the ban their numbers have declined rapidly. I think there must be something else wrong with them though as they don't seem to be in any kind of condition. Where I now live the hard winter we had a few years ago really gave the hare population a hammering. Going back 30 years ago there was a hare or 2 in every field on the outskirts of Kinmount estate, Scotland.
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    I am sure it will have been one of the same litter. Some travellers also bought one, the only brindle in the litter. The rest were as you described. I never seen the first Blue, or at least I can't remember. I am not so sure if the first Blue would have taken Red as I was with Victor the first time he saw a Red in the lamp and he went crazy... A full bloody herd of them near Grisedale. Nipper had a good try!! It was an hectic time with some great characters. Old Bob Mossem was the main man in the beck (the river Derwent) along with being the top Chicken man. Vic was of course top
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    That's a nice looking little bitch Fuji. Just the right type. You know we can all get carried away with the new kids on the block, from what I can see it is the APB x greyhound types, they most certainly look the part but I can imagine they would be a nightmare to handle. Not knocking them as I have no experience of them. Going back 35 years we were all seduced by the first cross Deerhound greyhounds advertised in the Exchange & Mart. They looked fantastic but couldn't catch a hare in a telephone box. Personally I have no idea why anyone would even think of including the moder
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    I will post on this tomorrow in more detail Bob. A Cur is a very Northern fell type of collie, not the come bye Shep type. I am full of drink tonight so will leave it at that. The difference between a Cur and a Collie is not vast but they are different animals altogether.
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    I can't tell you what will happen but looking at the breeding of these dogs you would be asking for trouble leaving food in with them.
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    I did hear something about Wedgy beating Minshaw in a match. To be truthful it could have been with one of the first cross ones that I bred, not many people were breeding genuine first crosses in the area so it has a good chance to be but not sure. I can remember that Wedgy and John Langley took one back to Clifton in the early 80s and it turned out to be a good lamping dog. The one that I kept was a nice dog but would not strike. He would be coursing a hare and as soon as he was within striking distance he would be looking at me as if to say what do I do now. The dam was an old Cur on
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    Some great pics Darbo. The modern addition of the rear view mirror on the side of the Bowtop did make me smile.
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