SheepChaser
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Aye you’re the biggest of them. I don’t go out hunting with a pack of collies you plum ? I live on a massive farm and spend every day out and about, the dogs just run into bits as we go about the place, never intentional. I did however once watch a collie bitch kill three out of three winter hares on big ground, none got out of their seat to be fair but still .....
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Doubled : tripled on one of the deer species and the foxes mostly ?
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In all honesty I’ve tracked three species of deer, fox, hare, rabbit, rat and various birds with the collies.
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I wasn’t talking bunny’s ?
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I bet these sheep dogs I’ve mine have put more away than plenty of Lurchers on here ?
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Totally agree mate and the purpose of me putting it here was to get the pms I have which I need to answer ?
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It’s not a big issue. I just often find stories like that have a bit more to them. Maybe I should shoot the dog. But maybe she’s also better than a lot of stuff I’ve seen plenty of folk happy to keep and run. And a lot of folk who come here and I say she’s not for me ask why as she seems to be a handy dog to have about. She’s not sh*te, I’ve just got better in the kennels, and got more dogs than I really need about the place. She could do someone a turn, give them some sport and enjoyment. She’s just never going to set the world on fire in any way shape or form.
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Like the lad who culled a pup after seeing the parents work. I’m not knocking the lad as I don’t know them ..... but let’s examine it a bit. Donald is a super super serious dog man that only keeps the best and won’t entertain any inferior or inferior bred dog in his kennels. So assuredly he saw the parents to the pup he bought in, under perform or jack, so like a super serious dog man he went home and gatted the pup, as he don’t keep sh*t...... So how come such a super dog man with all of the assumed connections and knowledge, brought in a pup from dogs he’d never seen run and obvi
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Tend to find that most hero’s are just folk who’d like to be known as such. Case in point, you always are made aware of their heroic exploits.
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I think it’s also probably true that you would find most Ozzie farms with working kelpies the dogs would see regular work, whereas a lot of collies seen on uk farms don’t do much work at all!
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Aye I know you aren’t knocking them mate. But I hear it a lot these days in both the hunting and stock dog world, how the kelpie is this amazing animal that blows the collie out of the water. I think a lot of that is romanticism and a case that there are a lot of poor collies out there. Other than heat tolerance I don’t really see what a kelpie can do that I wouldn’t expect a good collie to, or for that matter do better.
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Did he not think to see the parents first ?
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Aye that would be the kind of dogs I’m talking about!
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If I’m honest I would say that the best collies I’ve seen would wipe the floor with any Kelpie I’ve ever seen, I can’t think of much a good kelpie can do that a top collie can’t, and I can think of a lot of things that a good collie can do that a kelpie isn’t doing. And I accept that farms in oz are bigger than uk, but you were talking about working out of sight and on own initiative, and from my knowledge of stock work in oz, they aren’t exactly sending the jellies twenty miles back into the bush to gather stuff, but granted they are going off a way to work the bush and scrub and ga
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That’s a good point but you won’t find too many of the kelpies here are up to the standard. I’ve seen a couple of hard grafters but most have just been bought as fashion accessories by young shepherds / shepherdesses with social media accounts ? You want to see dogs working for themselves in big spaces, go and see a proper hill gather, those hill collies would make most kelpies look fairly daft.
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Reply will be incoming
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Just for the record the bitch doesn’t have mental issues. She’s not had the best of starts, and when she came to me she was nervy, sod all recall, generally just an unhappy dog. Like a big pup with no manners. I was in a position to give a dog some time having lost my main dog start of the season. I’ve spent a season running the bitch, she jumps, she retrieves, she has great recall, straight back on the lamp, hunts well, fur and feather, sharp around cover with the bushers. She will never be a world beating all round killing machine, but I don’t think she’s a cull. She wasn’t bred by me with e
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By Tuesday he’s eaten the cat.
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At the end of the day, you never know who is reading and there are often folk on here looking for dogs, some of which may be genuine. I’m fairly confident if a person comes for a walk out with me I will know if he’s an idiot or not. It’s worked so far for the most part with the people I’ve met. I gave the dog a chance and I’m looking to give her another that’s all. I expect given the responses, she will stay here and come out and about with the pack and go out with the Mrs and embarrass her by killing stuff ?
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There’s a bit more to this story mate and as much as folk might like slinging mud on here, I’m not interested.
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Aye me to. Best of just taking her out and sticking a slug in her then aye ?
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Aye that’s why I’m making an attempt here, and not taking her to a kennels or something daft. I knew when I put the post up I would get the usual ‘shoot her’ suggestions. I’m not doing that and I’m sure I will find a decent home for her. As much as most folk are w*nkers there are also plenty decent folk out there, and plenty of dogs find a decent home.
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That’s it mate. I will try to take some videos of her, she has some nice ways about her.
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Aye I get that. Simple answer is my main dog got killed august 30th. A friend found and gifted me this bitch as a project to take my mind off things.
