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Saluki / bull / grey and collie grey / saluki grey / bull grey
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100%. Plenty of folk always saying they would batter them etc. But plenty of folk will know exactly who abs where they are and do nowt. You can find anyone that’s days within a short space if time. But most folk turn a blind eye to things if it’s not directly effecting them. There will be lads on here who know lads like this abs don’t do or say nowt.
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Oh I’m fairly confident the dog will do what I want. Ps I’ve two more dogs in my kennels with saluki blood in them ?
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I had a beagle / teck mix from a pretty stable line which sadly I didn’t continue. Came out like Black and Tan rough coated beagles. Even when 7/8 beagle.
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Beagle xs became popular / in vogue but a lot of folk are using them for stuff and on ground which isn’t really suited to the x.
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Jesus didn’t realise they weren’t ten month yet!
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Some of us are capable of multi tasking ?
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But I do concur as we don’t really have many rabbits to start a dog so just hunt and run what’s there from when they start out doing what they do.
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Sorry I meant more, to me a dog which can bend and kill plenty foxes on lamp and hunt up and kill them day for itself, will catch and kill most anything else I want to catch day or night. But a dog bred for something else may not do the fox bit.
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They are collie types. And two dogs dancing about with a fox while you run like f*ck to stab it isn’t a fox dog.
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Thank you. What I’ve found works for me, is to find a dog bred to be hard and gritty which is fast enough and well enough out together to do what I want. Mostly I’ve been shoe horning fox dogs into other rolls, this pup I’ve got is first one that’s been bred with something else in mind originally. I always start at a fox and work backwards.
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I don’t think I’m explaining myself. Man breeds litter out of two ‘specialist’ foxing dogs, let’s say a bull grey type, nice and racey. By your token the pups are ‘specialist’ fox dogs. Man buys a pup out of that litter and uses it to kill deer, it kills lots of deer. It’s very good at it. So is it now a specialist fox dog or deer dog? What happens if he kills lots of fox and deer and the dog is great at both. Now it’s not as good as a specialist dog it’s an all rounder, but it’s not. Who knows. Another laddo gets one and smashes Charlie with the pup he gets and i
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No mate what I’m trying to say is you can take a good foxing bred pup that’s been bred for that job and go take it knocking deer over for its main job and it should excel and should catch you 30 rabbits on the lamp abs kill lamped hares etc
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What do you class as Lurcher x Lurcher ? Most saluki xs, bull xs abs collie xs these days are Lurcher x Lurcher. Also, abs this isn’t aimed at you, but I would expect a decent runner that’s bred right and put together well, to be able to be used for whatever the owner chose. Ie a good fast running foxing dog, with a good strike and all of that, should be able to kill you a good bag of rabbits, hares on the lamp, flatten deer etc. A good dog is a good dog, what goes in the bag is usually more down to owners preference, the ground etc. I might be a bit breed blind but I would
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You’ve not run a lot of foxes then ?
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I’m going to throw it out there....... but I’ve never had a dog that was good at running and catching other stuff that struggled with rabbits, but seen plenty good rabbit dogs that couldn’t or wouldn’t do other stuff. Not saying rabbits aren’t impressive or there is any hierarchy, and they would be harder to catch in day etc but ultimately a decent Lurcher should kill you a bag of rabbits if they are there regardless of what it was got for.
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Problem is if you’re only keeping a rabbiting dog and then saying you’re lucky to see two rabbits a night ....... as good a rabbit dog as it might be it’s kind of a bit pointless. I love rabbiting day or night, probably some of the best sport you can get. But at least some other specialist dogs can have a lot of stuff out in front of them. This season my main dogs catch rate on rabbits is 100%, he caught the one slip he had.
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I’m down with that ?
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If the police ever come through my door I’ll tell them they should come on here and hunt down them lads doing 1000 foxes a season. I’m small fry ?
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Can some one give me a summery so I can decide which side to Wade in on ?
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You don’t stock break ?
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Thank you. Here it a lot on here. It’s crap.
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So...... I have a question and I’m looking for honest answers. We hear it a lot on here and I’m sure there are lads at it. But how many folk on here either have or do, catch 3-4 foxes a night, 3-4 nights a week through the season. With same dog /s. That’s 40-50 foxes a month, so September - feb would be 240-300 foxes a season with same dog / s. Can anyone honestly say they have owned it known a dog that’s caught 200-300 Charlie a season and how many seasons did it do? Because a dog with a four year working life like that would be doing 1000 foxes. Just asking ........
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You make a very good point about the ground. Ideal dogs for that ground, but would come up short on bug arable ground with big slips. A lot of folk forget it really is about the ground, quarry, way you hunt and the individual dog.
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Yes mate he has a very good nose!
