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    Sure he meant 3/4 grey. Don’t really see the point of a 3/4 collie.
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    It is most certainly a lot to do with me mate.
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    Sure a few folk will disagree but hey ho. I’ve never seen a good deer hound blooded dog, wasn’t really sure they existed anymore, other than in folks memories of a time gone by. When I say deer hound blooded, I don’t mean a dash way back. I’ve not seen a huge number of dogs run, because I don’t like people and in order to see lots of dogs you need to meet and go out with lots of people. But all of the best deer dogs I’ve seen, have all either been saluki bull greys, bull greys, or bitza Lurchers with a good dose of bull and saluki in them.
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    You make another excellent point. Guarding a few nets abs holding rabbits isn’t really enough to prove a dog. My collie picked that up after ten mins. I like to see a whippet doing it’s classic smash and grab tactics around cover and running stuff down with the merciless teeth snapping way they have.
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    One thing I do think about any of these specialist rabbiters....... unless you are hitting certain bits of the country, rabbits are rapidly declining. When I owned that whippet I put a lot of miles in for the big bags of rabbits, but they were still about enough for 10-20 a night being a regular thing local around the doors. Now ...... I don’t know if there is the work to really push a specialist rabbit dog? If I got another whippet I’d be getting it for other things, but it would be punching a bit.
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    This is very true I’m sure. I don’t really move in whippet type circles, no one I know keeps that kind of dog. And I am inherently distrustful of anyone’s claims other than those I know it have gone out with. So it would be somewhat of a mission. But I stand by what I say, of all of the running dogs, the whippet has been seized on by the peddlers as a good way to line their pockets. I see ‘working whippets’ being advertised for £2500. Must be having a giraffe ? One day I’ll have another to add to the bushing team. But until then the big dogs will do me. I’ve hopefully go
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    The ones I saw from Mike work were all like peas in a pod. Thick set, hard as nails with huge drive. He was a proper knowledgeable dog man to.
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    It is ? I’m blessed with a very supportive Mrs who is often seen walking through the village with five or six dogs and has accepted all that comes with the lifestyle we have. But they soon build up. Three collies here, one on the verge of retirement and so another will be needed soon. Five Lurchers, of which one is retired, one her pet, one a pup, one main worker and a project bitch I think I need a home for. And six assorted bushers / terriers. Ok it’s only 14, not so bad.
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    I had the pick of a litter bred by Mike, and it’s the only one I’ve ever owned ...... he stopped breeding them and I’m not so sure who else out there breeds that kind of genuine quality animal ...... without forgetting the £3000 price tag. Working whippets aren’t going to come out of this well at all, I still see lots of Lurchers being bred for right reasons and sold for sensible sums or gifted. I see pretty much no whippets going into working homes for sensible money. They will end up hand bag dogs. Shame really as I think they blow stuff like Beddy whips out of the water.
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    Nice wee dog. Reminds me of the whippet I had about ten years or so ago. Punched seriously above his weight and flew into everything from foxes to fallow bucks with great gusto. Hunted hard and had zero fear but the nicest personality you could wish for. If I thought u could get another like him I think I would but from what I can see these days they seem to cost ten times as much for half the dog. Too many folk breeding for the wrong reasons, lap dogs and shivery pets. I remember lamping with my lad one night, he was on the arse of a hare, snapping his jaws, the hare dropped into a ditch
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    I’ve got 15 ? it’s deffo a full time job ?
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    4 % for a house beer and 5-6.5 if out.
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    If anyone has a great big deerhoundy dog/bitch that’s good, I wouldn’t mind seeing it run.
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    You only have enough life for a certain number of dogs. It soon passes you by. Best to spend it pouring time and effort into something that’s going to respond to it.
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    I had a litter of terrier pups legally docked recently. The deal was in getting them docked I committed to the same vet jabbing and chipping the pups.
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    Add legal docking for terrier pups to......
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    Do people really breed that many Lurchers for money ? Why would you bother when something like a Russel you can sell for 1200 and as many as you like. See the odd advert of the silly sites but not sure how many folk regularly shelling out Lurcher pups for big money ? Re quality - there’s so much shite already, why they are breeding it isn’t an issue. If you buy in off unknowns, it’s always a gamble.
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    I think that’s it, the next gen is easier to see what you get, you’ve two runners doing what you like and hope for pups the same. But it’s the first xs that I struggle with, although i guess you need them For the next step in the process.
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    I can see the Lurcher to Lurcher breeding, it makes sense. But folk going out and searching for an Irish terrier for a first x etc, it’s a bit the same as the beddies.......don’t really get the point of those 1st xs out of the rare breed stuff. Your dog looks a smart one, but I don’t know if I’d say the Irish terrier was the magic ingredient.
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    Here’s one. Would You say that’s down to the breeding ? Or the dog? Often find folk want to Recreate dogs which can’t be. Ie can you say his good traits come from the Irish terrier ?
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    I think it was painfully obvious at least half the folk on that trip had never caught more than a rabbit before. ?
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    Most of the best dogs for a bit if everything I’ve seen have had bull grey and x blood, usually either saluki or collie. But failing that just a bull grey. Lurcher to Lurcher types of the above though.
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    Yep terriers mate. Bred worker to worker line bred for 9 gens. And Lurcher wise I was thinking some bull x fox lines but also Some lads rabbit dogs etc
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    I’d say there are more folk keeping types and lines for jobs. How long we talking ? I got pups here now - 9th gen, thirty years.
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    Really ?
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