SheepChaser
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I know a lot of bull x (including the one i lost start of this season, and her sister who my mate has) who will retrieve rabbits live to hand, and I know a lot of whippets, including the one I had, who prefer to crunch them to bits or shake them to death lol. IME Bull makes them very trainable, loyal and smart. However, probably not much point in getting a half x for ferreting lol.
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Get three pieces of vet bed that fit the whelping box, and then you have one under them, one in the wash and one dried and ready to go. Makes the job easy, just change daily, chuck dirty in wash, put clean in and have one drying.
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One other point is now the folk looking for you in the dark are also probably not using a lamp. It’s getting like some kind of sas shit. Socks must be loving it ?
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I wish ?
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Back at her day job this morning ?
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That is my ten year old geriatric collie with a bad shoulder ? she caught that last night running by the quad in my head torch beam after a 12 hour shift grafting. Totally see why folk love collie bred dogs for rabbiting.
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Most half decent dogs will catch rabbits.
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The number of times it isn’t what we thought when the dog is slipped, I’m bloody glad I’m not using it to shoot at stuff ? most of the time it’s getting confused how zoomed in it is and thinking it’s bigger or smaller depending on distance.
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Deffo want a pup ?
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What kind of dog are you after, for doing what, on what kind of ground. Used to lamp and mooch a lot around your area and a couple of my mates are still living that way, plenty to go at and nice ground for a runner.
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Have used a range, my mate has the top range one, and its great, you can see something a km away very clearly. . . . . . which is fairly pointless really. I want to see whats within the max 100 acre field I'm in, and I want to know what it is and run it with my dog. One thing a lot of people forget is go for one with low mag, as you will be scanning fields if using a dog, not trying to zoom in and stick a slug in its head across a field. Xm30 is fine. Have some funny moments with thermal, spent a while walking up a big fallow buck once, which was a chimney stack sticking over a hedge. Theres a
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From what I was told it went up north to one lad, got rehomed to one of his mates for whining in the pen, and turned into a handy dog.
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Aye fairly sure my mate bred merlin and has the dam and brother.
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Was merlin dam called poppy ?
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I loved the proper lockdown. Meant I got the country side left to myself ?
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My advice for what it’s worth is if you think the dog is worth breeding from and the right bitch comes along, get it bred. Even if you don’t keep a pup, get the blood on the ground.
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Fingers crossed. The only bitch us staying here and possibly that dog. Then two other dogs going to friends, one to be his young lads first dog. Grandma was out today for about 8 hours. She’s knackered.
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Mixed type bushing terrier. Looks like a border / lakey type, but they are all related.
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Seen the same thing mate, a lurcher bitch scooped up and tossed, she was fine to be fair and didn’t break a sweat ?
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Some folk mate it work, more don’t. I personally wouldn’t go same litter or type. I got a seven and ten month old now that I’ve had from pups.
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I don’t particularly like fire arms. However it’s no coincidence that we are the only country really with a culture of draw dogs etc and it’s banned whereas most of Europe it’s legal and celebrated. Gonna upset some folk here I know but there’s a time and a place for a lurcher and at the end of a dig isn’t it unless certain circumstances conspire.
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Agreed. Totally. On the terriers as far as I understand you can put a dog to ground to bolt a fox in protection of game birds and if the dog gets stuck you can dig it out and remove the dog and whilst there if you see the quarry you can dispatch it with an appropriate fire arm. You are allowed to use a lurcher to flush, to mark to ground and to either retrieve the dead quarry when shot or track and dispatch the quarry if a poor shot is made.
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Lads do genuinely use lurchers to track and find / hold shot and lost or wounded deer, all legal and above board. Just like there’s nowt wrong on a shooting estate with hunting a fox out of cover with two lurchers and running it to ground (having attempted to shoot but being unable to on safety grounds) and then dropping a terrier in on said fox. All legal and above board!
