SheepChaser
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Thank you. He’s totally different to anything I’ve ever had before. But I like him a lot and he’s been a very easy pup to rear.
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He has an easy life ? he was never meant to be a house dog but he seems to be in more than out. Taught himself to jump stock fence the other day. I’m just now starting to see a bit of the dog he will be rather than the pup he is, if that makes any sense.
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Looking well mate! This one is also 23”, funny how they all look quite different but have thrown quite similar heights and body stamp.
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Re arms up a cows arse - always thought that was strange - they are preg scanning them. Very odd.
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The problem with this is its now dead mans shoes! Pretty much everywhere has someone who does it there already i would think. And a hell of a lot of farmers have a son who likes shooting etc.
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The other thing is thermal and night vision. You never know who is watching any more.
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One of the problems I’m seeing is the shift in land ownership. Less and less farms are owned by what you’d think of as a traditional ‘farmer’ with rural values and ideas. Now lots are owned by investors and Buisness folk, townies and large corporations.
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The first lock down had two halves. The first was a nightmare ..... I couldn’t even go for a walk on my own farm, without running into the entire world and his dog. Then they changed the rules and it was awesome - folk weren’t allowed to just rock up out here, and I had run of all of the surrounding farms with not a person in sight! Even kept the amateur game keepers in town lol.
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Serious ferreters see ?
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I first came on 2009 I think, buggered off about 2015 as it started to change, and came back Last year ..... and it had changed ?
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I’m having a bit of a nightmare with this whole “pay the country to have a massive holiday while some of us work like c**ts to look after them” thing - people everywhere wandering about / eyes everywhere.
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I really don’t understand why some dog men ‘hate’ foxes etc. I’m a sheep farmer and even I don’t hate them, sure I’m not a massive fan when one is killing my lambs, but that’s the individual fox not the species. They are awesome, adaptable hunters. Clever, beautiful and one of our native species, it would be a very very sad day if the last one was killed. They are my favourite quarry to hunt and they have my utmost respect. On a side note my old mans mate had a pet vixen and her cub when I was a kid, they were cool, lived in a dog kennel and came out and about the yard etc. Some wank
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It gets dull walking same ground.
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If someone takes it in the skin etc, they are welcome to it!
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Yer thats basically my issue lol
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Ideal. On of the big issues we have here is the association of lurchers with the pikies. People assume if you've got a lurcher, you're a traveller. And they naturally assume if you're a traveller, you're a scum bag thats up to no good. . . . . Which to be fair given local events is fairly understandable!
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You even get posters down here - If you see anyone walking a lurcher, report them, they are probably up to no good . . . . . .
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Must be a Scottish thing I guess?
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Aye and they are just like arseholes .....
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Some impressive numbers tomo. But if the rabbits are there it isn’t exactly hard to get the big bags with ferrets and nets, locators, spades and dogs. Especially if there is a team of you. Big bag ferreting has very little to do with an elevated skill level to be honest ...... Tin hat on!
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End of the day, the lad puts posts up, and makes videos of his dogs working. Them lads crabbing ..... what do they post?
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Depends what you’re looking for ...... ferreting with a dog isn’t too bad....... but it’s mooch about with the dog ...... probably not so bad. But it’s getting the way that if you go and ask for permission to lamp your running dog ........ you might as well have two heads. Its very publicised now, that we are all no good scum bags...... and there’s no rabbits anywhere so it’s a tad difficult all round ...... 20 years is going to see our sport massively changed.
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Basically the only thing you have to worry about with age and work is any potential physical damage from over exertion too young and potential to be a yappy b*****d. But when ferreting id be letting youngish pups grab them in nets and try for the odd bolter, depending on the ground and the individual dog. Letting an 8 month pup run a bolted rabbit is very different to banging a 6 month pup on a winter hare but some folk would have you believe it’s the same. Get the pup friendly with ferrets, get the ferret and some nets, get out with someone else. Find a nice small Warren, net up wel
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It’s like the recall thing. If you spend enough time, early enough with a pup, out and about, you cement it in their mind pretty early. Sure they have dead moment later on as other excitements take over. But they KNOW what they need to do, which is the important bit.
