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  1. SheepChaser
    No but they do say 3/8 5/8 bull grey. Dam to my bitch was 5/8 3/8 bull grey. As in 5/8 bull. I think I make sense ?
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    Wrong way round? 9/16 bull 7/16 grey
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    Only thing that can hold her back bud.
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    Where’s the harness gone?
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    No I agree. They do exist but usually with some parameters. I suppose what I’m asking is, apart from ferreting. Do ppl really breed and keep “specialist” dogs for lamping and bushing rabbits - or are they just dogs that can’t do much else or owned by folk not that interested in much else?
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    I think you’ve pretty much summed up what I was getting at, at the start of this thread ray.
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    So we’ve established that there are ferreting dogs, which might be bred to a specific type to make a specialist ferreting dog. Although having said that, I think I’d rather use a type for ferreting that was also useful for other stuff If I’m honest. Especially considering that unless there’s a secret land of rabbits most of us don’t know about - you’d be doing well to be doing decent numbers with the ferrets day in day out. The humble rabbit is fast becoming an endangered species. However I’m not really buying it for lamping or mooching. I can’t see what a little specialist rabbit do
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    Quite a lot. And I kept a whippet. That’s an answer, so when folk say “should make a good bunny dog” do they really mean just ferreting as that’s where this thread has gone - in which case it’s going to be dependant on the ground you’re ferreting. A smaller, fast, fearless dog was my choice for tight hedges and woods etc. But in all honesty a bigger dog was a better prospect on the lamp mostly, again depending on ground.
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    Aye sorry it wasn’t meant to come across as argumentative as it did ? hot day! And yer again I think any dog should be able to be taught to follow lamp, come back, not be a total c**t ?
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    Apart from the knocker box thing, which I’ve known dogs to do (although how deep they can tell I do wonder), I’d say the rest isn’t overly specialist. And I’m not sure telling you where a kill is is a genetic trait?
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    100% what I mean ?
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    A lot of trialling dogs would fall to bits here doing proper graft. I don’t rate many of them if I’m honest. But I agree - there is stuff you can’t teach a dog, a certain kind of head, when it comes to proper sheep work. Most folk don’t need it, and you don’t see that many really good all round collies, most are a bit disappointing when you ask them to do next level stuff. But you’d never know because at the end of the day most folk don’t need it so don’t ask their dog to do it. Out of interest - what traits would you say an exceptional ferreting dog has, over just an averag
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    Thank you for clearing that up. ?
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    I get that to an extent, but come on, what kind of special genetics do you need to hunt rabbits out of a bush? Or having a good nose. My point is I would expect ANY decent dog to be able to do it, ie a dog that could hunt out and kill a fox should be perfectly capable of doing it with a rabbit.......... Does “should make good rabbits dogs” mean that’s all they are good for, or is there some special talent I’m missing ?
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    Me and my mate were pissing ourselves the other night going through all of the nudge nudge wink wink sayings Lurcher folk use that mean f**k all.
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    Surely that’s just about exposure and bringing a dog up right? I’ve never had a dog that didn’t mark, including whippets, various Lurchers including a bull x, collies, terriers, hound Xs, spaniels etc Good nose and working cover I’d also say are largely to do with how you rear them, and also genetics, but I’d say any decent Lurcher should be able to mark rabbits, work cover and pick up a few bunny’s on the lamp. I’d be a bit upset if I reared a Lurcher that wouldn’t!
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    Yer I used to subscribe to this theory ...... but in all honesty I think it’s mostly time served. If you take most Lurchers ferreting enough and from a young age, surely they will pick it up fine. How hard is it really? Mark a Warren, don’t act like a c**t, don’t kill the ferrrets, catch bolsters, gold ones in the net etc. Pretty sure most dogs, especially anything with a bit of collie etc will pick it up just fine. I think most of the difference between a ferreting dog and a dog that goes ferreting is just how much ferreting the dog does.
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    Getting bad. Every c**t breeding cockapoos
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    I see the above said all of the time about various Lurchers or pups. Now I don’t want to offend anyone (I’m sure I probably will), but what does that actually mean? There aren’t that many rabbits about these days, and I think pretty much most average Lurchers should be able to do a decent enough job on them lamping, ferreting or bushing. So is it meant to mean they will excel at that job (how?) or that they won’t be much use for much else?
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    What makes me laugh is how many working dog lads are putting their workers in pup to sell them on pre loved.
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    Course they will. £2000 for a pup probably makes that look cheap to some folk who could never train a dog. To be fair for some folk it’s probably worth it to actually have a dog they can let off the lead ?
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    I very much doubt it will drop that much. It’s similar to other things - once a level is set it stays.
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    The issue is. If you sell pups cheap or give them to friends of friends. You run the very real risk of them going back up for sale. It’s a sad world. It’s an issue though as in reality - not everyone has a whole load of close, good mates who all want a pup at same time and of the type you keep.
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    If you’ve a litter and some spare pups at 8 weeks and no home for them with mates. What would you do?
  25. SheepChaser
    Problem is you’d need your head read to advertise a litter for £150/200 now.
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