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    I’ll throw two stories in for you - When we were young a mate of mine got a dog off another lad, a straight up jacker on fox, would not touch one, but might make an ok rabbit dog etc, was probably three, so had enough time to know etx. Think the second night out it mullered a fox and never looked back. Odd. Another one - lad I know bought a terrier off another lad, 100% digging dog, my mate took it out, looked at a hole deffo holding, and walked off. Would not go to ground at all. Lad rang its original owner who scratched his head and came out to see on another day (it had refu
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    No mate, I’ve never bred any Lurchers, and probably never will. The only one there is a good chance I may want to breed from In the future is this one below, and she has a long time before we know if she will Make the grade. Hopefully she will, as it would be nice to continue the line. All of these questions came about after observing a conversation on here on another thread between two members. And it got me thinking ..... Im bored as hell of reading the same stuff over and over.
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    Here is another question for the panel - on the same theme. We have talked about a few dogs who suddenly just threw the towel in for no reason and that was that, done and dusted. So had anyone had an animal do that, for no apparent reason, no injury, just not interested, and then decide to have a re think and carry on without doing it again. Assuming it was already doing the job for a while, not a young dog etc.
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    There are some good populations of rabbits and other stuff in your neck of the woods mate.
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    To be fair Trev, you've been putting up big bags of rabbits for ages, of course that drives lads to work out where and have a crack. You're always saying you need to be at it most of the year, and flat out, cos you have so much ground and so many rabbits to try to keep on top of.. . . . how is it hurting anyone if someone else catches a few of them? As for being unfair on the keepers etc. Its not as if AT has just let the cat out the bag, anyone and everyone knows where the rabbits are!
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    SheepChaser replied to Chid's topic in General Talk

    Aye that’s me ? if you actually study history it’s frightening ?
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    20 years

    SheepChaser replied to Chid's topic in General Talk

    At one point in time people probably thought it was a bit far fetched that the US gov were smuggling huge amounts of cocaine into their own country in order to raise funds to prop up right wing foreign regimes ....... but ........
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    Big difference between breeding s dog to hunt foxes in open hill and run and kill them on the lamp. The second requires a lot less different skill sets to think about. It can either catch and kill and will or won’t.
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    Guy sounds like the kind of person who really really wants folk to think he’s hard core ?
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    It would be fascinating to know why the seven year old dog suddenly said no.
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    20 years

    SheepChaser replied to Chid's topic in General Talk

    It can. But it doesn’t usually melt them at a particular angle.
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    20 years

    SheepChaser replied to Chid's topic in General Talk

    It was actually Israeli nationals not all Jewish folk. Remember Mossad had warned the yanks about the attack.
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    20 years

    SheepChaser replied to Chid's topic in General Talk

    I still find it mental that folk believe it was a cut and dry terrorist attack. There are so many questionable bits tht if you think that we got the whole story you have to be painfully naive. Look at the pentagon ‘plane’, there was zero chance that was a plane. No doubt some terrorists flew some planes into two towers but there was much much much more to it. Look what the fire fighters found in the buildings, look at the timing of the charges being rigged to drop them etc. As for governments now killing their own citizens, they have been doing that for a long long long time.
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    The things you mentioned...... joint problems and fitting would both be things carried in a line, unless you were really unlucky... it would have reared its head before. As for field trials being a load or pish is pretty subjective, plenty of ftch can also put a hard shift in on a shoot day. As for being judged on the person.... it ain’t a dog show, the dogs can’t lie on the day .... the best dog wins. Most dogs I see on shoots are decidedly average.
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    Considering those things would mostly be genetic I would hazard a guess he does know. Edited to add - a good trainer can get the best out of an average dog, but no amount of training can change an animals genetic capabilities.or lack of!
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    I would gift it to my old man ? he’s the spaniel man in the family. I grew up with about 16 springers in the yard ? I was very lucky as a kid to spend a fair bit of time around the likes of Ian openshaw, roger towser, Cyril Gwyn and all of that lot. Some incredibly impressive dogs and dog men. I bet that young dog above would make a lot of ‘seasoned’ dogs in shoots up and down the country look daft by the time it’s 18 months old.
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    No mate it would be wasted on me to ?
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    Aye be wasted on you mate ?
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    I doubt that has much to do with the spaniel litter above and it I was offered one out that litter I’d take it in a heart beat ?
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    They can be registered and those pups have all been pre booked I would think.
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    Ian openshaw would be one of the best spaniel men in the country.
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    The spaniel lads have been at it for years....... the collie folk are even worse ? but I would say Ian (rytex) would know his stuff and his line seeing as he was running dogs with my old man at field trial champ level when I was a little boy and I’m 36 now.
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    Back to the original question, or related anyway, I often think ground is fairly important. Ie a dog might suit someone and catch a lot, but quite possibly wouldn’t on your ground, so the graft and numbers don’t make the dog a suitable stud (for example) for you. I sometimes go places that have smaller fields and fences and it changes things a lot for some quarry. Other things, big open prairies are an advantage.
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