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  1. Man caves/sheds

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    Just now, Tyla said:

    This is what I call the marital life boat. When things are good it's a nice thing to hang out in, when things are stormy I can escape into it. In truly terrible storms it can be towed away but I now have it tucked up somewhere I doubt I'll ever move it from. I built it during a particularly stormy time and lived in it for 18 months til the weather cleared. I will never be without it or something similar.

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    I need some better pics of inside

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    Man caves/sheds

    in General Talk

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    This is what I call the marital life boat. When things are good it's a nice thing to hang out in, when things are stormy I can escape into it. In truly terrible storms it can be towed away but I now have it tucked up somewhere I doubt I'll ever move it from. I built it during a particularly stormy time and lived in it for 18 months til the weather cleared. I will never be without it or something similar.

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  3. M25 Protests.

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    On 15/09/2021 at 12:56, WILF said:

    Understand all your arguments lads but the same people were just the other side of the bridge the other day in my old area so I will give you a couple of things to consider.

    First of all, as we are all painfully aware, coherent, logical arguments mean absolutely f**k all in today’s Britain……the lesson from the government themselves is that extremists are rewarded, applauded and beatified while your ordinary bloke can go f**k himself ! 
     

    Second, at the minute and for only a short while longer, we have the right to peaceful protest…..long, and I mean long, may that continue……anyone sticking up for what they believe using rights we seem so keen to throw away should be at least respected, even if you don’t agree.

    People in my old area were screaming like f**k about these people the other day because they brought the whole borough to a standstill……this borough has been decimated over the last 20 years and it’s only getting worse, much worse !

    Everyone moans about it but if they had the courage to do what these people are doing maybe the place they live wouldn’t have been stolen from them and ruined ?

    Anyway, a pain the arse?….yes

    Worth suffering ?……I think so, for all sorts of good reasons.

    Interesting ....... so whats the difference between them and sabs? 

  6. Podenco

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    1 minute ago, tatsblisters said:

    They seem an hardy type of dog seen a few similar in Cape Verde a few years back and similar looking dogs appear on documentaries about the tribes in Amazon rain forest's. The dog that was rescued on a desert island by that Irish fellow that was all over social media recently looked like one of these podenco crosses.

    I think they are quite close in appearance to the archetypal pariah dog you see all over the 3rd world. I can never decide if they are the original native dogs or descendants of introduced dogs or a mixture. They all seem to end up looking very similar anyway, dingo ish, yellow, prick ears. 

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  7. Podenco

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    8 hours ago, Rakete said:

    They are fun.

    If one has the nerves for fun.

    Mine did 50inch jumps like a rubber ball, up and down in one spot, tried to jump off bridges to get that damn motor boat, if you lost him, you found him stuck in a mouse hole or trotting through water like a stork, jumping onto frogs, he spend his walks inspecting bushes from the inside and remembered the smell of pizza on the street for 20min and ran back. 

    There was no mean fibre in this dog. He was really great with people. A little clingy.  Manipulative and a world class thieve, that stole candy out of elderly ladies handbags. Took him to the nursing home, without any schooling as it was not needed. No, not because of the stealing part. The being a nice guy part. Wheelchair leashwalking and climbing into beds and enduring being patted on the head for like half an hour.

    But he was an idiot - if judged by obedience class standards. We called him Rantanplan.

    I really miss this guy. Not so much the fort knox trash bin, the kitchen raids, jumping from trunk to windshield in one quick move, but all of the rest.

    Most pure Podenco Andaluz or Canario I know, if not fearful because of bad excperiences with humans or a complete lack of excperience with the outside world beside hunting in a pack, do have at least a glimpse of this clownish, open nature mine had. I do believe that Tigger, Winnie the Poos friend might be a podenco cross.

    I lack experience working them, but I never saw "the look" in mine, this moment the eyes change and they are all muscle and adrenalin und ready to take off, like in my galgos, neither did they ever change into the "No bullshit. This is serious until it is over" mode of my amstaff cross.

    In mechanical lure coursing I find them more salukiish. "Oh, great day, nice to do a little jog. Maybe later on there will be some real work to do" (Saluki doing a warm up,  podenco dreaming of jumping into the next bush, doing the pogo stick style thing.) Nowhere near the absolute eagerness to run and get this damn lure, as it means a world to my racebred whippet. Never had to be explained, how this works. It is written into her system. 

    The podencos, at least the retired from working I saw, their system does not work like this. They seem softer in this respect. Their super power is not 10seconds till kill. They will try to run down, if needed, but it is more the search for it. And not to forget: jump onto it. Or try to dig it out like a long legged dachshund - but one that does not mess up to much with the badger.

    I love their toes. Many of the working podencos seem to have splayed toes, seen more easty westy or flat feet than in other sighthound(like) dogs that came directly from spain, but these toes seem to be made to climb, to jump and run on rough ground. Where my galgos brought back broken toes, injured stopper pads, split webs, damaged nails, the podenco cross came back with a frog. Or a mouse. Not one injury in 11 years (without real hunting but lots of hard running on different ground) allthough he was so down in the pasterns that the vet was sure this dog would not make it without severe arthritis starting at young age or breaking down. Still I think weak pasterns are a fault also in this breed, but in mine it did not do damage. Maybe with harder work things would have been different. And maybe his lack of real speed did him good. He was fast. He could keep up with the pure galgos. Till they moved on to double suspension. On the other hand, his stamina was better. Took him with me for half marathon training. 10, 15k road work on the bike where no problem. My galgos would not like me for that. They could do it, somehow, but like...uhm no not so much.

    In spain there are many regional types or podenco breeds, allthough I would not consider the smaller ones  to really be sighthoundlike, as they are classified by FCI or international sighthound breeding clubs, but all are rabbit hunters. Galgo is hare, podenco is rabbit - but often used together with other dogs like the andaluz terrier.

    There do exist more catchdog like hybrids. I think wire haired podenco x dogo argentino is very common. Always forget how this type is called, it barely apears in rescues. "Perro de rehala" or "Rehala" can be looked up to find a little more about them or how they are used.

     

     

    Thanks for the reply. Nicely written and made me smile. Sounds like they would make an interesting addition to a bushing pack. Whether they'd be as good as a traditional bushing spaniel or terrier I have no idea but they sound like like they would surely make it interesting 

  8. Podenco

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    On 28/09/2021 at 00:02, Rakete said:

    Actually they are said to have a soft mouth.

    Never worked one, as it is illegal where I live, but had a dog that was high in podenco blood, most likely mixed with galgo.

    Their style of hunting is not so much that of a sighthound, to some degree they work more like rogue dogs.

    The are fast, they can jump like a kangaroo, they are diggers, climbers and the tend to use their nose a lot. 

    Very nice and affectionate dogs. At least for the people that keep them as pets they can be quite a new experience, to having owned other sigthounds before, as, well, their interest are different. Where the galgo, whippet, grey may scan the horizon for something to catch, the podenco jumps right into the next bush and vanishes for an hour, digs a tunnel to the next village and comes back retrieving a mouse.

     

     

     

    I want one

  9. do not panic there is no fuel left ffs

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    On 27/09/2021 at 13:42, DIDO.1 said:

    My thoughts exactly. Local butcher will have plenty turkeys.....and if people haven't been getting meat from a farm or small independent butcher then fck em....they can reduce their carbon footprint by having a vegan Christmas. 

     

    It suits me down to the ground. I've got sheep, pigs and chickens about to go to slaughter. I couldn't be happier about the meat crisis

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  16. Dogs throwing the towel in and breeding.

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    4 hours ago, SheepChaser said:

    It’s not jacking though is it, it’s just become a c**t. Agreed that may well but be a reason to not breed the dog, but it ain’t got much to do with a lack of heart, dogs just a knob. Do agree if it decides to not take its quarry but takes other stuff then aye that lack of heart. 
     

    The whole deer thing is a bit more complicated and I agree there is a lot more difference between a dog that pulls deer and one that pushes. That’s why I stuck to talking foxes as I think that’s more cut and dry ?

    I've got a heartless knob here lol 

  17. Whippet x spaniel

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    11 hours ago, Moocher71 said:

    I'm sure they do most stuff ,

    Pic of the lab x grey ,

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    Thats a solid looking dog. I've always fancied the idea of the cross but never seen one in the flesh.

    I asked about Europe as I thought running dogs were mostly frowned upon aside from a bit of coursing in Spain and Eastern Europe. I had no idea dogs bred here were making their way out there. Interesting 

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  18. Whippet x spaniel

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    3 hours ago, Moocher71 said:

    A well known fella from Wellingborough had something to do with a litter of lab x grey x Norfolk types ,the lab x grey look like a bull x ,big strong type of juckel .from what I was told most the litter went to Europe and turned out handy type .

     

    What were they doing in Europe?

  21. Cockerdale

    in Bushing Dogs

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    On 29/06/2021 at 09:59, Kate1999 said:

    Can someone please give me some advice. Have been misold a 10 week old cockerdale when thought I was buying a cocker spaniel. Breeder refuses to have him.back so we are in a position of not knowing whether to keep him. He is not spaniel like at all and his fur is very fine. Problem is not only is he not the dog we were hoping for we are allergic to short haired terrier fur. I also have an elderly cockerpoo so I'm not sure how compatible they will be. How big do these dogs get, how much energy do they have and how much of a problem is shedding/moulding. He's tan and white. Adorable personality so it's really Heart breaking and difficult. Any advice would be welcomed.  

    I struggle to believe you are allergic to a terrier x spaniel but not a spaniel. If you like the pup then keep it? I'm assuming it's only for a pet so what's the difference? Either purebred or crossbreed spaniel will be high energy. If anything the terrier might calm it down a bit

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  24. Can they improve?

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    People have different desires for their dogs, someone keen on numbers or a particular quarry has different wants to someone looking for a mooching companion and there are many degrees in between. One man's trash can be another man's lifelong companion. Personally I get a massive kick out of getting the best out of the dog, I happily swap quarries or hunting styles to suit what I've got. Most dogs are good at something, it's just identifying what it is and encouraging it, but that all depends on whether the owner is happy to change their ways to suit the dog or if they want the dog for a specific job. Neither is wrong or right, just depends on the individuals involved

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