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  4. Puppy Play

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    @Black neckNo, he just starts being destructive. Chewing furniture, shoes, and stuff like that. Gets really restless pacing about crying and howling. I've not been in this property too long and don't have much of a garden to let him out on here like i had in my last place. I wasn't planning on getting another dog after my old girl died in May aged 13 and the small garden was fine for her at the time- but i ended up with this fella out the blue so it was one of those things, so i'm looking to move again now... but in the mean time i'm taking him out for three one hour walks a day.

  5. Puppy Play

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    @Black neck In a previous time i'd have been a lot more concerned about it than i am now i'm a bit older in years. I guess some dogs just don't have it in their make-up to be killing machines? I just wondered if anybody else had come across this behaviour with their dogs out of interest. The other few dogs i've owned have been the opposite and especially the whippetts who never needed to be encouraged to chase after owt whether it was stood still or not. It was just Bam!

    After advice earlier in the thread i've got access to borrow a couple of ferrets just to bolt rabbits to. I'm still looking to find anywhere that's suitable where they can bolt into open ground for him to chase but haven't found anywhere suitable for him yet. Just thr standard burrows on surrounded by gorse and brambles etc which is ok for the whippets but with him being 29tts he needs a bit of yardage to open up. I do know of somewhere else that would be ok but no permission i'm not able to run away like i could as a younger man and the farmers not a nice guy, hefty, and possibly sexually delinquent lol

    I'm just going to keep to the routine cos of how my leg is i'm happy for him to run and knacker himself out more than i am for him being a pot filler to be honest- and unless he gets knackered out he starts getting a bit aggy.

    Good news is i've got a date for my operation at the end of March so yeah next season should be much better. Thanks for your reply though i appreciate it. 

  8. Puppy Play

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    Thanks @birdI've stopped the playfighting as it gives him the excuse to start being too rough with biting and then he maybe thinks he's dominating/getting one over on me. I just wanted to get a bond going with him with being strngers and him being 8 months instead of 3. We've got that now and he has a good fuss now and then and that'll do.

    I'm out with him a lot and have just started taking him out with the lamp. A couple of things ive noticed with this dog that i've not seen before that you might have an idea about?

    1. If the dog sees a stationary rabbit he stands and waits for it to move before he goes. Or he'll walk very slowly towards it waiting for it to make it's move.

    2. He's chased a few rabbits (day and night)but seems reluctant to strike. When he gets to them he just nudges with his nose. It's like he just wants to play with em.

    Any ideas? Thanks

  9. Puppy Play

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    9 hours ago, Moocher71 said:

    Like DC as said get a ferret and few nets ,I've got few nets you can have if you can get a ferret ,I'd give you a hob but I'm in Peterborough,

    Is the dog platts bred ? 

    Sounds like he's the boss and not you ,you need to set some rules set 

     

    I've had a couple of people ask me if he's Dave Platts bred but no he's from Mid Wales - Nr Lampeter.

    He's good.. much better than when i got him.. but yeah he's a bit stubborn sometimes. Dead good mostly but bloody hell he kicks off in the morning to go out.. but then i know what its like when im busting for the toilet too.

    My cousins just messaged me back as i type this..She's got 9 pet ferrets and said i can choose which one i want... got no nets but its just to bolt for the dog and save my legs a bit

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  11. Puppy Play

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    Here's a couple of pics i took in in the September when he was 1 year old. He's put an inch on since then now stands at 29tts. He's had a couple of goes at the racing for a bit of fun and did alright. On his own on a timed dash over 100 yds he clocked 7.04 on his first ever go.

    Anyways ive taken my own thread off topic now haven't i. Hope its ok? Cheers

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  12. Puppy Play

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    53 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

    Get yourself a ferret and some purse nets,let him get a mouthful of fur,then start leaving the holes open....get you some sport and may save you walking about a little,keep your chin up,atvb ?

    That's a brilliant idea. I used to keep ferrets as young man. I also did a bit with a lad i met from off here up nr Hull around 2010 (where i used to live) who i ended up getting the black whippet off. Ive got a cousin who's got a few that she keeps as pets. I'll go and see her and see if she'll let me borrow one. How did i not think of this?

    Thanks Daniel

    PS just back from the place i thought looked alright i mentioned before. Was only out 50 mins but there was nothing about at all. Love to have a bit of excitement and still waiting for Bunny number 1 but i'm just as into trying to knacker the big bugger out cos when he's had a run or two he leaves us alone a bit in the morning and I can have a couple of cups of coffee before he starts coming up hinting with the stretching before he starts singing to go out in a morning. Honestly, I've never heard such a noise, you should hear him, It's like lurcher karaoke.

    He's got me round his little finger dew claw.

  13. Puppy Play

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    Forums eh?

    Im just here to read about dogs and pick up a bit of knowledge. I'm out 3 hours a day (3 x 1 hr walks) . This young dog (and ive only ever had bitches) just has so much energy and was really destructive when i got him - him destroying the young couples £1500 sofa was the last straw and how i ended up with him. I found that he just needed knackering out and he calmed down a lot. 

    I got him in May but in October had a bit of a health issue.. i got a problem with my leg- turns out i have PAD (peripheral artery disease) which is a blocked artery that makes walking bloody murder...but with nobody to help me i just have to grin and bare it.

    I'm waiting for a date for an operation now but still doing the same 3 hours a day as he starts letting me know about it if i dont..

    i dont have much of a garden to just let him out on and he refuses to poo out there. He starts howling and then starts biting the furniture and reverting back to being destructive .. im on morphine and that helps with the pain a lot.

    I got one of those cheapo lamps off ebay for about £30 and have just started taking him out with that.. There just doesnt seem too much about where i am on a night.

    I'm lucky If i see 1 or 2 rabbits in an hour, he's had a few runs and he's proper up for it...Cos my leg how it is and me hobbling im letting him run free tho so he's getting a bit too used to just running round free range and so its hit and miss if he sees whatever i manage to beam up. Though ive managed to have him on slip and he's seen a couple of rabbits and belted off after them...  Ive no permission so im limited to public paths through fields... Its not like i can run away from any gamekeepers if i accidentally <cough> strayed somewhere im not meant to be. Plus im nearly 50 and not as fit as i once was.

    Most places are a bit hilly but i found somewhere that looks alright which is a bit flatter that im going to have a shine round later but i can only do an hour tops.. and i have to keep stopping a lot cos the pain... i picked Bowie cos ive got different coloured eyes like old David.. but The Crippled Poacher might've been a better screename.

    Anyway's thats me.. its good to be here

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  14. Puppy Play

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    4 minutes ago, moonlighter said:

    Nice dogs… if your not Gred, then I apologise.. 

    No worries. As i say i used to post on here years ago - not much tho. I guessed they got rid of a load of inactive accounts at some point as my old login wouldn't work... unless ive got the password wrong. I tried a few different ones but in the end just made up a new account.

    Who was Greb and what did he do? Im intrigued now lol

  16. Puppy Play

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    Who's this greb fella?

    Ask a straightforward question and get accused of being (i presume) a banned returning member.

    Yep my old deerhound passed away in May this year aged 13 and I ended up with another semi rescue deer/grey a week later bred by the same breeder as my old dog , also have a pair of whippets.. I had a couple of other dogs when i was a kid /young man so just added a couple of years on for them as they were my dads really . I'm no expert by any means but not a complete newbie.

    I know a few of the DRWLC fellas and like going to their race meetings up in the Peak District. Do i need to post my pics up or what?

    I'm not "greb" whoever they are. LOL

  19. Puppy Play

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    14 minutes ago, bird said:

    None, just being around them, and give them nice easy attention that all they need. Most my colliexs, liked to play with a ball, my. Bullxs weren't that bothered, most lurchers, sighthounds, have nice calm temps anyway, not like you playing with full on apbt lol, even if they got some in them,  it be watered-down with greyhound in them.! 

    Thats what i do. Ive had running dogs for 15 years . I have one now though who had a few issues when he came to me- the last owners couldnt cope with him. I think they were a bit soft with him and he has the temperament of wanting to dominate. He gets a bit carried away with the old playfighting and can get a bit bitey through excitement.. Though he also has a habit of trying to get round the back of ya as well. Only 13 month came to me at 8 months and was quite a destructive fella with furniture...Deer/Grey 29 tts.

     

    Ive only ever had 3 month old pups and theyre easier to mould than having to undoe whatever they previous people have done.. It just made me wonder if there were any hard and fast rules regarding this.

  20. Puppy Play

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    Its important to get a good bond going but young dogs will test the boundaries and need to know who's the boss. So how often do you play (or playfight) with your pups. Are there any rules/guidance around this activity such as not letting them win in games of tug and war? What sort of activities other than the usual fetch, sit, training do you do. Will you give em a good old bit of rough and tumble at home for a bit messing about on the floor type stuff (oi before you start no not that sort lol)

     

    How do you go about this in your experience.

    Thanks

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