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9 hours ago, Neal said:
I think you've hit the nail on the head.
Some people say beardies are nutters and that they'd prefer a border while just as many think that borders are nutters and would rather live with a beardie. Then again...as many again can't stand either of them and think all those pastoral types are a bunch of nutters.
It's just a case of whatever fits, gels, suits you. Or, as somebody far wiser than I once said, "temperament is king."
Only known a couple of beardie x's and they were definitely more laid back than their more intense border cousins, but the beardies were more prone to unlikely or unexpected behaviours.
I love a full on runner, but in my part of the UK the non stop building and ever increasing numbers of civilians wandering the fields is making it even more difficult for the saluki x to do her thing in peace. Will be looking for a type more inclined to work in close next time, probably herder or gundog cross but wouldn't want to be without some runner in the mix. Hope the fast dogs can keep on going in remoter regions and don't die out.
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1 hour ago, WILF said:
And who will people get instead ?……another Boris in a different hat mate…..that’s the point !
Exactly. They're all the same and stories like this are 'be angry at the bad man over there' political team sports media distractions that people still get drawn into whilst not noticing they're getting stitched up or robbed by the predator class in some other way.
I'm still amazed so few people can see the real question about this Partygate story. The earliest No. 10 parties took place in May 2020 at a time when much of the economy had been forced to close, people were stopped from visiting dying relatives, media were endlessly screaming out covid daily death tolls, police were stopping people from sitting on park benches and government lockdown advertising stated "if you go out people will die". Also about four weeks after the at risk from covid, knocking on sixty year old, fat alky Boris had 'nearly died' in hospital. The advisers and politicians in Downing Street had access to the best real time statistics and information available about the highly dangerous and contagious pandemic threatening the people of the UK. And yet they (including Boris) were so unconcerned about their own safety they were quite happy to indulge in a nice social gathering? Really? Could it be that they were well aware that covid wasn't as dangerous to everyone as they said it was? Or maybe they had access to some secret fast and effective treatment if they got sick? (this was at least 6 months before covid vaccines were available)
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Oliver Stone film "Ukraine on Fire" covers recent and longer term history of the region which helps understand what is going on there today. The film was made in 2016, six years before the Russian invasion. Stone was best known for films such as "Scarface", "Platoon" and "Natural Born Killers". For balance, it is worth reading his wikipedia page, which states that he has long been critical of US foreign policy and is known for promoting 'conspiracy theories':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Stone
The film isn't available on youtube because of it's political nature, but for the moment is on other sites:
https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html
https://www.bitchute.com/video/l7n6nBoJ6nMS/
Difficult to know what the truth is in the fog of war. My take is to assume everyone is lying, look at sources from both sides and make your own mind up.
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Charcoal dog biscuits from the pet superstore stopped my old collie x from eating his own as a puppy.
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Thanks gents
Found a dab of vaseline to soften along the healing line where new skin meets old seems to help. Guessing the hard old skin digging into the damaged area was causing discomfort and the dog is moving more relaxed and freely now, so hopefully on the mend now. Bitch was unfit post season condition and also got a light-ish case of RMS, which could have ended a lot worse. Don't think she'll ever be the same again but putting weight back on and playing with the others so things are looking up. Bloody lurchers, always an accident waiting to happen!
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6 year old saluki greyhound bitch, managed to skin the pads on her rear feet (for a change) about a month ago. The right has healed up fine, but the left is taking forever and she can only manage a short walk or gallop before going light on that foot and the dog is sensitive to touch on the pad, as if there's a thorn in it. I suspect the outer skin hasn't knitted back together quite right and is causing discomfort. I find skinned pads are normally about healed at three weeks. No obvious busted toes or joint swelling, but I'll get her x-rayed if it doesn't resolve soon.
Any recommendations for products worth trying that might soften and heal the problem area?
I did get some sled dog stuff when she was a youngster and had a few problems with cracking pads. Dog hated the stuff which was fecking expensive and stank of menthol. I gave up trying to use it because the she would freak out at the smell and the cracking sorted itself out in time. Can't see much, but photo attached - foot looks weird because I'm pulling it around to expose the damaged area. Looks as it should otherwise.
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18 minutes ago, gnasher16 said:
Sadly we're seeing more and more of this attitude and it'll have a terrible effect on yours and my grandkids this is our country and their lives you are quitting on......while i agree and understand to an extent about not unduly " worrying " about it all i think its perfectly natural,essential even,in this current climate to stand up and defend your own/voice your opinions/use your vote etc every opportunity you get.
Until 2020 I couldn't get my head around the not voting and just disengage from it all, but I do now and will most likely never vote in general elections again. To put a positive spin on it, now that it's clear that 'they' don't work for us and there's not much we can do about what goes on at the top, it's time in the UK to disengage from Westminster politics and concentrate on engaging with the people and things around us. Build our own networks outside theirs, live to our culture and values and become ungovernable from the top. Look on the web - there's people all over the world that just wanted to be left alone and get on with their lives having to stand up or be trampled by out of control Western governments. We've got it easy in the UK at the moment, but take a look at euro countries or down under for what's around the corner. Anyone see the Rotterdam police using live ammo on lockdown protesters? - don't care they were dicking around with fireworks and throwing rocks, reports are 7 were shot that night. That should be enough of a wake up call for anyone.
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I enjoyed Penny Taylor's "Tales from the field: Lurchers and Terriers" although it was a bit of a downer when she lost several dogs in the field in quick succession. Also liked Darcy's "Down the Beam" with it's stories of the daftness that happens lamping and honesty about how crap some dogs were. The photo with the dog that is being a wanker about surrendering it's rabbit to it's handler made me laugh, know that feeling well
Another +1 for Phil Lloyd's "A Moucher's Tale" and "A Moucher Forever" (will @OldPhil leave the world the uncensored version for posthumous publication in his last will and testament? )
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3 hours ago, sandymere said:
Difficult to tell much from photos, vet is best bet, needs a proper hands on examination and then deciding if x-ray needed.
+1 I'm a big fan of boneman / chiropractic type treatment and don't want to sound like I'm slagging them off, but for things like possible torn or detached tendons 100% get an x ray. Mine got a similar looking injury couple of years ago and the greyhound vet didn't have an appointment for a week or so and I took her to a boneman beforehand to get some idea of what I was dealing with. The boneman is a good one and has helped cure some nasty collision injuries in the past and he wouldn't take my money this time, saying it was bad news. I set off to the specialist vet a few days later expecting the x ray would show my young bitch couldn't run again and having to tell him to pts whilst she was under. Turned out it was a common greyhound track tendon injury that would repair 100% with a month lead walk.
When I was at the boneman, there was a traveller lad ahead of me in the queue and he got also was told his coursing dog (that looked like it had seen a lot of action, but was well looked after and obviously also a family pet) wouldn't run again and the lad said he would have to find someone to pts for him. Really got me thinking whether that dog could have run again and seen out his days if he had got a second opinion.
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Don't think we see the numbers other parts of the country do, but here in the middle of the English midlands there's been a noticeable increase in munties and a few more roe over past few years. Rabbit numbers also looking promising this year.
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8 hours ago, TOMO said:
ive not read this hole thread mate....but get on the vitd3 make sure you buy one with vit k2 in it....get at least 1000 iu of vitd3 ...with around 100 of k2 in ....they work synergistically...
also vit c....and some b vits dont hurt...
i know i have mentioned vit d many times on here over the months....but have a look on line about it...plenty info about how important it is... its now concidered a hormone rather than just a vit.....or check the youtube doctors talking about it and hoe efective it is against covid
I thought the vitamin supplements were probably snake oil but decided to give the D3 a go after hearing so much about it's role in giving covid patients a quicker recovery. It's really improved my skin, teeth, hair and joints and I have a lot more energy than before. Also dropped about 2 1/2 stone without really trying, nearly back to what I weighed as a teenager
My understanding is that D3 on it's own can cause calcification of the arteries and you have to get the tablets with D3 + K2, the K2 stops the arteries getting blocked. From a web search, it sounds like it might actually have been the K2 that helped with the weight loss. Also don't need to take vitamin D3 in the summer so long as you get plenty of sun on your skin because that apparently causes the body to create large amounts of vitamin D. The doctors seem to think dark skinned people are getting covid worse because their skin can't naturally produce much vitamin D under the weaker British sun. I haven't felt this good in twenty years, well worth trying D3 + K2 especially if middle aged or older.
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Sounds like you're headed the right way if working on recall and stock breaking. If possible also break to ferrets because that's probably the best way to get the dog working with you. Have to get the stock breaking solid because being a saluki he will end up chasing something into the next county and if not trustworthy with sheep and far away from his handler....
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Glad to hear the dog is on the mend
Something I've been meaning to ask on here, has anyone else had trouble with getting a decent fitting tracker collar on lurchers? I used an old sport dog tek one with the skinny saluki x in my avatar (26" and 20kg, so very light even for that type) and even after making extra holes in the collar it bounced around so much when galloping it appeared to be causing bleeding in the oesophagus.
Are the boxes on the newer collars much smaller?
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Always been a few hares around here, rabbits sadly ever decreasing especially with more and more pasture getting ploughed. Muntjacs also increasing and getting ever stupidier, mate saw one sauntering past the garden gate toward the centre of the village the other day
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Maybe the responsible thing to do would be to try and understand what the vaccine is before taking it. I think the media are going on about the Pfizer one at the moment, which is an mRNA vaccine. That's a new technology and different in some respects to flu, childhood illness or third world disease vaccines. Or trust the media and the government that it's the right thing to do and take it without asking any questions....
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+1 on the Haix army boots. Don't think the second hand ones I've had off ebay had ever been worn. They're less than a third of the price of brands like Meindl. Use the savings to buy decent gaiters like Seeland. They're heavier than light fabric walking boots but nothing like old school Hawkins walking boots or the old army boots.
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I've got a lightly built saluki type. She started repeatedly coughing up blood and when I took her to the vet they said she had damaged those cartilage rings in the throat. I initially thought she'd bounced off a tree (vet agreed) but eventually realised the damage was being done by her collar swinging about and the buckle bashing into her throat when galloping. It was just a normal 3/4" leather collar, maybe the buckle a bit heavier than it needed to be. The gps collar I had to use when she was younger must have done some damage too. Got a 3/4" light fabric collar and the problem is gone, although I'm not too keen on the plastic fastner. It's probably only likely to be a problem on really light dogs where there's very little neck muscle and it's difficult to get their collars to fit well without being too tight.
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Mine is mostly coursing blood with collie / grey bred in a generation back if I remember correctly. She can catch where others can't on wet arable and is fast and agile for a 26" dog. Loves using her nose and tries her best to work cover, unfortunately also makes her a bugger for hunting on. Other downside is a weak jaw and lack of strength, even if it was pre-ban she is not suitable for retrieving anything other than rabbits. If I lived somewhere with enough rabbits to give her loads of runs in quick succession lamping or ferreting when younger I could have got better discipline but as it is she's a bit of a liability. Close in she's very responsive and I can usually call her off game, but once games on it's a different matter. Feel like I've failed this one to an extent by not making the best of the abilities she has that a more skilled handler could have made more of, but she has a good life so it is what it is. In a different world I'd consider lining her to something like a big fast collie greyhound in spite of her failings because I think there's the raw material to produce decent all rounders, but there's enough lurchers around with not enough jobs to do and I need a litter of puppies to rear and home like a hole in the head so it's never going to happen.
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I've got the older sport dog tek 1.0 on the lurcher. No problems with reliability at all, just switch it on it takes a few seconds to pick up the gps and it does everything automatically. Only criticisms are it's a bit difficult to tell which way the dog is headed if there's a lot of turns at full gallop and the collar is too big for a lightweight saluki lurcher, but doubt these factors would be an issue for hounds. Had the dog out at well over 2000 metres out on it, no problems losing signal even if I was near to having a heart attack trying to keep up over wet plough. Surprised more people don't use sport dog kit, it's solid, reliable and cheaper than garmin with none of the ballache with computer updates and regional radio frequency laws.
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Wheels made from glued together leather discs are good too. Make your own or you can get them ready made with a spindle to go in a drill chuck. Load them up with linishing compound or whatever. You don't need to be very precise with the angle of the knife to the wheel because they are just polishing the burrs off the edge. I use the top of the wheel, obviously with the edge away from the direction of rotation. Never been able to get the hang of sharpening with a flat stone but get stupid sharp edge with the leather wheel.
Also bodged up an axle for an 8" carborundum grinder wheel. I run it in water (cut the side out of a plastic milk bottle to make a trough) at slow speed so that it isn't flinging water about. Knives are held across the top like the leather wheel. It's really good for sorting out chipped edges and there's no way you can blue the steel. Suppose it works like an old school hand cranked water stone.
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The original poster doesn't say what part of the world he's think about, but I would have thought sight hounds and going to be very limited because they can't gallop in deep snow and will smash their feet up running on frozen ground. Saying that, wasn't there an American poster on here that ran coyote hounds somewhere bitterly cold like (I'm guessing) Minnesota in the winter?
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queen guitarist 'shredded his bottom' in a gardening accident
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Mine was an utter twat for putting things up then hunting on. Eg put up a pheasant, chase the flying bird over a field or two then feck off into the distance looking for other things. GPS was the first step so I could find her (sometimes would take an hour to get close enough to call her in
and I've seen 2000 metres on the gps a few times) I eventually worked out that being more involved what the dog is doing when out is the answer. Beating cover for the dog really gets it to listen, focus and look to you for finding game, it's an ideal time of year to do that early morning in long grass. Even just doing occasional a few pointless recalls and letting it go straight out again seems to help, or quick retrieve if it likes doing that. Playing with a tug also really fired mine up and got her to focus. Unexpectedly hiding from the dog in familiar areas when it expects you to always just be there is another one that gets it looking to you. It's hard to explain, but you are aiming to get the dog to feel that all is well and at peace when you are there and worried and unsure when you are absent, obviously with the exception that it needs to feel safe and relaxed when in the kennel or van. Mine still tends to work her ground further out than I would like but she comes back looking for me from a run as soon as unsighted now. There's several motorways and busy roads dogs can get onto round here so I have to keep things under closer control than if I had access to more remote land.
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Mine had similar on the inside of the tips of the ears, hair falling out, irritation and crusty skin. I ended up taking her to the vet who scraped some of the crusty skin and checked it under the microscope to check for mange mites but couldn't find any. They prescribed nexgard spectra, an internal and external parasite treatment and it looks to have cleared up after a couple of months. However, I'm not sure it was a parasite and suspect it was some sort of irritation that cleared up by itself. I feed good quality raw and the dog is normally very healthy (apart from running injuries) but she hasn't looked that clever since giving these once a month parasite tablets, bringing up iffy looking bile and sh1t too sloppy.
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Are the kelpie crosses less intense in their behaviour than border collie crosses? (talking ones with something like half herder blood)