Tumbleweed

Thanks . I've not had lurcher pups before so it's helpful to know what people will want to know etc when it gets to the point of finding homes. My dh is the one who takes her out so I'll let him discuss that part lol.

Will see how many I get first. Most ads for lurchers seem to be around £150-200 so will probably start at £150. Mostly I want to recoup the cost of raising them and if there's enough over give the kids a holiday as we've not had the money to go away for a couple of years (stuck with school holiday prices!). I'm looking forward to having the pups though, should keep the kids amused over the school hols lol (and have educational value). Mum is very gentle and affectionate and the dad is calm and good natured. Mum is black and tan (she had merle siblings) and dad is blue.

Our lurcher is due a litter soon - she's (greyhound x saluki) and (greyhound x border collie) parentage and because we're after a smaller lurcher we've bred her to a pure blooded coarsing whippet. I've got a picture in my head of how the pups will be but wondered if anyone had a similar cross as I'm getting curious and can't wait for the pups to arrive .

I wont go into details but I took her ferreting and she finally got her teeth into a rabbit and actually ended up dispatching it. I just let her scrag the dead rabbit about afterwards and I didnt have any trouble taking it off her,even when she tried to bury it in the grass LOL. In fact,when she realised it was still and lifeless,she was eyeing the holes for the next one. When I got home,I put the bunny on the end of a rope and let her chase it round the garden and chew on it a bit more. I told her to leave it now and again and she relinquished wihout batting an eyelid. When I put t

Im ferreting in the morning so I'll let her tag along. Just hope I dont hav any of those troublesome holey nets..

Thanks for the advice but pardon my ignorance- what are droppers?

Shes just over a year old now and she always goes after rabbits and hares when she sees them.If it moves,she chases it- rabbits,birds,leaves,anything.Even a lump of mud that slightly resembles a rabbit,she'll run over to it.Shes very alert and constantly scanning for the next thing to run after but running is all she does.The problem is,she wont catch them.She gets near enough to grab them but she doesnt. She chases them about like she would another dog and has a jolly good time of it but never attmepts to get her teeth into it. Is this normal? Is there a way of encouraging her to take the ne

I can see why its your favourite knife. Youre lucky to have it. It looks well balanced and its hard to get good carbon steel like that now unless you use an opinel or or a frost mora but one is a folder and the other has a plastic handle. When frost more do wooden handles,I'll be a happy man.

If it had been a small privatly run petshop I would of just told the owner but this is a big place. Its a petshop and garden center with the obligatory bored youths running everything and which obviously makes a shite load of profit. It also says on their website thats its run by knowledgeable staff.I grassed them up becouse theyre big enough to know better and they need educating in ferret welfare. If it had been a puppy in that same situation,the public would of been up in arms about it straight away.Its the general ignorance concerning ferrets that I have the issue with,which would be fin

Went into a petshop today and in a class case with sawdust for bedding was a solitary ferret. It was advertised as a polecat.Not a polecat ferret but just a polecat! It was also being sold for the grand price of 40 quid! Im guessing that the pet shop has been given this ferret as an unwanted pet and the shop;obviously not knowing the first thing about ferrets (they dont even know that it is a ferret) is trying to make a fast buck. As I said,its being kept albeit cleanly,in a fairly large glass case,presumably to keep the stink to a minimum and the poor things got sawdust for bedding which i

Did you get the nets on line? I cant find nets for those kind of prices anywhere.

Thanks for all the advice.Think I'll just start taking her with me everywhere this year.Ferreting and air rifling.Hadnt thought about shooting one. Chances are,she'll see the right rabbit at the right time if shes out enough. In the mean time,I just made her a "flirt pole" - a pole with string on the end with a toy attached to it. Apparently Bull Terrier owners use them alot. I realized she was doing alot of straight line running but had no reason to twist and turn. I used the flirt pole with her yesterday and its great. Really gets the dog to use all those other muscles it needs to catch ra

My lurcher will be a year old in October so I'd like to introduce her to her first rabbit this winter.I havnt attempted to find her any rabbits yet cos I spent the first year training and making her a good family dog. Ive noticed lately that shes just started to get he eye in;stopping when she gets to open ground and scanning the area. Shes always loved to chase pigeons and she plays hide and seek with the kids (the kids hide in the wheat fields and she has to find them.) I want her first encounter to be a positive one so I was thinking of taking her ferreting. I know alot of people do this

She's currently 17 inches to the shoulder. Yes, her legs and muzzle are starting to feather up and the fur around her back near her tail is getting thicker too. It'll be interesting to see what she finally ends up like.