Chaz
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I think you are lucky to get 2 good interesting articles a week in the CMW compared to an issue full of good articles in the EDRD the CMW is now very repetitve and has a lot of articles written by people who would be hard pushed to know dog work if someone ever took them out in the actual field and showed them what a rabbit looked like
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Have to agree
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When it became easy to feed the family and the government of the day decided that they better make sure the "hoi polloi" didn`t starve to death , I would say the dog men decided to test their dogs on different quarry as it didn`t matter if the dog was hors de combat for a while as it was not the difference between a meal on the table and an empty belly, it probably became more in vogue when the lamping scene started as it was far easier to find a fox abroad during the hours of darkness than during the day, so probably around the late 1970`s early 1980`s I would of thought
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The right type Greyhound has always been considered a "Fox Dog" so if these were used in the early creation of the "lurcher" then most of the early lurchers would of been able to handle fox, the thing is that "greyhounds" came in a lot of different guises in centuries gone by and only when Lord Orford added Bull blooded dogs did they begin to standardise in to the dogs we know today, and guess what modern lurchermen are adding to greyhound to produce fox dogs you got it bull blooded dogs, nothing is new in this game it has all been done before but we like to think that modern lurcher men
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That about sums it up in a nutshell
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Good man :yes:
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Give the dog a chance to prove itself in the field before you start breeding pups off him :wallbash:
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No but you can have them on "HIGHER PERCHES"
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Yep I remember reading articles by him early to mid nineties, isn`t he on the begining of one of the "lurchermania" video`s ??
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About £70 from Eire to the UK
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If you really want him, give these a buzz below, they are ment to be very good. http://www.greyhound-data.com/fotos_ad/4/5864big.jpg Frank. wat is it a transport company?????? Transport4u are a transport company but I think they only deliver on the mainland , but their are plenty of good transporters out there Ian Waterworth is very good have used him to fetch greyhounds over a couple of times and they always arrive in top nick
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Good Luck Kye :boxing:
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:clapping: :clapping: :clapping: Well done DS and all the best with her, what a stunner
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Completely sick , but who in their right mind would sell or give someone like that a pup in the first place , words fail me
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Very nice Frank good luck with her
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there are a few on this link mate, grooming tools I prefer this glove
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It`s at the top of the running dog section now
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Sad to see her go but she has hopefully gone to a loving permanent home
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Now Re-homed good luck to the new owners
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Lurchers catching Pheasants and Feather?
Chaz replied to cúagusgiorraí's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
My youngster has a thing about Mallard and has had a couple up to now and will hopefully have a few more this winter -
I start my new job next Monday I was made redundant from the dairy farm I worked on for 14 years when the cows were sold, so I took myself a month of R&R and start at a greyhound kennels next week
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I think it is known as marketing
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You deserve every bit of success you get with Dilli mate, there are not many that would of put the dedication into getting the bitch right after an injury as bad as hers , :clapper: Chaz
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They normally have DH plus a number or letter which is the stud dog code I think in one ear , and a letter and three digits in the other ear which is the year code and individual pups number my two are DHI / E476 DH47/ L732 Hope that helps
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One last bump