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shame you lost all the years of breeding from the strain you had jossa, definetly my stamp of animals, nice strong looking things, do you not run anything these days with any deerhound blood in them, thanks for posting pics, , j maybe someday the deerxgrey x collie will make a come back ,i would like to think so.
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thanks socks, but its right 0n the bend of the toe joint, not enough skin to stitch or staple the injury, had another bandage put on, these vets under the impression that it could pull it self together if kept covered for acouple of weeks,well hacked off that they didnt go ahead and take the toe off like i told them to, like all vets, will keep it going for coin,and then decide to amputate the toe,after ripping me off for a few hundred quid of useless treatment.
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TAKING DOG BACK TO VETS TONIGHT, TOHAVE ANOTHER LOOK, AND CHANGE DRESSING, WILL TRY AND PUT PICTURE UP LATER.
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RIGHT LADS LOOKING FOR SOME SENSIBLE ADVICE TO CURE THIS RECURRING PROBLEM WITH MY YOUNG LURCHER, AT THE VERY BEGINING OF THE SEASON, HE WAS CHASING A RABBIT AND WHEN HE RETURNED HE HAD A DEEP CUT ON TOP OF HIS FOOT BETWEEN THE NAIL AND TOE JOINT, SPENT LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS USING SPRAYS,WOUND POWDER,DERMAGEL, AND GELS, GOT IT CLOSED UP NICELY, SHORT RUN AT THE WKEND AND OPENED UP AGAIN, TOOK IT TO THE VETS WANTING THEM TO AMPUTATE TOE,ARSEHOLES HAVE ONLY XRAYED TOE WHICH HE DIDNT NEED, AND BANDAGED IT UP, IN THE HOPE THAT THE TOE WILL COMPRESS IT SELF TOGETHER,DONT HOLD OUT MUCH HOPE, SINCE
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got a pcp logun axsor 22 here,but it , needs a damn good servicing and new o ring seals fitted, as its leaking air from the filler probe valve , had it a good few years and never had it looked at, any of you guys recommend any body to carry this work out,and arough guide to how much it would cost,wouldnt attempt it myself and havent got the time. atb
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what would the best way be to breed a dg xc , would you use dg over a collie bitch or the other way round,or wouldnt it make much difference, dont suppose you got any photos of the dog you mention, something like him would suit me fine these days. atb
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did you ever see this cross run, i appreciate they were good for rabbit and hare, if bred the right way,but preban days were they not up to taking deer and foxes. what was lacking in them.
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been a big supporter of the deerhound greyhound, but just recently been thinking about getting one with abit of good working collie blood in it, never seen one work or heard any reports on them,what would be the best way to go if you wanted to produce one for working, well aware of the fact that good strains of deerhound are getting harder to obtain, but surely good working hill collies will still be about,remember phil lloyd used to run them in the seventies, and im sure he wouldnt have kept them if they were poor doers. thanks for replies.
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too warm to run dogs for me yet, plus ground still rock hard under foot, good for broken toes and tendon injurys,will wait till ground softens up and dogs are fitter,
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dont ever remember seeing jeff fletcher on tv, but he ran a nice little whippetx grey on the field fare challenge video in the 90s,the dog was called tay and certainly didnt disgrace it self or jeff, as it ran against some good dogs, as jeff stated the dog was bred by him just for abit of racing and general rabbiting, came over as a real gentleman and a good dogman.
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Hernias, dog injured absolutely gutted
grompz replied to callum104's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
from what you say, it sounds more like the dog has a trapped nerve some where from its neck along its spine, maybe take him to a good boneman, give him anti inflammatorys, and a lot of rest,if that dont work and hes no better, no option but a good working dog vet.atb. -
seen the write up on these greengrass whippets or whatever you want to call them, look the part but the sales pitch tells me all,willmake wonderful pets and companions but nowt about being workers, frequently on donedeal,peddlars as usual, wouldnt give one kennel space,but thats just me.
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yes im doing the same as you dinosaur, dave can keep the remainder of my subscription, he is welcome to it, for all the hardwork he put into the magazine thankyou dave.
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been with the magazine, since the first issue and got every year right up to the present,always enjoyed reading them,have been expecting this for a while, but thought it might have packed up later in the year, havent got this last issue yet, so thanks for heads up, lots of folk will be well paid up on subscriptions but will have to take it on the chin, thought maybe darcy or sleight would have took it on as both are good dogmen and writers, sad its finished.
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i would love to see this dvd, just to see the terrain and the type of dogs, that made it so hard to catch these blue hares,seen afew lurchers taking good tumbles,when coursing them, especially when the hares got on sheep tracks and the lurchers would follow them flat out,then suddenly the hare would take them down hill into steep rough guts with rocks and boulders strewn round running ground. lots of dogs could pick them selfs up and carry on coursing, but a few were less fortunate,coursing a tough old game even on well conditioned dogs.
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to be honest northenlite,we very rarely encountered the proper brown hare,on the heather clad moors we used to run ,,they seemed to thrive on the arable fields that adjoined the moors ,occasionally we would start one on the heather and would give the dogs more of asporting run being abit taller and stronger,strangely the blue hare and brown hare never seemed to mix the same on this type of terrain,just my observation.
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used to run white hares and the irish hares regulary preban,but they were easy to catch even with dogs that were bred for rabbiting had a couple of beddyx greys that could hold their own with them,when thesehares were hard pressed they would hit the ground like rabbits, no comparision to the larger brown hare or red hare as we used to call them, needed some saluki blood or deerhound in the lurchert make up to stop those boys. great days,great memorys, of dogs and lads long gone but never forgotten.
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Had lurchers all my life,absolutely gob smacked by the prices, pups are going for at the moment, bred a few litters years ago,gifted pups to lads i knew would graft them, had pups gifted to me by genuine dog men, bought a couple in these last few years, paid 15 pounds in 70s for a deerxgrey from john nuttall clitheroe, was agenuine dog bred the right way,paid 300 pounds 4years ago for my last pup but the way i see it now is , if you breed a decent litter, feed and rear them right, have to keep them afew months,your not making a great profit selling them at that sort of price, i would never p
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that's exactly what I would say, definetly deerhound blood in there, lovely looking animal, like him a lot.
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check out prices for lurchers and terrriers on dragon driving, would have thought you couldn't travel round britian w, absolutely nuts but there being sold, hardly any body in work, where do they find the money to pay these silly prices, soon be giving pups away, when things get tighter.
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at the moment, feeding mine on csj ferret food,doing ok on it, was feeding Dodson and horrel but gone a bit expensive now,and if im really stuck have fed pets at home ferret nuggets,but at the end of the day cant beat raw meat,only feed dry crap in summer months to avoid smell and flys round hutch.
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well said neil , totally agree with what you said, seen and been out with blokes who have tried them on rabbits,total waste of time getting dragged round sets and lots of spadework due to the size of them, may aswelll stick white mice down the holes, once asked a bloke how he kept them so small, said he kept the food intake low on the bitch and kits when they were first born, don't know if it was true or not, give me agoood strong ferret any day when they stick they usually stick in one place not getting the runaround.
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I invested in one of those furminator combs afew years ago, still using now a handy little thing, used on really rough coated dogs,does an excellent job,saves a lot of hand stripping, wouldn't be without it, there not really expensive to buy,
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lovely looking strong pup, just my type, always had a soft spot for the deerhound x greyhounds, give him plenty of time to mature and enjoy the sport you will have with it, incidentally who bred the pup.
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haven't got a clue or heard about these lurchers,but whilst browsing the net, came across their site,just curious any body know if there worked, they look as if given the chance, they could put a shift in, probably just peddlars and puppy farmers,and most likely just bred for pet owners and posing in show rings, also noticed there featured in the country maids weekly,that should tell me all, but could be entirely wrong,what sort of prioe do they charge for pups, from what I read a mr farthing started the strain off but his daughter is now breeding them, looking forward to any comments good o
