dickyboy
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some of the thingy bobs do more harm than good!! get a good one the wam caller is the best i think most would agree for ease and durability etc listen to a rabbit squeal and pretend you are dying etc and practice calling on foxes that don't matter such as ones around town doesn't matter if you make them shy!!! i do a couple of long squeaks then some short quick ones then vary volume etc
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i turfed mine so they didn't realise any difference and cover it over so it looks like a dustbin.....as i'm on the town edge there used to small spaces....... the best bait is rabbit or chicken but i use half a dozen frankfurters in a washing pwoder bag....theres so many preservatives they seem to never rot so i don't have to change the baiti just check it from my bedroom window lol lol
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did all that sort of thing for a gamekeeper and now most evenings and weekends are taken up with that......shit shovelling scrubbing feeders etc so don't have time for all that at the moment but thank you for the advice DS, i was kinda hoping there would be a member that owned a couple of dogs that took them along for trials etc and start that way??
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i may have 1 for sale at the end of the month if your not in a rush?? just need to find out about some work on it!!!
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chris hicklings got dogs like that!!! and mattyj might be able to help!
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I've only been to the dogs once but loved it and will one day have one to train and bring on but don't know much about the racing side of it! Is there anyone in the surrey area who goes to local tracks who would mind me tagging along to see what its all about and how to do it? or what would be the best way of learning where how and what??
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aren't bull arabs pointerxgreyhound with bull have one of them over a racey dog and you'll be somewhee near what you want stabs??
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where in suffolk i could be interested??
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surely there are dogs that will take a small percentage of any type of any quarry anywhere...but the miss rate would be much higher as they would be too general and not great at any one thing..... not that i knew the dog or know the man but from the reading i have done Jon darcys Scooby was damn close!! this is speculation to explain myself but maybe he wasn't the best at fox or something but may take the odd one, could take daytime hare and i think he had a fair few species of deer and his catch ratio sounded high....there must be more dogs like this and that is an allrounder.... I sa
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in the same boat mate.....my dog cut his front foot bad vet said maybe 3 weeks but more likely 6!!! but i was lucky i thought was looking like the 3 weeks but 12 days in and just letting him have light exercise he cuts a pad on some glass i get proper grouchy with people when i can't get out....but on my ground i have to go out all year so he gets run when the grounds wet enough!!
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people who are saying there dogs do everything they ask of them and are 20 inches do not have all rounders!! i'm n9ot knocking there dogs as they have the dogs for what they do and there probably the best at the type of hunting they do but they are not capable of any quarry any where!!!
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not alot more than roe mate i do know of 6 reds and there meant to be on my ground but not seen them yet plus someone shot a small hind he said and i could of got inside it!!! couple of muntys on the edge and and some fallow and sika in very small numbers but roe roe roe
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had 6 tuesday night with rifle and could of had 6-7 more but ran out of bullets! and had 1 wednesday but saw 5 and they were cautious
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collars are handy to have on!! when pulling off stuff!! when on hot ground i walk the footpaths with those slip leads gundog people use i just turn round and push through the collar and put the loop end round wrist if any one comes "i finished work late and am just walking my fit black labrador and i use the lamp as its easy to carry and have it for work as a pest controller" worked twice so far......most people my way have no idea!! bit of rope otherwise
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IN GENERAL gotta be a big dog to be an allrounder....yeah a whippet will be better than a deerhound at rabbits but there ain't many whippets that will pull a big fallow or red or sika admittedly there ain't many big dogs that will do it but a damn sight more big dogs will than small dogs!! thats why there are different dogs people who don't want to catch big game or just want to run small game on shorter cover then you get a small dog....but like it was said before an 18" dog will struggle through 18" thick heather or cover on a hare so a small dog can't be taken to any part of the countr
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to speed up the process i covered some dummies with skins and let him watch my mate throw them down the beam. then on short grass like a football pitch/park i would throw 3 or 4 out leave that field and come back 5 min later when he's forgotten the n lamp them from 20 yards or so! i found it helped him put 2 and 2 together so he knows he has to rtrieve something from the end of the beam everytime and sometimes it doesn't move it also taught him on longer grass to hunt around the area where the beam ends till he finds it.......then well down the line he's starting to click!!!! but apart fro
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so why do you foxes in town when theres plenty of food for them in the countryside thats what gets me ...???its good to get veiws from different people ..cheers... alot of people round here and i am very near the m25 and work both inside and outside of it have a;lot of money and feed foxes as well as the crap that gets dropped....in general round here town foxes are smaller have more diseases and mange etc.........i have caught some really nice foxes from these places too!!! some that would give a good dog a damn good fight cos thats what there thinking rather than run alot of times, m
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my dog will jump anything that i'm near enough to command him to jump, upto a certain height, were still building confidence but i believe he trusts me not to make him jump into danger....the problem i have is he will not jump anything when hes far away from me....but then i have lots of roads to avoid so this ain't too bad for me....yeah stuff gets away more often but at least my dog is safe
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the foxes in the countryside round me(surrey/london) are bigger and better condition than the ones in the town but i do see town foxes in the countryside, skinny little runts! i put it down to the food quality being poor in the city/town even if there is enough.....i am a pest controler and have found them eating vegetable peelings from compost cos they are starving. not exactly a good diet for a fox........so i partly agree with your uncle the foxes are better in the countryside as because they have an abundance of good food but the town foxes are not pushed there(round my way) I think
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Don't know much but if it helps i'll tell you about the 2 dogs i know!! Mine is a first x pointer/grey and is 26" and 32kg and very fit, he'll pull roe anywhere he can grab and they just tumble for him, he used to hold on to the back leg but he killed a wounded fox and it triggered something so he now goes for throat and there is no way he's coming off, after a bit of experience he would have gone to fallow but now its illegal!! he does prefer to take hock but his weight has definately added a couple to the bag when they turned sharp and he just rammed them over!! he now leaves very little
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i go to a place called farm supplies....but ebay has some cheaper if you buy 5kg but still about £50 lasts along time....i helped on a shoot and the boss while rearing said use as much as i need to keep the birds healthy....i used about 8kg but i soaked everything thing feeder/drinker in it and sprayed the birds and the huts and any where there were build up of shit we only lost about 2-3% and some of them were wrigglers(birds that never grow) so a damn good year!!!!
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i feel sorry for anything he runs into!!! he'll go straight through......i don't think size affects speed that much more agility so for rabbits he won't be the best but a rabbit dog won't take the punishment he looks like he could!!!
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hahahaha some more to remember there!!!
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Nothing beats Virkon S!!! it smells lovely and don't hurt animals....we used to give it too young pheasant poults to help with internal viruses in thier water....wouldn't recommend drinking it yourself though!! lol But you do pay a price for the quality but saying that it lasts!!!
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wilky i know what you mean!! for me its a morals thing i can't back down to these greedy b*stards tenner for a bulb......can you get anymore....you could sell them off here cos my mate and i are both making do with iffy bulbs....I wouldn't mind paying £3 for a bulb i bet you'd make some money on here!! Pm me if you can!!