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sound great pups, i did lot of beating when i was younger, and in my mind well bred springer, a top gundog like you say they can do the lot deff, dont know what they fetching to day in price, but suppose for a well bred pup , not bad price .
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Hi there are some healthy/agille/ leggy staffs still about, if find the right breeders. Ours in the 60s were the old type = 14- 20in - 35- 55lb animals, more like apbt of today. These were the type the shipped over to America in 20s, then we're out crossed to bigger type dogs they used, I always thought the yanks might hounds= plot hounds, and b/m/c, the yanks always denied this lol, either way the dog they help produce the apbt=bulldog, is a great breed, when bred right, and in working hands, ?
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Lol, like the wall paper bit lol. 79 not bad that, I am 71 in August, I've got fecked right knee now, I was told, that I will need a knee replacement at some point. Well I not on the list yet for any Op with it, but getting worse with it, if much worse, I have to stop walking Buck, OK he near 11, but still needs a walk, little woody OK in the garden, so it time in 36 years with lurchers, I struggle to walk them, so am getting feckin low with this lot. Anyway Keith, get better mate and keep posting.
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No I didn't, was just having nice walk by the wood, he was about 30yds in front, he picked up a sent and went in the wood, he done this type of thing loads of times. Some times he might knock a fox out of cover etc , he was clamping dog , but great mooching dog sd well, what I liked, make the walk that more interesting that way. Deff.
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very true that, when you get to mine and Keith age, you try to live it , and try to enjoy it much as you can, even all the fookin aches/ pains we have every day, chin up Keith, keep fighting mate .!
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yes your spot on what you say, but when old Buck had pulled them down , male munjack by this wood, fook me the noise, a woman and her daughter were going to the wood to see what the hell it was lol, i had to stop them , and said my dog prob got a rabbit, and he dont like strangers by him , that stopped them lol , he nearly broke me neck in the woods getting to him, but got there finished it off, was nice size buck as well. so yeh with all done it at some time, but tried to be as quick and humane as we can, not let poor feckers just bleed to death with a slow death .
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ok, we eat meat, and nice it is as well, but feck me, we supposed to be civilized human beings , why except what these dirty 3rd world twats do? . you can see why very easy people dont eat meat , knowing what these scum do to a animal for there beliefs , if it was just there meat on sale nothing else , i do with out meat .!!
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Cracker that, just how I like pup to look confident. In one way looking back, over the years I think something like that way bred, prob suited me really, don't get me all my collie x greys were spot on rabbit dogs, but they never really liked the sharp end. It was one the reasons I got Buck my 1x gsd xgrey lurcher, he catch rabbits etc, and fill me freezer no prob, but he do few Charlie's as well, I never went out for them, but if bumped into one, he bring it back to me like a feckin rabbit lol. I always fancied a put xgrey x collie xgrey, but couple lads back then, said its a risk because you
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is that similar to how they kill cattle with a bolt gun, top of head pointing towards to top of spine .? like said if done right , ok fair enough. i am only going on like said with old bryn that i had for 14 years, it was done quick easy to him in vets, he just looked at me and moved his paw, patted his head, and he was gone. i do the same with Buck , he turns 11 in august , and i turn 71 then, we both finished together at right time, he my last working dog, if get another later be just ex work old worker as a pet . But hopefully couple years away with the big lad yet.?.
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ok then, you tell me exactly how shoot the dog, do you use pistol, or rifle , 2nd where do you shoot it, is just back of the head .? and is it instant death .? like said the huntman, who work for the kennels, kill any old or injured hounds. all iknow that from the deaths of my lurchers who been pts, old bryn was last dog 18 months, it was very good gentle , different situation when done at the hunt kennel. i not saying it not done right, but by choice i deff use my vet again with old Buck when i have to, you can pm if you want.!
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Well all this talk of putting gun to hits head, and blasting it brains through front of it head, I did get lurcher x lurcher shot for me, by the local hunt man, took the dog back of kennels and shot her, she tried to get back to me, OK she was vicious twat with dogs/ people, but fine with me. I do really think the old injection in the wrist is far better, don't hurt, more humane than all this macho crap, putting a hole in its head. Old Bryn, pts no prob, vet kind gentle, plus they get rid of the body for you, I do the same with old Buck when the times right. ?
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Yeh that's true, suppose that why they go back to the pit in the wheaten x grey, as on average you get that bit more grit in the mix, from pit/wheaten,. I do know from my own experience, that not all collies like the deal with old Charlie boy, etc, but maybe if just colliexgreyx wheaten x grey, it might be that bit better, it was one the reasons I went for the gsd xgrey, they deff got more grit than your average colliexgreyx, well my big dog had.Buck ?
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cracker that, always lke the old rough type looking lurcher .Just out of interest whats the collie x grey x wheaten x gery like?, i know in general it norm a wheaten x grey, with drop of pit in the mix, nothing wrong with that, but as just normal type lurcher just for mooching about, thought drop of collie in any lurcher a good thing, as they great, nose, feet/coat, and stamina , well i found that with colliexs over the years .
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Haha and me, OK done alot for charity with his running etc, but I makes me feel sick, just looking at him, and never found him funny anyway as comedian.!!
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Yes and no, you can only say so much about catching rabbits, either day and night. With the hunting ban with dogs, it had be effect on lot of hunting people. OK people, always have jumped over fence, even though 100 acres, I still would pop over fence to other places lol. Even though I took most things in the lamp with Buck 1x gsd xgrey , you still bit grey matter what you Wright. I think personally, that most hunting sites would run out of things to say, OK maybe shooting /fishing be OK, but they go in 20 years time, with all these fookin bunny huggers out there, but deff with terriers, lu
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the big lump back yet Gnasher , not been on here for few days, maybe he talk after the Man-City game sat night .?
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did she like your bulldogs Gnash ? i know from my own experience with our old line staffs, and apbt they norm good with people/ kids , ok dog aggressive , but that in there genes , but with that power grit in them, you got to know what your doing with them deff.!
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bird replied to wyeman's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
, yeh true , if it fills the bag night/day . -
An example of the Generosity of members on this forum
bird replied to wyeman's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
yeh thought that, but if no sight hound in it, how can it be a lurcher ? , nice strong looking dog .! -
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spot on, the people who live next to me have them, they had one lab size, so be standard poodle used , and then they got a spaniel size one that be min poodle used.Go to honest here , not there dogs as such, but other cockerpoos , that ive seen on my dog walks have been nice temps, and nice family type dogs, nice easy coat etc, not over big dogs, these mid size ones = spaniel size, so i think they make nice family pet, as you feckin pay for bloody things though =£ 800- 1 grand , they better than the feckin labs ive bumped in to of late, wjhat i posted about the other day, but in my mind
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now tis thing about top spine showing, i was the same as you in that thinking, both my 1xs have show spine , old bryn was 60lb dog fit still knock few rabbits over at 10, lived till 14, big old Buck a 88 lb dog , old now but still quite strong animal who 11 in august both showed top spine. i did ask my vet, who very good, proper country vet, knows what ive done with Buck, she say seen any smelly foxes lately , when she used to see me lol,. i asked about the spine thing, she said bryn was in good nick, and Buck as well, she said under fed dog, be generally thin all over, alot of dogs can pu
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Great old pic, that you on lead, or singing. Do you miss it or still play, you got acoustic, or still play electric, just mean having the odd strum for 1/2 at home. PS thanks for the few tips regards playing, yeh once drop on the chords clean/quick, I know it get easier to play the acoustic guitar, OK the uke easier to play with 4 strings, my guitar 6 strings , and you are 100%right it's practice practice deff, the bloke teaching me said, the more hours you put in the better you get, and yeh I deff bug for it, I love this ( tanglewood 6 string guitar) love playing it?
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haha , be feckin long wait for stiff , only one for Buck now ( old) . going back to your guitar days in bands etc . the two words come home to all the while, started early on meaning alot of people start say 10 year old etc, so getting to mid 20s there abouts they have 20 years of playing, and the younger you start is better, = memory , reflexes in fingers etc, and generally they pick it quite quick . ive lessons once a week not cheep either , the bloke who been teaching me, is in couple bands playing 20 years , he was at Glastonbury last year , helping out on couple s
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plus if you back to when greyhounds were bred, they bulldog bred back in to them , to put bit more fire and jaw into them f, dont forget we talking about the old proper working/ healthy animals more like some apbts from them early paintings , not these KC wrecks walking about today .?
