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    Ok mate, will have to see whens best for the dates, I reckon most will go for early Nov... that means we can get back to Hungary in Jan lol
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    It can only really be your own call, in my opinion. I personally rely on the hunting side of any dog, for me its all about letting the dog work naturally, I like to see them work on scent, and find their own game... sounds like you need to do some more work with recall etc but make sure 100% with livestock, at least if thats perfect you can be sure to remain good friends with the farmer or landowner.
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    Im more than slightly curious as to how you train a dog to bite balls? Steve lol
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    Your thinking of commercial boar shooting mate.
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    I think we are all agreed on that Steve, but in Gecko's case, the dog always holds the face and could easily suffer, ive seen her in action, shes suicidal, literally in the boars mouth sometimes lol. And as this isnt the dogs normal line of work, just a holiday really why not take a bit of stress out the equation leaving you to enjoy working the dogs with more peace of mind. Im not putting folk off wanting to protect their dogs, its their call. The other lads all have bigger dogs
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    Fitchet, the trip was available to any breeds or crosses and was initially started to give folk the opportunity to introduce their dogs to boar driving. Folks, I might not get online much over the next few weeks, heading back to the hills today. Good luck with the preparations. DnN
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    There are others who will want to join the order, I will pm them now mate. could you tell me exactly what measurements they need to get... I will pm the rest of them that want cut vests Just a note, if you have a dog with big shoulders, make sure you tell him to make the leg holes wider than usual
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    Let em crack on, I dont see how it could effect most working dog men?
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    Nowadays I spend more time up the Tweed than down in the Tyne anyway, but it will be great to have them down home for sure! There was one shot not too far north of the border, a stag, but it seems he was a lone ranger.
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    Great to see! Having seen a few of MLB's dogs running first hand I can honestly say that, they can put on a good show alright and I dont mean in the ring, all the best, they are a fine team.
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    Interesting JD.. I remember you saying before about them not spreading under their own steam... they have managed to get out east to the coast of Norfolk already lol and Im sure before long some kindly chap will give a pair a boat ride across the Humber it just seems inevitable doesnt it?
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    Sad loss mate, looked a cracker, RIP Bill
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    waiting for the bolt...
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    prob as easy as learning it to retrieve I couldnt even get my bull cross to do that!
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    there all f1 hybrids, prob couple years x back to another lurcher, only to drop just bit of size, as Buck and litter mates have great stamina, fast, and powerful dogs, so only with a view to drop bit of size nothing else . The size is what I liked about em
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    Your probably absolutely right, but I would argue that some dogs would be un willing to do that, or deffo require a much more skilled hand than mine... whether right or wrong, I rarely train more than the basics, the rest I leave to the dog, so if its not in them, I tend to just accept it. However, I did solve the problem... with tracking gear.. Now I never hunt without it. Before I got the garmin, I have even trawled back up the hill with another dog looking for stuff in the dark lol the things ye do!
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    Cheers Bird, Are these types also line bred or are they all f1 hybrids?
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    One of my best was a little Beardie/Grey. She'd hunt for miles, but on a couple of occasions she came back and fetched me to show me where she'd found an occupied earth, in true 'Lassie' style. She'd come back to me, look very hard at me, then turn and trot away, looking back over her shoulder to make sure I was following. She once found a fox on a small cliff face deep in brambles and did that: luckily it was still there when we got there, and the terriers pushed it out. That dog was the most intelligent critter I've ever owned, bar one. I often wished my lurchers would do that. often wi
  19. dogs-n-natives
    Er ok, thought you were asking about why the other deer were not so abundant in the north east, my mistake
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    But saying that, the populations in general are all increasing and spreading in most areas of the UK, if you look back at the history of deer, it was much worse, roe were wiped from the whole of England and even with re-introductions in the far south of England they are still absent from fair chunks of the south, they are only recent arivals in Kent....I bet the folk in those areas are sick of fallow and long for swift footed roe!!
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    But in the eastern coastal strip the land is mostly flat arable? would that not suit the cwd? I think given time, more so than the muntjac perhaps, but the cwd could find its way right up the eastern coastal arable strip which would take them eventually up over the border. All the nearest fallow never get chance to come in and get set up, they are killed as soon as folk hear about them, the population in the lower north east is smallish and scattered, and heavily plundered, I doubt they will even get up into Co.Durham much, the western stuff is held back mostly by the M74 motorway... the n
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    not the steadiest dog at a hole, was my old bull lurcher, had to dig him out a few places... the twat... but I was actually blessed with old Bud, though he was so hard to keep up with back when I didnt run the dogs with trackers and I did a lot of pest control, he also got noisey later in his life and would bark a bit at a mark, he never marked rabbits, and was always hunting up, he could get quite far out searching for occupied fox earths, and I often found him after a good old search, which was tiring in itself never mind then entering a terrier and having a dig, but the shooting estates pai
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    http://youtu.be/ueR6_ipaw4g
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    ^^ He out of razzmatazz isnt he? Turned out a good strong dog, and you say he is light on his feet, good for any task then...hows the litter mates doing, do you hear from any others ?
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    To be honest, it does put me off... a few of my dogs became deaf as they got old, usually after 12 or so, but we learned to get by just fine with hand signals etc another thing I do is stamp my foot, they feel it from yards away, its my way of saying 'heel up' but the prospect of a dog thats deaf from the word go is not too thrilling lol
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