sandymere
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I agree with the idea that people should start to take more resposibility for their own health but try to understand that being overweight and smoking are hard problems to deal with as often linked to other areas such as mental health ie smokers may be self medicating depressives. I don't thing there will be an easy answer to these expensive problems untill we are able to treat the causes rather than the symptoms. Recently speaking to a overweight person who was complaining that the "Drs" were blaming her knee pain on her weight rather than "sorting it out". I asked her what she would say if
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Bedlinton hybreds suit my temperment and the lurcher work i do. I've had saluki crosses when living in hare country, pre ban, but still had a beddy for other stuff.
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Like all things there's good and bad. Personally as i often go for years without going to a show or othertwise meeting more than the odd lurcher owner so i find forums interesting to get others ideas but don't feel that they would alter what type of dog i might get. I run bedlington hybreds as they suit me and have since the 1980'S for general mooching.
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there's some shits about! hope you get it back.
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Ours are OK to get an appointment, call first thing, it's more what happens when your there. I went a while ago and saw a staff grade who decided to take my blood pressure against my advice, i have white coat syndrone, BP was 220/170. Now i'm getting a little long in the tooth but still run approx 15 miles a week, surf once or twice a week and mountain bike at least once a week so was a little suprised when, without looking at my skinny little body, she advised me to increase my exercise and lose weight! Lordy to much treating the machine and not the patient i can just see some poor fecker hav
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Bloody hell i was naked sun bathing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A good strong no at any sign of intrest, plenty of time around so that sinks in and then encourage intrest in other scents / signs rabbiots etc while in their company. It works for me.
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Lot in north devon again this year been around for a few weeks.
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The Hobby any bird that can take a swallow on the wing has to be a bit special. A few times i've sat by a lake surrounded by the chitter of martins and swallows when suddenly it all goes quiet but if you look up high you'll see them bunched up trying to keep above the little falcon as it wips around catching dragonflies.
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If the theory of evolution is correct then predation pressures should be part of the evolutonary driver but it would take a very long time and the past couple of thousand years of coursing would have hardly registered genetically. I feel that in current times extinction is a more likely outcome due to habitat destruction that will outpace any evolutionary response.
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:clapping: thats the sort of future that you want.
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Gave the dog a pigs trotter this morning they love it and helps to keep them occupied for a while.
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Lamper for me. I'm to old to be getting chased all over the countryside so it's a little more simple to disappear in the dark thats if they can be bothered to get out of bed to chase you.
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That a nice looking dog Thurso perhaps a little tall for my taste but still a credit to you.
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Bedlington / whippet x greyhound. Always found them a good cross.
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why "lo salt" if sodium is the electrolyte your trying to replace ? when my dog starts dripping with sweat like a marathon runner i'll start to replace the electrolytes lost untill then i'll go for a good balenced diet to fullfill their nutrient needs.
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Anyone else......refresher training?
sandymere replied to a topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
Oh dear your making me feel guilty mine is getting a little slow on command expect it wouldn't hurt most to do a little refresher once a year so here goes. -
dog was doing exactly what it had been trained to do and no dought it could learn to work in the day time.
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if it's 2/3 year old then make sure it's not retired early through injury. You can get the odd one is retired sound because it will not chase the lure but these are usually still keen on live game. A non chaser some say is one that is smart enough to learn the lure is not real so maybe a little sharper than most. I was a permit trainer and spent 6 months training my retireds before rehoming them just keep slow and steady and they will get there in the end and can make useful workers. PS make the training fun.
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As males don't have seasons there is less chance of breaks in their working time. Having said that i've found the bitches i've owned have on the whole been better workers but i've always liked the dogs move. What ever suits the individual is probably best.
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IMO i'd build up slow as a dog matures, 9 months is still young, also it's easy to go to fast on a bike your better of running as unless your an elite athlette your unlikely out pace a dog and if you build up the distance to quickly you will get injured before the dog. I run with mine across open land and on the beach at low tide this means that in warm weather the dog is easily cooled down with a quick dip.
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A dogs body is more than capable of making all the creatine it needs without adding any extra if given a sensible diet. If a dog has a good balenced diet it will develop the right body mass for the work it does and extra muscle is just extra weight to run with. In human terms a 100m runner has big muscle but no stamina, not good for twenty runs a night, but a long distance runner is light weight and plenty of stamina. A dog such as a working lurcher needs speed indurance like a 400 - 800m runner and they are not as slim as a 10k runner but definatly light weight.
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Don't forget the greyhound input in the breeding - there is a lot of difference in their stamina as well as the crossses input. i raced a litter brother and sister the bitch would stay 680 to 730m even around henlow in the 's, a heavey track, but the dog couldn't stay 330m although hellish quick over 200m. It's partley to do with fast and slow twitch muscle fibres with perhaps a bit of input by the central controller balenced with musclo-skeletal make up and body weight.
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West Country Game Fair Royal Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallet. sat and sun 17th & 18th march 07.
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i remember walking and running for miles without a thought, from h/regis in beds to sharpenhoe for a little ferreting. it would bloody kill me now.