Jude

Been using the dog trace for about 3 seasons now, been faultless, nothing to fancy just a compass and distance in meters. After using a tracker don’t think I would run a dog without one now, no matter what the chosen quarry is as everyone knows you never know what’s round the corner and where they can end up.

Hares are absolutely thriving over the past couple years near where I am, can’t help but think it’s down to the foxes getting hammered from all the folk with thermal night vision rfles. therefore there’s not the amount of leverets getting eaten.

Seen a couple and they are cracking little dogs, but I always think to whoever is going to breeding a litter why not just use a greyhound instead, will get bigger stronger more cable dogs. horses for courses I suppose and depending what they were going to be used for. The ones I’ve seen were spot on rapid of the mark and could turn well but couldn’t help thinking if was just was a few inches bigger and ten or more pounds heavier could have made things a lot easier

Every type of quarry is better in the daytime than on the lamp fact. Plenty of dogs can look good lamping but look average in the daytime. Foxes are probably the only thing that don’t make many mistakes on the lamp, don’t see them hitting or turning of a fence often

Nah never really overheated bad to be honest

Dogs for jobs, a saluki couldn’t do what a bull x is bred for consistently and vice versa

I think that’s a lot to do with it, just getting excited knowing the routine of getting out ect. It Can get really annoying at times

Anyone ever had a dog that heats up really quick, excessive panting ect. My current bull x is a like this, even in cold weather or having done little exercises he’s blowing. Dog is in great shape and fit and not over muscular.after the first run he never gets his tongue back in for the rest of the night. I think a lot of it is from just being hyped up to begin with.

Do you know when the new Scottish law comes in for rabbiting in Scotland mate? Is it a different date to fox hunting?

Sad indeed, it was the last thing lurcher owners could do legally. There will b hundreds of foxhounds being put down aswell all due to some clueless mp’s. It won’t stop there either, i think wild bird shooting will b the next thing they will target ie grouse, woodcock ect

So killing rats with dogs ie lurchers and terriers is legal without any bullshit licences ect?

Great pics, seems to b plenty about over there trunk, do you get many lads with rifle and thermal around you? Loads of spots been wiped out round here because of them

Yesterday while letting the dogs empty themselves and have run about over the back field, my youngest dog pulled up with a Yelp after a short burst. There was no limping or holding his leg up his head just went down and went really quiet. Since then he’s still not limping but doesn’t seem to b putting full weight down on back foot and when he’s waking he seems to be kicking it out to the side. Anybody any idea what it could be? Doesn’t seem to b bothering him that much but definitely something not right

He’s taken it down, he said on Facebook that the video he put up of making the pheasant feeders, somebody must have knew the area where they were and went and stole them. It’s a pity as it was one of the YouTube channels that was actually decent,a bit of everything on there.

Not sure mate think it was called under the lamp or under the beam something similar to that