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Got to agree,.I made my bones with such useful, old style lurchers...great days, great times and great memories. -
Warwickshire - incompetence
Phil Lloyd replied to Torquemada's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
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Nowadays, the knowledgeable and open-minded lurcher breeder,..has much more choice, than in previous times... Unfortunately,..now that we finally have, the tools for the job,..any job,...we have been cruelly, and unjustly gelded, by ill-thought-out legislation...?
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Saw this wee clip on Youtube... Alan at the Midland 2016... Good on him, eh lads,...it takes some guts the walk out in that arena...
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Sounds good fun Shortstraw I've kept all sorts, big and small, fast (and not so fast)...and enjoyed working with them all, but ya can't beat having a bit of a mouch, with a genuine hunting cur...
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So sorry to hear this sad news... Alan was a superb net maker and enjoyed the old style ways of harvesting game...He also liked hunting with a dog and during the late 1980s, he contacted me for a lurcher pup. He came down to my place in Hampshire and I let him have a nice strong Red Merle dog, from my Australian Cattle Dog lurcher x Collie /Greyhound litter...and like anyone else, back in the day, he quite rightly asked to see the Dam of his new pup working. We had a quick shine with my Speckle and Alan saw,... what he needed to see... He was a nice genuine countryman...?
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Wish I could go back to those days,..the dazzler was so exciting, so real, so new...
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That's the way to do it...?
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A lot of guys stipulate, that it must be a genuine, Collie x Greyhound that they desire,..but in reality,..they don't really need such an animal..... Most lads would be far better served with a crossbred cur that has obvious Sheepdog traits but also has, a wee bit of something else in its ancestry.. In my experience, for a man to obtain the very best out of a Collie x Greyhound, he has to really want one,..badly...?
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Fabulous, heartwarming, great to see...
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I liked BEASLEY STREET ?
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You were working for A Pest Controller...and any dog used for the destruction of vermin, or in a sporting situation, is exempt from wearing a metal tag... It is dangerous to allow a dog to wear a collar when entering cover or going to ground, so just stapling the metal tag to a dog's neck,.. would be inhumane...? Mind you, as an Experienced Operative,.you should have gone after the dog when it was pursuing that rat/ rabbit,..through the town... You are now, fired...?
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" Don't give your heart to a dog to tear"?
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I get the drift, regarding looks, over working ability, and perhaps it is simply pure coincidence....but the best dogs I have EVER seen in action,.... all looked good...
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It is difficult to assess a working dog, simply by glancing at a photograph...indeed, there was once a fashion for having 'on-line' dog shows, whereby folks were encouraged to post images of their jukels and these pictures would then be Judged, by some well -known guy,.and the coveted Red rosette, awarded accordingly..? Having been privileged to handle various types of running dog composites over the years, I have found that nothing beats getting hands-on,..and obviously, the cream on the pudding would always be, to walk out into the hunting field and let your eyes provide the truthful an
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My best ever work dogs, were of Pedigree Unknown,...and none the worse for it...
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Coming in nice and steady, darn sarf,..hopefully, we will all prosper...?
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Cracking picture All -Terrain
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Just jotting a few words down at the moment fellah, (hopefully for a future publication). Nothing earth-shattering, just a modest wee script, that might answer several, similar questions... However, it would be true to say, that on the whole, I've usually kept a particular type/style of dog,.... for the job in hand...? As mentioned, I have had the opportunity to walk out with several different types of running dog composite over the last 60 years and the truth is, I feel privileged to have had the chance to do so...Lurchers are fabulous canines... Got my preferences obviou
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Yeah,.good old dogs to hunt with,..took mine all over the UK,...great fun, great days...?
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Patience Grasshopper?
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I feel that it will be a good year
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? I would always prefer a physically gifted dog that has twigged on, to use his natural gears to run slow when required, over a naturally slow dog that cannot ever hope to produce pace, or find a speed that is plainly not at his disposal...Back in the day, my best catch dogs, all had the power to control their chosen quarry,.. it was a great feeling to go out into the darkness, fully armed... Fielding such canine athletes I honestly felt that I owned the night... Nowadays, with my wee curs, I am woefully underpowered,...we have to rely on being in the right place, at the right time,...we
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Hi,.if you are willing to take written advice or learn from a DVD, (and for some folk, this is often this is the only viable option),...why not try to obtain a copy of Glenn Waters definitive text on Rabbit snaring... "Professional Rabbit Snaring: A Complete Book on Rabbit Snaring for Gamekeepers, Professional & Amateur Trappers, Field Sportsmen. I believe Fourteen Acre the Field Sports supplier sells it.?
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Jayne was a good woman... She was always very kind to me and had a genuine, caring side to her... RIP, Flynn...?
