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  1. birddog
    i was asked at a game fair by tweed wearing folk walking the big show type deerhounds about like highland lairds if my 25in 50 odd pound rough coated lurcher was a whippet x beardie................i treated them with the contempt they deserved gave them 'the' look and walked away in silence
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    Great if you've got the time mate If I get up before 7, I can give 'em 5 to 8 miles at 8-10 miles an hour and be ready to go to work by 8. You can't say there's no benefit in that, both for me and for the mutts Cheers, D. i'm up at 5 for dayshift, leave the house about quarter to 7am get home about 8pm quick bite to eat then a wee mooch before bed, no benefit i'm feckin knackered lol
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    was someone not looking for a rabbiting pup the other day ?
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    f**k me your dogs must be fit as feck with 4 1/2 hours walking everyday.....lol I've started using the spring loaded type after free lance showed me that. great piece of kit, but i try and get on the long bridle paths and leave them to follow me. Hour in the morning for both dogs, then xena will get a run out with the bike or free running on the farms in the evening. i'm lucky with my job i suppose, when i'm there it's long shifts but that means lots of days off, when i'm nights they get their morning walk before i go to bed, the mooch at night doesn't seem like work because their
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    i wouldn't worry too much, she looks in good nick in the pic, one of mine puts on weight passing a butchers and the other is a picky sod with a higher metabolism, every dog is different mate and have different tastes, as long as she's healthy sometimes we've just got to go with it
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    the don dog impressed me from day one just something about his method of work plus i wanted options for my future dogs 99% of minshaws out there are out of jack at the time of the mating,plus if don sees old bones then ill be very suprised,hes got a do or die attitude and has you no it can go tits up anytime with dogs through losing them one way or another,and best dog ive seen was bulpa and best dogs after him were bred from him and don is nearly bred the same as bulpa so i would of been foolish not to use him after seeing the don dog when we met i admitted that i'd love to use him on my
  7. birddog
    f**k me your dogs must be fit as feck with 4 1/2 hours walking everyday.....lol I've started using the spring loaded type after free lance showed me that. great piece of kit, but i try and get on the long bridle paths and leave them to follow me. Hour in the morning for both dogs, then xena will get a run out with the bike or free running on the farms in the evening. i'm lucky with my job i suppose, when i'm there it's long shifts but that means lots of days off, when i'm nights they get their morning walk before i go to bed, the mooch at night doesn't seem like work because their
  8. birddog
    the don dog impressed me from day one just something about his method of work plus i wanted options for my future dogs 99% of minshaws out there are out of jack at the time of the mating,plus if don sees old bones then ill be very suprised,hes got a do or die attitude and has you no it can go tits up anytime with dogs through losing them one way or another,and best dog ive seen was bulpa and best dogs after him were bred from him and don is nearly bred the same as bulpa so i would of been foolish not to use him after seeing the don dog when we met i admitted that i'd love to use him on my
  9. birddog
    am i old fashioned? i don't see any great benefit from the biking. mines get maybe a couple of hours walk in the morning with maybe 30 runs after a ball at intervals and a 2 hr mooch at night when i'm off with a few chases thrown in if i'm working the other half gives them a walk maybe a couple of miles and a wee free run in the park. this year we're maybe a wee bit ahead and they're bouncing
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    i get that on one of my bits (most of it written permission just a couple of fields verbal agreement), my words aren't often as nice as yours
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    he may seem like that to you but i have met the man, only once granted and we had a wee blether about all things lurcher and he came across as knowledgable and straight, maybe a wee bit reserved even but then again we'd only just met, i never detected any 'attitue' ( i presume you meant attitude)
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    looking good
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    pisser mike remember the good times atb
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    have you read Phil Lloyds book, he had a wee collie x that was deaf
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    the fun guy's looking for as much sport as bag kinda thing use allsorts, whippet x this, greyhound x that, saluki x the next thing, there was even a wee while ago a thread about italian greyhounds catching rabbits but it seems to be the pro's, the profit hunters, the older guy's who have done it for years favour a good old fashioned collie x, for me that seems to say it all
  16. birddog
    interesting topic, we all seem to have slightly differing approaches but all seem to have their positives, and no bickering................is this really thl
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    depends on the nature of the pup but always better too late than too early, i made a smart wee collie x pup i had hard mouthed using her on rats too young , i think she was a tad under 5month when she had her 1st, i was just a teenager myself and a little too keen to hunt anything, anywhere. the thought of a 4 or 5 mnth old pup catching scrapyard rats now would make me cringe but as they say you learn more from mistakes than from successes. incidentally the wee bitch turned out a real tiger who went on to bigger and better things
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    is that what anne does? throws you outside in the run and cuddles the dogs, iv'e got a spare duvet i could give you mate
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    iv'e found it easier to start a pup in the park at night with a dummy on the lamp, when the pup picks up the dummy switch off the lamp and we're reinforcing good habits from the start, once the pup's moved on and done well with dead rabbits it knows what the lamp means taking it out is usually much easier and stress free, i believe it also helps them pick up sitters, it's also important to consider the dogs temperament a bold confident pup may learn watching another dog work but a quieter more reserved pup may learn more on it's own, just my own thoughts
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    A bad vet sure would make thing's up to gain more money..when i was younger and more nieve i once took a terrier to the vet's that used to scratch the floor through nettle sting's after a walk..i did not know that it was the nettles at the time..but he still jabbed the dog twice over a fortnight and charged me each time. the local guy loves my mother in law, everytime her dog coughs it's a jag, every bee sting it's antihistamine, she's there every week...........she stays in a council house and he parks his range rover outside his farmhouse.............me cynical
  21. birddog
    your too young to be as cynical as me...........would a vet suggest such a thing?.......i'm lucky i've got access to all sorts of glue, steristrips and the like, i try and stay away from the vets as much as possible
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    i'm glad , she'll be fine in no time, we forget how hardy our mutts are sometimes
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    what did the vet say? any underlying damage?
  24. birddog
    We call them Baffies also..what you have to remember.. Moll is from a foreign county...some thing along the line's of scottish X english.. :laugh: Both of you...... i'm just happy that we've been able to help educate, now when you come home from a hard day's rabbiting you can relax with a beer and your wee tootsies all comfy in your baffies
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    thanks mate we knew there had to be some. was the deerhound x a first x? how tall is yours? any gen on her siblings?
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