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  1. birddog
    maybe worth thinking about a non ped / grew there are some cracking racing / working dogs with 1/4 or 1/2 greyhound blood throwing quality stuff
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    when i started there seemed to be a clear demarcation between terrier guys who hunted reynard and had a pal with a lurcher or two who tagged along and guys like me who chased (and sometimes caught) hares, rabbits and deer being secondary but our bags were generally anything edible. we never saw many daytime foxes probably because we wern't looking for them. our dogs did take the odd one especially on the lamp, but I / we didn't see the sense in risking a good potfiller getting cut up catching something we couldn't eat. maybe if curried fox or the like was a delicacy we'd have had a different k
  3. birddog
    i heard the great man was at kirkaldy you could have introduced me I thought you met him at Selkirk last year bud, next time lol maybe did was he in plain clothes
  4. birddog
    smart looking pup whats in it
  5. birddog
    i heard the great man was at kirkaldy you could have introduced me
  6. birddog
    i thought he had it sussed
  7. birddog
    have you got a skin drying for her dummy
  8. birddog
    ive seen collie crosses take charlie regular but wern't great rabbit dogs and ive seen deerhound crosses take 50 rabbits a night that wouldn't touch charlie you get good and bad in all types unless you pay 600 quid for a blue whippet that can do it all
  9. birddog
    she's looking good scott, heres hoping she grows into them lugs eh
  10. birddog
    back to night shift and reality tomorrow
  11. birddog
    finding lots now, apparently rarer in cross breeds. what about possible pyometra, testicular cancer or brittle bones ?
  12. birddog
    the father was non ped jeff. also found a mirror article about a staffy and a boxer in some scientific paper found more a terrier and a cocker not much so far on longevity or ability to work
  13. birddog
    just heard of a lurcher pup it appears has been born with both external at least sex organs, I'm googling about it not much so far on canines plenty on humans, has anyone any previous knowledge of this? Obviously this is open to the usual jokers but please stick to your x boxes and let the grown ups speak
  14. birddog
    a credit to you keep us updated on her progress she's a belter
  15. birddog
    we live on the coast and believe in regular paddles on the beach
  16. birddog
    tosh bruno had him going and backed off rather than going in to finish him and that shows that h didnt have the heart or killing instinct to do the job. he had the schooling and trainning best medical care and grub and was beaten before the bell even went because he wasnt mentally right. and it shows thru even today cos hes in and out of the nut house....... maybe it shows he had the natural size, strength co ordination etc but wasn't schooled right and if he'd been taught his job properly he'd have known when to go in for the finish........like i said it's down to the trainer it just
  17. birddog
    tosh bruno had him going and backed off rather than going in to finish him and that shows that h didnt have the heart or killing instinct to do the job. he had the schooling and trainning best medical care and grub and was beaten before the bell even went because he wasnt mentally right. and it shows thru even today cos hes in and out of the nut house....... maybe it shows he had the natural size, strength co ordination etc but wasn't schooled right and if he'd been taught his job properly he'd have known when to go in for the finish........like i said it's down to the trainer
  18. birddog
    tosh bruno had him going and backed off rather than going in to finish him
  19. birddog
    interesting.... page 4 and no mention of feeding or conditioning ! experienced guys recognise quality breeding, can pick a good pup, rear it properly, school it in whatever discipline it's intended for, enter it when it's ready, etc. good guys recognise that every dog is an individual and feed and condition it appropriately to get the best from it. lesser handlers pick a pup on the spur of the moment, are slack with the schooling, enter them too early, and give every dog the same food and exercise so 99% of their dogs end up average, occasionally they get a pup that suits their regime and it t
  20. birddog
    there is another 2 forum members in that photo ! Yup, but just not as good looking as the main events !! shoulda gone to specsavers
  21. birddog
    this time next year rodders we'll be millionaires
  22. birddog
    I agree most predators are likely to have a punt, our hares too seem to favour life under the canopy as i see lots in woodland. I also somewhere think I have read that their natural habitat is woodland but didn't like too say it without the back up of where it came from. Struggling a wee bit though with the pre species idea according to Tegners book the brown hare is supposed to have came to britain in comparatively late post Pleistocene (which started 2588000yrs ago) and the original hares the irish, scottish and blue were all here earlier, so for my logic a pre species to this would be quest
  23. birddog
    You'll struggle to find much academic work on the subject, most of my facts are from Tegners 'Wild hares'. I have seen two eagles multi swooping (is that a term) at a blue hare and I have ferreted hares that have been hard pushed and taken sanctuary in burrows.
  24. birddog
    did they evolve onto large open plains? were they pushed there away from the forests by mans interference ? did there ability to twist and turn come from being forest dwellers initially with no need to burrow for safety?
  25. birddog
    Lepus europaeus occidentalis ( as classified by de Winton in 1898), the brown hare, has been around these lands for a lot longer than the imported rabbit, thus explaining their differing habits. their fossilised remains have been found alongside those of sabre toothed tigers and bears so they developed to evade much more dangerous predators than those species mentioned, with the wolf and the lynx high on the list of probables. Aesop whose fables date from the 6th century bc mentions them in detail in 'The hares and the frogs', and they were hunted by hounds as long ago as 435bc according to
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