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looks like she could do with a bit of grubbing up. atb with the litter I'm working on that, she went off her food and hardly ate for a week. she has got her appetite back now and is eating like a horse. She has always been a picky eater and I have to work at it to get weight on her, I think she has finally realized she's pregnant and needs to eat. By the time she is due I wil have her where i want her weight wise. all the best dirtwingerl
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Let me check the exchange rates, if Mark brick lends me his private jet to get them over to you i might just make a profit on that! All the best Dirtwinger
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What do you mean? Mark Brick assured me that he was visited by the ghost of Brian Plummer who told him that this cross would be the foundation of a new type dubbed the"American Minshaw staghound". Now if I could just cross the pups with an Alaunt, Hmm. I got it the Minlaunt! lol Cant see how that could spiral out of control? Dirtwinger
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Pic of my bitch, she has two weeks to go before the pups are due. She is out of a hancock dog over a imported Kazak Tazi, the sire of the pups will be my australian shepherd/greyhound i think they will be very good dogs. How many pups do you think? The less the better is what I want but we'll see. All the best Dirtwinger
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Very nice Dan, sometimes that last minute decision for a quick mooch pays off nicely. All the best Dirtwinger
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Lurcher chasing everything that moves
dirtwinger replied to steve0146's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
It can be frustrating having your dog chase stuff it cant catch. I have hares get up and immediately go into heavy sagebrush where the dog has little chance of catching. The dogs chase them anyway its annoying when dogs tire themselves out wastefully, just part of the game. I can call my 9yr old australian shepherd/grey of a hare now if I want it only took 9yrs lol. As young dogs mature they steady down a bit and learn to be more realistic. But you dont want a dog that gets too selective , its a partnership between you and the dog. You dont overmatch or overwork it, in return your dog sho -
Back when I was a wee lad growing up in Perthshire we had a whippet that was deadly on hares. She had a tried and tested technique that put hares in the bag, often 4 hares a session. What she did was push them into the first turn, as they turned she threw her self across the angle of the turn and scooped the hare up. Often she would be off her legs completely sliding on her side but her mouth always grabbed that hare. Very fond memories of that dog she lived 18 years and died on my bed. all the best Dirtwinger
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So sorry mate, some people are b*****ds and thats all there is to it. Once the pikies know where you live your screwed. Back in the 9o's I had a dog that was a p***y magnet, I'd be walking down the street and a white trannie would pull up and it would be here we go again. They'd follow me down the street waving money out the window. I knew I couldn't go home with them following me or me dog would be gone that night. I'd walk to my local pub and stay there til they left. If they kept hanging around I'd call my mate Andy who was a police sargeant and a good lad and he'd come round and they would
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Brimmer its not over yet although it might take til next season to get a good result. As to outrunning the ferret, the holes are usually two holers with a central chamber, we did see prairie dogs utilizing kangaroo rat dens as well. I think if they were running around I would have heard something underground and all was quiet, I just dont know what was going on down there. They were definetly home as we saw them go down the holes as we approached. Even had one who stuck his head out to watch us ten minutes after we had two ferrets down his hole. Stealthy, the ferrets are on dry food I have
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I use the corugated drainage pipe I have pipes that run up from my basement to the kitchen and from the basement to the backyard. My pipes are tweny feet long and the ribbing gives the ferrets a grip on the steep inclines. All the best Dirtwinger
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Thats the theory, of course something has to come out of the hole first. I have ferreted in the UK since I was seven years old so this game isnt new to me, just the quarry. I havent ferreted for about ten years, just decided to get back into it and explore the possibilities here in the US. all the best Dirtwinger
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I will try and get the ferrets going better I think. Let em have a go at the packrats for a while and get their confidence up. Once they are bolting the packrats well I can revisit the prairie dog question. I know these ferrets are bred from pet stock but mustelids are such predatory creatures that I refuse to believe they wont work well with time put into them. Still you can t beat hunting with animals for making you look like a right prat! all the best Dirtwinger
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Well it didn't go as well as I had hoped. Not one prairie dog bolted in a whole afternoons ferreting, I think the main problem was the ferrets. One hadnt been worked before and the other only on packrats. The ferrets would go down and stay there for awhile but nothing happened no bumping or squealing, nothing. I think the ferrets were just going down and sniffing the prairie dogs and not attacking them. I'm still sure this will work I just have to find a way to ignite these ferrets aggression, perhaps give them some mice to kill etc. Here a few pics of our failed effort. Dirtwinger
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post 50 you say if a dog shakes or tears its a fault they should only pin,post 67 i have no plans to hunt coyotes, post 75 a few times we caught 5 in a morning post 79 your good lady jumping on wolves attacked by a grizzly stalked by a mountain lion, post 97 now a dog killing them with gums and bad breath in no time flat is it common to catch 5 in a morning by accident as you dont hunt them,again post 50 your grand father importing borzois into britain from imperial russia as jimb would say i smell shite Scotsman most of my coyote experience comes from one season when I hunted coyotes on
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Hi Dan, I agree with what your saying. I've seen stags do that on a coyote before but only cause they'd caught a pile already and were just too tired to finish it. Most kills are quick grabs no fooling around. The best dog I ever saw was a very hard coldblood bitch she was all business. Her canines were all broken but she would get that throat hold and kill em with badbreath and gums in no time flat. she made the others look like ameteurs. all the best Dirtwinger
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ldr-----mark brick???????????????????????????????
dirtwinger replied to spiderpig's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
This is priceless, at times like this I miss England. Perhaps if Jacker Brick burns all his bridges he can move to the US and show us all how it's done. The coursing scene is dominated by fat old biddies with Salukis Mark would fit right in. all the best Dirtwinger -
I should also add that the wolves were mexican lobos and I believe weighed about 90 to 95lbs. My girlfriend is about 4ft 10 and weighs 89lbs so she was only a fraction smaller than the wolves. i believe all the other trappers were women too. My girlfriend has a history of encounters with large predators, as I joke she is within everythings preybase. She has been stalked by a mountain lion and attacked by a grizzly in Alaska. Her philosphy is if something eats her in the field thats just nature and oh well! all the best Dirtwinger
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I've no plans to hunt wolves(illegal anway) or coyotes for that matter, so a dogo or pit wouldnt be very useful. I think my lurchers can handle a hare or even a coyote by themselves. Last coyote I took was a accident out after hares, my mate has brothers to my dogs and they took a coyote by accident last year too. his falcon took off after the coyote and started hitting it and the dogs joined in, end of coyote. The only person I know personally that has caught wolves is my girlfriend and she caught them with nets! th e wolves were bigger than her but real scared of people. She just jumped on
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I have a australian shepherd/greyhound first cross I bred myself. I have ran him for 9 seasons just retired him this spring. he has the toughest feet i have ever seen, rarely lame and never broke a nail. Took hares this eason at 9yrs old i think that says it all! Bred him to my Tazi/hancock x should have pups at the end of the month. I hope they turn out like him he has been a solid reliable dog. Heres a pic all the best dirtwinger
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Brimmer, i will have the answer to all your questions when i do it. As prairie dogs are naturally predated by mustelids I suspect they will bolt well. From the P dogs point of view it has to be better to run into the open than fight underground where a ferret is evolved for hunting. Plus the P dogs always have a backdoor to their tunnel which implies a bolting mentality. Two more days to the experiment begins! all the best dirtwinger
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I've no plans to hunt wolves(illegal anway) or coyotes for that matter, so a dogo or pit wouldnt be very useful. I think my lurchers can handle a hare or even a coyote by themselves. Last coyote I took was a accident out after hares, my mate has brothers to my dogs and they took a coyote by accident last year too. his falcon took off after the coyote and started hitting it and the dogs joined in, end of coyote. The only person I know personally that has caught wolves is my girlfriend and she caught them with nets! th e wolves were bigger than her but real scared of people. She just jumped on
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My apologies brought to bay was the wrong term to use, when the dogs caught up to the wolf and made contact would be better. As to it being sporting this was the seventies and coyote pelts were valuable. The guy who told me about this fed his family and put himself through college hunting coyotes in the seventies. Killing coyotes was the name of the game. Even so 12 dogs would not be normally slipped. In this chase 9 dogs in relays of three were slipped, the first 6 dogs never came close to the wolf and two of the 3rd group quit. the last dog of the 9 caught up and was killed by the wolf, this
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My setup is not typical the ferrets have the run of the house at all times. They mostly live in the basement but have tubes that go up into the kitchen and the backyard. My dogs have to be 100% as they are unsupervised all the time with the ferrets. My older dogs were brought up with them and are fine. I recently got a lurcher from a ranch, kept outside minimally handled she was a bigger risk. I spent a lot of time with her and the ferrets and she came around no problem. The ferrets are more of a issue as they love to screw with the dogs. My old dog seems to think they are puppies that wont g
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Already planned on doing so. I'm actually going out with my vet so he's supplying aerosol frontline, we will also put the P dogs in a bin bag sprayed with frontline to kill the fleas as we go along. Of course we have to actually catch some P dogs before any of this matters! Dirtwinger
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its not very sporting running 12 hounds on it and hard dogs dont bay, My apologies brought to bay was the wrong term to use, when the dogs caught up to the wolf and made contact would be better. As to it being sporting this was the seventies and coyote pelts were valuable. The guy who told me about this fed his family and put himself through college hunting coyotes in the seventies. Killing coyotes was the name of the game. Even so 12 dogs would not be normally slipped. In this chase 9 dogs in relays of three were slipped, the first 6 dogs never came close to the wolf and two of the 3rd g