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    Took my 10 month old bitch pup for a wander in the late afternoon for some free running and general pup antics, passing by some cover she suddenly went still and then straight in and after a bit of rummaging flushed a wee scuttler which she was straight onto and had a few yards from where it broke. Dinky wee thing but she was well pleased with herself [would have thought she had taken a strong hare after a 100 yrd slip the way she was carrying on] and as such I was also as it is the first game she had found, flushed and caught herself and the confidence it has provided will hopefully lead to
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    I'll appreciate any dog that does it's job well. Even if it isn't something I would personally want to own.
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    I actually like the look of that box. I am all for innovations, if not for them then we probably wouldn't even be ferreting. [imagine the first fella who talked about taming a polecat and using it to bolt rabbits... would have been right laughed at, until it worked...]And I am all for anything that makes life easier and this looks as though it would do just that. So, good idea.
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    I have a 9 1/2 month old pup ready to be brought on here now, it will be here until the end of it's days. "Out with the old and in with the new" isn't my style, never much liked the thought of having an endless stream of dogs in and out of the yard.
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    A good lurcher that's doing what you want very well.
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    Very nice indeed, looks fast and smart. Ever get rabbits that are so dazzled by her shine that they forget to run? She's in cracking condition.
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    The old guy is correct. Look into "Fast and Slow Twitch Muscle Fibers" if your interested. You never see a boxer running a marathon before a fight. Short, intense training is the best type of training for running dogs. spot on with both threads, 1st i dont start till july,after they have had mot +wormed with vet. couple mile 1st week, then build up to 5 mile, which is plenty enough.You want the dog to run with (all 4 feet on the gound at once), i think they call it the riding-trot. Do couple miles riding-trot, then 4-5 mins sprinting. 4-5 days is enough to keep them fit,then coupl
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    If it ain't broke don't fix it... Lurchers, longdogs and non ped whippets have survived and 'flourished' as types for a long time now. I think that to be 'recognised' as breeds there would have to be a standard written- which thus far has only encouraged exageration and a focus on physical form in other breeds. Would it be an open registery? Or when would/would the studbooks be closed? Who would decide what standards or types would be acceptable? Too risky and wouldn't add any worth to the dogs. The good ones are worth their weight in gold as it is.
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    Make a Photobucket account fella and upload it from there. Would like to see your whippet, have a pup meself.
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    What Rob and Ideation said, slim 'em down and they'll have a go. I've had 'pet' ferts given to me at an older age than that, grossly overweight, eating shit and told 'he's a real sweetheart n a real sook' etc. that have still shifted their fair share of rabbits.
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    Even more pet keepers on the fuzzy forums are starting to shift away from feeding dry and towards feeding real food. There was actually some interesting research released by a fella named Bob Church where he explored links between a cancer they can get, tooth and gum disease and dry food...found that the rate of both diseases goes down drastically the more meat and less dry they are fed.
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    Honestly fella I wouldn't feed that processed crap to my lot...too many filler grains and stuff they don't need. Have fed processed food and raw over the years and have found mine do best when given whole rabbits and other game...no comparison in quality for me. Work longer, harder, look better, don't shit as much, just all round healthier etc. Not sayin' it doesn't work for you but when I think about feeding a ferret 'properly' I do not envisage a bag full of little dry pellets made from mashed up grains and animal by-products with the vitamins added back in.
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    What you in for? Personality transplant? Now that made me laugh ridiculously.
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    Pork...goes bad quick and used to be well known for carrying the pork tapeworm which can be caught by eating it undercooked. And was likely quite common when hygiene wasn't as good. I would say that that more than anything contributed to the 'no pork' line of thinking. And of course bacon and such is very salty. I feed pork on occasion but it is ground and frozen.
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    All things being equal and assuming they all work just as well...I like albinos due to their visibility. I'm not a fan of dark eyed whites or silvers, not knocking the ability of a decent one but so many people breed them just for their colour that I have found it hard to get good healthy working ones. Just my experiences but I will stick with albinos and poleys.
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    At 12/13 weeks you will just want to be feeding her with them once a day and letting her get used to them that way, put them away once the food is gone and before she starts being a daft and bitey pup. When she knows 'sit' and 'leave it' reliably you can introduce them without food, making her sit while they wander around and issueing growling 'no, leave it' whenever she shows boisterous behaviour towards them and a quick tug on the lead should do the trick. Reward her for ignoring them and for showing gentle behaviours. She'll get the idea.
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    Tape worm cyst, if you had opened it up you would have found eggs in addition to the fluid from the cyst. I don't think that rabbits can carry the true Hydatids, but there are a few different other Tapeworms they can carry.
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    you'll get no stick off me mate, i do the same with mine Likewise, that's how I do it in winter also. In summer the rabbits get chopped into quarters and fed out that way.
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    I would wait a season or so mate. Your ferrets have only had a small amount of experience and will not truely have come into their own yet...lay off the breeding for this summer, wait until next season, work them all hard and go from there. One of those jills will very likely work better than the other. No need to breed from the one that doesn't. There's a lot of people breeding untested young ferrets...there's a smaller number who breed well tested stock that has a lot of work behind them. If you are going to breed then there is no reason why you shouldn't strive to be in the second
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    Aye, maight be just a bit much for him at nine months. Some lurchers will start that young but many a good dog has been ruined by early entering. Leave him go a bit longer and he'll likely come good. From what he's doing already he sounds promising.
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    They are all very good but the last two in particular really shine. They stand out as something special. I like the first one as well. What camera do you use?
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    Good thread now what do all you whippet people think is the best way to enter them? I've got a seven month old pup here and it is the first whippet I've owned. Would be interested to know if there's anything particular to keep in mind when bringing on or should is it just like bringing on any other lurcher? Just the same,there running dogs just the same only generally smaller Cheers, slow, steady and plenty of patience should do the trick then.
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    Good thread now what do all you whippet people think is the best way to enter them? I've got a seven month old pup here and it is the first whippet I've owned. Would be interested to know if there's anything particular to keep in mind when bringing on or should is it just like bringing on any other lurcher?
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    I've had a number of ferrets that had been kept as 'pets'. Some turned out to be good hard workers and others didn't. Ferrets either have it in them or they don't. If they have it in them then they will work if given the opportunity and mollycoddling and playing with cats won't change that.
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    I think you would be better off just using some purse nets mate.
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