Jack Dark
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Next season seems a million years away right now . . but when it does come this little tyke will with luck be ready
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I had a Hancock ¾ grey hound ¼ Beardie/border bloody wonderful dog never let me down and on the shoot I used to beat on he was as good as many of the gun dog bread dogs, if a bit keen on picking birds up whether the were shot or not Great dogs or at least the potential to be great dogs, but like so many things you only get out what you put in. I now have a Beardie half cross Hancock pup just 13 weeks, very smart, keen and engaged. Here he is at 12 weeks on his first walk out.
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I managed to get a couple of pictures of Tinker standing today I thought I would post them, he is now 12 ½ weeks.
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Finally remembered to look through and sort out the pictures I took of Tinker and found a few that give a better idea of his shape. These were taken when he was around 9 weeks; his legs have grown quite a lot longer since.
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Hi Well I finally got him Picked this little chap on Saturday the 22nd from Hancock’s, he’s a 1st cross Beardie out of Hector and Lola. Decided before hand that I wanted a dog rather than a bitch and had three dogs to choose from was hard to pick just one, but in the end one pup really stood out. He really is as bright as a button and contrary to what I have read about Beardie crosses he loves it on the lead.
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Great and handy looking dog, just my cup of tea.
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what do use think the best allrounder dog is ?
Jack Dark replied to csme55ex's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
I think that probably the best (pre ban) all rounder would be the ¾ Grey ¼ Collie, brains, speed, stamina and if well bred and brought on well courage enough for almost any task. -
Lovely looking pup mate. I would let them have a play around first before letting them drink milk out of the same bowl, once they are used to each other and you have seen that they get along then let them share some milk. I have always found it a lot easier getting a dog to leave the ferret alone than the other way around.
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O I would add that if you can introduce her to ferrets as soon as you can, even if you may not be planning for her ferrets at the moment it is always handy to have your dog stock broken to ferrets just in case.
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Breaking pups to stock
Jack Dark replied to Adam-RunningDog's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
I would say as soon as possible, very young pups are easily intimidated by sheep and even chickens and so you are on safer ground if you see what I mean. Years ago I was out with my old dog when he was a pup and we walked along a path which was cut of by electric an electric fence, a yew with lamb was lying right next to it and as we walked past my dog put his head through and sniffed the yew, as he did so he got a shock from the fence. I rushed over to pull his head out but he managed to get another two shocks, he never bothered sheep after that, in fact he never even looked at them. Note I -
Spot on advice
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Bloody brilliant mate
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Well said
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I know I will regret saying this but in mild years rabbits often breed almost or all year round, I hardy think they are in most places likely to be wiped out by catching a few in the summer.
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thanks still going ahead with pup,it could be just the heros doing the traing or as [bANNED TEXT] said the other end of the lead tanks to ye all for your ans Good luck mate, what cross are you getting?
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Just read this book fan-bloody-tastic :thumbs-up:
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I agree great DVD for the first timer
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Yep great book
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I've had a Hancock ¼ Beardie/Border ¾ Greyhond, he took to training very quickly, took plenty of rabbits and never showed me up. At least with Hancock dogs you know what the breeding is. It seems to me, that more often than not, that many dogs faults can be found on the other end of the lead.
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I've yet to come across a working dog that's been spoilt by being kept indoors. I like the company, and I like the fact that I can constantly keep on top of my dogs discipline. Dogs thrive on knowing their place in the pack, and being constantly told what to do. I agree Working dogs arn't spoilt by being kept indoors.
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I had a Hancock ¼ Beardie/Border ¾ Greyhond for (sire Maurice, Dam Nell 2 if I remember correctly) 15 years, he took to training very quickly and never showed me up. Only hunted rabbits really thought he did take a few hares and even a fox he found in my back garden (before the ban) and had a hatred of squirrels and would kill them on sight if he could. He also bushed to gun and would I think try and do just about anything I asked apart that is from running on rabbits that he knew full well he had no chance of catching, if some folks this is a fault then it was and is a fault I can live with
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collie or bull one word replys please just for sake of interest
Jack Dark replied to a topic in General Talk
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Thanks everyone, my last dog was also of a fairly independent, nevertheless obedient, frame of mind which I liked, so now counting down the days
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I haven’t had any problems, my last dog was very keen on rabbits but then would sleep with the cat or more accurately, he would fall asleep and the cat would creep into his bed and fall asleep next to him. But then again he also grew up with cats in the house and met plenty in other people’s house.
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I’m making some right now as I will soon be getting a pup and I like to be prepared. When I make rabbit skin dummys I just dry the skins without any treatment and then cut them to size so that when I sew them they are tubes just a little too small to fit the dummy into. I then soak them over night so they are soft and flexible and then slide/stretch them over the dummy, a few stitches between the skins and dummy each end and then let them dry. As they dry they shrink, that and the few stitches has in the past at least been all that was needed to keep them together and they haven’t rotted