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----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- :nea: Greyhounds heads are small as u know,sometimes the neck can be just as wide ,and in this case they will slip their head out with ease if they get spooked or excited enough.a slipp lead with a noose stops this from happening. you can hold the lead as tight as u like but u may not have a dog on the end of it,no m
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Why do you bother then? Why kill them, if you arent going to use them in some manner? Well said, Rabbithunter - the antis have enough muck to throw at us already, without handing them more on a plate. I suppose you do get the odd rabbit that tastes like sh*t, but that's just evidence of a dog with a hard mouth or not paunching them carefully! Threbb, I've got some lovely recipes I can let you have for any number of rabbits, as long as you promise not to give the antis any more encouragement
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Last night run of the season, and the dogs and I had a wailing and whinging challange on the drive back from our various blackthorn marks - hopefully no tips left in that I could see, so lots of warm water and salt, bit of green oil to keep it clean and dissuade too much licking, and much the smae for the dogs Didn't know it was the grey powdery bloom on the thorns that did the damage - have never stopped to think what might be the cause (normally too busy jumping aroudn like ten men muttering "oooh, you b*****d"!) For the sad and the spotterish among you, though, I can point out tha
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Ditch, at the risk of giving my grannie a bit of a lesson in egg-sucking, the "no discernible wind" bit is a bit of a give-away. It's not just a question of whisking the scent away, it's about background noise and cover for the enemy's ears. Whoever it was said that scudding clouds and on-and-off moonlight seem to give Charlie a false sense of security is definitely right, and just the same is true for bunnies (although whether that's because the wind covers the sound of you moving, or because Benjamin doesn't like wind in his ears and therefore keeps them down and so can't hear you, I've ne
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Hateful thing to happen to anyone. Best of luck in the hunt to find her - try http://www.sighthoundsonline.org.uk/forums/ as well - they have a forum for lost & found hounds, and they're another part of the same extended running dog family. We may not share all their opinions, but we can all agree on this one. Good luck, and if anyone can help, let us know - this is SO much more important than "I had a really big bag of rabbits last night" type posts, fun as they are. R&D
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Rover, Don't know about the terrier side of life in France, but I can confirm that running dogs are a complete no-no. The blether below is a copy of a reply I did a while ago for someone else, but it'll give you the idea. Hope it helps. R&D 1. All forms of hunting live game, whether fur or feather, in France need the permis de chasse. 2. Like the German Jagdschein, the PdC also allows you to buy firearms/shotguns and ammunition. There is no equivalent of the shotgun certificate or FAC that we have here. Put it another way, even if you wanted to blast nothing more lively than cl
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Those will be the injured foxes that you're merely reducing to hand, of course, Staghound, rather than healthy ones that you illegally slip on (as if you'd do a thing like that.....) Don't forget, not everyone reading this is friendly forces.....
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u got a bargain [bANNED TEXT] ive shot hares wif mine and i paid 300 pound for mine with scopes [bANNED TEXT] it first came out and [bANNED TEXT] i was looking in a magazine the other day theyve gon down to 215 pound Franco, with the greatest respect in the world you're eitehr a champion bull****er or a cruel b*****d who gets the rest of us a bad name. Don't EVER fire at a hare with an airgun - she deserves more respect and more knowledge than that. Rant off -
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A quick shave with the razor on the foreleg and a squirt up the vein with some blue-juice for a quick and dignified death. It's the only answer. And no, I don't mean the dog
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Before the whole world says it, the best dog for the job depends on the job! And the world divides into those who believe that a lurcher without a trace of saluki is like a pie without a pint, and those who wouldn't trust anything with feathers behind the ears. The pro-saluki lobby point out that anything bred to course gazelle for dozens of miles over the desert has got to bring staying power in huge measure, while the anti-saluki crew point out that anythign with Arab blood is unreliable, theuir recall is shot to pieces, hunting-up isn't so mcuh a failing as a mark of the breed, and so
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Given that I've seen a pair of whippets bring home a brace of roe (before the ban, obviously), that salukis will go on for ever because they were bred to course gazelle over Persia, and the permissions tend to be just a wee bit bigger out there, that once you've seen a deerhound in action, nothing else can ever make your heart beat twice as fast, that anything with any bullx in it is always going to be backed in a head-to-head with Charlie, and that you can't go wrong with agood dollop of greyhound, isn't the answer obvious: The best lurcher for any job is the one that you own, and the one y
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"On your grave, beneath the chestnut bough Today no fragrance falls, nor summer air; Only a master's love who laid you there Perchance may warm the air 'neath which you drowse In dreams from which no meal-time calls may rouse. Unwakeable, though close the rat may dare, Deaf, though the rabbit thump in playful scare, Silent, though twenty foxes screech their vows. And yet, mayhap, some night when shadows pass, And from the fir the brown owl hoots on high, That should one whistle 'neath a favouring star Your shade shall canter o'er the grass, Questing for him you loved in days gon
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Careful, Irish Lurcher - there's nothing worse than premature congratulation - lol Hope she stays that way. [Long blether about salukis, wonderful or damned irritating deleted on reflection, as I remembered i'd said it a thousand times before at a dozen different shows ] Good hunting, insh' Allah
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Meeri's absolutely right, in that a saluki that's cream-crackered is a lot more biddable than one that's full of the joys of spring and keen to get off and over. Our last-but-one acquisition is (judging by his lines and bones and bit and bobs) a good chunk of Arab dog with a healthy dash of Beddie thrown in. Combine the tempraments and you can imagine that recall wasn't his easiest lesson to learn... But a combination of (1) running him absolutely ragged on the lead (and my own 10k race time came down no end as a result as well!) before doing any actual training, (2) starting over massively
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Easily solved, I should have thought - isn't this where the eejut who slipped it is given (according to rules) 100 yards law, and then a couple of bull-greys are slipped I'm usually a deerhound kind of a guy, but I can see this is where the bull-blood could come in handy For what it's worth, the team that made the programme are on record as admitting that they came to it as standard BBC Islington antis who thought that it was evil blood-smattered snobs, and during the making of the programme they realised that they had been deceived by the nonsense, and in fact were producing a lam
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Shepp, If you go to www.nationalcoursingclub.org and then on to their news page, you'll find details of a DVD of a brilliant programme made for the BBC called "The Last Waterloo Cup". Absolutely required viewing for anyone who followed couring under rules (pureblood greyhounds, rather than lurchers, and aiming to test the dogs rather than catch the hare). And before anyone goes off on one, yes, we followed it and loved it, and yes, we've four lurchers, three of which did their coursing under different circumstances entirely Let's not get into a "bloody snobs", "bloody cheats" battle -
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Now here's a funny thing: 3.30am this morning, B, the ancient white whippet-cross shoves an unwelcome nose in my face and insists that she's not making it up, she really does need to go out. Obviously I push her off a couple of times (or at least try to encourage her round the other side of the bed so the long-haired-general can have to deal with it. Result? 13 year old whippetty coloured puddle by the bedroom door. B**locks, I think, sling her out of the back door, and set to with a bucket and rag. By this time, of course, I and the other three are wide-awake, and while Reeves is old an
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Don't suppose anyone's got a website address where I can replace my coursing toggle lead? Stupidly the only copy of Countryman's Weekly that I've got lying around (usually dozens of ads all over the place that I ignore week after week) hasn't of course got one in this time - sod's law. Thanks lots in advance, R&D
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I'm going to bang that drum again, and no doubt some people will tell me it's because I don't know what I'm talking about, but there are literally thousands of running dogs - lurchers and pure breeds - in rescue centres or just being held by trainers. Please, pretty please, don't go using entire rescue dogs for breeding yet more lurchers. The bottom line is there are too many in the world already (and I'm a guy who genuinely beleives that you could never have too many lurchers!) For one thing, most rescue organisations neuter their dogs automatically, but even if you got one directly from a
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Best of luck for looking, and I understand your concerns. My 2 boys (8 & 5) came after the first 2 but before the last 4 lurchers, and it would be a brave breeder that says "I know this one's bloodlines so I can give you a warrant for it's behaviour with children", but I know I won't convince you. And dear God there's no shortage f working stock in rescue centres ...... No hard feelings, R&D
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No Mate a bit too much Money I dont want one for nowt but thats a bit too steep (No disrespect to his pups im sure theyre worth it) Pidge, Wouldnt ever want to get all conchie on you, but the 6 I've had have all been rescued, all save one have been saplings, and they've all been fabulous. Of course people have a right to buy, but there are hundreds, literally hundreds out there, from 3 day old pups to prime of their lives adults looking for homes ... If you can face the hard time your conscience will give you, have a look at http://www.sighthoundsonline.org.uk/Links_Rescues.htm for s
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SQ, Tons of luck, and I hope it goes fantastically well. Not being able to run Dill & Co is pretty much the only reason I've got misgivings about retiring over there - can't jump on a ferry EVERY time the wind gets up at a new moon Good hunting, and have a native Guinness on me.. R&D
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Now that's strong chat if ever I heard it - comparing a guy's bullx to a boob tube - He'd not thank you for that PS - of course I'm with you as far as their use against foxes is concerned (not that any of us would any more, unless Charlie was injured or we were flushing him to guns!).
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<smiles at foxdropper> As you rightly point out, FD, my initial question really was whether it was a matter of fashion, or whether it was simply that I'm new to the area, and bullxs are more suitable to around here .... perhaps I've just led a sheltered life Interesting that it raises so many passions though..... For sure they're impressive looking bits of kit, and I've known plenty of skinnier hounds with hard mouths... Call me a skinny bugger, but I shall go on dangling gangly pointy-noses off my particular bits of string. After all, I won an amusing rosette at a "dog lik
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Now here's one that should start tongues a-wagging (positively, I hope...) How much would you say that lurcher lines are influenced by fashion? If, for instance, you have a look at Ted Walsh's Lurchers and Longdogs, which was first published in 1977, then you'd get the impression that anything heavily built wasn't the way forward, that a colliexgh backcrossed to a pure greyhound was the ideal lurcher for biddability, speed and power, and that anything much heavier was over-cloddy. This afternoon, by contrast, at the local hunt's lurcher show, saw anything without bulldog blood on a hi
