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salukis resting heart rate - or other running dogs
Meerihunter replied to ol26's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
Four Salukis here and their heart resting rates are within the 44-50 range. Has your vet done a Thyroid test, Salukis can be prone to thyroid problems (so I've heard anyway). Lovely looking hound, hope he is back to full health soon. -
She is worth every penny it cost to bring her in and more, of course the real effort was made by my friends in the US who bread her and reared till she was 10 months old with many trips back and forth to the vets to get her ready to travel and then driving considerable distance to get her to the airport for me for which I am eternitally grateful. I simple played the waiting game and drove a 1000 mile round trip to collect her from Heathrow, I would say worth it all so much so I intent to bring in more. .
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Thanks for posting, hunting from horseback life doesn't get much better than that IMO . There is certainly nothing I enjoy more than riding out with the dogs.
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Shes doing great, I'm very pleased with her so far. I had tried to put some pics up last night, but THL doesn't except Flick-r pics for some reason. http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5255/5463294514_a3dbca6f62_z.jpg
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I've 2 bitches here the UK coursing bred bitch is just a touch over 23" and weighs 19kg and my import is just under 23" and weighs just under 23kg I have no problem with bitches weight they are very good doers on the 3/4-1lb of whole rabbit, beef trim or chicken carcasses they are primarily feed once daily. I have two brothers here and one is very lean having had 3 bitches in season one after the other since before Xmas he has had no interest in food. The Kazakh dogs seems naturally to more solidly built dog, Being primarily a fox dog it pays to have a bit of weight behind you. I prefe
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Really sorry to hear this has happen to you Brookie, best of luck in getting them back. I live in hope of one day reading that some thieving scum somewhere have bee mauled to death by guard dogs whilst attempting to steal someones dogs. Best Regards Mark
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From personal experience they are second to none for working shitty ground and often able to run faster than over such ground than many lurchers and do so day in day out without injury. Left to their own devices my Salukis find and take more game in woods than my lurchers and is a fact, half the folk on here have likely never even worked a saluki in woods and small fields to know what they are talking about.
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Good post lol, you have to remember that there is no one type of land that Salukis were bred in, yes a great many are used for hunting in vast open desert, but they also exist and hunt in countries in northern reaches of their range with landscape/terrain no different to here and hunting the same Hare, Fox, Badger and Roe Deer (of the larger Siberian type)plus dangerous quarry like Wolves and Boar which kill scores of dogs in these Northern regions, everyone automatically assumed Salukis are solely Desert/Hare/Gazelle dogs, not true at all. Nice video. Didn't someone say that th
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Good post lol, you have to remember that there is no one type of land that Salukis were bred in, yes a great many are used for hunting in vast open desert, but they also exist and hunt in countries in northern reaches of their range with landscape/terrain no different to here and hunting the same Hare, Fox, Badger and Roe Deer (of the larger Siberian type)plus dangerous quarry like Wolves and Boar which kill scores of dogs in these Northern regions, everyone automatically assumed Salukis are solely Desert/Hare/Gazelle dogs, not true at all.
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sorry but just my opinion that was crap all them dogs barking there heads of useing the jeep to slow it up and turn it not the best even if they were young dogs was some barking though The dogs are barking because they were seeing others getting out to run the Gazelle and they were not hence understandable frustration on their part, I'm assuming yours would just lay down and go to sleep with out a even a sqeak from them lol. Nowhere are they using the jeeps to slow the Gazelle down, why would want to do that? They want to test their dogs so the blasting the horn etc is to try to get the
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Good read Tiff, I don't know much about the staghounds regarding backing out but my Male Saluki Farouq took a nip from a rat in his first season and back right off it which I was quite surprised at as his mother whom he seemed to have acquired much of his temperament from as gusty and fiery as they come, anyway a few months down the line he took another rat which nipped him and it was totally different outcome this time with rage taken over, since then he has taken bites from other larger beasties and never backed out in the least. That first bite can take them a bit by surprise next time I am
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saluki cross what are pros and cons
Meerihunter replied to Water Badger's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
Unless you are intending on being out in the field with the dog a lot, stay away from heavily Saluki bred dogs. You will only (IMO) get the problems you list if the dog is not getting enough exercise/work to steady it. Clashes of interest between dog and owner are the biggest cause of problems with these Saluki types, ie dog wants/needs to hunt, owner wants to sit on his arse playing Xbox etc or be down the pub or the likes, you have to be out every day with them that doesn't just mean a walk round the block on a lead then back in the kennel. They are full on hunting dogs that don't just -
lol imagine your in your boat jigging for mackeral and a f*****g great cow swims past , your mates would think youve been at sea way too long Here is the thread from a few years back which I was refering to, it's actually not hind but a buck (the memory clearly is'nt what it used to be). http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/34574-unbeleivable/page__hl__%2Bdeer+%2Bswimming
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It would seem to an innate escape strategy to many spieces of deer as I'v heard about Fallow plunging into a lake to escape Salukis aswell. Also if you believe all you read the reds would also get to water where possible when being pursued by deerhounds of old where by they would wait to finish any dog foolish enough to follow out of their depth.
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Great news!!
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My apologies, I should of said; "Here's a video of a roe taking the plunge to get away from my, not very keen, jacking Salukis." but then that might of detracted from the amount of pleasure people like you clearly get from making derogatory comments. No doubt your dogs would of dived in and dispatched the deer whilst treading water and retrieved it back to the shore.
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Seen it a good few times, a few years back someone on here had a post up about lifting a hind in there boat while fishing several mile out to sea. Here's a video of a roe taking the plunge to get away from my Salukis. Needless to say the deer wasn't harmed just very well exercised, it was left to go on its way when it eventually came back ashore. Video
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Its the best you'll get from me I'm affraid, it not easy working the lamp and in some cases holding an other dog plus working the camera, so I just hang the camera around my neck and press record and hope for the best. My focus is on killing rabbits so movie making has to take a back seat sorry.
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It really depends where you are lamping and how many run you can get as to how much stamina a lamping dog needs, where I am the dog is getting a quick fire succession runs one straight after another and as I lamp alone mostly with just one dog they are not getting much of a rest between runs if any rest at all, a dog with without much stamina will blow up pretty quick under those conditions. They you have the running sense and durabilty allowing you to work rabbits where you might get away with with a Grew or highly greyhound saturated dog etc. like deep stoney plough, steep hole ridden ba
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"I hear alot of talk about people bragging their dog up that its the best" Most of the time folk are not saying they are the best dog ever they simple very pleased with their dogs and rightly pround of them. This is the problem with the mentally of some on this forum, they cannot simply be happy for someone that has great pride in their own dogs and makes posts to that effect, instead they get their backs up and tear strips out the person and their dogs. I just don't get that mentally at all. Which is why hardly anyone will post on this thread.
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Very much so, though more of a rough terrain hunting dog than open fen coursing dog. It is isn't it!! and now we know how to do it we can do it again! Nura is not the first to reach the UK but the other 2 unfortunately ended up with the RSPCA and of course were spayed and re-homed, such a waste after all the work it takes to get them here. Well to be fair the breeder Vladimir and then Brett and Jess who kept Nura for me for 7-8 months put in all the effort, I just had to get myself down to Heathrow to collect her and 1 or 2 other bits and pieces to sort at this end.
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I've known of folk that have only had Salukis a matter of weeks that have just totally and utterly sussed them out and totally understand and are as one with their Saluki within that time, IMO in such a cases someone with 60 yrs could not tell that person how to get on better with Salukis in fact it could be quite the opposite in that the person could be so closed minded that they could do well to learn something from the person with only a few weeks experience. With that in mind I'll not be arguing over who is the superior knowledge in Salukis. Much of what we know of Salukis as a landrac
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No it was still too early in the year and too hot. I did see and lot of video footage and had hunts described to me and saw dogs running out over terrain they hunt over. I've seen enough and heard enough from friends across world to know they will suit me very well. Thanks again for the comment everyone.
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She is typical of the bitches I saw in Kazakhstan Almaty region the dogs typically topped out at 25-26". Loads of pics which I took here; I think Steve's brindle bitch is of a taller rangier type more like typical Saluki, the rest his almaty type are smaller bitches like mine, I specifically wanted and small stocky bitch for rattling along hedge bottom and through woods, If I had wanted a larger one I would went for dog pup but I have no need for another 25 to 27" for my knock about hunting. Thanks all the same.
