Kane
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Everything posted by Kane
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I like to get them at about 4 months old saves all the fannying about with small pups.The youngest lurcher pup I was sold was 5 weeks and 4 days old.
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Your right mate people wont like it. The difference with your post is you described it as a cull and not sport or big time shooting. You have explained why and how you went about it. Not a pleasant job but some times a necessary one.
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Well perhaps I only eat the best joints lol,any ruined meat goes to the dogs mate still plenty enough good meat on those hares for a couple of meals,I think a far greater wrong is to leave them on the field to rot.As for hard mouth well both dogs pictured have taken a lot of fox in the past,and that tends to make a dog hard mouthed JMO (not always,but it is a factor).I only want 2 lurchers so I will have to work with the dogs and the faults they and I have.
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Australia and UK no comparison.Totaly different climate soil types and styles of hunting.But more than this are autumn and winter are long cool dark and wet,basicaly we have plenty of autumn/winter months to be running our dogs in the hazards are plentifull enough in these seasons without running them in summer.
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No young lurchers for me to get started this season just the old reliables.
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In the 1st pic.Whatever made that run looks like its changed its mind and turned round and gone back. A lone dog walker do you reckon?
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Forgot Deerhounds and Wheatens MOLL. I wish I could................lol just incase anyone doesnt understand that was a joke,I love all running dogs LOL Well done on setting up the poll MOLL,Ive got one lurcher here I havnt got a clue whats in him perhaps we could ad a miscelaneous aswell.
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If you can just manage with the one just keep the one. If you realy need another then like stevie D.says get a bitch. If he is a good working dog what ever you do dont castrate him because a lot of the time it makes no difference to temperament what so ever.
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If I was seriously into bushing that is the breed I would use tirelless and noisy when on scent,I expect 1 or 2 might try to enter earths but would definatly be less trouble than terriers.
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My back garden is clay its rock hard I wouldnt run a dog on conditions like that. There is a golf course a short walk from my house it is well watered nice and green even thats borderline.It is up to you mate ,me I would watch the foot ball. Just another point I would say my dogs get run very hard during the winter lamping a lot aswell as out daytime with the terriers.So i think that a rest during the summer months would not be to much to ask.
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at the end of the day its up to the owner of the dog what he or she does with there dogs i dont really care what people do its up them but whats the point in giving someone shit for doing what they want to do all the best to everyone what ever they want to do [/quote The point is this,I would not want some one who doesnt know better to take a young lurcher out tonight in the bad running conditions we have at the moment and ruin their pup/dog. Your right its none of my buisness what woodga or anybody else does with their dogs,but it is more than a coincidence that it is now in june that h
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Generaly the faster the dog the more foot tendon injurys it will get,if you realy want to smash a dogs feet run it over frozen or dry baked ground sooner or later something will snap.
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Get out and lamp on it then but dont ask for symaphy when your waiting for the diagnosis from the vets. Knowing when not to slip a dog is just as if not more immportant than knowing when to.
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King the post started off as grass with a heavy dew...then a couple of posts later its soggy marshland. I can read between the lines. The running of dogs at this time of year is amateurish ,and sadly dangerous to the dog, no ammount of name calling or support from other site members will change that.JMO
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Go ahead then smash your dogs up.I wont ive got more respect for my dogs than that if thats an idiot Ime guilty.
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Pick up great knowledge from a top bloke in fantastic countryside, driving up and down some inclines that will I suppose a bit of walking up some steep inclines might be to much of a challenge.LOL LOL LOL
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well said Hard frosty ground hey,what they havnt even got the sense not to run on hard frosty ground. As a mattter of fact I know most if not all coursing clubs lurcher/saluki or greyhound would postpone meetings if the ground was to hard and frosty. I dont wrap my dogs in cotton wool Ive had a few dogs killed or badly injured but they were accidents.Running dogs purposely on baked or hard frosty ground wouldnt class that as accidents would class it as idiotic.
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So your saying we should all be out there running our dogs during the summer months(nice one king where do we send the vets bill to)? If I see something I dissagree with I will open my trap, if it upsets the real deal summer time hunters I cant say ime sorry. This is of course JMO.
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Well youve got all summer to get her fit mate so the only advice I would give is easy does it.Make sure the nails are clipped properly and then gently build up on the exercise. Good on you for taking on a rescue bit of patience and ime sure she will pay you back ten fold.
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I already read the outcome of your dogs injury before posting and for the dogs sake(not yours)ime glad it wasnt more serious. I might agree totaly with you on one issue and then totaly dissagree on another,thats life. Sounds like perfect running ground to me so the injury must have been a fluke,in my neck of the woods it is rare to find any number of rabbits living on wet soggy marsh land. The hazards to a running dog are great in number its always better to be a little patient and try and save the dog some grief. I may only be a kid compared to you woodga but the folly of running dogs
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Your lucky to of got away so lightly the ground is like concrete in my area,in these conditions anything more than light exercise is a hazard. I would imagine if you were a less well known member you would of got a slagging for running a dog in the conditions weve had lately.JMO
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out with the air gun on sat and sun
Kane replied to merle the rabbit catcher's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
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Sparrowhawks...have been a problem to a lot of bird fanciers for quite a while now...some lads tell me they can hardly put a bird outside in a cage without a hawk hanging on and caping the cage within a very short time.Lots of birds are lost to shock.
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Ime intending to forward an article on how to make friends and influence people.
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A lot of terriers get docked far to short,just nip the ends off it looks a lot better and no one will be able to tell the difference for a while.JMO.