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  1. wuyang
    Put me down for one then
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    I've got a very small bitch jrt, never gets a mark on her, just the odd shut eye. The slightly taller one used to get bloody ears which made her look much worse than she actually was.
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    Jesus, that's terrible.
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    She's a lucky little bitch getting all the time you give her.
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    I always feel a bit guilty.
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    I've always liked little old fashioned jack russell terriers for bushing rabbits to lurchers, speak brilliantly, very steady.
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    At home my beardie/ border x greyhound was the most laid back dog I've owned, just slept, saying that my border collie greyhound is good in the house too......, but I think it could possibly vary within a litter and I've just been lucky. As something steady around the house, sort of always sleeping a whippet is hard to beat.....takes very little cleaning when you come back from working them etc. I can only compare the two I've worked, but the beardie/border was an out and out day time hunting dog....hunting up is where he excelled, nose down eyes up...best lurcher I've worked to date, woul
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    I'd go for or an Alex pup if it was me.....touch of both in the mix and seems to throw some good workers, go nice with your cocker.
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    First what type of land are you working? My advice would be get a running dog to complement your cocker. When you've been working your cocker and lurcher for a while you'll get a taste for what you want to add to your team next....this may not necessarily be about what's going to put you the most game in your bag, but down to the style of hunting you enjoy most. Saying that you might be quite content with just the 2 dogs and then get another when those two are getting older. If your like me you'll spend every waking hour thinking about all the different combinations of dogs that would suit
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    Collies?

    wuyang replied to Mustelid's topic in Bushing Dogs

    Thanks, but no she passed about 10 years ago, she was natural scrounger and unfortunately the vet believed she may have eaten some poison.
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    It's funny, but when I was young many years before the internet I fed my pups and grown dogs on things like vitalin, omega, pedigree chum and chappie. All grew well and were healthy. I now feed 50% raw and biscuits.
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    No flask??
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    Collies?

    wuyang replied to Mustelid's topic in Bushing Dogs

    This little bitch lived to hunt and god was she a natural. Lived in a stable for her first year of life, had a litter at 10 months. My mom asked if they wanted to part with her, that was that she came home with us. Took her out with my other three dogs and she never looked back.
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    Used to work in a grooming parlour......for example if a westie was shaven with clippers over a period of time you would notice the hair was more prone to knotting due to becoming more silky and whispy, hand stripped tended to lean towards a more crisp wire like texture that knotted less when the hair grew longer. Hand stripping wasn't done that often, due to the time it took and the charge. I'm not saying this applies to all dogs, but was the general rule of thumb. At the moment on my smooth, but thick coated collie greyhound I use a general cheap stripping knife, but not as a stripping k
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    I can only go on the experience of the one I owned with beardie in it compared to all my other straight border collies and border collie lurchers....so take it with a pinch of salt but this is what I found, the one with beardie in was an out and out hunting dog,,,lot higher drive to hunt and hunt further a field...nose down eyes up all the time. A lot of the border collie lurchers got distracted if there wasn't much scent about,the one with beardie in it would live to hunt for a scent. He was scary to watch behind a rabbit going up to a hedge, he would plough straight in, where as my others te
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    My vets told me not to take any of the other 3 dogs out until the pups had all her injections! That wasn't going to happen, but I could see his point.
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    Clubriter had way too tight a beam for my liking.
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    I've got a 4 month old lurcher mother was a game keepers springer...accidental mating. I've just got her as a daytime mooching dog to work with my others.
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    I'll check tomorrow, I think 16 - 17 inch.
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    She's doing great with them, older two are a bit sharp with her and rightly so because she is so full on. The younger lurcher will play none stop with her, but I have to keep the calm after a while other wise it becomes too much like a mad house. I'll say one thing for her she doesn't miss a trick in the house, you name it tea towels slippers owt, if she can get it she'll have it, you take a slipper off her put it some where safe turn around and she'll have nabbed something else....certainly keeping me on my toes. She's a pleasure to bring up. Cheers
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    Couple more pics......just 4 months....
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    Whippets
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    I used to work in a grooming parlour many years ago and I know this wont particularly help, but if we stripped a dogs coat by hand or knife over a period of time the coat would keep more crisp/ wirey and tangle no where nearly as bad, using the electric thrive could cause some coats to become more whispy and prone to more knotting.
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    I'm allergic too, got four dogs, but restrict them to the conservatory/ kitchen and kennel. I always try to wash my hands after handling a dog...this helps me a lot, if I tough my face without washing them I'm asking for trouble. The biggest thing I have noticed is that my worst time is when they are puppies, not only do I have more contact with them I think it's their puppy fur that sends my allergies through the roof.......then as they grow my allergies are still there, but manageable. I actually use to work with dogs when I was younger in a grooming parlour....crazy I know.....but
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