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  1. Ideation
    Yep. And occaisionaly with one oher person.
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    Aye, you are dead right mate, i try no o slip he dog around horses or cows, they are bloody leathel!
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    For me ground is never an issue my bitch could run on concrete if required but the big issue which you've raised is the heat, I've been doing preseason training in it every night this week so far 2 days with one club 2 days with another. I can now see it from a dogs perspective been worked in hot conditions it's not nice It's still the best part of 30 degrees at night at the moment, a couple of runs, and they are blowing like a good un, any decent work and i'm sure the dog would drop. And whilst the ground might not be an immediate issue, too much running on hard ground will shorten any
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    Makes sense, but i never seen my dog run when hes playing like he runs after game. . . . . not in a million years.
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    For me ground is never an issue my bitch could run on concrete if required but the big issue which you've raised is the heat, I've been doing preseason training in it every night this week so far 2 days with one club 2 days with another. I can now see it from a dogs perspective been worked in hot conditions it's not nice It's still the best part of 30 degrees at night at the moment, a couple of runs, and they are blowing like a good un, any decent work and i'm sure the dog would drop. And whilst the ground might not be an immediate issue, too much running on hard ground will shorten any
  6. Ideation
    For me ground is never an issue my bitch could run on concrete if required but the big issue which you've raised is the heat, I've been doing preseason training in it every night this week so far 2 days with one club 2 days with another. I can now see it from a dogs perspective been worked in hot conditions it's not nice It's still the best part of 30 degrees at night at the moment, a couple of runs, and they are blowing like a good un, any decent work and i'm sure the dog would drop. And whilst the ground might not be an immediate issue, too much running on hard ground will shorten any
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    For me ground is never an issue my bitch could run on concrete if required but the big issue which you've raised is the heat, I've been doing preseason training in it every night this week so far 2 days with one club 2 days with another. I can now see it from a dogs perspective been worked in hot conditions it's not nice It's still the best part of 30 degrees at night at the moment, a couple of runs, and they are blowing like a good un, any decent work and i'm sure the dog would drop. And whilst the ground might not be an immediate issue, too much running on hard ground will shorten any
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    :thumbs:
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    Right-ho hope it gets a decent home, you are going to be flooded with pms from idiots, so beware!
  10. Ideation
    So, the owner is off on holiday, and so getting shot of his dog? Mental.
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    It's ok saying, 'I'll be straight out once it's cut', but in this heat, and the ground hardening up, it's only going to end in tears.
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    I don 't know what there has been since he came over the other night, not spoken to him since. I will try to see if anything more has been done / found out. Like i said, i'm not saying i 100% believe this, just dont know what else could be going on?
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    Like fruit cage netting? Yer i think so, is that the kind of tough plasticy shit?
  14. Ideation
    Don't think the whippet and .410 are quite going to cut it
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    I will try to get some photos sorted, just for the record, it's not wire meshing, but some kind of synthetic stuff.
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    Aye, there ARE footprints and scat about the place. I'm no expert but i have not seen the like of them before . . . . And it's in a place that isn't really run with dogs, or beaten out or infact entered much at all, other than by me . . . . . Aye lab - i'm assuming that if it IS true, sooner or later, it will get lamped or spotted again, or even hit by the hounds when hunting starts up again (if it moves out of this particular woodland). I really want to not believe it but . . . . .
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    How can it be irrelevent if the dogs have bad feet?? like i said if folk keep breeding worker to worker without looking at the faults, the whippet will suffer in the long term. My dogs working ability is the most important to me, however i also like them to look like a whippet. There is no reason why both can't go hand in hand. Mike Brown introduced show lines into his lines years ago as he thought they would add to his line of whippets. You see we have diverged now, as obviously no chest and bad feet etc, really do make problems for the dogs functional ability, whereas ear carr
  18. Ideation
    Right - to answer a couple of questions. Firstly, i have no reason to doubt the guy, apart from the obvious (that he says he saw a big cat), he is sane, rational, and very sceptical, farmer, of proper farming stock. Also, it wasn't a fleating glimpse he claims to have seen, but a proper minuite or two, 50 meter away, daylight, proper eyeful, he says he watched this thing and it was 100% a mountain lion type thing, brown, about knee height or so to the shoulder etc. I've always been very very sceptical of these kind of reports, as its usually always a fleeting glimpse, and ive alwa
  19. Ideation
    I've seen alot of worker to worker litters mate, and i'd be horrified if i'd bred them. It's each to there own but believe me when i say even though i used a non working stud dog to produce Vixen it hasn't effected her working ability in anyway as people on here who have seen her work will confirm. I also used a show dog over Vixen to produce 'Sagar' and he's a good grafter too. I'm not knocking your whippets at all mate, i've heard from all that have seen them, that they are top! However, it just doesnt sit well, this idea of breeding for a asthetic specification? Out of intere
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    Now, i know i'm going to get a lot of flak for this, but i just had to put it up, to see the responses. Firstly i will say, i am still undecided. . . . but anyway . . . . . here goes. I live out in the sticks, just a lot of forest, woodland, and rolling hills and fields, not a whole lot of folk around. There are mostly farms surrounding. There is a small farm down the road, that has some sheep, a lot of different poultry, few cows, horses etc. They had a lot of losses of birds, which we put down to a fox. There have also been loses right up and down the valley, probably running int
  21. Ideation
    I think a lot of folk also like to use the bigger breed as the dam, to ensure less issues passing pups??? Don't know, but i guess makes sense.
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    I get a little confused. My whippets ears are normal some of the time, and pricked up at other times, usually when he is really excited, can hear something or is very focused on prey. Also, surely the idea of 'breed standards', has been pretty damaging to a lot of breeds, with an obsession of what it 'should' look like, rather than general health, and ability to carry out a function / task. Now obviously, i guess, there have to be some limits, in order to define a 'breed', but i'm not understanding how working dog men, can say something is a 'bad fault' when it's purely asthetic, and
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    Glad you are back stunt man. The kennels look ok to me, but you know this place, whatever you do, someone will tell you how you SHOULD have done it. P.S Don't let the idiots stop you posting.
  24. Ideation
    I'm the same, i rarely give them any work until the following season, maybe the odd rabbit right at the end of their first winter, if it's an early litter.
  25. Ideation
    Not really made for the job, but it's hard telling them that lol.
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