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Spot on. If you look at a rabbits fur, it has a lot of black hairs, and also orange/ginger hairs, and white hair, obviously. THe colored rabbits are a mutation, which has expressed itself in one dominant color. I have had black, white, ginger, grey and blue rabbits as well as ones with patches and one half white (front half) and rear half normal. You do also sometimes get escapees and inter breeding, and i've seen a kind of lion headed rabbit, and i think 'the ferreter' caught one as well. Edited to add - Munster man you are right in that you see it more in higher populatio
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I'm willing to be converted, i really am. I;ve just seen some fecking good spaniels, and when folk say that their lurcher will work cover just as well. . . . . i'm really sceptical. No doubt, they would be better than an average spaniel etc, but it's hard to beat a purpose bred dog, at the top of it's game, at any task. Like, many lurchers will retrieve from water well, as well in some situations as many labs, but i'd like to see them going out off the foreshore in driving icy rain, when there is ice hanging off their coat, after sitting up to their necks in it for an age, and bat
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James mckay is a peddler. Remember seeing a dvd, where it showed his ferret ranch, if he worked his ferrets every single day of the year, they would still only get a couple of days graft each, he has that many, mostly for breeding purposes. The original poster was doing ok until he started talking about show ferrets. .. . pays £50 quid for a ferret, because he likes the color, has no intention of working it, just chucking out dark kits to the show folk, no wonder there is so much shit out there.
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Maybe, but probably not much better than a decent whippet.
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I'd like to see some of the folk on here trying to train one though Be grey in no time! But aye, get a running dog for hunting and running andwhy not a cover dog for cover. Was watching this wee beddy getting into cover today and no chance would a beddy x whippet have got in there the same, why not a beddy whippet is not much bigger than a beddy and i would gladly show you two that can get where any cocker or terrier can get and nail there game in cover as well to be honest i think your thinking a cross beddy whippet is the size of a whippet the two i go out with are two dogs 16/1
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What a gent.
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I'd like to see some of the folk on here trying to train one though Be grey in no time! But aye, get a running dog for hunting and running andwhy not a cover dog for cover. Was watching this wee beddy getting into cover today and no chance would a beddy x whippet have got in there the same, why not a beddy whippet is not much bigger than a beddy and i would gladly show you two that can get where any cocker or terrier can get and nail there game in cover as well to be honest i think your thinking a cross beddy whippet is the size of a whippet the two i go out with are two dogs 16/1
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Yep, spot on mate
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Mine does the same
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The word 'best' should be removed from all discussion about breeds of lurcher etc. The 'best' is simply one from parents, and long lines of dogs, that are ding to a high standard what it is you want the pup to do.
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Best thing about birds, is that they have a decent fat content unlike rabbits, so are good for building weight, whereas rabbit will usually just maintain it.
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Different types of ferals - farm ferrals and urban ones are a bit different.
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I'd like to see some of the folk on here trying to train one though Be grey in no time! But aye, get a running dog for hunting and running and a cover dog for cover. Was watching this wee beddy getting into cover today and no chance would a beddy x whippet have got in there the same,
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Just spent two hours mooching with a beddy, proper working type. Only a pup and just being introduced to it all, but i'd have had her in my kennels happily. What about one of those? Much better prospect that a beddy x whippet for bushing. In fact, get a beddy and a whippet and that your team.
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Wasps are c*nts, they kill bees, which are really important and on the decline. No bees - the world ends. One interesting bee fact - my girlfriends mate, was part of a project working on using bees to detect landmines!
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This might as well be the 'permission wantd' section.
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some people just make stuff up on here He's not a million miles from the truth, in that if you tried to have a dog for both bushing and running whats bushed out, if its in 'proper' cover, its never going to see what comes out, and if its standing about with a view of what bolts, to run it, then its not really bushing proper. If that makes sense? the dogs i work with will bush it out or catch it in the cover and the point of a bushing dog is to have dogs waiting out side the cover for bolters is is it not. no point if the dogs in cover with nothing waiting for the bolt its team work
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why's that? Because i like spaniels, good, well trained spaniels, and thats just what i was raised around. It's a spaniel, to me it just shouldnt be running about, chasing rabbits, and yapping, its a 'waste' of a good dog. Horses for courses and all that. But if it makes the folk that have them happy, then thats great. It's just what was ingrained in my from being raised around well trained working springers, cockers etc.
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some people just make stuff up on here He's not a million miles from the truth, in that if you tried to have a dog for both bushing and running whats bushed out, if its in 'proper' cover, its never going to see what comes out, and if its standing about with a view of what bolts, to run it, then its not really bushing proper. If that makes sense?
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If it's a lurcher, it's a lurcher, all be it, a lurcher that 'bushes'. But working cover as a lurcher, and folowing scent and hunting up. . . . . is all very well. But it's not going to come close to a purpose bred bushing dog, with regard to what it can face and how it can work. However, out of all the lurcher types it's probably the best suited. If i had a spaniel chasing game and yapping, it would be on a one way ticket to a hole in the ground.
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And to add - A beddy whippet isnt really a bushing dog, its a lurcher that will hunt up. If that makes sense.
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I agree, a good cocker, is a very good dog to have around, and it's up on my list of soon to be's, I've always had spaniels around and a miss them. However, what i can't be doing with, is a spaniel chasing, or making noise, and thats what i want in a 'bushing' dog. For me spaniels and bushing dogs are slightly different things (in what i expect of them personaly). As for cute. . . .well she's cute when shes asleep or tired, the rest of the time shes trying to kill everything haha, some drive on her. Good nose already, house trained and pretty biddable, likes to retrieve etc. But fiesty as
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Good walk on the mountain with the mutts, and now time for some bottles of VB.
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It's good stuff matey. haha.
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Good stuff if you've got constipation! lol
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Hahahaha.
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what slip leads does everyone use?
Ideation replied to SteveRasbridge's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
Used to use all kinds of bits of rope and strap etc, even my belt. But now i've used Strong Stuffs ones, and they are spot on! -
I love them, but f**k me are they hard work as young dogs, not exactly 'laid back'
