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    It's one of them things i guess. I'm usually fecking cursing him all day for doing it, until he puts something up and catches it we would have never know about unless he had ranged. He gets better if you work him hard and knacker him. i like my black dog to work close when working a wood hes is a read plessure.... he works about 10/15 foot in frount till he hit game an you can see the chage in him but he is still calm and its upm at his feet and then its on lol....some dogs lead from the frount and some follow other dogs .... See mine is more like a hound. I can keep him close to me
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    That's kind of where i am leaning, either spaniel / terrier, or spaniel / terrier / hound, or some kind of similar combination. Some one also suggested a beddy? I find it strange that there is no one really breeding line bred mixed breed bushers, like a 'lurcher to lurcher' breeding. Even the x breeds always seem to be first x's.
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    I think i may need to accept it as one of them things. He is only young though, just under 2. The only real hassle, is it can make it look like your dogs highly disobediant, when folk are used to the kind of lurchers that are always around your feet. On the up side, he hunts like f**k and finds more varied game than any other dog i know lol. Great mooching partner. I'm hoping working him a long side as many different dogs as i can will eventually cure him of it, even though its more a small niggle than a big problem.
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    I couldn't decide if this should go in the hound or terrier section, but figured that folk here would have experianced a good range of different dogs used for the above job. I'm looking for a dog to work the cover, both small type - hedges, brambles, ditches etc, and also bigger spots like woodland, cover crops etc. The dog would be used for rabbits and also for flushing larger stuff ( i do a lot of travelling to places where this is legal), i would really like it NOT to go to ground, as we have a lot of difficult places, and would also like it to speak when on it's quarrys ass, or may
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    It's one of them things i guess. I'm usually fecking cursing him all day for doing it, until he puts something up and catches it we would have never know about unless he had ranged. He gets better if you work him hard and knacker him.
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    Haha, mines the opposite. He won't stay near my side, if there are other dogs about me. It's happened a couple of times recently, i been out for a while, the dog working well, and then met up with someone and their dog / s and he has become an ignorant, little, black, b*****d. He won't go far, he just seems to want to hunt to one side lol. Yet, when it comes to ferreting on my own or with johnny, he is very focused, patient and responsive as long as there is a ferret to ground.
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    What a crok of shite Really? omething Something tells me the man doesn't work his dogs that hard.
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    An example from yesterday - We are ferreting a hedge, and in the field behind there is a strip of rough grass a long a gully. The action slowed up on our hedge, and the other dogs had it covered, so he decided to feck off and hunt up this gully. He put up a couple of rabbits which he almost caught and ran to ground. Which is fine, but sometimes its frustrating when you assume your dog is on watch the other side of the hedge with the other dog, and you look up to realise he is bushing up a distant wood on his own, or a rabbit bolts and your dog lets the slower dog take the lead, wit
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    He is a pure whippet. And no it's not all bad. Don't get me wrong, he still catches, marks, and does the job needed. However, there is a difference in him, between if i am ferreting a warren with another dog or two he has not worked with before, and if i am ten yards away ferreting a warren with just him, while the other dogs are being used on the next warren. If that makes sense? And if a rabbit bolts the net, he doesnt run the same a when it just him, or him and johnnyboys dogs. He settles down after he has worked a long side them a few times though. He is a very submissive dog t
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    Chances are she has not been wild long, especially if she is tame. 'Feral' ferrets are a different ball game.
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    Has anyone else ever had or experianced a dog that just wasn't the same around other dogs? Not in terms of aggression etc, but in terms of taking part in the days activity and running? The reason i ask, is that i have noticed of late, that if i go out with other dogs (apart from johnnyboys who he has known from a pup), then my lad, always seems to want to take himself off and hunt a lone, and even when game is put up, doesn't really seem to put his all in, same with ferreting, he doesnt seem as bothered with grabbing the netted rabbits if he knows another dog can get there. He does however
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    Aye, most times we are out Dont chastise her too much if she does come back, however infuriating, just put her back on the lead and ignore her. Otherwise they can start staying away like naughty kids who know they are going to get a slap when they get home. Edited to add - a couple of memorable ones include dog on toy dog, dog dissapearing for two hours after something into a field of maize, and one this week where the dog spotted something else whilst ferreting. It happens even at the best of times mate, running dogs love to chase stuff.
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    It's the same in one area, you sometimes get the odd bunny that is like a b*****d love child of ussain bolt and a ninja.
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    This week i've watched the same dog / dogs run rabbits in 4/5 different counties, at different parts of the u.k, and some were definatly bigger, healthier, fitter, and hence faster specamins than others. Also some were not away on their heels as quick as they were less educated, so although they may have had the same capability, they didnt use it, or at least not soon enough.
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    I don't get how folk are finding it hard to grasp? Surely its pretty standard - due to variances in food sources, predation, terrain etc?
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    Cheers mate He's not a bad dog, but he's a bit of a twat
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    Umm . . . just noticed this. Are you folk really arguing about natural selection? I thought that one had been put to bed a fair while ago.
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    Your mate sounds like a f*****g retard.
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    Often the way with gardens mate. Folk live adjacent to vast areas of bunny infested farm land, and then ask you to 'clear' the rabbits from their garden. . . .
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    The plan for today was for me and johnnyboy to head over the water into deepest, darkest Somerset, to meet up with hounddogg31 and do a bit of ferreting. Got up early doors, to find a frozen world. Didn't manage to set off on time as i had to defrost the car, ferret watr x 2, chicken water and food etc, so i was a bit late picking up johnnyboy, who was suffering a good few degrees colder. Anyway, we hit the road with the usual team of dogs and ferrets and the 100 miles flew by. Soon enough we were pulling in behind a landdrover with two lurchers in the back, that had to be our man. Straight of
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    Aye, you'd know if they were 'Dales Rabbits', they would be hung on a gate
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    Decided to take Bron the Minshaw for her first lamping experiance last night, she seemed keen, and was pulling, so we gave her a few runs. She did pretty well. Wasn't too happy, she got kicked off by a couple of roe, but hopefully by twelve weeks she will be smashing them
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    Aye, it was a good un. Funny though the difference between where you are and where we were on this wee island. We came home to snow a well. Great pic by the way matey.
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