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what lines did you have? what they like on small and big fields? never been out with any good line bred whippets always with none peds 19 to 21 inches. if you put the time into them you can go out and catch double figures no problem. they can be ideal on small fields and can work well on big fields. catching rabbits on big fields is all about getting into the right position no matter what dog you are using, you can catch rabbits on a big field with a whippet as well as you can with a big dog as long as you are sensible and get yourself in the right position. ive seen some whippets wi
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Good post that mate, and i whole heartedly agree, all that is, but the first bit. You can find better all round rabbit dogs. A top rabbiting lurcher will beat a top rabbiting whippet. But for what they are you cannot fault them, and i fecking love the fire they have, such an exciting dog to work daytime.
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So so so true! Two fields mowed and my little bitch has found, nay directly walked to a dead field mouse in each, rolled and ended up smelling like the toilet. Poor girl had flies buzzing all around her tonight Better nose than any lab or spaniel I have ever seen. John Too true mate, mine is exactly the same, uncanny. Sometimes it's a pain, you cannot take him for 'just' a walk, as soon as he's in the field, his nose is down and he's working like mad to find scent and then will hunt it with a fury. He will find game anywhere. Lost him for 2 hours behind a fox the other day
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thanks mate what would you suggest ? someone told me a whippet x greyhound To be honest mate, once you get onto lurchers it's just what pleases you. Now if i was you, looking for what you are, where you are. . . I would find out who had some belting rabbiting dogs, and look for a pup that was bred out of two dogs that did exactly what i wanted my pup to do, and that i quite liked the look / feel of. I'd be way more concerned with finding the above than any particular breed. Having said that, i do think if killing bunnies is your thing, you'll be hard pressed to fault
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Never met anyone with one who could fault it. Not so much out and out lamping dogs though, much more suited to daytime work and ferreting. But honestly i have spoken to a lot of folk with his whippets and never met someone who could say they actually had one and thought it was shit. Guy knows his shit as well.
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That's right mate the Fallow around Plymouth are poofs, compared to the rest of the country. . .. . little weedy things, fall over easier than bunnies. . . .. aye right. . . . Oh no. . .. that's not it. . .. it must be because you have such super, world beating dogs, that regular do multiple fallow a night, pick em up like bunnies don't they?
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Good enough, but if it's purely a lamp dog you are after, you would be better off with another type, and that's from someone who loves whippets. If you are going to get a whippet get a good working bred pup, and should handle most things, but they are most suited to small land and in my eyes, rough land, pastures, hedges etc. But i'd say more a daytime dog. Nose like a fecking beagle.
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Your one of those folks that the more you speak, the dumber you seem.
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Blan - quality story mate, i can imagine you armed with the bin lid! These two ridgebacks were very impressive animals, pure muscle, far bigger and heavier built than most you see here, but at the same time more athletic. Really fine specimens. Would have eaten a Giant Schnauzer. Originally bred for lion hunting. Littlefish - so black it hurts.
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I went over to caen then went down to the south coast, nice drive.
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Just to add i also find it helps to handle them lots, so they are used to it, have them running about your feet, so they are used to that, and being picked up and put down. Get them running through pipes and picking them up from the ends so they are used to that as well. I like to do a certain call when feeding so that often you can call the ferret to you. Also when first working them, i do it in a small warren, and when the first rabbit hits the nets, i kill it and leave it by the whole twitching so they come out and get a rag of it as a reward, makes them keen i think. Also sometimes run the
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Cheers mate!
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Whats up can,t you read? ?
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Hahahaha. . . . . . fair point! I'd make that two - 'Grumpy' and 'Ferreting'
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Thats the perfect litter mate! Happy days! Always nice going out for a day with multiple generations all in the box together.
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favorite breed or just good worker
Ideation replied to lurcher330's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
I get ya mate, my hunting partner has had collie x's for a long time, and recently for a change got something else (beddy/grey x bull/whip), and although he has had non-collie x's before, not for a long time, and i think he found the transition a bit strange, although she is a good dog, he was always looking for what he would have seen in a collie x at that stage. Think he's got used to it now tho. -
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and that an,t a greyhound pug ethier Whats a greyhound ferret to you? about a fiver haha the greyhound ferrets i add was long body with a bullet type heads with ears like a mouse. very active always on the go and was as quick as a polecat in a earth and didnt av that russion/blue colouring in there coat. if any it was yellowish in the legs that 30 years ago normal whites was to slow for my likin ole plodders. that why they were called greyhounds fast like polecats Brilliant mate, It's exactly how i would have described them, apart from the mouse like ears. But aye
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Congrats mate, always nice having a small litter and being able to integrate them all into your team, you will be having some fun around christmas time i bet.
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It's enabled mate and i still have none in the drop down etc.
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Bit mental, but i'm not that surprised. I used to date a South African girl who had just moved over here with her family. They had brought two Ridgebacks with them, not the pussy ones you see over here, but the real deal, some VERY impressive looking dogs. They had an absolute hatred of black folk, mainly due to the fact that most crime around them was committed by blacks and so were trained that if they saw an unknown black trying to enter the house / yard etc, they just piled in. All well and good, until you move to the U.K and your postie is a black bloke. where do i buy a pu
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Thats them - emoticons, i can see other folks, but cannot use them myself. Not hugely important but i kind of miss em. There are none displayed in my drop down menu on the left when i write a post, and clicking the icon in the tool bar does nowt.
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I can't use any. . . .. . . . ANyone else having this problem? And before you start getting clever lab, i mean the emotions on here.
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Bit mental, but i'm not that surprised. I used to date a South African girl who had just moved over here with her family. They had brought two Ridgebacks with them, not the pussy ones you see over here, but the real deal, some VERY impressive looking dogs. They had an absolute hatred of black folk, mainly due to the fact that most crime around them was committed by blacks and so were trained that if they saw an unknown black trying to enter the house / yard etc, they just piled in. All well and good, until you move to the U.K and your postie is a black bloke. where do i buy a pu
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Free weights, good bit of cardio and some jujitsu never goes a miss.
