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  1. skycat
    Sadly, this sort of post comes up time and time again, and I've been stung by idiots too, despite doing everything I can to check out the potential buyer. Trouble is, when someone breeds a litter and they've all gone bar one or two, people are desperate to get rid of them. What I did, last time I had pups left over, was put them on Lurcherlink: that way Lurcherlink have already home checked people who are wanting a pup. It's not a guaranteed way, nothing is, and Lurcherlink sometimes get dogs coming back to them, but at least the dogs do, for the most part, go back to them if the person doesn'
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    No, what you should have done is eaten your spinach and just gone and lifted him off, using the reassuring age old bull-whispering technique to keep him calm: nice bully boy, easy now etc etc :tongue2: or ..... maybe just tickled his tackle: that might have had the desired effect! Bull leaps skywards ..or not,
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    Look like some great photos: I'll have one please. How do we pay you? Are you happy with Paypal? PM sent.
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    No wonder the general public hates hunters and hunting like they do: and that's the problem: the general perception of hunting is that everyone is a sadistic moronic kill crazy idiot. :censored:
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    I remember finding a muntjac whose hindlegs had almost been severed: at the 'ankle': probably due to that sort of accident. Also had one of my dogs hang herself up like that: luckily no lasting damage as I was right there, but it was very difficult to untwist those wires. To all those saying that it would have been a gift for their dogs: I wonder how many would really have had the callousness to slip their dogs on an injured fox: one that you had just 'saved', so to speak. Good on ya Tomo.
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    the hobbit

    skycat replied to pip1968's topic in General Talk

    I can't see how they are making 3 films out of a book that was just one book and much shorter than the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I've seen some reviews which say that it is very long winded indeed. Plus, from the clips I've seen, they have used a much older actor to play Bilbo than the reader is led to believe he was in the book. I'll wait until it comes out on TV!
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    Get it to the vet. It could be an infection. Not normal at all.
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    RIP Don: and what a brave and sensible man to end things the way he wanted to. I remember many days on the fens with him over the years, and he was always courteous to all: I remember him saying to me of a pup I had at the time, that he'd never seen a dog 'learn' hares so fast. He had his quirks, but I think he'll go down as one of the true coursing men, who lived for his coursing.
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    The main reasons that most dogs like being in crates in the house are 1) they feel they are living in the main pack den, your house: so a much more secure place to be than stuck outside in a kennel, and 2) being shut in a small space like a crate can make them feel even more secure as they physically cannot rampage about chewing and winding themselves up into a state at being left on their own. It's a bit like a kid which goes over the top and then can't settle down until it falls asleep: all the time it is racing about and getting hysterical that emotion and movement perpetuates the feeling t
  10. skycat
    It's always been about the money, with the welfare of animals coming far behind. I know its not the same subject, but a well known animal rescue once put down an entire litter of lurcher pups while they spent a fortune on a 13 year old Yorkshire Terrier: cataracts, dodgy legs: because they knew they could rehome it to some old dear who would leave them a fortune in her will. And besides, lurcher pups attract the 'wrong' sort of homes, and they'd sooner put a healthy dog down than let it go to a working home. :censored:
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    The dog has to learn that it must walk to heel on the lead: not easy with a very driven dog at all. Practice walking the dog to heel on the lead before you ever go anywhere where there is stuff to chase or loads of scent. Start off down your road: and walk backwards and forwards, turning every 100 metres or so. The dog will get so bored with going nowhere that it will start to listen to you: he'll be saying to himself: hey, what is happening? Why are we going nowhere? He'll start to look to you to see what you are going to do next. But you must teach him 'heel'. Before you start walking, s
  12. skycat
    Nothing better than seeing dogs use their experience and brains to put themselves in the right place: of course, as pups they get it wrong, some run around like headless chickens but they learn in time, and the only way to do that is to give them the freedom to do so.
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    Banned in the UK for racing greyhounds, or banned per se? I got some from my vet no problem: a bit pricey though: had to buy a whole bottle, but it does last.
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    Yeah, I can see that might be a problem
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    Interesting. Pity there's no commentary. Awesome land to hunt in. Do you just take the back fillets from the goats then?
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    A lot of Deerhound crosses look like hat racks until they stop growing upwards. Concentrate on getting plenty of red meat, fat and bone into him: better than a bag of cereals.
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    Any chance we could see a photo of this caterpillar: I've tried to find it on the net, yes, I know, I'm really sad :laugh: but can't find it anywhere: is it for real, or are you on a wind up?
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    Oi! Leave my pink Vet Wrap alone Actually it was the only colour they had at the time, and was going cheap: so there!
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    The only way to stop it is to bandage the dog's ear up and tape it to his head so if he shakes his head he won't shake the ear loose and make it bleed again. Pad the torn bit with cotton wool, fold the ear on top of the head, then wrap around the entire head: if you use Vetwrap as in the photo (a bit of overkill with the wrapping in that photo LOL) you'll also have to use a sticking plaster type roll to stick it to the head itself or the dog will scrape it off. Terrier sized dog you can just use sticky stuff to hold the ear on top of the head. I use Elastoplast fabric strapping, comes in a
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    There is no 'wild' land in this country: if it isn't owned by something like the National Trust, then it is privately owned, even thought the land owner may never have set foot in the place or indeed barely knows of its existence. You can be sure that someone will see you hunting (God forbid, nasty barbaric act that it is ) and report you, sooner or later. There is no freedom today: anywhere :censored: :censored:
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    I can honestly say that having lost family, friends etc, the hardest thing to lose is your dog: that may sound weird or sick, but dogs are there for us when everyone else has turned away.
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    Sound like he was a dog of many talents: what a shame he went the way he did. Condolences.
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    You don't know my attitude at all if that's what you think. Ask my OH if I'm happy with the way things are: he has to put up with the anger and ranting I get into sometimes. I live in anger at what has happened to us and not a day goes by when I'm out with my dogs and fearing that they'll get seen doing something they shouldn't: but how can you explain to a dog that it can't hunt any more, that it can't follow that scent it loves more than anything else? Don't you tell me what I think and feel. :censored: :censored:
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    Wouldn't his fee be paid by the prosecution if they lose?
  25. skycat
    That is downright disgusting: but what exactly could we do to help? Apart from donate money to help him pay what seems to be a criminally extortionate sum of money to the lawyer, but hang on a moment ... if the lad is found not guilty then surely he won't have to pay a thing?
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