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  1. skycat
    I don't know how old you are V., but if I were you I'd get some better advice from an adult local to you. How about taking your pup to a good training class: your vet should be able to reccomend some. Anyone who says that a lurcher needs muzzling would NEVER get near any of my pups! This woman has probably got some weird idea that lurchers are vicious because they catch rabbits: she needs educating. Try telling her that a lurcher is not being vicious when it catches a rabbit: the act of catching a rabbit is completely different to attacking another dog, for example. Prey drive and dog
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    Or it could be a badly torn muscle which has been bleeding under the skin to create the 'bruised' effect you are seeing. The vet will tell you more.
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    I have here on the ground now 2 pups, 5 months old, one of which has retained 100% the qualities that were so strongly passed on from her great grandfather that it is spooky. the other has also got a lot of those qualities in type of character though she has thrown a little more to the Saluki side of things. Yes, those guarding, retrieving, biddable etc things that were so strong in him have been diluted, but the majority of pups with his blood in them retain those qualities and you can see the type a mile off. Some dogs are very prepotent (stamping their own qualities strongly on whate
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    I had a little sh*t of a OEG banty cockerel. It was only after I'd beaten him half senseless that he stopped attacking me: they are tougher than they look! By beating half senseless I mean belting him with an old besom broom so as not to really damage the bird: just kept after it and whacking it with the broom until it gave up and ran away from me clucking like a silly hen. Infinitely preferable to being snuck up on from behind and being jabbed in the calves!
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    Good read: I love to hear tales of the old times.
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    Straw in winter and lots of it to make deep nests to keep warm, and carpet or old blankets in summer: but the inside dogs have their sofas LOL
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    Crackiing post and a great read: must admit, being 'darn sarf' I've never had the experience of ferreting in the snow: sounds a lot of fun! LOL
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    Mine is 26" and 32 kilos! Fast, committed, very good nose, eyesight and uses her ears a lot too. Tremendous prey drive, hunts really well: only seen rabbits so far, works cover, very obedient and so easy to train I hardly had to do anything! BUT she is a really submissive temperament: if she had been dominant I would have had my work cut out to train her as the drive is so through the roof. Funnily enough she was the only one left in the litter when I went to look: quite shy, though not in a nervous way, just not very forward. Downsides: only thing I don't like about her is her feet: n
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    Dogs are experts at reading human body language and emotions. If you have a sensitive pup then even if you don't realise it the pup may pick up on unintentional tension, stress, threatening thoughts, irritation at the pup's behaviour. If the pup is submissive by nature then even the act of coming into the recall can make them grovel, (rolling over and looking away from you is a sign of submission: Uncle! Pax! I'm no threat, I'm such a worm etc etc LOL) When you call the pup in try crouching low and speaking to it in a very encouraging quiet voice. If necessary get right down on the
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    Ligament/tendon damage can take a long time to heal: up to 6 months: get the dog to a greyhound man for a proper diagnosis: if your'e letting the pup run around when the healing process has only just begun your'e taking it back to square one every time the pup runs on it. I once had to keep a young dog on the lead for 6 months after he damaged his stifle (knee) joint ligaments!
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    The trick is to make the pup realise that the whole of your house is its den: normal dogs don't piss in their dens: they go outside. Now at this time of year: cold, wet and dark early it is a damn sight harder to house train pups than in the summer. Basically a pup needs to pee very often: when it wakes up, after a meal, after a drink and right when you don't expect it to: like when its in the middle of playing. They can't hold it very long at this age so don't get angry with it, don't rub its nose in it and definitely don't crack it. It's down to you to make sure the pup goes outsid
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    A friend of mine regularly used to run his bitch on hares by the light of the full moon:good success rate: she was running on some marshes down south: special bitch at any time though.
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    Seetex do the Thornhill range for women: expensive but I splashed out on a pair of the trousers: flaps to go over wellies to stop torrential rain going down inside your boots, reinforced knees and seat: very tough, windproof, breathable etc and mine have stood up to severe hedgerow ferreting so far with good results. No, I'm not on commission LOL: and I've been trying to find something like these for years before they brought these out. Edited to add: I've been trying to find the link but having Googled Seeland I can't find anywhere that is selling the trousers: the jackets, yes, but no t
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    Ok my mistake didnt know sorry... I should have said: yes it does look a complete botch job, but that's how it needs to be done!
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    On a wound like that where there is constant movement of the skin as the dog walks, lies down and gets up etc, the stitches need to be inserted well back from the edges of the wound or they would pull through the skin and you'd be back to square one: might be a good idea to understand these things before posting silly comments!
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    Shock collar Back to basics, train in the field as well as at home. Unless you are a highly experienced trainer then you can do far more damage with a shock collar than any benefits you could get. This dog is still a pup and is still probably going through the teenage 'deaf you out' stage. Get out mooching by day and continue practicing recall before trying on the lamp. Also, follow D.Sleights method of lamping a dummy in the back garden or field with no rabbits: a lot of dogs need 'programming' to obey the same commands when out as they do at home.
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    Try and vary the type of meat as well: beef is high in protein: just what a young dog needs. Lamb is good too: see if you can get waste from your local butcher. Raw rabbit is good, but needs freezing for 3 weeks first to kill tapeworm cysts.
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    When I had my pups docked this summer the vet refused to give me the certificate until I'd taken them back for chipping: they said that otherwise I could have taken in some similar looking pups which I'd docked at home then got them chipped as the original ones the vet had docked: they had already had someone try to do that! Mine were chipped at 6 weeks old.
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    Just looked at the newsreport on it and it said it was after a tip of about illegal coursing: yet it said they seized rabbits, (not hares). Unbelievable! Get the lad to contact Clive Rees: and fast before the b*****ds destroy, castrate or rehome his dogs!
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    dogs

    skycat replied to whin's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs

    Know a few people who only want to run plough: LOL I've got dogs here now I'd scarcely call hare dogs but they'd annilihate hares on plough and stubble. Personally I love seeing a good dog run the wheat: makes it a more equal contest, though the small fast line I had couldn't pick up on plough: talking 22" bitches here: once they hit the wheat it was game over. The big lad was only 8 months old in the pic: feet like hooves and masses of bone: love him to bits lOL
  21. skycat
    Find a different vett! The old hoss and cow men are usually pretty cool with working dog injuries!
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    dogs

    skycat replied to whin's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs

    I've never run outside Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire: when you've got good ground on your doorstep there isn't really any great incentive to travel LOL. I had a couple of decent dogs a while back, and have got a young dog here now who will be soon starting his career: so far he's only seen a few rabbits and stuff out of cover: he is purpose bred from good stuff and I know just what you mean about 'full on'. The hunting instinct in all the Saluki types I've had is little short of awesome, but mine are brought up the same as the rabbiting dogs and are seldom on a lead: and yes, it can lead t
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    Definitely get the dog to a vet ASAP: unless you want it to lose the eye. Vet's can stitch the wound: but the chances are its well contaminated by now so will also need antibiotics. Eyes are one thing you don't mess about with at home unless you are a vet yourself.
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    Lovely: just love that choir!
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    How old is your dog?
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