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Your'e not the only one! I HATE road walking, or walking anywhere at all if I have to have the dogs on leads: does my head in, and no, they don't pull on the lead: I just find it dead boring: I'd sooner be watching them hunting. Biking them is OK but as so much of my biking has to be done off road that's a bit difficult in the winter in inches of mud! One reason that I don't mind the summer months too much: a good long bike ride off the beaten track along the bridleways is great and makes it interesting for the dogs too.
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The fact that the Bull cross has been mated has automatically raised her status within the pack. If she was not a top dog before, well, she is now, especially if she has taken and is in whelp. If she wasn't top dog before being mated the stress of being in whelp (in the wild only the top bitches are allowed to have pups) will have also made her very wary/aggressive/nervous aroung the other bitches, if you see what I mean: it's like she's been promoted beyond what she feels comfortable with. It could of course just be that she is putting the others in their places and letting them know who i
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I reckon it's one of the best as far as stalls go: plenty of variety and good gear.
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We've always been able to park right next to the lurcher show rings: just tell the people in the parking area (the ones who try and tell you where to park) that your are exhibiting lurchers or terriers and they'll point you in the right direction. The lurcher show is being run by new people this year: should be OK for those who like showing their dogs. See you there Stork: if it's not snowing! LOL Snow is forecast for the weekend!
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Nothing to do with being lazy: its just that when his blood is up and he's hot on the heels of his quarry he forgets that he lacks confidence. It's the same with horses: loads of horses will jump all sorts when they're out hunting and running with a load of other horses all doing the same thing: different matter when they are on their own. It's called jumping in cold blood. A similar thing happens to your dog: when he's chasing he just concentrates on the prey, but when you ask him to jump in cold blood he suddenly loses confidence and acts as though he can't do it. Bit like the differenc
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What you have to remember is that track greyhounds are totally institutionalised: they never have to go upstairs or downstairs, they don't know about jumping either over a ditch or a fence: all their lives they have been led everywhere on a lead except when they trial or race. A lot of them don't even recognise other breeds of dog as dogs! Hence some of them are likely to try and kill small fluffy dogs. Not all, I know, but it does happen. Trying to teach an ex track dog how to jump can be nigh on impossible as they have never learned the art of lifting their front end over an obstacle.
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Good advice. If you buy from someone you don't know you are asking for trouble. Always a good idea to check someone out first: either through word of mouth, or on here: and get a pup through reccomendation from someone on the forum who is well respected and experienced and who will back up their claims and be prepared to offer advice and help in the future.
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Why didn't you lean out of the motor and ask them to go single file so you could pass? I've had to do that on more than one occasion: they don't like it but it's only fair. I always slow right down for horses and in the old days you would always get a thankyou wave of the hand: not any more! There are just more and more ignorant unmannered people around, not just horsey people either.
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Been asked to put this on : TWO CHANCES TO QUALIFY FOR CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS AT KELMARSH COUNTRY FAIR In 2008 Countryman Fairs will offer handlers of both terriers and lurchers the chance to qualify for the Countryman’s Weekly Champion of Champions Grand Final, at the Midland Game Fair, 20th and 21st September 2008, on both days of each of their events. In previous years Countryman Fairs have set aside a dedicated day for terrier events and a separate day for lurchers. However in order to recognise the rise in popularity of the terrier and lurcher events, Countryman Fairs and
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don't want to rain on your parades lads, but haven't you read anything about not starting pups too young? God knows there's been enough posts on here about dogs that can't/won't pick up, pups injured or yapping. What your'e doing by lamping a pup of 7 months old is like asking a 10 year old lad to run along side Linford Christie: and catch him up!!! Think about it: your pups still have leg to grow: I'll bet they still have knobbly wrists on their front legs: those bits of bumpy bones are what has to grow out for the pup to reach its full height: if they run too hard before they're all gr
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Good for him: let's hope this news spreads around the fruit growing world like wildfire: not that we'll ever see a return to subsistance farming, but it goes to show that even commercial growers could benefit from going back in time to save their crops. Let's hear it for the porkers!
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Ours broke on the handle too: the ring bit that fits over the screw: they sent us a whole new mincer. Must admit haven't used it since as we managed to find an electric one second hand: God, that's easier even if we do have to smash the rabbits up a bit first. To be honest, if your'e only doing a couple of rabbits at a time, smash the bones a bit with an axe as I don't really think this manual one is designed for that much pressure on the handle. It's only a cheap alloy by the looks of it and can't cope with bones very well.
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If you have a good hearted dog, and let's face it, a bull cross should have a bit of heart, you'd be more likely to damage the dog than anything else if you put it on a hare unless it is 100% fit. By fit I mean that it can run beside a bike or motor at 15 to 20 miles an hour without getting distressed for 3 miles. That is starting to get fit for winter hares. Unless the dog is that fit you can blow its diaphragm, lungs and even heart if it has a long hard run, not to mention cramping up and busting its kidneys. Not trying to put you off or anything, but ask yourself some serious questions
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First dog when I left home was a GSD: fantastic dog and a great hunter. Shame he had dodgy hips: all too prevalent in those days. Then I got an Irish Wolfhound: and she'd catch rabbits and swallow them whole, come home and regurgitate in the back garden and eat them at her leisure! She's what got me into lurchers.
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Most of my dogs love cow shit: especially calf shit: I wouldn't worry about it. They reckon it's for the vits and minerals they do it: also for the digested grass. Mine usually grow out of it eventually: just a thought.......I'd sooner they eat it than roll in it!
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Help required with 11month Patterdale.
skycat replied to cambridge's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
We keep dogs and bitches, and yes its a pain when the bitches are in season, but both our male terrier and lurchers just have to put up with it! Even the terrier gets used to the smell of in season bitches around him, though obviously he is separated from them. I can take him out working with them right up until they are ready to stand and he won't take any notice of them: once they're standing he's obviously kept away from them. In the wild, male subordinate canids (wolves etc) learn to put up with life as it is because the only male who gets to mate is the pack leader; the others wouldn' -
Looks like a superb place to ferret: even if there were one or two digs.
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So is it possible that there is a 'wrong' feel about certain places: like wrong feng shui and stuff like that? Or is there a socio/economic reason for acute depression etc in certain places? And is it possible that people suffering from acute mental health problems will be influenced by what other sufferers did before them and follow their example by committing suicide? Just wondering.
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Thanks folks. I'll have a look at what you've suggested.
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I've looked all over the internet, well almost all over, and I'm failing miserably in my attempts to find some hunting boots in women's sizes (6 UK). There are umpteen makes and types in mens' sizes but very little in womens'. My problem is also that I have wide feet and most women's boots are very narrow. We haven't all got model thin feet LOL and one of mine got squashed by a horse when I were a kid. Has anyone ever seen what I'm after: Le Chameau, Danner or the like, laceups, sown in tongue, Goretex, Vibram sole, 9-10". that sort of thing. And must be wide fitting!!! Any help gr
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Good luck with the recovery: if his bone is badly bruised it could take as much as month for the pain to go out of it completely. It might be worth getting him to a greyhound 'back' man to see if he has put something out in his spine or trapped a nerve as well: very common after a collision like that.
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The reason the black land is so lethal to dogs is that it is always very soft, dry or wet, it stays soft: when it's wet it's like a bog; the hares skim over the top of it but ALL dogs sink in, often up to their wrists or more: usually only the dogs that can 'float' this ground can catch on it, which is why the best Saluki types do well, but they need to have a big stride to cover that ground with the minimum of effort.
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The black and tan's not an Airedale/Whippet is it? Cracking looking dog at any rate. Gotta say to SJ: superb photos of the Beddies on here: class!
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Has the pup got Collie blood in her? They are very bark inclined when they are pups: just playing. DON'T for God's sake stick an anti bark collar on a pup that is playing: that would be downright cruel and confuse her totally. We've got one at the moment that loves to play and bark, barks at the sparrows, barks for the hell of it: doing my head in a bit LOL. But I know she'll grow out of it. If your's is kenneled, when you let her out, play with her, throw a tennis ball for her, engage her in play with you, and say "Quiet!" when she barks. Don't shout at her, and if she starts barking at
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you don't want too many of them in the long net! Did it bolt from the ferret? Heard of that happening before.