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And some more!
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Some more: the smooth Russel with black on her head is nearly 11 years old and she never stopped all day: 5 hours non stop we were at it! She was cream crackered the next day but she had a whale of a time..
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Doing some cover plots on an estate in Lincs the other day: they'd cut down the cover and just the feeding stations made of bales remained: pulled these apart and the rats came flooding out. Smoking the holes in the ground too. Far too many terriers turned up: God knows how they all got to hear of the day: the keeper didn't even know one of them LOL! Tally above ground was over 100 and we kept digging out ones that had died below ground from the smoke so who knows what the real count was. A few pics:
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-Was it around and on each side of the kidneys? If so, then it was probably fat. We've been getting some really fatty rabbits this season, even with layers of fat around their shoulders.
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Fantastic looking pup, and as for 'Saluki strength' : well I can see loads of it: got any better up to date pics you'd care to share?
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yes he was the irish lad he walks around shows with high boots and a shirt with STORMYDOG k9 on it he is a numpty fairplay he looks after his dogs but knows feck all about workin dogs and like the rest of em at the shows hes a back stabber
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Any lads running in Cambridgeshire need to watch out too: I was told by a friend that the police even think that chasing rabbits with dogs is illegal!
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Lurchers knocked up foot.
skycat replied to Bush Rummager's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
Good clear pics of the foot From the photo I would say that the foot has taken a bad knock: there may or may not be a hairline crack and even on x ray some of these don't show up from just one x ray: one of my dogs needed 4 x rays from all angles before the crack was picked up. It could just be bad bruising, or the toe joint has dislocated and then popped back into place: but there will obviously be ligament damage all the same. If it were my dog I'd give it a month on the lead and massage gently every day with Bone Radiol which encourages healing. Rub the linament in with an old toothbru -
Definitely bull cross: it's mighty difficult to tell at that age exactly what cross she is: look forward to following her progress: if she's only about 7 weeks old she could end up a fair size.
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Well done lads: looks like you've had some great times and success: that's what it's all about: getting out there and doing it: lovely scenery and pics, and the dog looks spot on too. Bet the pheasie just about made things perfect: hot meal in the woods on a cold day: can't get better than that!
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well thats just about every post on here
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It is a sad fact of life that there are a lot of people with nothing better to do than waste other people's time drivelling on about anything: just to pass the time. I shall have to travel to Scotland in a few weeks to collect a pup (all being well) and that is at least a 7 hour drive: one way! So 90 miles is nothing in comparison if someone really wants a dog. The fact is that people who say things like: "If you were nearer......." don't really want the dog at all. Even if I didn't have my own transport and I wanted something badly enough I'd find a way of getting there even if it meant g
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I think you done bloody well in that wind: it's been perishing cold hasn't it, as well as blowing at least force 6!
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Great at this time of year isn't it! We've just started on the shoot land: had 2 this morning. Just what we need for the young stock coming on: nice quiet days with no pressure: letting them take their time and get used to it all. Good luck with the pups.
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Sounds as though she's winding you up and taking the p*ss! She's probably also at that horrible teenage stage. I cured a lurcher of doing the running past me thing once by lying down in long grass and when she tried to dive past me and take off I fetched her legs from under her: she never did it again! Might have been a bit of a risk in hindsight: she could have broken a leg or worse. My then 6 month old Saluki bred pup was also doing it, and on deafing me out one evening at dusk ran straight into a barbed wire fence! Lay on the ground screaming for ages but I was so mad at him that I j
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At 8 months old she should already have been broken to all domestic livestock: the older the dog the harder it is to teach them what they can and cannot chase. Teaching a dog to drop will not take the 'go' out of a dog at all, and IMO most lurchers are relatively easy to train to retrieve, maybe not so as they actually put the thing into your hand, but at least near to you. Have you had the dog since a wee pup or is it a recent acquisition with no previous training.? Any lurcher worthy of the name lurcher can be trained to a decent standard, every bit as high as a gundog, and probably a
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A few young stags yesterday
skycat replied to thurso jack's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
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Very good point: jumping can lead to serious injuries. Have a look on Bambibasher's thread on lurchers jumping.
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that's really good news. Hope the dog gets on OK.
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Pretty mixed for me: a few decent bags ferreting, just steady trickling in on the lamp, 2 bitches off now for a month due to injury. Very up and down due to the floods, water logged fields and so on. Things should start looking up now that the shooting season's over from a fox control and ratting point of view.
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Condolences on what must be a really bad time for you. The best often die young as they try that much harder.
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I've actually taken on a pup that is the fussiest finicky eater I've ever known! For a while he ate rabbit ok, but then he decided that he'd only eat chicken (both of these are raw carcases, bones and all: minced in the case of the rabbit, cut into chunks and smashed up a bit in the case of the chicken. Some days he'll eat greens and apples, other days he'll eat pasta or toast. I know that people will say that I'm spoiling him but when you have a pup that will only ever eat once or occasionally twice a day (at the age of 5 months), then you have to get whatever food you can down his throat
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And this: my little pup today, first time out with the ferret:
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This:
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Great story! Loved to have seen your face LOL. We get them out lamping sometimes, and they just ignore us completely, just carry on mooching about just a few yards away.