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  1. skycat
    Brilliant bit of filming there And to see the mink coming to call, almost working as a team: hats off to your dedication and ability to train such a wild animal.
  2. skycat
    Great write up and nice story too.
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    All you need to do is to call it by its old name followed immediately by its new name. Depending on how bright and confident the dog is, it should only take a few days or weeks before you can drop the old name completely. Most of my dogs have nicknames, which they answer to as well as their proper names. For example, Favour is also called Fuggy, and she responds to both just the same. Littlish is also called Ickle or Squish. As long as there is a dominant consonant or vowel, they don't have any problem picking it up.
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    What happened to Cammo coats? We have a couple, and the trousers. Soft, completely waterproof, breathable, and built to last: but I can't find a website for them any more. Did the go out of business?
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    Brought a smile
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    I don't believe I'm anything special at all, just someone who has kept dogs for all my life. I don't need to make assumptions either, because I've seen with my own eyes how some owners have no idea at all what their dogs are feeling towards one another. And I agree with you 100%, most problems are never black and white, but caused by a number of issues which haven't been addressed at the beginning, or with dogs that aren't designed to share space, either by day or by night. So much depends on the breed, as I already said. And I wasn't even commenting on the original post at the top of this th
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    I think a lot depends on the type of dog and what blood it has in it. My Saluki types loved and needed to snuggle up in a heap. They'd have been miserable on their own. The Airedale and her daughters are antisocial gits and need their own space, though I can and do kennel mother and one daughter together when needed. We do have certain dogs which are kennelled alone at night or when we go out ... the young ones that can't be trusted not to rip something up or get fed up with chilling, but apart from a couple they all live together indoors and know their places below us humans. If you never to
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    socks: the problem is that a lot of inexperienced owners just can't see how their dogs are reacting to one another. They can't predict problems because they don't understand pack relationships or dog body language. Keeping dogs together is fine if you have a lot of experience and can read the signs, and the dogs are totally under your control, and are happy/secure in themselves and with each other, but it's a different story if the owner fails in any way to keep their dogs correctly. Unless I know someone personally, and know that they are experienced and clued up, I'd always advise them to k
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    Unfortunately any member of the public who sees that video will think that all working lurchers are kept like this. A case of the rotten apple etc. Total moronic idiots.
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    Lucky dog to have you. Made me come over all fuzzy and warm seeing those photos.
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    lukey: your are right in everything you say, but it still doesn't change the fact that the girl/woman left herself open to being raped, by her own lack of awareness, brought on either by drink or just because she didn't think clearly. The scenario you made is one where a man is deliberately attempting to get a girl so drunk that she can be taken advantage of. Surely any girl with half a brain wouldn't accept that sort of drink if she wanted to remain in control and conscious of what was happening around her? Booze and drugs have always been around. I was taught as a young girl never to get dr
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    It's great that all you guys are so defensive and protective of women in general, and of course he shouldn't have taken advantage of her like that, but your attitude implies that the man must always be in control of himself whilst a woman can lay there legs open, too pissed to do anything and he must not take advantage of that, never mind if he's almost as drunk/drugged as she is. Double standards there IMO.
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    And then you bumped into the Bull cross. the lad said he used to run bull x's and now wants a deerhound x.thats progress. Yeh the one step forward ten steps back kind of progress. Maybe he wants something less likely to suffer from tunnel vision?
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    Only a quarter Collie, but at 22 1/2 inches and fluffy and scruffy with it, she looks more Collie-ish than lurcher. Under that coat is a racy body and the speed and wind to catch most stuff that gets up.
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    If so many of these females didn't get themselves p*ssed up, then this sort of rape wouldn't happen as often as it is purported to do. Now the rape of any woman or girl who is not drunk, definitely doesn't want it, but is pressured/forced into it: well, that's another thing entirely and the perpetrators deserve lengthy sentences and be forced to do hard labour for ever more. That's speaking as a female myself, and having worked many years in pubs/hotels, I've seen how alcohol diminishes responsibility and awareness to the extent that I believe those who are blind drunk deserve all they get if
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    A friend of mine had a mostly Saluki lurcher: the thing was like a skeleton, looked horrendous compared to most dogs, but she was never short of energy, could stay all day, and ran well into her old age. She would never eat more than exactly the amount she needed either. Even during the summer she never put on any weight,even though her owner had her on a good high carb diet tailored for that sort of dog.
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    There you go then: this sort of dog will always look 'bony' until you are used to them. I used to get all sorts of comments on my Saluki types: my favourite answer is that you don't see marathon runners looking like Linford Christie. Think Paula Radfcliffe: all long legs and bones. Those types, of humans as well as dogs, have a different sort of muscle to sprint runners, who look bulked up and bulging with muscle.
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    Do you mean that you can see her pin bones: the pointy bits on top of her hips? As has already been said, if it's in her breeding, Saluki?, then she may not be of the type to look bulky at all. What is her breeding?
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    If you are feeding a cereal based food (the ingredient listed first on the bag is the one of which there is most), and you are paying under £35-40 a bag, then there is a good chance that the dog is crapping out almost as much as you are feeding it, which means that although it says 28% protein, that protein is cereal, and therefore not as easily or as well assimilated by dogs. Try feeding a really good quality complete food where the first ingredient on the bag is meat: there are plenty about: chicken and rice, lamb and rice: note that the meat content is stated in the product. Whereas cheap
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    Hallelujah! I must be a believer
  21. skycat
    I've had bitches pre season turn into manic hunters when they were previously pretty chilled, and post season some want to eat anything they find: including birds' nests full of fledglings: nest and all went down one bitch's throat and bitches that were very well stock broken finding sitting hens and eating them Hormones are funny old things!
  22. skycat
    Has she been in season recently?
  23. skycat
    A gentle mooch every afternoon is about my lot these days Luckily nobody told my dogs that I'm completely useless: bashing along the hedgerows keeps them more or less happy, though I live in fear of one of the nut jobs ending up on the far side of a lake dealing death to some unsuspecting beastie while I haul my creaking frame into the cover guided by the sounds I don't want to hear, especially on a nice sunny afternoon when the place is lifting with hikers and birdwatchers!
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    High drive dogs need a focus for their drive. If allowed to tear around like headless chickens they will always target the moving object, be it another dog or something else. They need managing carefully while they are too young to actually work, or they develop bad habits: such as harassing and bowling other dogs. Get the pup obsessed with retrieving, tugging, playing with you, and give her a target that won't get her into the habit of going for other dogs out of sheer desperation to run something.
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    Finally Here!

    skycat replied to kps1979's topic in Bushing Dogs

    Lovely pup She is almost identical to one of the pups I bred this year from my Whirrier to my terrier bitch. Haven't got any up to date photos, but she was around 6-7 weeks old in this photo: it's weird how similar she is to her sire, although there is only a quarter Whippet in there now.
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