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  1. skycat
    Once again showing the enormous chasm between true hunters and idiot lurcher owners, and also between townies who view the countryside as Disneyland and those who truly live and work and hunt in the country. We're all proper f*cked, one way or another.
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    Our Sunday Mooch

    skycat replied to Tyla's topic in Bushing Dogs

    When I read this bit: The weekly bushing has created a race of super rabbits who know exactly how to avoid terriers, hate breaking cover and spend every Sunday hiding in their buries! I thought, that has to be me! I know just how you feel Trouble is my rabbits are even worse: they have to contend with us every day of the week since my walks have been restricted by a brand new nature reserve
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    Entering what may have the potential to be a very hard dog at such an early age might well ruin him if he goes in all guns blazing and gets a bad hiding. Better to channel his energy into safer pursuits at this age: just my opinion. Lots of free running: or beside a bike: most dogs love that.
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    That is nasty. Have you been able to get a compression bandage on it?
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    I was about to say how much she looks like you!
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    This thread has just reminded me of a pup I let go to someone who came highly recommended by a mutual friend: I went to see the bloke and the pup when it was about 4 months old. It was a wreck. Only the size of a pup of 3 months old, and skinny as hell. He told me he'd only been feeding it small amounts as he thought that lurchers had small stomachs His other dogs were Labs. I put some food on the floor and the pup practically suffocated in its haste to inhale the lot at one go. I doubt he'd been giving it enough for a terrier pup, let alone a lurcher which would make 25" plus. The dog di
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    This is getting weirder and weirder. If, as the lad says, he did everything right (something we'll never know, not being unkind but we can't see what happened) then some dogs do have odd temperaments. Even the best dog man in the world can't work with a dog if its temperament isn't right: nervy, screw loose, genetic problem etc. I once took on a lovely pup; bright, intelligent, desperate to please, showed interest in the field etc etc. BUT, he was a bad eater, picky, wouldn't eat normally at all. Went for days without eating sometimes, then scoffed the lot. At around 18 months he developed a
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    Read bits about him in some of your previous posts: good to hear the full story.
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    Lovely to see that cat with the Greyhound. My cat used to come on walks with the dogs: for about 200 yards, then he'd dive into the hedge and wait for us on our return, then leap out at the dogs. I miss having a cat about the place, and as a result my dogs are no longer cat broke: doesn't help with all the bloody ferals about either.
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    Best to start off with a fresh rabbit skin round a dummy: drag it round the garden on a length of string. Loads of praise when he catches it. He has a confidence issue, and without seeing other dogs catching he doesn't quite know what to do. The prey drive is there as he's chasing them, but it falls short of actually grabbing hold of the rabbit. Build up his confidence on rabbit skin dummy, then dead rabbit on string. Be patient, it might take a while for things to click, especially if he's never been around dead rabbits from being a small pup.
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    Thanks Weasle
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    Can someone let me have Tom Peppercorn's number please. I've lost it along with my old mobile. Really need to see him soon. Thanks
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    Jeez! This internet communication is complicated ain't it! But I didn't bite back
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    It would be hard to survive in a mobile existence as you'd have to carry everything with you all the time. Best to have several caches well stocked in various places, well hidden. That way you don't depend entirely on your own strength to carry your gear with you. Unless you have a pony to do the carrying, but that would attract a lot of attention as well when people are starving and don't have any idea to even half live off the land. Just a thought, and I have thought about it before Would depend on where you live as well. My dad, during the second world war, found a family of German Jews liv
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    First time I've missed this show in over 20 years: both of us down with dreaded lurgy. Glad it went OK despite the weather. So sorry I missed catching up with everyone: my one 'social' event of the year!
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    It would be hard to survive in a mobile existence as you'd have to carry everything with you all the time. Best to have several caches well stocked in various places, well hidden. That way you don't depend entirely on your own strength to carry your gear with you. Unless you have a pony to do the carrying, but that would attract a lot of attention as well when people are starving and don't have any idea to even half live off the land. Just a thought, and I have thought about it before Would depend on where you live as well. My dad, during the second world war, found a family of German Jews l
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    Agree. Take pups out on the land they will later be hunting over as soon as they can go out for a walk. That way they grow up knowing what hurts, and how to negotiate it safely: be it wire, stones, boggy ground, trees, whatever. I cringe when mine are going full bore through broken down trees laced with wire and God knows what else. They learn to slow down when necessary, and have eyes in their feet: also teaches them very good spatial awareness.
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    It's a feckin hare Never seen a rabbit run for 5 minutes! Very funny all the same.
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    So do please tell us how you trained her to ignore chickens. I find it hard to imagine any mustelid ignoring feathery, clucking things running about!
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    Surely if you are a professional pest controller, you can claim loss of earnings: the rabbits: if they are incinerated.
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    Brilliant post I don't meet huskies as a rule, but do meet quite a few rescue dogs that hadn't been socialised as pups. The way my dogs react to these is quite different to how they interact with 'normal' dogs. There's a big white GSD that never saw the outside world until it was 2 years old. The dog's brain is simply not wired up correctly, and although it isn't aggressive, my dogs go very subdued and keep well away from it when they see it: I put this down to the fact that it is not displaying normal dog behaviour. If I stand and talk to its owner, the dog stands a few yards away, as th
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    Well done you and the pup. I really enjoyed that write up too: almost made me feel as though I was there with you
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    I would doubt very much that he's had the dog since it was a pup. There again, I could be wrong?
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    Great accounts of your hunts I am amazed at how you have got her to respond to you so well. But this is the hand reared mink isn't it? That must make a big difference?
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    Yes, once they've been ripped half off they never stand up to hard pounding again: always open up along the scar, which is less elastic than the original tissue. Only thing is once they have no stoppers you may have to bind up the place with vet wrap before running them, with a bit of sponge where the stopper used to be, or they can get tendon damage if run on bad ground.
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