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Don't you lot think that they purposely make their pet castaways as useless as possible? Let's face it, a complete numpty trying to survive makes for much better television than the person who can do it all no problem. And as far as killing the poor little goaty-woatys are concerned, I'm willing to bet that the producers wouldn't allow him to actually kill a mammal: God forbid!, so they either waited for one to do something stupid or engineered the 'hanging'. Those programmes are so fabricated as a rule, and no, I didn't see this one, but from what has been said I can imagine the scenario.
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To be honest, I'm surprised the vet wants to risk a general anaesthetic on a dog in such poor condition. Surely they should wait a couple of weeks until the dog has got a bit more weight on it? If she's on antibiotics for the infected tail it shouldn't be a problem. I'd get a second opinion or at least ask the vet why he wants to risk GA on such an underweight dog. Just my opinion.
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Yes. If your dogs are already adult and have never seen a live rabbit, then letting them smell, see, not rag though, a fresh skin can help. You could also lay a trail through grass using the skin, leading it to where you have stashed the skin. Don't let them eat it though! All dogs follow scent as puppies: in fact your original question gave this tired old writer an idea for her article this week! Thank you! You can't actually teach marking, but you can help the dog understand what happens when it first follows scent to a hole. I personally wouldn't take the dogs out together when you ar
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A very young hare for very young pups. Not the way I'd do things, but it obviously works for them: those pups showed some tenacity anyway, and didn't they look well reared as well But how did you know they were 3 months old: I've had said maybe 4 or 5 months personally, but you never know.
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Well done JDog: I'm sure you know, but keep the dog very warm: heat lamp, coat. The amount of stress that dog has been in and still is doesn't bear thinking of and a stressed body and mind are an open door to all sorts of disease. Once you've got the dog a bit better, and if you can't keep it, why not contact Lurcherlink. They specialise in lurchers, unlike the Dogs Trust, though they are very good as well. The other thing, and the food aggression made me think of this, is that Lurcherlink work closely with Jim Greenwood, who is not only a top lurcherman, but a very experienced dog behaviou
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and true!
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Liked that first clip. Good to see a wee dog sticking like that, especially over that plough: smaller dogs often struggle on the plough, and although she didn't appear to be doing much with the hare she stuck to it and was there when it mattered.
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Cheers people. I see there are 126 views on this topic. Just hope they've all signed as well. Whilst some people may feel that signing a petition doesn't work, it does, in many cases, when a global concern can cause damage to a country's economy. And there's that old saying: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" by Edmund Burke.
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There is no way that anyone can diagnose the true nature of the problem over the internet. It would plain silly to advise any course of action without the dog being examined by a professional. She could have nerve damage, muscle damage, internal pain in her abdomen, could be all sorts of things. My only advise would be to get the dog to a vet asap. She may well have an infection, but if you can't diagnose the problem yourself and just give her antibiotics and the problem turns out to be something else, then you've wasted precious time.
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It is generally not a good idea to use wound powder to dry up a largish wound: wound powder is, in my humble opinion, an old fashioned way of drying up small cuts and grazes, but whilst it may soak up any oozing serum (the white blood cells called platelets which rush to the site of a wound to kick start the healing process) it can often be detrimental to healing a larger wound as it dries it up too fast, creates a scab too early, which sometimes causes bacteria to be shut inside the wound: this is why you often get the scab lifting with pus oozing around the edges: infection has set in.
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Yes, very good and protective. Long dog: the attitude towards strangers I don't mind one bit, as long as the dog is controllable, but as beast says, in the wrong hands they would be a problem. The male lurchers in the dogs that Mark Treadwell has been breeding seem to come up a lot bigger and heavier than the bitches, and I mean A LOT: hence Raven, whose photo was up earlier on this thread. Now someone said it was because he originally used a huge coursing bred Greyhound in the initial breeding of his lurchers. Whether it is solely due to that I don't know, but most of the bitches seem much
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No need for antibiotics in a shallow open wound like that. Clean once with Hibiscrub, then dab on some good quality Manuka honey. Clean once a day with warm salt water to remover crusts and apply more honey: this only needs to be done on a wound that the dog cannot reach to lick itself. Just clean the wound daily using damp cotton wool, don't scrub at it or you'll damage new tissue as it is growing. Once the wound has shrunk to the size of a one pence piece you can leave it to dry up and scab, but don't pull the scab off prematurely unless you see pus oozing from around its edges, in which cas
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VERY good indeed. The 1st, 4th and 5th do it for me. The kind of thing I'm thinking of using as a book cover if I ever get my post apocalyptic survival novel finished: grim, foreboding, but beautiful in an eerie kind of way.
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Meant to say as well, and I may have already said it, the straight Picardy crosses are a lot calmer, less inclined to hyperness than the ones with the Beardie in them. Big difference in temperament, and I like it a lot better. Edited to add: Inan, you're a loon
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Bosun: you'd be best off speaking to Shirley, who as far as I know, imported the first Picardies into the UK. She is a very no nonsense woman, and although she doesn't work her dogs, she is striving to improve the breed. If you are genuinely interested in the dogs I'll ask her if I can give you her email address. Apparently they almost died out after World War 2: other breeds were introduced to open up the gene pool. Not sure which ones, and there is a bit of hush-hush involved, as there always is in such cases! There are various problems within the pure breed which do not seem to have car
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type carpal varus into the search option at the top of the page: there's been quite a few pups with what sounds like the same problem.
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From what I've seen and heard, the strike is inbuilt: very hard driving dogs: I remember Roo when she was young, she'd go up to a squatter and do this sort of goal keeping dance, this way and that, freaked the rabbits out. She isn't the fastest dog in the world, but once she had that rabbit up and running I often heard them start squealing before she'd even picked them up, like they knew they were history. My OH has written a few words about what he feels about them: they're his dogs, not mine. I'll type it out on here when I get a moment.
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The film producer wanted a scruffy mongrelly sort of dog to play Winn Dixie, and he found what he wanted in the pure Picardies, which was important because he needed several dogs that looked identical. Turned out that there were two that played the part of one dog: one did the action stuff and the other did the more tricky bits: that's what I've read anyway. They certainly aren't just a herding breed, more of a general purpose farm/herd/guarding type, and although the pure breeders play down the hunting instinct, I reckon it is very strong indeed. I think anyone else who has these lurchers wou
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No you're right, but to ask me to compare them would be difficult: I don't gel particularly well with the Picardy temperament: not saying there is anything wrong with it, but it doesn't suit me. It's a bit like asking someone why they prefer tea to coffee or vice versa: just an individual thing. Also, the two Airedale lurcher sisters I have are like chalk and cheese: one if the most driven thing on the planet, and the other is much more laid back. Even their working styles are completely different. One is pure Airedale in her head, whilst the other has much more of the Saluki thing going on,
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think so mark tread wells line skycat no,s the dogs parents best on teeth i ever had and its his first session . ATB long dog wouldthis be skycats bloke one . ATB long dog PS PENNY HOPE YOU DONT MIND ME PUTTING THIS UP Yup, that's the dog. This is the bitch, closely related: He also has a pup, Picardy only cross Grey, no Beardie in there. The straight Picardy/Grey crosses are much more 'interesting' than the ones with Beardie in: less vocal, more suspicious of strangers, though the black dog is a very good guard indeed with a very territorial attitude and a sense of his own pack
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Just because a dog won't jump through hoops, do down stays etc, doesn't mean it hasn't got a brain. Some of the cleverest dogs I've seen in the field were Saluki based, and I don't just mean clever on hares. If a pup isn't exposed to the maximum variety of game and situations in the field whilst its growing up, it will never become 'intelligent' in the way it works. My Saluki types have always been exposed to rabbits out mooching from puppyhood, and the ones that had a really good brain learned by themselves how to work different quarry on different types of ground as well as, if not better th
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The Perspex is only thin. Wouldn't be very Sturdy. Why does it need a roof? It's a nice idea to have wipe-clean perspex sheeting, but the tiny gaps, cracks between the perspex and the blocks will trap all sorts of dust, bugs, crap etc. Why not just make a lid out of wire on a wooden frame: either fix down with hooks attached to eyes in the blocks, or make it too heavy for the ferts to push off.
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Experienced dogs like that don't just throw themselves at the hare as soon as they get to within a few feet of it: they've learned that the hare can throw a jink at the last second, leaving the dog in a pile on the ground, which means it has to use extra energy to get back on terms with it again. Also, the distance between dog and hare can look closer on film than it actually is in real life. Both those dogs struck when they knew that they would succeed, and not before.
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That is great, good, true and something to try and live by, but I wonder how a refugee who has lost everything would feel upon reading that, or the girl who was killed by those dogs. Or anyone who is struggling to cope with their lives. I'm not religious in the slightest, but if I were, I'd definitely struggle to understand the injustices in this world. As it is I do wonder about 'fate', 'karma' etc. Taking a different tack: OK, for every positive in this world there has to be a negative, but with so many negatives that assault our senses 24/7 it sometimes makes me wonder how the hell the
