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You need a very good behaviourist to help solve this dog's issues. He is obviously very stressed and troubled, and before anyone else says get rid of it, try and see it from the dog's point of view: his whole world has changed dramatically. There is probably a lot of stress in the house which the dog doesn't know how to cope with. Do you actually know what goes on in your house when you are not there? Was the birth difficult? Is your wife continually worried that the dog may do something? Was she starting to worry before the birth? Is the dog kept away from the baby at all times? He could
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Beautiful lurcher: what's the breeding?
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Another thing: most of the public I've met and talked to don't have a problem with controlling pests like rabbits, but they come over all Disney and anthropomorphic when it comes to larger animals like foxes and deer. Deer I can understand to a certain extent because they are beautiful, graceful, large eyed and most importantly they are prey animals: large, soft eyes tend to make people imbue an animal with human emotions: and most people don't see deer as causing a problem. I think foxes also have the public on their side in many cases because of the historical connotations of a poor litt -
I once caught a rabbit that looked as though both its hindlegs had been damaged by a combine. One paw was completely smashed, with bits of bones sticking out of the leg, but the tissue had grown round them trying to heal. Needless to say the poor thing didn't get very far, but the damage had obviously been done a few weeks and the rabbit was fat and healthy apart from the injuries.
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I'm sorry if I implied that shooting was not hunting: this wasn't supposed to degenerate into a dog versus gun thread. Funnily enough, the not very good dog men who are shooters, that I personally know, are very good shots, and don't just bang away in the hope of hitting something. They also spend ages tracking down runners with the beaters' dogs to try and make sure nothing gets away wounded. This is on a little shoot I beat on from time to time. Just as with everything else, you get good and bad in all walks of life, whether they be gun men or dog men. To me though, the rough shooter or
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That is it in a nutshell, though this is precisely the attitude that non hunters fail to understand or appreciate. I remember reading an article somewhere, some time, which said that everyone is a hunter in one way or another: from the bloke determined to get the best job to the little old lady elbowing another old lady aside to get at the best things in a jumble sale. For me, that argument falls down a bit, as those examples more illustrate survival or greed, which is not the desire or need to find some animal on its home ground. I suppose, in one way, I can better identify with air
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Shooters always know best: NOT! For some reason I can never understand, they feel superior to 'proper' hunters, those who don't need to blow bullets out of a bit of metal. Maybe the whole gun thing is hiding behind a lethal weapon they have total control over: supposedly. Most shooters I know couldn't train a dog to crap!
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I've been reading Millet's thread about the great tit, and also a vid I found on youtube where two hunters find a whitetail buck whose antlers are tangled with the remains of another http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUDP6kDYyNs Anyway, I was telling a non hunter about this, and she couldn't understand how someone would want to save a deer to maybe shoot it a few weeks later when it was free and healthy. I've given up trying to justify what I do to most people these days, but I wondered (and yeah, I'm sure this has been discussed many times before) exactly what the divide is between those who
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It all depends on what type of break, and what toe and what bone is affected. If you take an outside or inside toe off a front foot it can affect turning ability, plus, if it is an outside toe, that affects the whole leg when the dog turns, which can compromise the wrist and shoulder as well. Fast dogs which turn tight and run hard are worse affected than cruising dogs. I've seen several Saluki types running with missing toes on the fens, and by the nature of the running style it didn't affect them too much, maybe knocking a tiny bit off their speed.
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Don't know how high this is but it does show how effortlessly deer can jump:
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I did say many years ago: a long time before the ban in fact. As for brutal, not really: just do what is necessary. Why is it that some people seem to think that women have to be soft and useless in the field? Mind you, I've seen plenty of men scared to handle a live fox :tongue2:
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Good haul, shame you didn't get the snow the rest of us have had
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Young lurcher bitch I had many years ago, got her head stuck in a big fox's jaws in a tussle above ground. The fox couldn't let go as its jaws were forced too wide apart, and she couldn't get out; I had to prise its teeth off her skull. She was about 18 months at the time and had taken plenty of foxes prior to that, and got nipped a few times as well. That incident put her off for two years, on top, at any rate, but she'd literally go mad at the end of a dig, and go jaw to jaw with them to pull them out and kill them. She eventually started taking them on top again, but she was a bit too car
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That's really good
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Tomo: Pyrenees Orientales: near the Mediterranean. Not exactly the sort of altitude where you would normally get snow. About 50 miles south of Perpignan, and yes, I did the Heidi bit: took the goats out to pasture every morning and spent most of the day wandering around with them: me and my Wolfhound bitch who learned to guard the goats ferociously .... I can feel a book coming on
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I'm an old bitch and I hurt like hell after being out more than a couple of hours. Lamping is worse than day time as you can't see where you are putting your feet: imagine what it's like for a dog running flat out in the dark: each foot that drops in a hollow or hits a bump jars the old joints much more when you can't see exactly where to put your feet. A good day's rest and some anti-inflammatories work wonders, for me and my old dogs. Massage can help as well, but more often than not its the joints that are causing the problem: edges of bones get worn, arthritis sets in as there is less lub
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Doesn't work Paid. For years I've been bringing cockerels into a dark shed at night, sitting them in a small cage where they can't stand up, covering them with a blanket as well, and the buggers still crow come dawn! You just can't hear them quite as much though
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Back in '63 my family were living in Gloucestershire. We were snowed in for 4 weeks in the bottom of a valley. The little lanes were deep cut between high banks and hedges and the lanes were completely full of snow, way above my dad's head. I don't know about the main roads as we never could get to them. My dad must have had a sixth sense or something, because he insisted we stock up with food way before that snow came on bad. The only other time I've been properly snowed in was in France in the early '80s. I was being a goat herd at the time and nearly a metre of snow fell overnight. Up i
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Sounds a bit like my Airedale lurchers :laugh: Having said that one is a lot faster than the other, over a short distance her take off speed is well up on the other, but so far (they're about 2 1/2 years now) they seem to be very tough, agile and clever on all sorts of ground and in cover. What they lack in pace they make up for in determination. But they do smash ... not sure that is the right word though as they don't smash, just dive in carefully, if that makes sense. One gets a bit of damage around her eyes from cover bashing. Their coats are smooth but their skins are as thick as leath
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Whilst I've not had personal experience of knuckling over, from the photos I've seen and people I've talked to, flat feet seem to be very common alongside this problem. This may be simply because there is a genetic defect somewhere, (actually, that's a bit of a silly thing to say because just about every illness or non contagious fault is genetically related: if you have the genes for cancer for example. An inherited predisposition to a certain problem) or it may be because the pup has had to use its feet in the wrong way due to the problems with its legs. Just guessing here. Regular stead
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Just wash it in salt water, keep it clean and dry and let the dog lick it. Don't let the dog gallop around on it until it has hardened off a bit, and keep it out of mud etc until the raw flesh of the quick in the centre of where the nail would be has dried up and looks to be growing new claw around it. In around a week you should start to see new nail beginning to grow. Very occasionally the claw doesn't grow back at all, but it usually grows back normally. Once it is no longer sore, in around a fortnight or less, you can let the dog run again.
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Running My Dog On Frosty Ground
skycat replied to Lancashire Hunter's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
Not just knocked up toes when the ground is frozen: if its plough the edges of the clods are like knives when frozen, especially on clay land. Stones in the ground are also fixed solid in frozen ground so can't sink into the earth under the impact of a dog's feet: more likely to slice open pads etc. -
Is that minced whole carcase, or just the meat with no bone?
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But only as part of a balanced diet: chicken meat alone is not enough.
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now misses taylor..................................one mans shite is another mans answer ......................... i keep three russells ,.......................shite scared to go down a hole but are ok bushers ..................are they shite or not.................. Very true: what make one person happy may make another tear out their hair in despair: thank God we are all different, and our dogs as well, or we'd have nothing to talk about!
