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    It was a litter of threequarter border collie and a quarter greyhound. A couple of people on here had pups.
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    I wouldn't know as I never saw one run but the people on Colliecurs that owned them liked them as workers. (So far as I can tell from looking at the site they no longer have Alex but do have a son of his by a sister of Delboy, woody etc.)
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    Of course the breeding matters or you could catch hares with a yorkie. Any successful man holding a lead has an appropriately bred dog on the other end, no matter how good he is at training. As a rule the better the breeding the easier the success.
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    You need to start with about threequarters of what it would eat if it had the chance to stuff itself then adjust the amounts until it holds weight with the exercise it gets. Best to wash out the dishes after they eat too, especially in this weather.
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    The dog Alex had great feedback as a sire of workers on "Colliecurs" forum.
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    This is the way to go.?
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    Is he naturally smooth coated Davo or has he a coat like Rio's?
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    I'm not being funny with you, just offering advice fron experience. 3 months is no time at all. If you're intending to keep this dog all it's life you need to be prepared to take time to find the right pup. Even people breeding their own stuff plan and research over months and sometimes years to bring the right dog and bitch together then may wait 6 months or more before the bitch comes on heat, another 2 months before she whelps etc. etc. If you really want good stock, have patience. Collie crosses aren't so popular these days so the working lines aren't bred so often except at Han
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    Did you get a titanium plate screwed to that one?
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    Those drainage cuts that the forestry make when they plant up a new area of moorland...... those scare me. Once the heather grows a bit they just disappear. So far the dogs have been lucky but I've fallen in the b*st*rds loads of times. If ever a dog hits one wrong when going flat out it'll do damage for sure.
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    Over here people use collie/grey to tone down the headbanging attitude of their bull crosses and to improve the daft looking duck feet. You should try it.
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    Big dogs undoubtedly get more bad injuries.? Having said that my big bitch, 29 inches at the shoulder and around 75lb weight, has only had one bad one and that was from a head on collision with quarry. Apart from that she's only had one sprained toe (while playing at the beach on clean sand) and a load of the usual stopper injuries that all my dogs pick up regularly. She is quite fast but knows when to slow down and has been lucky so far with collisions. (Fingers crossed and touch wood).
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    I was wondering that myself. I didn't always agree with what he said but often did and it was always worth reading.
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    looking good.
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    I keep permanganate in the first aid kit. It stops bleeding in small cuts and in a weak solution it's a disinfectant to dip feet after road walking. I only use it on feet when I'm just starting to harden a rested dogs feet and they're liable to get sore or if I'm stepping up the pace of bikework or sometimes to wash their feet after a long night lamping.
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    Good scrub with a wire brush and dettol will sort it.you might even get close to the heart of the mystery and get a way of being that no-ones ever heard of before. All very cosmic, not many really understand the heart of the mystery grasshopper. Feckit, you DO know a bit about brushes Grasshopper.
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    Turkish barbers here are tops at styling flattops and so on. They tend to burn the hair off the back of your neck with a taper and pluck your earholes and eyebrows. Fairplay Rio, they do a good old haircut for the money but they're quite snobby about doing the older, smellier locals! People might think they're smelly foreigners but they seem to think the same about us.
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    Very much a saluki frame though. I'd like to see him run. Here in Clonakilty there are lots of Turkish people, mostly barbers. They do the best haircut and shave and even set your hair on fire as a finale!
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    Know what you mean I do 2 part time jobs and ATM I am on 2 weeks holiday from one of them. When the alarm goes at 3.00 I still have trouble getting out of bed but if you want it enough you have to do it. Having said that I only manage it half the time but by the start of the season i'll know what's where and when. I'd say your kelpie/grey could be very useful to you if you let her work on ahead over your ground sometimes.Let her show you where they are.
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    Yeah, I know it's meant to be but do you think it is? Not sure about the beauty either but if red extremities are beautiful then I've got a cracker .
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    Everyone to their own and I personally don't agree with this.Back when it was legal I used to live on some of the best hare running land in the UK. I'd start young dogs anytime from 6 months old if they seemed ready. Young dogs I used to take out every morning if the ground was OK. Often it's hard in late summer/early autumn. If it was right I'd run them at one young threequarter grown leveret, every day if possible. I must add here, at the time I lived on the edge of North Lincs. coursing club land and hares were literally everywhere. Before anyone starts, I know this is not sporting singles
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    I was out daybreak this morning in the cool of the morning. I walked up a place about half a mile south of where the big herds of goat are. I saw 5 hares, all on forestry roads and managed to stop the hounds following into the blocks. I then crossed a high and open piece of ground with bog, sedge, and drainage cuts, and although I saw no hares in the open my daughters whippet started hunting several lines.(Ironically, he's the best nose dog of the 4 I had with me). I reckon you'd get a run on most open spaces next to forestry in this general area if you get in place before it's light and work
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    On a serious note, why DO they cut the ears?? The only reasons I can think are to stop them getting ear mange (it would work well for that) or because they hunt things that bite...nothing bleeds like ears and tails. How about the henna? Does anyone think it toughens feet and stoppers at all? If it has any real effect then it's easy enough to get it from health food shops and hippy shops. My wife reckons it definitely strengthens hair by adding an extra layer of keratin to it. Would that strenghthen skin on feet and stoppers enough to make a difference? I'd appreciate anyone's opinio
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    In the daytime the hares are mostly inside the forestry blocks. At this time of year I can't let my collie grey bitch out of site in the blocks because of the leverets.
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