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  1. Maximus Ferret
    I've probably had this up more than once before. He was a dog I bought from a greyhound breeder who paid good money for a greyhound stud then his farm collie managed to cover the bitch after she came home. The litter was half pure greyhounds and half lurchers. He died of cancer a few years ago at around 9 or 10 if I remember right. He was real nervous as a pup but became very gutsy once settled in and matured. I used him for ferreting mostly but he loved running foxes and would desert a warren if he saw a fox. I wish I had him now. I don't do much ferreting any more but he'd be good for
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    This fella too (half cross).
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    Very true. Sometimes their character is almost a contradiction of itself, combining extreme sensativity with strong drive. Easy to feck up but good if you get it right. When they're like that they're no good for a short tempered or impatient person but do well with encouragement when they get it right. I like them myself and I've had some over the years that would take almost anything.. The brindle bitch in the photo was one.
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    He does but not always. When I bought mine off him I had been delayed through a road accident that had occured on the motoeway so I was in a hurry to catch the ferry (back to Ireland). The silly old fool was trying to find a 3 and pondering whether to use a capital E backwards. Also Sally had promised my pup to someone else so he had wasted a lot of time showing me totally unsuitable, older pups. To cut the story short I left without the tattoo, missed the ferry anyway and spent the night in the port with my two youngest kids. I'm pretty sure the bitch's run as well as she would have if s
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    Interesting to see. Do mink get excited and more likely to bite when they're hunting?
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    https://www.donedeal.ie/dogs-for-sale/stunning-lurcher-pups/17662353 Those look a lot like some pups that were advertised a few months ago as I think deer/bull/saluki/grey or saluki/beddy/deer/grey. I could be wrong but they were from Tipp and also on Donedeal. Whatever the breeding they look fine strong pups.
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    I'd like to know what their brief is. Will they shoot those who run? Will they shoot dogs?
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    I didn't mean get people in North Northumberland to vouch for you. Get friends on here to vouch for you or people here who know people who's dogs you have helped or who's land you have work on or who you've worked with in Suffolk. North Northumberland has a lot of poachers and unless you want to join them it won't be an easy place to get a foot in the door for a stranger.
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    Best line with the green party is to ask their position on angling. The people who organise the party all want to see an end to angling eventually but they skirt around the issue like eels because angling is such a huge pastime for ordinary people. Assuming a hunting ban can never happen is a big mistake and it's why hunting is now banned in the UK. Everyone said "look at all of us, we're huge, we're traditional, with our level of support it can never happen". Well it could, it did, and it could again in northern Ireland. Don't get too complacent.(Get the anglers on your side)
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    Sorry if this seems obvious but If you've experience as a bone man it'll probably help if people who know you will then vouch for you.
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    There were some good working posts but now only rat and rabbit are legal it's a bit limiting and sometimes a bit samey? Personally I don't do half as much rabbiting as I used to and never been into rats. Not with lurchers anyway. Now and again I like the discussion threads on here still.
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    Photobucket's gone to shit, that's for sure.
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    The 1/2 cross is obvious but how's the other one bred Stonewall?
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    Any link to the vid? Any dog that can stop one (as opposed to running along behind it) is something special in my opinion.
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    Without looking at their vaccination certs I'd say one's ..........feckit! I've looked at the certs. Kippsy's 7 & and Sadie's 4and a 1/2. I do keep them fit and hard though and in the past I've had bitches that go sulky/lazy/wappy when in the heat. (They're around 3 weeks out of a heat right now and they'll be running tomorrow night or Sunday morning unless the forecast changes. They'd be out tonight but I've a hard day working tomorrow)
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    Providing my two are fit and hard muscled I give them 4 to 5 miles a day with the bike, on a leash, during the hot week to avoid them getting shagged. The rest of the time I work them pretty much as normal. I watch for them going "soft" from a couple of weeks after the heat but my current two seem to stay hard. Like Aussi Whip's one, during the heat itself they actually seem to run well.
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    When a pup is starting to retrieve dummies consistently I teach "seekback" then seekback to one they haven't seen me drop. Before sending them back for the "blind" one I get them to sit then I look from them to where the dummy is hidden. I do this a few times before sending them and pretty soon flashing my eyes back and forth is enough to send them off to look for it. A side effect of this has been that they notice now when I spot something that they haven't seen. I never intended that but it can be useful when I spot something away off in the woods or heather. It's always a pleasant surp
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    I'm a bit like that meself!
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    Failed to get any fish then......
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    Start looking for a job in the prison service Ginger.
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    Bit of wheaton in that is there then...
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    I'd imagine the dogs might overheat in them but you ought to ask the aussie and american members about them or try asking on here http://www.ozziedoggers.com.au/forum/index.php or here http://www.boardogs.com/
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    Got to be the cortina estate for me. It's just the way the front end dips when you go quick round a corner. You'd expect Starsky himself to jump out and throw a ream of A4 typing paper in the air.
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    It's only my opinion but all this talk of percentage of protein is unnecessary if you feed meat and waste meat and bone. Soya and vegetable protein cause lots of digestive issues and skin problems. Dogs fed on meat, fat and bone do fine on any exercise within reasonable limits. It's only the soya protein in cheap dogfoods that fecks things up and meat and bone work out cheaper anyways. Just a bit more work to provide it.
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    It's a white stag actually. Hart and hind were the names for fully grown and matured red deer.
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