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    I can't believe this threads run to so many pages when it was obvious from page one that the lad's either a wind up or a total dick.
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    "Hot Tip" - find out if this woman imported them to work livestock and arrange to go and see them herding before getting too excited about them. Good luck anyway .
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    The English Shepherd is an extremely versatile breed of working dog of the collie lineage, developed from farm dogs brought by English and Scottish settlers in the 18th and 19th centuries to the usa Unlike some other herding dogs, as a breed English Shepherds have not been specialized to work one species of livestock. The English Shepherd primarily is used on small diversified farms that have a number of different livestock species, including cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, and fowl. English shepherds both herd and protect livestock. Temperament The English Shepherd temperament
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    If he runs as well as he looks he must be a fine dog Sandymere. What way are his two parents bred?
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    That's dedication. The fens is a great daytime running ground but in bad weather there's just nothing to stop the wind.
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    Infra red light is invisible to the naked eye. You need to look through an infra red nightsight or goggles or scope to see it. The infra red filter is the one that looks black and costs a lot of money!!!
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    What does he want to use the pup for Laad? They look nice enough pups in the photos but could grow into heavy chunky "foxing" types rather than rabbiters. If you do go to look at them, ask what work the parents do or ask on the phone.
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    And stick your battery on charge before going for the beer . :laugh:
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    :laugh: , They're going to think you're taking the piss now.
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    Fine pups of good breeding. Would you breed them into your line if they come good or did you get them as a separate thing in their own right? Hope I'm not being too nosey.
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    He looks like Brad Pitt to me .
  13. Maximus Ferret
    that hoop back would put me off :thumbs: They look as if they've been shaped by someones idea of what they should look like rather than by what works right (if that makes any sense?)
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    Try this link Icey :- http://www.darcybooks.com/
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    sounds like there're a lot of rabbs up there!
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    it was verry tight thats why she put them in Never seen those used before but they certainly seem to work.
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    I use it alongside fresh meat and bone. It has the highest meat content of the affordable bagged foods. "downsouth" has a point about bag foods being shit but Gain "Record Breaker" seems to me to be the least shitty of a bad lot. To get better you'd have to go for something like "Orijen" at eighty quid a bag or whatever it is now.
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    I agree with this in principle but as Bird said earlier, the dam can exert some influence by being with the pups. While in the womb they share her bloodstream and so her adrenaline and all her hormones affecting mood, excitement, aggression etc. Once born they then learn a lot from her treatment of them and her reaction to strangers, disturbance, that kind of thing.
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    I would tend to agree with gamerooster that it's most likely a dog that's gone feral. I'm sure cats must exist in the wild in some places but they would kill for food only. Dogs have been bred for hundreds of years to have prey drive and hunt for it's own sake. With experience they can learn to bowl and kill cleanly. I'm not sure why they'd chew ears off though.
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    What do mean by "not mixed bred"? If you mean purebreds plenty on here work purebred running dogs and do OK. Whippets, greyhounds ,salukis. Some still work purebred deerhounds too though it must be hard to find a good strain of them.
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    Great post Fuji but I would've thought you'd be at Ascot today. I go to visit my old hunting partners too. Every Christmas morning I get out the house for a break from it. I visit a place where three of mine and one of my wife's is buried. It's a bit choking but nice to have a few words again.
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    and their skin's so thin that the bites they take become rips
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    I've lived in county cork for over 20 years now. It doesn't really affect my choice of dogs as I've always got along well with collie grey types and still do. I have one now that's just over a quarter collie and use her for ferreting and lamping and for walking woodlands, clearfell and mountain in the daytime. She's tough with good feet and reasonable nose. Like many of her breeding she can sometimes be a bit halfhearted on difficult daytime rabbits but does great at everything else.
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    Hope you have better luck from now on Gaffer. I don't know what's happened to the veterinary industry in the UK but whatever it is I hope it doesn't happen here. I had a wound on my bitch stitched last year and she got a shot and tablets. The stitching took maybe 20 minutes and the bill for the lot was around 40 euros if I remember rightly. If half that was for the drugs they're still making 60 an hour. I always make a point of asking "how much is this likely to cost?" as it does no harm to let them know it's going to make a big difference to you. Some would say that veterinary insurance in
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    I've had a dog chased off by a sheep. I was walking towards a field of sheep near where I lived when one of them charged across the field, smashed straight through a wooden fence and chased the dog home. The rest of the flock stayed put. It turned out to be a bottle reared lamb that didn't want to be a sheep. I had to drag the fecker half a mile, holding onto it's wool to get it back into the field. This was in the early eighties. The dog wasn't a total coward either. He went on to catch roe and foxes after that.
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