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    Here's a shot of Bruce aged about 4 weeks Bluebear, the one you gave back....
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    Thats the one Bluebear, you gave me it back at 13 weeks old because some one told you it looked like a spaniel with the big dropped ears. I gave it to Collie and it killed plenty in Ireland and England, as did the smooth fawn dog he got from the litter, Bucko.
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    Too right Optimus. I saw her win the Temple Bruer on stoney ground after having been laid off 5 weeks with a muscle tear. She killed the first 4 hares and the fifth was a missile that took her to the horizon where she bent it once and followed it back to the horizon on the opposite side without ever looking like giving up the chase. Alan gave me the tape and said he had kept that miss on to show what a heart the bitch had. A lot of people won't know this but Dancer lacerated a tendon in a rear foot at the age of six months and every hare she ever ran was with one flat hind foot. What a bitch!
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    I bred a litter in 03 out of my nearly half desert bred saluki bitch and Max, (Smokey x Dancer). The pups were all better than the dam and one, my pick Willow, may have reached the level of her sire. But my total profit from the 6 pups was the price of the first jabs, as I gave the ones I wasn't keeping to friends. I have to add here that I don't remember ever breeding a litter that I made money from.
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    Pure class!!
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    Had a call today from an older guy in England who says he's seen all the famous dogs run including Laddie and all. He assures me this Lucas is up there with the best. Not surprising when he has all that good W.T. breeding in there. Fair play to J.M., but I'd wait to see what he produces before paying that kind of fee myself.
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    Those first examples will likely have been from untested show salukis borderlad. They had about 70 years to degrade from the functional coursing dog that they were before the pretty pooch brigade got hold. I had my first saluki lurcher brought over from Batley in 77. Tweren't a world beater but had no trouble with recall.
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    I hear you Whin but the saluki was coursing all manner of game several thousand years before the concept of hairy lurchers was ever dreamt of. Coat colour and texture is mainly a construct of western exhibition fashions, I think.
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    Back to the mid 70's to the lurcher with hairy blood. That may mean back to the late 60's to the beddy or Deerhound that infused that coat pattern. In Boxers an outcross was made only in the 90's to a Pembroke corgi in order to incorporate the gene for bobtails and already the descendants of these are competing in K.C. shows with pure Boxers. It just shows how a gene for a single trait can remain when the original dog that introduced it has been long gone. The coat type is incidental to how the dog performs. So long as it is sheared at the start of the season it won't overheat the dog, b
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    Haven't had a reply either so I think another nudge is required....
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    I find the greenies bully f**k out of the others especially those which come into breeding condition slightly later, by which time the greenies have decided they own all the space in the aviary. I'd house them separately and try goldies, siskins and, or redpolls together. Greenies are usually on the second clutch by the time these breeds are feeding young. Plenty of hardheads, alder, thistle and meadowsweet at the back end of summer to get them through the moult.
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    Excellent interview with John Park as well, thanks J.D.
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    I don't remember that Skinthegoat. The only time my Red dog was lifted was at another trial when they had the pot sunk deep below the level of the shore so all the dogs ended up heads down and ass in the air. The torrential rain made the whole thing like an oil slick and a lot of dogs that usually certified were lifted for "frustration" noise that they would never have made in normal circumstances. It never bothered me but I know others were a bit pissed off.
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    Is this the one you wanted Black recking it?
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    "Meant to say was the Glen you were talking about Bosco/Boldo PMcM's from Waterford think he also had a decent brindle Staff around same time as J.H's Miller boy from same place and what about DH'S king of the glen.Ahhhhh 70's 's irish dogs and irish music best of craic couldnt beat it back then days to cherish maybe we are just getting old and it seemed better times" Cheers Skinthegoat....I've just rustled through some old trial programs and it seems you and I stood in the same field once upon a time. The first list I looked at has 58 strong dogs scheduled to be tried, of which 34 were s
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    It was Martins choice of stud Optimus. The deal was I took her and pupped her and brought her back to Martin with a pup. I never ran her. It was some time later that Joe stashed. Obviously Joe turned out to have been a failure in the end.
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    At the time I had Kizzy, Joe hadn't jacked either. I saw Kizzy run in the Forley in the flesh and she went out after her first run if I remember right. The only reason I agreed to have her to breed was from what I'd seen of Joe. Like I said earlier I have him running 6 minutes to kill among a load of footage. I saw Jims once when we had him on Bassingham...he was in his first season and held his end up ok. I'm sure that was the time that the weather turned tits up and we had to wait for hours at Cairnryan or the big ferry to come across as the fast cat was cancelled due to high winds.
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    I never said she jacked but when I had her Joe hadn't jacked either. Kizzy never had his pace in my opinion. I took a litter from her to Beast. She had a ceasarian section and 3 dog pups survived. J. Y. got one, Martin got one and I kept one. Mine was a noisy f****r at a time when we moved house and I gave him to a pet home to appease the neighbours.
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    Glad I'm not alone then, I've been a fan since the early 70's when he was with Planxty. Some of his politics may differ from mine but he sure can put across his point of view. A vastly underrated talent.
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    Well I don't think he did Shepp, but we're all missing the point here......they suggested that if he paid them there would be more likelyhood of a centre opening nearer to him. That sounds like a business rather than a charity.
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    I think you mean Kizzy.....I had her for a while. As Joe himself jacked it's no surprise that any pups out of him may also have suffered the same malady, to any bitch. And Kizzy wasn't half the dog Joe was!
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    I know who you mean now Speedie. I never saw the dog do any wrong in Ireland. I described an impressive performance from him in a post some time ago.
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    I have a friend from Hungary who's a doctor in a local hospital. She was telling me about these dogs a few years ago. It seems wherever you look in the world theres people with running dogs And some are still free to express themselves!
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    You know it is Biglicks.....can't hide from them as know!! P.S. Max is the sire to my Willow bitch
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    Whats the "northy" comment about....Phil lives in the south. I live in the North and the last few litters I bred over the past decade were GIVEN to friends.
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