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lets have the truth how long have you been into runing dogs
Ossie replied to a topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
my great grandad kept, bred & trained racing greyhounds, as did my grandad. my mum used to spend most saturdays when she was tiny in the back of an old van, curled up asleep with the dogs. my dad started keeping lurchers when he married her in the 70's. my first lurcher was a stunning black saluki x grey called Black Jack Davy, he was bought for me when i was a year and a half old, to keep me company after my brother was born. he was more my dads dog really, as i was so tiny. my next lurcher was one we bred from Jacko & my mums beddy/whippet x grey. i've had several lurchers since, a -
i do 45 hous a week, 3 til midnight, monday to friday. buggers up my social life, knackered all the time, and i've still only got just enough money to live on
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i tell ya, i'm seriously considering following in the footsteps of our local hero, Robert Kett, and starting a revolt. me in charge. who's coming? i might well run for government! form the "Common Sense" party, i will. i'll sort this bloody country out . if you've read the "australian muslims" topic, you've read my manifesto (well, the little bit me & my mates had hammered out in a 5 hour "putting the country straight" session). i'm young enough to do it, and not drop dead in the process! i'm getting so pissed off with this bloody government, shitting on every area of my life. i'
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sounds about right chay. christ, i'm pissed off. not just about the hunt ban, it seems the government & their subsiduaries (i.e. the local council) are intent on shitting on every aspect of my life at the mo', and i find i have to justify my actions to antis, then get stick off hunting people cos they think i look like one! i mean, christ, should i be walking around in twinset & pearls, a nice dress? i'll stick with the cut-off combats, para boots & old t-shirts!! the funniest comment i've ever had was from a young farmer i got chatting to in a pub one night. bit posh, very drun
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on my land, there isn't really a closed season, on rabbits at least. its positively heaving with them, no joke, and we're poor as church mice, we've gotta eat something. bugger eating supermarket shite meat , and i've not got much money for buying in feed. summer will be spent catching & shooting enough rabbits to feed my furry family. Gyp, being a saluki x grey throwing to the saluki side, has always been a bit behind other dogs i've owned, so a lot of work will go in on the training front, before he turns 2 in august and starts working hard, cos boy does it take time for stuff to get th
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my girls are in season, but we're hobless. poor little things are gagging for a shag
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i wanted a poley, cos they're none too common round here these days, and yeah, i like em. but like i said in my last post, anything will do now! plus, one of the girls throws silver kits, so maybe if i cross her with an albino i'll get silver littl'uns. ya never know :thumbs-up:
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bump! still looking! i'll take anything now, my girls need a man!
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i know of that club in stockholm, i have a few friends over there, but i've never been. there's a fair bit of moneyed totty in that club apparently. where as the New Pig & Whistle, well... i have a mate in Newcastle, and he reckons that place is a right dive! the one problem with hot swedish birds, is that they don't stay like that forever... after about 30/35, they don't half look "lived-in". it's like polish & russian birds, you see stunning young ones, but all the old ones are tubby things in headscarves...
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dunno about crackow, but a mate of mine & his brother went to Prague for a stag do last year, they looked like shite for about 3 days after they came back, and couldn't stop talking about the birds over there!
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Where do you keep your terrier!? Indoors or out?
Ossie replied to Pignut's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
i was going to convert my shed into a kennel & keep the lurcher outside, but the amount of people who've seen him and said "for gods sake, keep him under lock & key, there's a lot of people who'd have their eye on him, and don't tell anyone where you live!" put me right off! so he's a house dog. plus, i filled the shed up with crap, so there'd be no room for him anyway! i'm getting a terrier pup soon(ish), and that will be a house dog too. although i do find that terriers indoors are a bit of a pain, not because they do damage, but because they're so damn easy to trip over! even if i -
my old saluki/grey x beddy/whippet/grey thought it was great fun to drag me about by my arm when i was little. i thought it was great fun too, she never broke the skin or anything, but mum had fun explaning why i was turning up to primary school every monday morning all bruised, looking like i'd been savaged. i was only 6... and the bruises were nothing serious, i just bruise really easily! the collie x lab i used to have managed to put my back out. walking along a street in norwich, he suddenly decided he was interested in the lamp post we'd just passed, and in a flash had turned round &
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holy crap! whoops! and i was sat there laughing... i've not seen that much blood since i got shredded by a feral cat a few years ago (long story, lot of blood!). well, not that much human blood anyway! hehe, you should keep the weaponry at a safe distance when i'm around i'll say no more :whistle:
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my brothers terrier cross is a f****r for farting, he walks into the room, lays down, then suddenly looks all offended, gets up, and leaves. then you smell it! :sick: if it's bad for you, just think how it must smell to the poor dog, with that extra sensitive nose!
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bolted it with my trained badger... used a net off a football goal! ah, you'll be wanting this one then: my cousin in the states got bored of bucking broncos at the rodeo, wanted to try something a bit different!
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no worries, i'll let you know. probably won't be til later this year, gotta sort a house first! no more dogs allowed here, and i'm getting turfed out at the end of may, and i've got nowhere to go yet i should think they'll be pretty hairy, but not wirey, as the poodles coat is really soft & fluffy. i reckon a good, thick rough coat. the only problem is that poodles don't shed, so the offspring might need clipping or stripping to keep the coat under control. we'll see!
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listening to Thin Lizzy, no Guiness yet, but i'm off down the pub tonight to sink a pint or 3! not a particularly happy day for me & my family, due to a tragic event on this day 24 years ago, a month & a half before i was born. so i will be getting thoroughly blotto tomorrow, in honour of a friend i never knew, but who has been with me in spirit my whole life. doubtless i will get so hammered i'll end up on stage singing "Fields of Athenry", and all the irish songs i learnt from me dad, getting more beer stains on my Flogging Molly t-shirt, then going home for a long conversation wit
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saw me first bumble bee of the year on tuesday, dog loves chasing them. had a wasp in the garden today as well. got coot chicks running about on the bottom meadow (tis awfully damp! one field has been almost completely under water for 2 months ). haven't seen any hornets yet, there's a big nest in one of the buildings, they buzz around all over, but avoid my garden for some reason (thankfully!). got little white pansies coming up all over the place too. no little rabbits here yet, but i did see one running across the road last weekend, a few miles from here. must have been at least a month o
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East Anglian Game & Country Fair exactly what it says on the tin... anyone from here going? i'll probably pop along on the sunday, and spend the day (yet again) getting dragged about by Gyp, and near pulled of my feet everytime he spots a border terrier or smells cider! don't think i'll bother showing him this year, after last years showing disasters... funny how all that lead training goes to pot when he gets in a ring! might race him though. anyone wanna help me catch him afterwards?
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how much for this one? found this out doing a spot of mooching yesterday . frightened the piss out of the dog! was gonna have it for sunday lunch... but i don't think i'll get it in the oven, and grandad's got quite attached to it!
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i'm working on it ! i'll keep you posted... just got to find the right greyhound bitch. and a new place to live, so i've got somewhere to keep her! got a cracking black standard poodle lined up, pedigree & k.c. registered, proven stud, intelligent, stacks of stamina, and handy on rabbits. belongs to the wife of a lurcher-mad friend of mine, been talking about breeding a litter of poodle x greys for ages, just means i've gotta do all the work, keeping the bitch & feeding the pups!
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i'd almost forgotten how sweet goat kids are! haven't had any for years, not since the old saanen x keeled over. she always used to have 3 billy kids at a time, we crossed her with a big old shaggy brown billy goat, but she always had white kids. we used to put straw bales out on the meadow for them to jump around on, mad little things! if only they stayed little & cute forever...
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bit like that poor little narcoleptic poodle. i suppose if you don't stress them out (and it's not like your average goats day-to-day existence is particularly stressful) they're ok. i only said "class" cos i've been trying to find a reference to that little clip in the middle for ages. graham norton played it on his show all the time, saying it was a goat having a heart attack. now, i've seen a goat have a heart attack, and it sure as hell didn't happen like that! been trying to find that clip for years, to no avail. and at last! i have an explanation! not a heart attack, just a goat with dod
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class! graham norton always used to show the clip in that of the 1 goat running across the yard to the rest of them & fainting, but he always said it was having a heart attack!