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bloody hell sorry to hear that
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I prefer to go hunt some pigs more my level lol. Find this fella very entertaining https://www.youtube.com/user/troubadourhunter/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=3
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Nothing to report lamping long slips on rabbits nearly home and rough ground. Poor dogs got it hard at the moment for little reward. But not to worry his not the sort to have his ardour dampened lol
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Just personal preference like any thing I guess. Never worked a spaniel so can't compare. But I have owned a cracking ferreting terrier that was just magic to work. Would a spaniel get its nose down and track a rabbit across 3 or 4 hedge rows or for as long as it took. Can a spaniel work cover and spots that are really really tight like a terrier. I don't know but I also imagine a spaniel has its own things going for it like biddability and working tight which some might prefer. Then you have the going to ground thing which could be a right pain now
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most are happy enjoying there dogs for what they are me included. Lots would have kicked mine into touch long ago
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See plenty of folks using there lurchers as gun dogs not in exactly the same fashion but good enough. Not mine obviously lol
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lol look on the plus side you have your health
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I would skip the collar personally or just use the vibrate to get its attention maybe. If he gets tempted to start zapping the dog in the dark how ever slight when it hasnt a clue what its meant to be doing he may just end up with a dog scared of its own tail. Just needs to stick at it and like tduke says if its caught the rabbit or the bulk of them the problem starts to solve its self
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and course associate the recall with a flash of the lamp at the feet so in the end thats all you need
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I am not the person to give advice lol. But I found with mine when he ran a rabbit I got up close with in a few yards then called him in. He was more likely to listen if I was close. Then slip back on and quickly on to the next and it just got the habit forming. Also a glow stick on the collar just helps keep tabs. Mine belts straight back now so some thing worked. I also gave mine plenty of recall during the day and used a long line so he had no choice. Just my experiences with mine. probably all wrong
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I don't think you can beat a good terrier for putting them to ground and marking my self. Many a time you would get a big old bank of brambles, gorse and on the way pass a couple of easy holes on the edge all ways empty. But there was a dam good chance if there was a rabbit in that thick old cover he would end up in them nice easy holes you just passed after a bit of a run around with the terrier behind him.
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will take a look at the weekend I enjoy programs like that
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14 inches tts and chest like a barrel but he all ways got there This little bitch was smaller but you never noticed much difference
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was your peeler one of these ? used to use one on wheels attached to a pto driven saw bench spent few years shoving stuff in that
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i worked in the forestry for years as a tree feller in the 1980s hard work and not lot of money but really enjoyed it ,like you say no paper work just grabbed a saw and tuned up,.worked with one lad who really worked fast but looked like a patch work quilt he was covered in that many scars ,its a dangerous job especially if you were felling on a slope , used to do a lot of work doing fire breaks ,I used to work for a sub contractor for the forestry commission basically all the out of the way places that were dangerous that that they didn't want to do themselves ,used to get bit to death i
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I think if you bring them up as pups on the ferreting game they just learn the plan. Mine would never go to ground on a rabbit no matter how big the hole was. he would keep glancing at the ferret box. But he may have been the exception. But now a days much as I would love a terrier if I wanted a dog just for ferreting, marking I would head over to the bushing section and look at one of the crosses being used. Much less likely to get you in trouble or spoil your days ferreting by digging a fox 6 foot under a tree
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Yep nice to see other people suffering/enjoying lol
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does this video help you ? and this is it in slow mo if you need it http://www.youtubeslow.com/watch?v=y2VxvJ4dIE0 click on the slow motion button
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bloody lucky sounds like you did well glad his on the mend
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thought as much, thank you
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yea I did the course back then but it wasn't compulsory or legally required. (and it was a waste of time)
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Just curious about you folks that still work in the forestry tree felling etc. When I used to do it about 17,18 years ago you didn't need any paper work just turn up grab a saw or jump in any bit of machinery and drive off down the nearest death defying slope no problems. But nowadays do you need to be paper worked upto the hilt just to get out the car ? or can you still fell trees with out
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maybe make a little video or a picture of just describe what the problem is ?
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Yes my yard got invaded one winter and a month or two of fenns and snap traps sorted it or at least put them off oh and a dam good tidy up I had a habit of leaving stuff laying about to take up the plot for the compost I randomly flick through the cctv now and again just to check lol plus the dog would soon let me know
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