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old fella across the road when I was about 11 he showed me how to set a mole trap, rabbit snares and fox. How to skin them as well. Got me into ferreting. His wife made a proper cawl dam nice too and they treated me like a son. Not long after got me first terrier as a pup and called him moses lol. He was the best dog ever. A taxi driver that used to to take me school gave me a lurcher pup as a surprise which got mange and the vet couldn't shift it for love nor money and one night it got run over. But things got better from there
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Mine is 2 this month and hunting wise can't fault him and couldn't wish for better training wise his well on the way but still lots too do and I enjoy training him now I seem to have got a bit obsessed about it
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this the guys comment in case you don't go to youtube Molly my 6.5 month old whippet x spaniel bushing brambles for rabbits,coming on well for such a young dog.
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Once he turns the corner Allan you will have this I am sure
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just to add I was asking the same question at the start of the season lol but success soon swung things round
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another thing that helped was if it lost a rabbit and I got there quick with in ten yards or so I could call him back to me and didn't really have a choice just to get the routine going
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mine was the same at the start of the season but pick the dogs runs so he catches as many as possible and with plenty of practice they soon twig that getting back means onto the next one. If you can find a good spot or two as well with plenty of action so the dogs back then onto the next quickly as long as its got its wind. Towards the end of the season mine was coming straight back tidy
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I use the wait command. Start off teaching it to stop them jumping out of the boot, or to stop them running out of the kennel when the door is open. "Wait" and "go on" when they have waited long enough. Now I can use it in the field. Still not mastered it with the young bitch yet. She's at that age. But the brindle bitch will "wait" and "go on" pretty much without command now, just stays 20 yards in front. I'm sure your mates dog will have been taught using similar commands and over time knew when the "wait" command was coming. it was more of a recall gaz he would call its
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Ideal little ferreting dog will be a real asset
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I new a young lad a few years ago who had a lurcher he got as an adult was about 5 maybe. She would stick with in 15-20 yards like glue unless she caught a scent and the rare occasion she did go slight ahead he would call her and she would drop back into that radius. Unless he made it obvious he wanted her all the way in. Some one had trained her well it was like there was an invisible fence 20 yards out from him and that was perfect I thought. Not sure how you would achieve that
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A terrier x whippet is never going to have the speed to run a rabbit down in the open on a regular basis. But - provided it's not too big - it should have the speed to run one down in cover. As to whether or not it's too big to be useful, I think that'll depend on the size of the parents. You get both big and small whippets just like some terriers are much bigger than others. I guess I'm biased, but having got one I certainly wouldn't want to be without one. Mine's about 15" tts and she flies through all but the thickest cover with no bother at all. And for the sort of ferreting I do, whic
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lol the tree was hollow jok for about 6 foot it was quite fun could hear a right rumpus in side the tree when the ferret went up
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As he ever nailed one Terry? I popped ferret up there and he got that one
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Rabbits are very thin on the ground where I am terry.i want him to work ahead of me finding his own stuff.I prefer that that as he is trotting along silent were as I'm noisy with feet etc. I suppose a dog will work to a degree on his own merit depending on terrain land etc. Hardly any Arable land here just rough ground.which is a shame but that's the way it is I suppose. I know what you mean. If I am honest I like mine close because am not confident what will happen around the corner at the moment. Same boat as you there but after the next season I think we will be fine then i can
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marking a squirrel he likes squirrels a lot lol
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be surprised king mine has nailed 2 rabbits this year squatting in the hedge row with in a yard he has sussed he can flatten the cover on them and now he never rules out the fact there could be one a foot or two away Maybe teach a wait command declan if your happy for him to work ahead so you can stop him till you catch up and its handy for other things anyway
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yep definitely trying to tell you some thing or get to the root of it him self
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Lots of the geo blocked stuff have started blocking vpn ip addresses mind but not all yet
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free one here would be fine works well but they change password every day so you just need to visit there site http://www.vpnbook.com/freevpn
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Mine started marking when he was only a few months Hard graft with out a dog around here and I think the ferrets get into bad habits messing about when there nothing at home. Also if you know some thing is at home its ideal for starting young ferret He rarely digs at the hole and is pretty quiet about it as a rule
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easy going, low maintenance I wouldn't mind some of that
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That's a real cracker pal, love a strong Russell type Thanks he was a game fella but as I said bright with it so made him a pleasure to own. Took hand signals left and right the lot no end to his talents
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My old fella going back to the early days. Well built and sensible to boot
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So, Tell Us, What Are Ye All At In The Veg Garden?
terryd replied to JohnGalway's topic in Living Off The Land & Game Cooking
some one gave me a dozen bulbs so I just threw them in