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  1. I'm After A Couple Of Bushing Dogs

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    I agree with bird. A dog which hunts silently is nearly always on terms with its quarry when it breaks cover, also guns/lurchers will kill game that's not actually being hunted by the flushers so when the hunted quarry breaks cover your guns/lurchers are often uprepared. But Its is good fun to a have a miniature hunt underway!

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  2. Passing Dogs On

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    I took a young lurcher bitch on last summer, for a lad who had no kennel space and wasn't really looking after her. And after spending ages bonding and training with her I unfortunately came to the realisation that come the rearing season I wont have time for her. Luckily I found a lad who was keen to give her a go. He came to collect her this morning and I had a hell of a job keeping back the tears as I loaded her into his truck!

     

    The point i'm getting at is how can so many so called 'dog lads' keep a never ending supply of adult dogs for sale!

     

    I admit to being a softy with the dogs but it makes me wonder whats wrong with the lads who sell them like second hand cars.

     

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  8. Summer Time Lampers?

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    To be honest, apart from killing green foxcubs I have never found summer hunting overly productive whether its lamping or daytime, due to poor scent, height of crops, sun baked ground and it gets dark too feckin late when I need to be up and about in the morning!

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  14. Introducing A Mature Dog To The Ferrets

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    I have done it a few times. I put a hutch right infront of the kennel so the dog sees the ferret all the time, but most importantly the dog sees me handling the ferret and putting it back in the hutch, and even put the ferret into a carrying box and walk the dogs when the dog has run off abit of energy get the ferret out, let it see me handle the ferret (no pun) and build up like that. I'd spend the summer doing it and keep try it working next season. That said, as steady as the dog seems, the first time it bolts a rabbit and then the ferret shows tests my nerves to the limits!

  19. Just Sharing A Little Something

    in Earthdogs & Working Terriers

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    it's an article written by a dogman.. nothing more or less

    Was it Floyd B. that ran a lot of conventions with wives and children welcome because he was seeing so many marriages breaking up over the dogs?

     

    Personally I blame women.

    OK, if a lad takes up dogs after he's married then herself has an argument, but if he had dogs when she met him then she shouldn't try and change him.

    But they do. Women have it in their heads that they'll turn a man in to the man she wants and not the man he wants to be and then the marriage breaks up.

     

    So to sum up my argument, Women in the dog game are the poison, LOL.

     

    I blame women too.... When I started with the mrs I had 3 dogs, now we are nearly married I have 8.... by the time we have an anniversary I reckon I will have a full pack of hounds!

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