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  6. First Night Out Of The Season

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

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    I've been meaning to get out for a couple of weeks now, but finally got round to it tonight. Jake (the lurcher) has been out dogging in every day now for the last 8 weeks so he is pretty fit, but getting wound up just flushing pheasants and he has been getting quite sharp at catching the odd poult.

     

    Anyway, parked up the buggy and walked across the first field where there was nothing out, I was thinking to myself that I should have gone the other side of the estate, when I spotted a squatter 20 yards away in the long grass. I slipped the dog thinking it would be a great start to the night.

    Just as the dog got up to it, the bunny dropped into a burrow I didn't know was there- I was 'poaching' the head 'keepers beat so I was off my own turf.

     

    Jake hurtled off into the darkness, as if just willpower alone would put the rabbit in the bag. It didn't. Eventually he came back.

     

    Next field had a few nettle patches dotted throughout it, and a good number of rabbits, I slipped Jake onto a rabbit that was just realising some thing was up but its sporadic run, stop, run, stop didn't do it any favours and jake brought it back to a couple of yards away. I chinned that and sent jake out to a squatter about 40 yards away, it jumped from its seat as jake got up to it, it ran 3 or 4 yards and squat again, and didn't move while he picked up bunny number two.

     

    As we walked back to gate I sent jake on an easy squatter about 15 yards away but the thistle 30 yards away looked better to the dog. Luckily the rabbit, despite my shouting and hollering, stayed squat so jake picked it up.

     

    The next field held a good dozen rabbits which were a lot jumpier than the others, but we had two rabbits from two runs and called it a night.

     

    It was no mega night out, not by a long way, but it was a lot better than jakes first trip out last season!

     

    Thanks for reading

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  10. Meat .?

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

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    My parents have a small holding, and when I was growing up i'd play for hours with the goat kids and pet lambs. I'd cry my eyes out when the went to slaughter and called my dad everything I could think of for taking them. I'd still tuck in when they came home in kit form! These days for me at least, I'd rather eat something that's had a field to run in than an intensively reared pork chop or a kfc chicken.

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  13. Harrier Or Foxhound

    in Hunting With Hounds

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    For me, as part of a gun pack I would chose harriers every time. I just like the crazy wee buggers, but for 'proper' hunting I'd rather follow foxhounds instead of everything. And also I think your hounds, whatever type you keep, should all be of the same type. What works for a bobbery pack would be a disaster if you tried it with hounds, your harriers might piss off after a rambler, (on quiet days it happens quite a bit!) your beagles would get left behind, leaving the foxhounds still looking for a fox. And if you are working loose terriers, well just go check the deepest earth by the busiest footpath!

  17. Inside And Outside Dogs?

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

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    I house train all the pups I take on, its nice of on an evening to let them in, and not worry about the carpet, and if there's and injury or invalid them keeping an eye on them is easier if they are in the house. Also when they get old I like to have them in the house for a before they take that last stroll down the garden, but then I'm a softy!

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  19. Yes/no

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

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    They've been doing that in my village for years ;) I think parent to pup wouldn't be so close as a brother/sister mating, but I'm only guessing. I have heard that half brother to half sister is accepted way of starting a line

  24. Ratting Ferrets

    in Ferrets & Ferreting

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    Anybody breeding any tidy little ferrets for ratting this year?

     

    If there's a spare or two and they are up for sale I would like to hear from you.. I already have ferrets but they are a bit on the chunky side for regular ratting trips.

     

    Thanks for reading.

  25. For The Guys Who Work All Week

    in General Talk

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    I usually get up and take them out for a quick round the block to empty them out, put the terriers away and then run a couple of miles on the road with my lurchers before work, then when im home after work give them all a 3/4 mile walk and another quick one round the block last thing at night, but what I have found really helps keep them calm is to have a couple of hours in the house in the evening. I find it reinforces the pack thing. But I always house train them as pups so I realise not everyone could have them inside.

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