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  1. beast
    you could EASY do a hundred of them in a night with the right dog....................... MALEMUTE CROSS!!!!!
  2. beast
    i'm really pleased that dog has been found, how did he track it down? or if it was a tip off, why did they decide to talk? were the feet smashed by running on bad ground or something more sinister?
  3. beast
    we all have those nights! just some more than others......!
  4. beast
    this is actually a big question without simple answers. and any answer is going to be a generalisation, there will always be exceptions! i don't personally agree that any first cross will be durable, for example i've seen whippet greys which had brittle feet like matchsticks and skin like tissue paper. i've seen a couple of deer/greys which had superb looking feet and good skin/coat, but were heavy dogs, and of course heavy dogs hitting objects at speed have a lot more energy to dissipate...... i've seen bull/greys with shocking feet, and also the amount of muscle these dogs carry can make
  5. beast
    everyone will tell you different, but i would say a quarter collie three quarter greyhound for a beginner, enough collie to make it easy to train, not enough collie to make it hard work. i have seen first cross collie greys which really were more clued up than their owners and made the owners lives HELL!
  6. beast
    nice level litter, any one standing out in particular for you to keep?
  7. beast
    proper workmanlike grafters dog that, just my cup of tea. hows the sloughi pup?
  8. beast
    nice work, for me its in some ways more satisfying to take a sick or injured animal out of the equation than it is to knock over a big old buck
  9. beast
    thats a fair comment phil. collies have brain, nose, feet, wind, tough skin, and focus, but the brains and focus can be the problem if you dont get it right as a trainer, or if you get one thats mentally a little out of kilter. i dont think a half-cross collie or similar is a beginners dog, the wrong one or the wrong beginner and it could all get EMOTIONAL!
  10. beast
    yep, lets all ring 101 every time we see anybody in the countryside and say they look suspicious...how long till they get fed up with it all? them choppers can only fly so many miles..........
  11. beast
    my old Mum had a pure deerhound whelped early 90s, we used to take it out with us. from kc reg stuff, wish i could remember what lines, i will have to se if there are any of its papers still here. the thing was pretty quick and very driven, but that was about all. dumb, clumsy, dumb, unco-ordinated, dumb and very annoying. and not really very tough as you might hope, feet were only average and the gangly build of the thing meant she was always pulling or tweaking something. i know there are some working deerhounds still about if you can find one (platts, doxhope) and i think they could certa
  12. beast
    his name was tom. i'm pretty sure hancock had some off him if i remember rightly
  13. beast
    do you know what really struck me in that article, the rspca said they had 4168 successful prosecutions, but it "rescued or collected" 130,695 animals last year. that isnt a great success rate is it? it shows how many people get bullied or scared into handing their animals over. i saw a programme a few years ago and there was an old boy who was struggling a bit to look after his little terrier, they bullied him and scared him, threatened to take him to court even though there was nothing really wrong with the dog. in the end he signed it over, poor old boy was in tears his only company gone. i
  14. beast
    could the coppers seize the animals themselves? or would that be specified on the warrant? would a copper be allowed to make a decision as to the condition of an animal, and so decide if a crime was being committed, or would this have to be done by an "expert"?
  15. beast
    Ive yet to encounter a mutt that suffered because of its Border heritage,or found them lacking,i possibly cannot have searched or worked them hard enough?. now dont think i'm knocking the border cross because i love them. the point i'm making is that some people find borders oversensitive, some find they are clingy, some find they lack initiative. personally i suspect these "faults" are often down to the trainer more than the dog, but nevertheless i have not seen these issues in the beardie crosses i have been around. i should add i have not seen these issues in my own border crosses o
  16. beast
    this might sound odd but bear with me. you say it's typically when she doesnt catch, is there no correlation then with how much or what type of exercise she has done? what happens if you dont rub and stretch her? lifting a leg up doesnt sound typical of a cramp symptom to me? what happens if you simply walk out of the room and leave her when she starts lying down? the point i'm getting at is whether this is actually a psycological issue, and without even realising it you are rewarding the behaviour by rubbing and stroking the dog? perhaps there is something you do differently when she hasnt c
  17. beast
    seen some cracking beardie bred lurchers in the past, and my current stock have a good dose in them, brings a little something to a dog that is sometimes lacking in border crosses. best of luck finding the RIGHT homes for those pups
  18. beast
    so were you just lucky enough that you had friends or acquaintances in the know, or did you just keep asking questions till you bumped into the people with the answers? and how did they know?
  19. beast
    thats awful for you, i've enjoyed watching them two grow up on your posts. i guess you've already asked friends etc, but isnt there anyone on here who can hold these dogs for the man until he gets sorted? best of luck
  20. beast
    good idea, as has been said might just allow us to keep a dog alive long enough to get to the vet. i would go if i had £40....
  21. beast
    the last few weeks on here have seen another spate of dog thefts. we can all do our best to get our own security sorted, get neighbours to keep an eye open, be careful where we exercise our dogs and who we show them to, but there is still some risk to all of us it seems. for those people who have had dogs go missing and been lucky enough to get them back, how did you do it? were they dumped, did you get an anonymous tip off, did someone with connections give you some help, or what? i just think if you folks share your experiences it might just give some poor fecker another idea or piec
  22. beast
    the last few weeks on here have seen another spate of dog thefts. we can all do our best to get our own security sorted, get neighbours to keep an eye open, be careful where we exercise our dogs and who we show them to, but there is still some risk to all of us it seems. for those people who have had dogs go missing and been lucky enough to get them back, how did you do it? were they dumped, did you get an anonymous tip off, did someone with connections give you some help, or what? i just think if you folks share your experiences it might just give some poor fecker another idea or piec
  23. beast
    is tom ward really whin? or is tom wards brother chartpolski?
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  25. beast
    dogs are incredibly perceptive of visual signals given by others, either other dogs or handlers, and will no doubt pick up little signals that another dog is slowing down or not quite right long before we do. in my experience, most social animals, and social predators such as dogs especially, have such a well defined group dynamic which lives on such a knife edge much of the time that they just can't/won't cope with abnormal behaviour, or in the case of human-managed animals this doesnt even have to be abnormal just something they as individuals arent used to. bit of a ramble but does that mak
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