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I've got two drawers in the freezer with enough space for 44 packs of about 450g each. Because of that I can't really buy in bulk so I get whatever is cheapest/best value at my local Jolleys (I can never remember if it's Jolleys or Jollyes). I think mine is over £2 for a pack so I'll have to research the link from earlier as that'd halve my dog food bill. I've fed raw for about 27 years I think, but my youngest kelpie is on mainly Skinners dry as she went through a phase as a pup of shitting through the eye of a needle on raw...which is ironic as all my other dog normally do that on

I expect it was the latter as all the flatcoats I've met have been VERY friendly. I once heard them referred to as the Peter Pan of the dog world. There's a lovely one in my local wood but she's too friendly for me. I've met several curly coated retrievers recently and they had lovely calm/aloof temperaments.

I was told the same thing once by a breeder of racing whippets. She told me that all her pure whippets had excellent feet and the only ones with feet problems were those with some greyhound blood. I had a pup from one of her 3/4 whippet 1/4 greyhounds mated to a collie and she had the worst feet I've ever had on a dog. Forever going lame. Enjoyable thread. I almost bought a first cross lab x grey back in the early 90s but when I went to see the litter and asked about the sire (lab) I was told he lived nearby but that the owners didn't know he'd sired the pups. I was still tempted bu

Wow! I looked it up and you're right. I'm surprised Billy Mackenzie of the Associates wasn't on the list that I found. He had an amazing voice with a huge range. I think he did an opera once with one of the women from Propaganda.

When my wife got one of those Alexa thingys I added a "favourites" playlist to it. I was surprised to find after a couple of days of adding different tracks that they were all Classical. Once I'd realised this I started another one of non-classical. Mine is almost exclusively 70s and 80s. All time favourites would be Madness, The Specials, Depeche Mode, Japan, Talk Talk, Blancmange...basically either 2Tone or New Wave. Without a shadow of doubt, my all time favourite vocalist would be David Sylvian. I'm transported to another place when I hear his voice. Seen him live a few tim

While trying to do a bit more research on the beardie sire to add to this thread (for other people's information) I found the pedigree for the collie lurcher dam. Very impressive. Off the top of my head, the names I can remember are Hancock's Rufus, Sharpe's Moss (who was great grand-sire to my last lurcher), Hancock's Katie (who was grand-dam to my collie x whippet) and a dog I've read about on here called Arri. On the other side was whippet blood from Sooty Sam via Zorro. While reading all that I had the feeling I'd read it before somewhere. Then I found it in one of my Phil Lloyd books

Yeah, I've been reading about her in the bushing thread.

Yeah, my wife bought me a copy a few years ago. It's a good book but I don't completely agree with his kelpie/German shepherd connection theory. In my opinion, a better book for kelpie origins and history is "Origins Of The Australian Kelpie" by Bill Robertson. Very well thought out book with a lot of miles put in to conduct his research. On a slightly related subject: my current two kelpies will be my last. When I got my first everybody said I was mad and kelpies are such hard work but I kept saying all the naysayers were wrong as mine was a piece of cake. Then I got three more (the last

Must just be a coincidence because of the colouring and build. No, not a pup from Ed; I'd never even heard of him until you mentioned him.

Do you mean in the same sense that in New Zealand they call them "big game indicating dogs"?

I think so. Is the bitch related to yours by any chance? When I saw the dam in the photos she looked familiar and then I realised I was thinking of your red and tan. I was a tad tempted but I've got my name on a waiting list for a litter later this year.

I know they're not everyone's cup of tea, but I'm sure I saw a thread on here earlier this year about somebody wanting a collie greyhound pup. While browsing for something completely different, I've found two dog pups that might interest some. The dam is a collie/greyhound (I think she's line bred with lines going back to the 80s so not a half bred). The sire is a working beardie. As I said, not everyone's cup of tea but they piqued my interest. The advert is on both Pets4Homes and Gundogs Direct. I think they're in Andover.

I can't remember what year it was, but sometime in the mid 80s, my cousin and I were walking along the cliff walk from Charmouth to Lyme Regis (we were actually going to the Radio 1 Road Show with Gary Davies!) when we saw what we initially thought was a cloud. Within minutes this huge cloud became a swarm of millions of ladybirds coming over the sea and heading inland. An amazing sight.

Crikey! I've got a locator with two collars that I've not used for several years that I keep thinking of selling. I've just looked on ebay and only found one and it was £225!

I've often wondered if road kill is a good indication of what wildlife is in an area i.e. I've always assumed it is. My wife and I were talking recently about how we tend to see different things in different parts of the country. A couple of weekends ago we went to Appledore and saw mainly pheasant (on the way) but with an increasing number of badger the farther west we went. Last week we went to Highclere for her 50th birthday and saw mainly roe deer. Pheasant and fox are the main ones near us...and fly tipping.