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  1. Neal
    I'm wondering if anybody has some advice or tips. My 21 week old kelpie bitch was a consistent poo eater when I first picked her up at eight weeks. She'd literally do a poo, turn straight around and snaffle it down as quickly as possible. Thanks to watching her like a hawk and immediately picking any up as soon as she'd crapped she'd stopped this habit within a week or so. However, now that she's out and about and enjoying the sights, sounds and smells of the local wood, I've noticed that she'll still occasionally do it...but never her own. It's not every poo by any means and I've sometim
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    I'm glad I didn't put a then and now photo up as I have a photo from around the time of my my first lurcher, which was just after I left art college and a friend once said, while looking at the photo, "You look like a homeless girl."?
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    I agree! Not quite the same area, but I lived in Coniston for about eighteen months (running an art gallery in the village with an ex-girlfriend after leaving Falmouth School of Art). After walking around Coniston Moor, Wetherlam, the Copper Mines and Hawkshead every day during those months when I returned 'dan saaf' I could walk all day long without feeling even slightly tired. It really improves your stamina.
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    I'm older than my teeth but younger than my eyes. Or to sum up, I'm 52. I seriously have a t-shirt (David Sylvian Red Guitar) which is older than some people on here. I think it's 38.?
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    My brother currently has one whippet but had three at the same time. They were all from different lines: the first was from show lines, the second from "working" whippet lines and the third from racing lines...all were pure. He's told me several times that, although they've all had their different strengths and weaknesses, when it came to catching things in general, he'd say they're all of a similar standard with not much to pick between the three.
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    I think some of you are missing the point. I don't watch it because it's a comedy and I don't watch it because it's a fishing programme. I watch it because it's half an hour of two genuine blokes who are genuine mates simply enjoying themselves while "messing about on the river." While we're on the subject...I can recommend Bob's autobiography "And Away..." My lovely wife bought it for me for Christmas. Unfortunately I was banned from reading it in bed as I was laughing too much and nobody in the house could get to sleep. It'll make you cry a few times too. With the exception of Stephen
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    I very very rarely see any near me. My kelpies have switched over completely to being squirrel dogs and none of my current stock have even caught a rabbit. When my last two ferrets died about eight years ago I didn't even bother to replace them.
  8. Neal
    One word of advice. If you do use an alleyway or gunnel make sure your particularly bouncy ball doesn't boing under somebody's back gate. I speak from experience.?
  9. Neal
    I've never needed to try it (touch wood) but I've heard that camrosa ointment is a miracle cure for stuff like that.
  10. Neal
    Re obedience and recall...I'd say that the most obedient lurcher I ever had was a collie x whippet. She always did exactly as she was asked but, unfortunately, at a detriment to her initiative when it came to working. Oddly, the hardest thing for me when it came to training her was recall. The reason being that she honestly never left my side more than a few metres as a pup. I had to actually get somebody else to lead her away, unclip the lead and then call her back as I didn't want to assume she'd recall in an emergency.?
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    A couple who live near my daughter's school have two of the smaller terrier sized podengos (is it podengos or podengoes?). They told me I'm the first person who ever knew what they were...I don't think they're workers though.?
  12. Neal
    I've often heard of Vizslas described as velcro dogs as they don't like to be parted from their owners. One of my neighbours has two wire haired bitches. They have plenty of stamina, as someone above said, and he takes them out running with him, but whenever he leaves them at home they yodel continually.
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    I almost found this out the hard way with my second lurcher back in the early 90s. I'd given him one of those roasted bones you get from pet shops (before I knew any better) and he suddenly came up to me pawing his muzzle. When I investigated I discovered that the marrow bone had snapped in half and, as it was almost exactly the same width as the inside of his mouth, it had become wedged in the top of his jaw...with the curved edge uppermost. Fortunately he was very amenable to handling as the only way I could get it out was to use a screwdriver through a tiny gap between the bone and the roof
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    My first kelpie would sit in the sun in the middle of the summer. When the sun moved and he was in a shadow he'd get up and move to be in the sun again. ?
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    I completely agree. People assume that the Australian herding breeds are all one and the same and, like you, the first thing I thought when I saw the photo was that it LOOKS LIKE a crossbred with some Australian shepherd in it. Ironically, a lot of people say they're not even Australian but a made up breed from America which 'looks a bit like' some Australian herding breeds e.g. Koolies and Smithfields. I'd be a tad surprised if that had any heeler in it.
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    Like pengelli, I've been feeding mine raw since 1999 and have always used drontal. Never had any problems (touch wood).
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    A long time ago (2000 I think) when I got my first three ferrets, I hadn't built a court for them yet so housed them indoors temporarily. I kept them in a large dog crate and then let them out for a "run-around" whenever I was home. They'd return to the crate to use a corner pan which I put in there as their latrine. I'd sometimes find them curled up asleep under cushions on the sofa and other odd places. It's funny to look back on now but I wouldn't do it again...I was single at the time so nobody with more class than I to complain about the eau de ferret.
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    Looks like he's been taking on He-Man in the bottom right hand corner. That's a real specialist!?
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    Weird...wonder why it worked that time.?
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    Noggin, Ned and Maud...
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    Yay! It worked! Now I've got to work out how to send images from my phone so I can put up photos of the current kelpies.? I tried and failed. Not sure what I did wrong. I'll have to try to save them into the files on the chromebook somehow instead.
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    Little Scout. She was a pure kelpie but most people thought she was a terrier x whippet...
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    Apologies for the size of the images...as I said, I'm dreadful at tech. Next one should be Amber...
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    Rusty...born in the last millenium. God I miss him.
  25. Neal
    I'm dreadful on tech but I think I've found a way of putting up old photos of my original kelpies on my chromebook by taking screenshots from old articles I'd written. Touch wood...
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