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Phil, somehow I think your "aint up to much" is probably a lot more than most other people manage.? Fitzwilliam, mine are similar to yours but mine are 3/4 kelpie 1/4 kelpie.? I currently have three, a seven year old male, three year old male and a fifteen week old pup. However, I'm seriously considering rehoming the middle one as we simply don't get on. It's a bit like when someone splits up with someone and says, "it's not you; it's me."? Several people have told me they think it's middle child syndrome...but he's always been like it. He's lovely but he simply drives me (and the re
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Thanks for the tip. I get frozen chicken from Sainsbury as it's cheaper than the 'dog quality' chicken wings across the road in the pet shop. However, I only give it to the adult as I find the chemicals they use in the manufacture of the human grade stuff can sometimes give pups a gippy tummy.
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I've found that one of the best ways of adding calcium (bone grows bone) for pups is in the form of chicken wings. My current pup has at least one per day along with natures menu cubes. I know they're expensive compared to other 'make your own' BARF diets, but I've only got the use of one drawer in the family freezer so can't buy in bulk. The cubes are like a BARF version of a complete diet (chicken, salmon, fruit, veg, other stuff) but I also give her other odds and ends for variety and 'eating exercise' like beef trachea and, of course, the good old chicken wings. Her first beef trachea took
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Absolutely amazing! It was just shy of half a million when I donated this morning (you can do it through either the MND site or Leeds Rhinos site) so I'm please it's doubled since then. Certainly surpassed the £100,000 he'd hoped to achieve. Don't mind admitting that I shed a tear or two watching that final mile on tv this morning.?
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I often think of those lines too. The other thing I think of is a section in Konrad Lorenz's "Man Meets Dog" in which he talks about keeping future generations of past dogs; there's a sketch in the book of him walking along with a line of ghost dogs following at his heel. I was thinking of this when I returned from the vet after having one of my kelpies put to sleep and I kept getting the feeling she was still trotting along behind me. I kept looking around but she wasn't there. In my case I've never bred from my dogs but I often think that the way I am with them owes a lot to what I've learnt
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Yep! I was tempted by a gundog (as I've not been getting on with one of my other kelpies) but decided that, if I changed now ( after five kelpies during the last twenty two years) I'd probably regret it. I went back to the same breeder who bred Noggin, my ultra laid back Bob Marley-like best mate. Anyway...back to those stunning collie crosses...
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This is my most recent Australian addition...
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I was thinking that when I saw the third of your original photos. It reminds me of one of those photos where you have to spot the leopard, giraffe, gecko etc.?
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Sorry for you loss, keep smiling.
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The air travels from hot to cold. For example, on a cold day with a window wide open and we all say, "Brrr! I can feel the cold coming in," it's actually kind of the opposite i.e. the temperature inside is reducing because the heat inside is travelling to the outside...via the open window. In the case of your dog, the warmth from your dog will travel to the 'outside' air but, by raising the hairs, it traps it for longer close to the surface. Same principle as a string vest...which I could never get my head around until I taught KS2 science. Similar to how putting a coat on a snowman will keep
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So sad to hear this. As somebody else said above..."I was talking about Ruby just a few days ago..." In my case my nine year old daughter and I were discussing different dog breeds and she mentioned a Pom x Chihuahua in our road. I was about to start taking the mick out of 'handbag dogs' and then remembered Ruby so changed my slant, happy to be proved wrong. May the many, many happy memories keep you smiling.
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Ah yeah, I can see what you mean now. I find dog colours very confusing...but fascinating at the same time. My third lurcher was a collie x whippet with a merle collie as the sire. Five of the six pups were merle and the last was collie marked black and white. My pup was mainly " light brown" (as most people would describe it). When I referred to her as a red merle in a letter to the breeder (because brown is called red in dogs right?) she corrected me and told me she was a blue merle. When I asked why she said there were a number of reasons. These included the nose being blue (i.e. grey) as o
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Difficult to tell in a photo but I'd describe that as blue and tan?...as Countryman62 said though...the colour is immaterial.
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So sorry for your loss. I loved reading about her and, as I've mentioned on here before, your writing about her even made me doubt my allegiance to kelpies and consider a gun dog or gun dog lurcher.
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I've heard great things about Darn Tough socks. I've not tried them myself but I'm hoping to get a few pairs for Christmas.
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Best trousers for walking/hunting/mooching
Neal replied to ADAM C's topic in Hunting Boots & Clothing
That's why I have to buy the raw length fjallravens...my inside leg isn't even 30"!? I'm Bilbo Baggins stunt double. -
I'm just a nipper as I was born the year Neil Armstrong landed on the moon but I remember rabbit featuring as a large part of my diet growing up.
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Lurcher with the lowest percentage of running dog?
Neal replied to Greb147's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
I'm the opposite. The most sighthound I've ever had was half. Then again, looking back, I think it's because I secretly wanted a sheepdog was wasn't initially brave enough to do it as I'd grown up with a garden full of lurchers and terriers. I had one of Hancock's 3/4 collie 1/4 greyhounds (there's a photo of him as a pup in "A Question of Lurchers"). I also had a 3/4 terrier 1/4 whippet...my one and only foray into terriers. I love their character, but only when they're owned by other people as I couldn't cope with a dog which said, "Erhm...no!" after previously having collie crosses whi -
Not sure if they're still using the same spot but, twenty one years ago, there were a pair nesting on the giant letters at the top of the Pall Europe building by the Hard in Portsmouth. I watched them every morning after getting off the Gosport ferry on my way to work. All the other peregrines I've seen have been rural e.g. South Downs, Cumbria, North Devon etc.
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I'm looking at this from the opposite perspective. I was "only" a class teacher (for about a quarter of a century). I never went any "higher" (note the use of quotation marks?) as I liked teaching kids rather than ordering other adults around and ticking spreadsheets. I was regularly "told off" by my senior management team for not towing the company line. You lot probably would have fired me in my first few weeks for saying, "Nope! I'm doing it my way."? In my defence I was the most popular teacher with the kids and parents though.?
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I caught a few squirrels with my last lurcher in Kingston Cemetery in Portsmouth (about twenty years ago) does that count? There were a few rabbits there too (by the southern entrance) but he never managed to get one of those. I'm sure I recollect somebody once telling me they had the rights to go ferreting there many years ago.?
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I'd recommend Timberbuild. Like one of the manufacturers already mentioned on here they can also supply bases which I prefer as it's easier to keep clean than concrete. Having said all that...mine now live indoors. I've kept the kennel as 'temporary housing.'
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I was lucky enough to be invited out by Geth once while on holiday on Dartmoor; true gent!?
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I had a pair of Dovres once. I ended up giving them away to someone on here as I didn't get on with them. However, in their defence, they were great boots. Bomb proof and didn't let water in, it was simply because I've always preferred lightweight footwear (trail runners etc) so I was exhausted when I wore them. Conversely, my Lundhag Scout and Forest boots are almost 1/4 kg lighter per pair!
