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I've looked on Google and could only find people saying that Daffy Duck is a black duck but I'm sure I read somewhere (when I saw the Carolina wood duck) that he was based on one of them. Oh well.
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That reminds me of when I lived in Coniston. I did most of my walking in High Guards Wood, Grizedale, Coniston Moor and near Wetherlam. Everybody told me how great the view from The Old Man was but the flocks of tourists put me off. When I eventually went up I could only see about thirty feet.
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Postie, do you know how the 3/4 kelpies turned out e.g. how did D.C. rate them compared to Taz and Gem? I know there were a few negative comments about his plan in EDRD but I think that was aimed more at the father x daughter mating element than the cross per se. I've always wanted to ask him how they all got on but I've not seen him on here for years. Thanks in advance.
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Noggin's breeder told me he had a pure kelpie from her but it unfortunately died young due to some medical reason. She also told me how impressive his 3/4 kelpie was. Thanks for the info.
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There was one on my permission many years ago. I went back the next day to take a photo...but the fox had got to it first. Is it the one that Daffy Duck is based on or is that a similar one?
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I regularly take a peak at similar sites...not because I'm looking for a new pup but simply so I can make a note of any breeders whose dogs I like the look of for future reference. Although the covid prices are still ridiculously high, one thing I've started noticing over the last few weeks is a growing number of dogs around six months which are suddenly needing to be rehomed. I wonder why.? Needless to say, they all say something along the lines of "through no fault of his/her own," "sudden/unexpected health issues in the family," "new job means we no longer have enough time to spend wi
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Crikey! Is it that long ago? I was really tempted to try to talk him into letting me have one but I still had three pure kelpies at the time so definitely not enough room or work for another. They're all gone now too and my current two are six and two so a couple of years wait before my next.
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Definitely! So may people complain about collie temperament when it's simply that their temperaments aren't suited to one. Cuts the opposite way though; I was once talked into getting a terrier cross (long story) and although he was a lovely little chap with loads of character we simply didn't get on. I rehomed him at less than a year old and his new owner raved about him.
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If he's moving away from the lurchers, can I have his 3/4 kelpie??
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Just like anything you can buy, if someone is willing to pay what you're asking then, to a certain extent, it's the right price. As several people have said, if you find a particular niche then that can be your unique selling point. E.g. some people would prefer to eat rare breed cattle, sheep etc or even mutton and would be happy to pay for it. As a really crap analogy: some people would pay millions for a Picasso but others would hate to have one in their living room.
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Re the organic status: I'm sure I've seen several times over the years that, in some respects, people are still happy to buy the stuff if you're genuinely saying, "We're not Organic with a capital O but we are organic." Re the boxes: we've had one delivered for the first time yesterday. It was from a company called HelloFresh and, to be honest, the only reason we got it was because it was free. My wife's friend uses them and put her down as a recommendation. Basically, you get the first box free but only if you sign up. So my wife signed up, then cancelled, then got the free box. Clever!
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I could be wrong but I think Alpine dingoes are simply "ordinary" dingoes which have evolved a thicker coat due to living in the Australian Alps. I'm happy to be corrected though.
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Yeah, my kelpie/collie x greyhound was a cousin of Moon as Moon's dam (Ruby) was the sister of the kelpie x collie that Dave Sleight used for the later litters. I think I've got that right.
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The problem is that people doing things like this often focus on the big superstar species and forget about the big picture. I remember seeing a programme with Dr George McGavin and several other big names surveying an area new to science and he was pointing out how people often forget to look at the whole foodweb and focus on, for example, mouflon, ibex, bears and wolves, forgetting about moss, grasses and a myriad of invertibrates. As someone said above (I think it was balaur) the benefit of beavers is not beavers per se but the rare habitat they create i.e. a wetland that humans won't
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I had exactly the same problem with Skye, the bitch in the earlier photo. She was only the second lurcher I'd bought as a pup and as my first one was ultra friendly (depite being a half beardie) I fell into the trap of believing that a shy pup would make more of a one-man-dog. She was very much a one-man-dog but she was also highly sensitive, far more than any dog I've had since. She was easily the most highly trained, as a result of this, but her sensitivity meant that she lacked any initiative as she was always too worried about doing the wrong thing. One example that comes to mind was when
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Many thanks. We'd hoped to be visiting during the October half term but it looks like another lock down could be on the cards by then. Fingers crossed, touch wood and all that jazz.
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It was far better than I expected (or deserve): a signed first edition of "Dingoes Don't Bark" by Lionel Hudson!
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Skye: Hancock's Tory (Richard Jones x Katie 3/4 Border collie 1/4 beardie) x Liz Tinsley's Mermaid (3/4 whippet 1/4 greyhound) from the early or mid 90s.
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Heaven: pure heaven.
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Yeah; I think you're right, I think it originated somewhere in Scotland.
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Great idea Jigsaw; I do like a bit of background story behind names. Mine are a bit boring compared to that: Noggin had a massive head like a bucket compared to the rest of the pups in the litter (though his head is now smaller than Ned's who was normal build as a pup). And Ned was named after my daughter Dilly! We'd not had a girl in the family in 36 years so we were expecting another boy and had decided on Ned. When we found out we had a daughter we decided to keep the name for a future kelpie...though everybody assumes he's named after Ned Kelly. Apparently it also stands for Non Educated D
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Is is an abbreviation for Kevin Larkin? Jigsaw strikes me as the kind of person who'd name his dog after a political correspondent for the BBC.?
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Thanks Phil...I'm fully expecting it to be either "The Border Collie" by Iris Combe or "The Working Bedlington" by John Glover. ?? Is the black and tan in the other photo Taz? I recognize the floppy ear from previous photos as I've not been fortunate to have met him in the flesh. Ned's is the same.
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I agree "young" Phil! I fogot to mention in the earlier post (my wife says that trying to hold a conversation with me is like a Ronnie Corbett monologue sketch as I keep going off at odd tangents, thereby forgetting what I originally intended to say) that there was a book written in 2015 (as a follow up to a previous dvd) which looked into the heritage of the kelpie. It's a fascinating read as he's literally gone around the world and back to source his evidence. He even spoke to the descendents of the bloke who bred "Kelpie" (i.e. the dam of "Kelpie" from whom the breed got its name). Two
