Neal
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Is Is that a goblin shark?
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The other feature I like, which most people dislike, is a light eye whereas most shepherds don't like them. Not light as in blue but just not dark brown. Not sure why but I think it's because I can read their face better. I heard somewhere once that that's why most police German shepherds are "normal" markings rather than pure black or white i.e. because the handlers can read the facial expressions better with a black and tan mask with the eyebrow points etc.
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I like the ears...all the best "collies" have pricked ears.?
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Last week I was walking Noggin and Ned through my local wood and a bloke asked what breed they were. As soon as I said theywere Australian Kelpies he replied, "Ah, the most intelligent breed in the world." Maybe your pup is clever enough to know he's better off where he is Jigsaw.?
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I can't wait to show that to my kids when they get back from school today! My son likes spiders but hates webs and my daughter likes spiders, "but not big ones."
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Maybe people are worried about perceived litter wastage.
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If you use the search button, I'm pretty sure there have been a few collie x whippet threads on here in the past. Having said that, most go along the route of...I'm thinking of getting one, what does everybody think? Followed by people who've never met one saying they're crap and you can only catch with greyhound blood...or a pure whippet. From what I gather, some can be simply not right for what they're being used for whereas others are heralded as the best dog they've ever had by others.
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That's exactly how I feel about my pure one Ned i.e. it's a good job I like him. ? I've even been seriously thinking of swapping my allegiance to a different breed...after twenty three years! He's a great dog, and I'm constantly being told how amazing he is by strangers but he really is hard work compared to the previous ones. One example which made me think the same thing this morning was that Noggin had a crap on the way to the wood so I bagged it up and crossed the road with them to bin it when I suddenly realised that when I had Rusty, Amber and Scout I'd have simply clicked my finger
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I've only ever had one. She was born back in the early 90s by a racing whippet breeder. She was also a farmer but she didn't like the collie temperament so she used her whippet to help with rounding up the sheep! She said it wasn't perfect by any means and obviously didn't have an outrun like a sheepdog but she worked it by shouting out the name of things and people in the field and it would run towards them e.g. "Tree! Gate!" She decided she wanted one more collie-like so mated a 3/4 whippet 1/4 greyhound to a stud dog of David Hancock's called Tory which was sired by Richard Jones out of Kat
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There was a genetic study done recently which claimed there was no dingo blood in kelpies. However, there was one done a few years previously which claimed there was about 4%. I read a book about the similarities between wolves and dogs which was written by a human geneticist. He said the problem with genetic tests is that they don't all necessarily give you the same results. Some only show information going back through either the male or female line. In the latter case you'd miss out on anything, for example, passed on by mitochondrial dna. As most successful kelpie studs tend to have a part
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Although he may take time to settle with a new owner, he should bond just as strongly with them when he eventually does. What do you expect with this weird breeds?? I mean the greyhound by the way.?? When I met my wife, Rusty refused to even acknowledge she was in the room, one day he suddenly decided, "She's alright this one," and then he was almost as devoted to her as he was to me.
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I'm not sure why the two breeds, which are so similar in some ways, should be so different in that respect, maybe there's more dingo...or a difference in the initial collies used? Like you said though, not all are friendly but I think a lot of British people expect them to be overly protective gurad dog types. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to be a burglar getting into my house and being faced with Noggin! He's friendly but only if you're expected. He's now my twelve year old son's dog and they get on like only a boy and his dog can, curling up in the dog bed together etc. Sometimes
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The main reason I prefer the hexnuts over anything else is simply that I find it easier to hold then between my fingers in the pouch. Oh dear, I've just realised that sounds like a line from a Carry On Film. Sometimes I get ammo out, put it in the pouch but then don't get the chance to take the shot so simply keep hold of it in the pouch but found I kept dropping them if they were spherical.
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I've had a few people backing away when I've told them mine are Australian kelpies. "Do you mean Australian Cattle Dogs?" they ask. "Similar," I reply, "but friendly."
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My bedroom growing up was always full of spiders because my sister was terrified of them and whenever she screamed for me I couldn't be bothered to take them outside so I always put them in my room instead.
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David Sylvian: Dead Bees On A Cake Boxing Day bubble and squeak (with sprouts) with cold turkey and pickled onions Yorkshire decaf tea A photo of my wife and kids And I can't remember the last category ...or scrap all that and I'll have a helicopter.
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I'm an ex-teacher and I can fully understand where you're coming from. The number of times I tried to be teach a more open view of topics like this. I simply got on and did it my way. Slowly, slowly: catchy monkey and all that jazz...like making sure that when I taught food webs in science I mentioned badgers and foxes killing sheep etc. I once took a class of inner city reception children (4 to 5 years old) to a country show and, as a precursor, took in my ferrets and kelpie for a handling session. Rusty the kelpie also did a herding and ferreting demo in the hall. Unfortunately, it's th
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I think I read somewhere that, as a rough guide, feed 3 to 4 % of their bodyweight per day. However, as Black neck said, every dog is different. I have two kelpies who are cousins and they're identical in height (and my wife can't tell them apart). One was injured in an rta and so has less exercise as his stamina is far less than you'd expect from a kelpie. Despite this, he is fed more than the younger one. Off the top of my head I think they're around mid 40s lbs (about 20kgs) and they have between 600 and 800 g per day (depending on how far I'm expecting to walk them etc) but the older one g
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Good idea: that might stop my frilly thong from showing too.?
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My favourite bike was a big red one with a massive basket on the front...similar to the Pashley ones. It was the one I learnt to ride on and was originally my mum's. Ironically, because I learnt to ride on that I never got the hang of riding blokes bikes so I still can't do that thing you lot do where you have the left foot on the left pedal, push off and swing the right leg over the back wheel to meet the right pedal. I have to stand astride the bike and push off.?
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I know exactly what you mean. I had a 3/4 beardie/border 1/4 greyhound with a hide like a rhino. He once got snagged on a trailing piece of barbed wire, gave a grunt and pulled himself free. All that what left was a tuft of blue merle fur on the tines and not a mark on him...having said that, it could just as easily have been down to the thickness of the hair as the skin itself. The only injury he ever had was when he jumped a fence into the horse field (without me knowing) and there was a single strand of wire about a yard inside. His front feet landed on the ground but his back ones didn't m
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I definitely agree. When I booked my first pup (beardie x greyhound) over the phone I picked a bitch (because I was told bitches were definitely better). I also picked a very dark brindle (because of the way the breeder enthused over it). When I turned up to pick up the pup I really liked a scruffy hairy little male with red and white collie markings. When I went in the pen with them he was very friendly and playful whereas the pup I'd picked was rather austere. I never did really gel with her and always wondered what became of "my" dog pup.
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My Lundhags eventually died after about seven years...well, that's not actually true...the heels and toes have worn out but the rest of the boot is going strong. However, I can't afford to send them back to Sweden for a refit. I did think about all the types mentioned above, including trying on some altbergs in Devon, but in the end I decided to get another pair of Lundhags. I'm aware that's more expensive than the refit but, the way I see it, I've now got two pairs of great boots and, when I eventually find a decent cobbler who's prepared to chance it, I'll be able to wear both of them.
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Me too...we've both forgotten this is a kelpie lurcher thread!?
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Ah yes; that's the one! I thought I had a good memory but I'd forgotten it was called Topper. I've still got the article somewehere. I used to pull out the articles I liked and put them in a ring-binder...that's what made me stop buying it; I realised I'd not kept an article for ages.
