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  1. Neal
    Thanks for the great link Arry. I've never seen those ones but there are some where I go on holiday between Belstone and Sticklepath.
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    I could suffer a frenzied twenty odd, we don't get many of them. Lol Cheers Arry Me too Arry! I've just got back from a week in North Devon and my two kelpies saw more (out of season) rabbits in one week than poor Noggin's seen in his whole life.
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    Re the hose pipe: I found that it's not actually the effect of throwing water at them which stops them (i.e. I don't want to be soaked with water so I'll stop) but the sudden action of the hose pipe coming on unexpectedly. My kelpie was sensible enough to realise after just one soaking that standing at the end of the run while barking got him wet so he simply stood at the other end and barked...but he still eventually stopped thanks to the "shock" of the hose going on.
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    Jacknife, Like you my grandad was also at Dunkirk and then Italy and North Africa. He didn't talk about it much but whenever he did, he tried to put a humorous slant on it: like telling us he'd lost his leg in the war even though all his grandchildren could remember him in the early 80s with two legs. He made up so many stories that it wasn't until I studied geography at A level that I discovered Abu Dhabi was a real place! However, my favourite true story was told to us during the late 80s after he went on holiday to Spain with my nan. As they were boarding the plane a blind gentleman in
  5. Neal
    Same here, mate. You could call them unintended consequences of shooting..... What the tree huggers fail to understand is that we don't just manage game birds, but that we care about, care for and respect nature as a whole ! I remember watching a programme on the tv years ago with the bloke from the Who who runs/ran a shoot or area for fishing and he was saying the same i.e. if he left it "to nature", as the current band of bunny huggers were recommending him to do, you'd end up with a monotonous jungle of bramble etc with none of the diversity that you get from coppicing etc.
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    Quite right. I think a lot of it is down to "he who shouts loudest..." When I started out with lurchers thirty years ago I got the impression, from the books available at the time, that we needed to be secretive about what we did and keep things close to our chest. Unfortunately, while we are all doing that, those who know nothing about it but can shout loudly (like Packham, May etc) dish out a false diatribe and everyone assumes they're right. As soon as I started admitting to what I did I was amazed at how many people were actually in favour...usually with comments like, "Wow, really? I
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    Hi Sully, I had a similar problem. I stopped using the internet completely for a couple of months as I was having huge trouble sleeping and was willing to try anything to have a decent night's sleep and when I tried to get back on it wouldn't recognize my password so had to start up again.
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    I get the impression that Adam Henson has a sensible outlook. There was a feature he did on TB and the link to badgers on Countryfile several years ago and although he delivered both sides of the debate you got the distinct impression he was heavily in favour of one course of action.
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    Woman near me uses a poodle cross and my kelpies will point and flush pheasant...but they only seem to do it when I haven't got my catapult.
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    From the books that I've read about kelpies it would seem that dingo blood in kelpies (in the early days) is similar to collie blood in merle coloured lurchers i.e. in a lot of cases the people claiming it were exaggerating the amount because it sounded good and the ones denying it were often "guilty" of it. According to recent genetic tests on a number of the main kelpie studs in Australia the average kelpie has about 3 or 4% dingo blood.
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    Possibly sorted...though it could just be a coincidence: the firefox was causing other problems (like telling me that The Hunting Life forum wasn't a safe site {no prizes there }) so I uninstalled it and went back to using Microsoft Edge (I think that's what it's called) which I used before Chrome and all seems currently fine. Crikey that's a lot of punctuation and dropped clauses for one sentence!
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    Whenever I think about this subject I always remember seeing a stand-up routine at Jongleurs in which a comic talking about kids said, "I always thought I wanted three, until I had two and then I knew I only wanted one." When I worked lurchers (quite a while back now) I aimed to have a four year gap between them for reasons mentioned above re retired dog, working dog and youngster. So you'd end up with three to four. I never managed to do it until I had the pure kelpies when the four year gap kind of happened accidentally. However, I then realised that, because the kelpies had a longer wor
  13. Neal
    Thanks for all the advice.
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    Thanks Walshie. I tried to post this about an hour and a half ago three times but it failed so I've spent the last ninety minutes downloading firefox. I can now get on the site more easily...but can't go back when I read a thread and the wheel spinning type icon is continually going back and forth in the tab top. As a result I have to click on "view new content" from the top of the individual thread page and start all over again instead.
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    I'm having problems signing on to the site and then various problems when/if I eventually get on to it. On occasion it will work straight away but sometimes, after signing in, it will repeatedly take me back to the same page. I have tried clicking on the "sign in" button (as opposed to tapping on the mouse pad) and opening the sign in page on a separate tab or window which sometimes works. Then, when I do eventually get on and select "view new content" it will only show me a few threads which, I presume, means I had previously signed it but wasn't being shown this (hope that makes sense).
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    Thanks for the additional information terryd. Do you know any more about the sire?
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    Does that mean we'd be able to enter RSPCA "rescue centres" without a police presence to "liberate" working animals which are destined to be rehomed to non-working homes or are being "looked after" inefficiently?
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    Apologies if this litter has already been mentioned but I've not been on the forum for over two months. While browsing last week I saw an advert for kelpie x greyhound on preloved and, as people are often asking after this cross, I thought I'd give it a mention.
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    I had trouble signing in for a while but all seems fine now...I thought I'd been black balled!
  20. Neal
    Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's a bustard...with a "u."
  21. Neal
    I thought it was just mine that preferred them but, like Bird said, mine would leave off running a rabbit inches from their nose if they saw a squirrel in the hedge. I've always assumed it's a bit of the "treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen" mentality. i.e. these rabbits are too easy I want an extremely agile giant rat which bites back, climbs trees and hides on the opposite side of the tree.
  22. Neal
    You know what they say...slow and steady wins the race. I've caught the occasional rabbit on Dartmoor and my dogs are 0% sighthound so keep trying.
  23. Neal
    I can see both sides. I like to know what's in the background of my dogs and, because temperament is the most important element for me, I'd look for dogs with the character I wanted in the pedigree. However, my second most important element would be heart (or grunt as I've heard it called in kelpies) basically that "No, I'm right and I'm not giving in" attitude. This is the main reason that I'd also aim for a dog bred from a long line of workers by preference too. As to whether I'd favour a dog with great temperaments in it's non-working parents or iffy temperaments from working pa
  24. Neal
    haha bloody right there they come in my garden by the bird feeder , so and sneak off and get me 177 air rifle, comeback by the window they fly off , they didnt move when i was there no gun , fook knows how they know lol i remeber years ago a fella told me woodies can tell the difference between a man hunting and a man working in the field he said they were very clever. They definitely got a 6th sense for it . I firmly believe they can smell theraband, whenever I haven't got the scout with me they'll pose perfectly but every time I bring it out they fly as soon as I see them.
  25. Neal
    I agree with Phil (but what would I know, I've not owned a lurcher for twelve years ). I think the problem for those of us starting out in the 80s and 90s was that we were programmed to think a "proper" lurcher had to have quantifiable amounts of given blood and that anybody breeding lurchers by mating two of them together was simply messing about and not being scientific enough. It was an easy patter to fall for.
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