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  1. Neal
    I don't know if they'd have had long term potential but...when I first moved into my house about eleven years ago I fenced off the last thirty feet of the garden for the bantams using home made/Heath Robinson hurdles. I also used a few of the off-cuts to put in as edging around the veg patch and several of them popped out a few leaves. I moved them the following year though so, as I say, I don't know if they'd have lasted and rooted or not.
  2. Neal
    Although kelpies rather than lurchers I've found little difference between their ability to retrieve based on the height of mine (which has ranged from a little under 18" to 22"). Rusty once jumped down from the sea wall to pick up a hand dumbbell washed up on the beach and carried it about two miles home. The one thing I have found though is that, whereas each would retrieve when worked on their tod, because they,re usually worked together one acts as the main retriever...no matter who catches it. Since Rusty (my previous retriever) died I,m pleased that Noggin has taken over that role
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    I agree, that was one of the main things that put me off reading it in the end. I have a few folders in which I used to put the articles I'd liked, ripped out and kept. Last year, while clearing out the loft, I found about two years worth of magazines and went through them all and probably kept less than half a dozen articles. Compare that to EDRD and I always read the entire magazine. I've never been a terrier-type person (gobby, noisy little things ) but I usually find I prefer the terrier articles and find them more interesting.
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    Sex In Dominos

    Neal replied to delswal's topic in General Talk

    HAha I thought the same. I thought it was something to do with a male and female end of the domino, maybe to do with odd and even numbers...I'm so naive.
  5. Neal
    Ours finally emerged last night but I think the males may have been waiting around for a few days before as I saw a buzzard on a low branch waiting for an unwary one to make a move during daylight late last week. Also saw my first adder of the year on Friday, I don't think I've ever seen one in February before.
  6. Neal
    Whatever you pick, test it out in different scenarios first. When I lived in Cumbria I knew somebody who had a first cross Border Collie x Samoyed called Woo...that was embarrassing every time he went missing, walking the fells shouting, "Woo!" Come to think of it, it was fairly embarrassing whispering it too.
  7. Neal
    Fagin: good choice. That's one on the short list for my next pup. Re human names for dogs: my brother and I were chatting once about how some human names fit dogs and others don't and we tried to think of the least dog-like human names...as a result my last lurcher (Moss) ended up with the nickname Trevor and my kelpie pup (Rusty) ended up as Terry (because he was chocolate and orange!).
  8. Neal
    I agree with Terry: with both recall and retrieving I find walking away from them is the best way to make them come towards you.
  9. Neal
    The first spawn I see in my local wood is almost always either on, or very nearly February 14th...must have romantic frogs here...but there's still none yet. I think there's just not been enough rain to make the large puddle they usually use deep enough.
  10. Neal
    Are you doubting the words of the owner of the dog, or plummer? There's a head scratcher for you neal lol Good point...I guess I'd say that the owner believed what he was telling me was true...but I didn't believe it. There was also the fact that several years before this he'd written an article in which he mentioned his aim to breed a strain of merle beardies and went on to say how little border blood they'd need to have before they could be regarded as "pure" beardie...lo and behold a few years later he said he'd discovered some pure beardies which mysteriously had a merle gene...bu
  11. Neal
    I met a supposed pure deerhound once at a show in Kent. It was the right height and coat but it was a blue merle...the owner swore it was an authentic 100% pure deerhound because a bloke called Plummer had told him it was! Need I say more?
  12. Neal

    Forestry Work

    Neal replied to terryd's topic in General Talk

    I did some "Heathland Management"work in the mid to late 90s and we were promised some training leading to a certificate for using a chainsaw. When we started we were then told by the bloke who was running it that there was no way he was going to train us all up in case we put him out of a job after...cheeky sod!
  13. Neal
    Didn't Pester have a fell x whippet after his Bedlington x whippet in the Shooting News days...or am I thinking of Stag Carter?
  14. Neal
    The two lines which I quote most often in everyday life are: "Let's hunt some orc!" by Viggo Mortensen in The Fellowship of the Ring and... "I came to Devon with no other view." delivered beautifully sarcastically by Hugh Laurie in Sense and Sensibility.
  15. Neal
    The finest actor the world has ever seen in my humble opinion.
  16. Neal
    I went to see it at the cinema and then went back to my house, which was being refurbished, and had no lights until I got to the far end of the corridor where my bedroom was...I was petrified! I had eyes like Marty Feldman until I dropped off!
  17. Neal
    I've had a continual cycle of it my way for several years now: I get despondent after seeing virtually nothing all winter then start to get my hopes up during late summer when I spot a few rabbits and almost​ consider getting in some ferrets again! Then, come autumn, it's as dry as a nun's knickers again. Mine have switched their attention almost completely to squirrels and woodies now. I keep considering getting another pup in, due to Noggin's accident, but it hardly seems worth it with no rabbits in evidence.
  18. Neal
    I really rate my Lundhags and they have the added benefit of no lining to go wrong which means they're more breathable. You get your waterproofing from the treatment you add to them and you vary the heating by varying your thickness of second sock (with a thin woolen sock next to your foot). Ultimately though the old adage is true...the best boot is one that fits!
  19. Neal
    I hope your luck changes soon Socks...remember to let all that bad luck out of the back door at midnight before you open the front door to let in the good! Your end to 2016 sounds like my beginning...started the year with three kelpies and ended up two months later with one with knackered feet, one RTA and one gone to that big paddock in the sky. Roll on 2017!
  20. Neal
    I am on,..No 10 ....and,...who gives a feck... I'm just glad someone realised I was joking...I was worried, after posting it, that someone might think I was serious!
  21. Neal
    Unfortunately I'm stuck at 3 but I'm trying really hard to be a 1 so that I can become a 2!
  22. Neal
    That was a pleasant coincidence...I was thinking about Iolo a couple of days ago when reading this thread and wondered how much base blood he had as I didn't remember seeing him on here in a while. Genuine question: why do most people with heavily base-blood saturated lurchers mate them to racy types or even pure sighthounds, especially after rating the original dog so much? Is it simply because of the knowledge that the pups will be more fixed in terms of percentages i.e. mating to a similar lurcher will give too much variation? As I say...genuine question.
  23. Neal
    I can recommend Timberbuild. Excellent build quality and service. I put down about six paving slabs in a flat area in the garden, went to work and came back to find it all built and ready for the dogs to move in. Still waterproof several years on, though they're now house dogs, but it comes in handy when I'm either away for the night or they come back from a walk a tad muddy!
  24. Neal
    I'm happy with my two. Scout is getting on a bit now and less gung-ho than she used to be and Noggin's accident means he may never quite reach the full potential I'd hoped for but, unless Scout goes before her time, I'm aiming to wait until Noggin's about seven before looking for my next one. Having said that, when I think how much research I did before I found Noggin...maybe I should start looking now as I've only got four years to go!
  25. Neal
    Funny coincidence: my December EDRD arrived today and there's an 18 month old kelpie for sale in the back.
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