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Definitely! I think the two best pieces of advice I've had about working kelpies is to remember that they like to work off their own initiative and (as a result of this) not to keep giving them instructions when they're already doing the right thing. I wasn't aware of these two points when I bought Rusty over fifteen years ago and believed all the hype that kelpies are like collies but tougher (surely you can't get tougher than a collie anyway) so trained him like my previous collie crosses. He soon taught me to accept the above points but I was glad to hear them echoed by lots of kelpie p
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Blackdog, I'll try to keep this short else I'll bore people with kelpie pedigrees. I've found all my kelpies to be very full on as pups and also to take a long time to mature. I remember somebody once describing old Rusty as a wall-of-death rider. However, when he reached maturity and "found" his final character he was very laid-back and could work/walk all day but switch off when at home. Amber was the same. Scout will now switch off but it's taken her longer and she's always been the most "worky" of mine. When I looked into getting a replacement for Rusty, I looked at his breeding a
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I knew my degree in Fine Art from Falmouth School of Art would come in handy on here one day!
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One idea: is it possible to have an information/facts and figures thread with information from people who really know what they're talking about? My reason for this is that I'm sure many of you, like myself, sometimes find it difficult to argue our side of the debate with our own opinions...even though they may be full of far more common sense than the anti argument. Maybe some genuine facts and figures could help us both discussing it with others and when writing to our MP. I've not received a reply yet either but it has been a bank holiday so I've not expected one. However, when I do (wh -
Damien Hirst? Or did he only do the shark?
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As above, I vary the routine as much as possible. However, as they're kelpies they're pretty good at switching off when at home (though the pup still has a permanent hose-pipe fitted to the run as he's more of a barker). The other benefit is that I don't have to worry about only taking them out in the cool of the day when the temperatures start to rise...sometimes they get so hot they'll even have a drink!
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That photo reminds me of the rat in my shed that I posted a topic about on Friday. I've seen a photo somewhere of a rat or squirrel that crawled into a bird feeder then couldn't get out after eating too much!
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Claire Grogan...she was Kylie before there was Kylie...now get back to the thread.
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Done...and thanks for putting the link up.
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He's a stunner...he looks like my Noggin after drinking a bottle of hair tonic.
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I've had an ongoing (though off and on) rat problem since moving to my present home nearly ten years ago. This has been due to previously owning bantams; a disused convent behind my house; the demolition of the aforementioned convent and subsequent building of a new housing estate and feeding the birds. It's come to the stage, on several occasions, that I've stopped feeding wild birds for several months at a time. Anyway, on Monday I found a bird-feeding station dumped in my local wood while taking the kelpies for their morning walk. It was one of those tall pole ones which looks like four
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...or bonking hedgehogs!
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As Gaz says; chicken wings are a brilliant introduction to BARF. I've started all my dogs off on chicken wings for the last fifteen or sixteen years. They spend a good ten or fifteen minutes per wing at first but when they get the hang of it they can finish a bowlful in seconds...crunch, crunch, gulp, crunch, crunch, gulp.
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I'd say both too, though the dogs would get more out of it (physically and mentally) if you left it unminced.
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More Ferreting With Tomo And Vin - New Video
Neal replied to FERRETBOY's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
Well done Gem and great video REW but boy am I jealous...in that opening hill shot there were more rabbits in one glance than I've seen in a whole year. -
I'd recommend Timberbuild. Not the cheapest but certainly not the most expensive and excellent service before, during and after.
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I've found that the best way to avoid a whack on the thumb is to be counter-intuitive i.e. your brain tells you to move your hand further away from the business end but doing the opposite works better.
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I find that mine are more interested in squirrels these days than rabbits...though that may simply be because we see a lot more of them. I think that, to a certain extent, it's aided by the fact that they seem more "annoyed" at squirrels than rabbits. It's as though they think that a rabbit going underground is perfectly acceptable whereas a squirrel using a tree is being sneaky, underhand and downright devious. I only started using a catapult at the tail end of last year but the pup picked it up really quickly and where he'd previously zoom off into woodland looking for squirrels here, th
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I'm always telling my wife that I'd like to leave the south east and head back either west or north (used to live in Cornwall and Cumbria) but considering the ribbing on this thread I'd probably keep it a secret and sign on again under a different name. Keep 'em coming; it's hilarious!
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I think the colour is the last part to be "added" so if you get to an egg quickly enough you can actually rub some of the colour off...only managed it once myself.
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Like Peter, I've had a bantam egg which I presume was shell-less as it looked like a gigantic piece of jelly. Had a long thin one once and a chalky textured one with lots of lumps and bumps like the surface of the moon.
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I think I'm safe...I keep them in the shed.
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Actually that's jogged my memory...mine roosted in the hedge first too and it was only because I could reach in and get them that they started using the much taller apple tree instead. If I ever get any more I'll let them pick their own spot.
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Don't worry LurcherLad94; he's not short in back...just long in leg! Good luck with him.
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want to hear a laugh? My chickens go in next door and steal his Willicks aka winkles, but they bloody bring them in my place and I find the shells everywhere! He will go mad if he finds out cause it's how he makes money :laugh: No word of a lie true as the day is long! I was always worried that my neighbours must be getting annoyed by the chickens paying occasional visits but when the fox took the last lot all the neighbours said they missed the daily visits. Some of my Welsumers refused to go in the coop and roosted in the apple tree every night...even in the snow. I had to t
