Neal
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I found a piss head up there a week ago. 11pm at night. Dogs took off towards the noise, I followed and found a pissed up guy rolling round having trouble navigating the wood. Gutted was an under statement. Thought my luck was in. I used to find the shore side of Browndown so infuriating; all those rabbits but the crunch of pebbles underfoot always spooked them and the little collie x whippet always came back with nothing. Even worse when I kept bumping into little old ladies with lapdogs complaining about how their "little darlings" kept catching the "poor bunnies." I'd give a lot for
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Does that mean that a wall eye either doesn't have a tapetum or that it doesn't reflect visible light back for some reason? Anybody know?
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...everything we caught...legally. And he may be only 20" but he's definitely three times every other dog I've had.
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The old kelpie in my avatar always retrieved everything; no matter who caught it. There were even a few times when he found long dead rabbits and dropped them at my feet.
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Great photos of a stunning location. Coming from Hampshire with its patchwork of small woods and fields (and encroaching tide of concrete) I've always loved Devon and Cumbria for their wide open spaces. However, I've only been to Scotland once, in my late teens/early twenties while living in Cornwall, and while previously being impressed by the Cumbrian fells (due to the flatness of my part of Hampshire) Scotland was in another league. Two of my highlights would have to be camping at Applecross with red deer wandering around the camp site and stopping at the high point on the way out of A
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Walking through Browndown near Lee-on-the-Solent with Skye, my old collie x whippet, and I saw a chap popping out from some bushes. I thought nothing of it at first until, about thirty seconds later, another chap came out from the same bushes looking very apprehensive. Me being a complete innocent to the ways of the world in my early twenties assumed they were bird watching and had found a nest so I waited until they both disappeared and went to have a look...I found two pieces of rope tied to two branches around six foot from the ground and about five foot apart! Being a bit naïve it took a f
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I've used the traditional method but adapted i.e. used in daytime for bushing out rabbits into from flooded ground. Long time ago though and a communal affair so somebody else's nets. Lots of fun.
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I once had a collie x whippet with a first cross collie/greyhound just a few generations back on the racing greyhound side.
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Not from personal experience at all as I've only ever killed one fox with a lurcher but I've always thought the same i.e. odd that so many lurchers won't take fox whereas so many terriers will. I read somewhere recently (I think it was in "In Defence of Dogs") that dogs have little appreciation of size differences, which is why you get so many huge dogs running away from gobby/gassy little things (little man syndrome). Apparently they simply don't realise they're smaller...not sure how much I believe that. Maybe, by combining the two, you get the answer, i.e. it's all in the mind; par
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My granddad had rows of rabbit cages at the bottom of the garden. His were kept for showing (and cropping the grass on their tiny lawn) but I remember my mum saying that they usually ate one per week...she always went on about picking all the meat out of the heads! Not sure which breed his were but they were mainly black and white with "collie markings" (maybe Dutch) plus some pure whites. I also have a very old pamphlet called "Rabbit Meat Production" by Edwin E. Sutton in which he recommends, as "the most profitable breeds," Chinchilla, Giganta, Beveren, Flemish Giant and New Zealand Wh
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I've still got the original flats that my scout came with (maybe I'm just not shooting enough ). I occasioanly re-try a set of single theraband gold which is thicker than the scout stuff but my accuracy and power go immediately. As 1Wally said, it's all personal. I'd also agree about gradually decreasing the length of the bands until you find the right length for you...though this is of course much easier with a scout as the bands only take moments to change. Incidentally, I started out with marbles, simply because I could get a big bag for a quid from a certain well known shop, but now u
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It can be a bit of six of one and half a dozen of the other. A lot of collies can be very unfriendly but it's often, as somebody above pointed out, because their kept on a chain with nothing to do. People are wary of my youngest kelpie as he's 22", pricked ears, black and tan and looks decidedly unfriendly...but looks can be deceptive and he's less likely to do you any harm than the gassy little affenpinscher in my neighbours' garden. Sometimes you want a dog which looks the part but other times you want one which makes a lot of noise.
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Thank you!
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Completely agree with Phil's comments. For what I want I definitely need a dog which thinks and works the way I want as opposed to looks the way I want (sorry for the poor grammar: too many wants). With Noggin I did a lot of research into the pedigrees of my other three kelpies; thought about what I liked and disliked about each one and where these attributes came from i.e. breeding or from me and then found a breeder who was producing the kind of dog I wanted. Actually, when I approached her about a particular litter she pointed me towards another litter she was intending to breed which
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out of interest, how far from 100% did you go before you went to the dark side? "The dark Side"? ...I had a first cross beardie x greyhound, a 3/4 beardie/border 1/4 greyhound, a collie x whippet (sire was 3/4 border 1/4 beardie and dam was 3/4 whippet 1/4 greyhound but with an added collie x greyhound a few generations back on the whippet side) and a kelpie/collie x greyhound. It would be difficult to rate them in order as I freely admit to getting on much better with dogs than bitches so, in general, my males have always been my favourites. The only exception is my wee Scout...I do
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Well, Happy Birthday to all of you who, like me, are sharing their birthday with a day which celebrates the most important people in our world. And Happy Mother's Day to all the fantastic mums still with us (like my lovely wife) and those who sadly aren't and make us cry with gratitude for what they did: like mine. Love you Mum.X
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do you find them more obedient than other types youve had? ive had and been out with a few highly driven dogs and theyre a pain in the arse a lot of the time,i enjoy going out with my curret slow,stupid busher more tha any of them because she does exactly as shes told no matter what,never argues over a catch or huts too far etc It's difficult to say as the lurchers I worked previously were all beardie, border or kelpie blooded too so they've all been obedient...I used to get parents coming up and asking if I could train their kids...but they've all been different. I had a collie x whi
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I've enjoyed my bushing/mooching/ferreting a lot more since I increased the percentage of pastoral blood in my dogs to 100! I know they're not as fast but they often have the knack of being in the right spot at the right time and I personally find working with them a lot more fun.
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I thought it was a foot scraper for M.Ps and RSPCA officials.
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If you put business cards under the windscreen wipers of the 4 x 4s around here you'd probably get complaints from all the vegan mummies doing the school run before popping off to pilates and a frappachinno (sp) in Costa.
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I met a heeler once, about five years ago, in Portsmouth which was a better build than the showy ones you normally see. It was being looked after by a bloke for his mate over xmas and had been imported from France so maybe they have working lines over there. From behind I thought it was a stunning, chunky, prick-eared collie...until I drew level with it. Lovely calm temperament too.
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53%
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Jigsaw, you should definitely consider sending off a full write up of one of your "goating" exploits to EDRD. Brilliant read!
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Apologies for interrupting the thread, but what does "half drawing" mean?
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There's a shop in Manchester which is currently selling the forest for 25% off.
