Neal
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That looks great! My son has three "bug hotels" as he calls them. One is a small pile of almost completely rotted down short logs, one is a newly built pile of longer logs and the last is a pile of over one hundred old house bricks stacked on a wooden pallet. He stuffs old grass cuttings etc into gaps to make beds for them and builds bridges using branches so that the bugs can get from their "bedroom" to their "play area." Keeps him happy for hours and cheaper and healthier than a play station/x-box etc.
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I completely agree with Trenchfoot's comment above. Time and again, people with more experience that I will tell you that the best all-rounder is a half cross and that it can give you your best starting point. Some people then think, "Yeah, I need more speed now," whereas others, like myself, think, "I need more base blood."
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I catch more now with my pure kelpies than I did previously with lurchers and I've always assumed it's because I work them in very small fields connected by thick hedges and bordering dense woodland with even thicker undergrowth...or it could just be that my lurchers were crap! As I've mentioned on here before, my eldest was hit by a van as a pup and has never been particularly fast but he often knew where to look...but at nearly fourteen all he catches now is burrs!
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wasnt a kelpie just a of border collie that was took over to Oz in the 1st place, not say dingo may not have bred with the collie at some point.? But the sheep dogs out there i would think kept away from the dingos as the farmers would kill them if to close to there sheep+farms.Iknow ACD got dingo in its blood, but thought the kelpie would have try to been kept pure breed.? Hi Bird, My Mother in law imported an amazing kelpie book for me for my birthday last year (over 700 pages). It goes into great detail about all the various views, myths and legends of kelpie origins. To try to sque
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Saluki 246: if you put kelpie into the search on here you'll get a number of threads. There was a particularly long one a few years back and it had photos of my three on it...but it took me ages to work out how to put them up and I've not done it since.
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Do you mean the Bredl ones? One was shop brought and I think it's part of a series called Killer Instinct and the other was taped from The Discovery Channel in 1999.
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I have a few old videos and dvds of dingoes; two are with Rob Bredl (the barefoot bushman) and one is Wildlife on One and they all seem to be saying the same as above i.e. it's not so much the dingoes that are a problem but rather the crossbreds. One of my kelpies is cream and is very dingo-like in appearance (and demeanour). I've been told two different stories about why the creams are fairly rare and my guess is that it's a combination of both. Some say that when the kelpie was originally being developed all the cream pups were put down as many were trying to deny the addition of dingo
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I'm glad this thread came up as I was thinking of starting a similar one due to pondering along similar lines while walking the kelpies this morning. I never had much luck with "training" previous dogs to retrieve. However, when I got Rust (the one in my avatar who's now nearly fourteen) he was a natural. He just couldn't help himself and was always bring things over to me. His favourite when he was a pup was empty plastic bottles, which used to be left behind on my local field after the Sunday football league, when I lived in Pompey. He'd hold them in his front paws, unscrew the lid with
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If my kelpies didn't bark when a fox came in to check out the bantams I'd be miffed. And also; what about responsible dog owners with "occasionaly barking dogs" who have to put up with do-gooder neighbours who come round to "bark" at them. Fortunately, I don't get that problem as all my neighbours are very complimentary of my three but I'm sure a lot of people have to put up with that kind of thing.
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I never brush my dogs...I let the brambles do it for me!
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Good point, but...it also says "country life" under the logo. Also, there are several non-hunting sections on here already. I guess it comes down to whether it would be a section for working farm dogs working on farms or dogs descended from working farm dogs hunting. Did I get that right?
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A kelpie can be an Australian cattle dog but it's different to an Australian Cattle Dog.
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i do like the sturdiness (of build, feet and temperament) of these types and although ive had a few border collie x's over the years and agree that they are more likely to do what they're told, i too have lost count of the amount of times my beardie / border x has acted stupid (to me) seemed stubborn or downright disobedient and come up trumps making me feel dumb, i thought it was a beardie trait, maybe guys with experience of both could comment I know what you mean. Before having my first kelpie/collie lurcher I had three other lurchers with varying amounts of both types of collie an
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Problem solved. Went to see them this morning and told them what had happened and they said they were perfectly happy to either keep her or give her back. As the run they're in is completely fox proof I'll be going back to collect her later today but won't allow them to free range until the back of the garden has been secured. Thanks again for all the advice!
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Eh?
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Thanks for the advice!
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My three pure kelpies are all different in temperament. The thirteen year old male, Rust(in my avatar) was aggressive for the first few years and an extreme one-man-dog but completely changed when he was around three or four. He's now very easy going and sociable but still has that odd knack of disarming other aggressive dogs by his quiet confidence...which is good as one puff of wind and he'd fall over as he was knocked over by a van when he was eleven months old! The poor old fart can still just about make it to the wood and back. The nine year old cream bitch (Amber) only likes me,
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I had an impromptu daytime visit from Mr Tod on Sunday. I had three bantams (two R.I.R. and a welsumer) which lived free-range in a very mini-orchard in the back 30' of my garden. My wife was out in the garden around lunchtime and suddenly came running in to tell me that one of the bantams was making a hell of a racket, as though it were being strangled. As she doesn't have much to do with them I assumed she meant the "I've just laid an egg" call so I strolled outside nonchalently only to discover that there were no bantams. I had a good search around as it's quite overgrown and they often
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Good luck with her! The best lurcher I ever had was a kelpie/collie x greyhound. However, like Victor Kiam "I liked it so much I bought the company" and now keep just pure kelpies. Not everyone's cup of tea but they suit me perfectly.
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I posted about this in the previous topic. I have some bees nesting in a bird box in my wood store. I didn't know which species they were at the time but have since identified them as Bombus hypnorum. I've also since found a nest of the same species in my local wood and my son's school has some bees nesting in a lamp-post within the school. They have signs up everywhere warning people to keep their distance and saying that they're a protected species which can't be moved...which I'm sure is a little white lie but is good for the bees.
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I can see the benefits in theory but I wouldn't want to mate one of my kelpies to a beagle: I can't imagine the nose being any better than it already is and the temperament, obedience and ability to work in the summer heat would all be adversely effected too. Just my humble opinion.
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I can recommend Timberbuild.
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As Phil Lloyd said earlier in the thread; some people just don't get on with collies (that may not be verbatim but I couldn't find the post to quote it). I started out with lurchers because that was what I thought I wanted/needed and chose collie crosses becauses they were what I prefered. However, I found, with the benefit of experience, that I actually got on better with the pure breed than one with added sighthound. As I've said many times, I know I'd catch more with a lurcher and the majority of people on here would laugh at the lack of game I catch but I'd rather spend the day with my
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you and me both your just dog walkers pushing the odd thing out enjoy your walks lads dont forget the bricks to throw in to move the stuff for your runners Runners? My three are so bloody slow the only chance they have of catching anything is if it's in a bush! Edited to add: oops sorry Troter 58 I seem to have added my comment within your quote box...if you pardon the expression!
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Having re-read some of these posts I think I'd add: a dog that works with me rather than for me.
