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'im is irie!
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I have three pure kelpies which are all kenneled together without any problems (touch wood). However, the oldest is an entire male and the younger two are spayed bitches so no competition between them. Youngest is just coming up for four and there's roughly a four year gap between each. However, I'm considering moving "the old fart" indoors this winter so it will be interesting to see if that changes the dynamics, though it shouldn't do as he's top dog anyway.
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Bump! Any advice in any direction would be helpful as I need to order it fairly soon. Thanks in advance.
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I walk to my bit of ferreting permission so I never take anything I won't need; that's why I use a bulldog.
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I'm glad you put this thread up as last week I saw a buck and doe displaying what appeared to me to be pretty obvious pre-mating behaviour ie male sneaking up to sniff her rear end, her pretending not be interested and then running round in circles with him following, then stopping to let him catch up: "Chase me!" Am I right in thinking this is a pre-cursor and if so is it, as you've ponted out, about five weeks too early. One further point, although there was a wooded area close by the behaviour was in the middle of a field.
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The first photo is a very attractive male whitethroat in full summer plumage: gorgeous!
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I'd echo what's been said above by Wuyang and Sorley x. Pastoral breeds tend to be very mixed simply because different locations require different things and different individuals have preferred different temperaments over the years. I have three pure kelpies and the two bitches are half sisters yet the difference between the way they work is pretty much the same as the differences mentioned by Wuyang above with regards to his two collie crosses. One needs lots of encouragement to leave my side and doesn't like anybody whereas the other loves everybody, hunts all day long and could find a
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I don't work lurchers any more but he bred the best one I ever owned.
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I hope I've not put you off as every other collie x whippet I've ever met or heard of has been great; I simply picked the wrong one in the litter.
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Best Binoculars - Quality Vs Price?
Neal replied to TommyGun86's topic in Reloading and Gun Maintenance
I have a pair of Steiners which have great clarity and colour quality. However, mine are only the Safari range and are 10 x 26 which means that although they're extremely light (about 300 g) they're not as good in low light conditions...but they worked fine this morning watching four bucks and three does in the rain. -
I had a 3/4 whippet 1/4 greyhound 3/4 border collie 1/4 beardie coliie in the 90s. She was about 19" and sired by one of David Hancock's collies out of a racing whippet. She was the most biddable dog I've ever had but although she'd do exactly as asked she'd ONLY do that ie no initiative whatsoever. I rehomed her at the age of about four or five when her extremely sensitive nature simply became too much for me.
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Over the next month or so I'm intending to get a new kennel and run. Due to the positioning of the kennel I'm unable to site it on concrete and therefore don't have the usual drainage. However, when researching Timberbuild kennels (of whom I've read nothing but praise) I discovered that they can supply hygienic, non-slip bases on rafts. This basically means that you can place the run on top, anywhere you want. While researching these raft bases I found two other companies who supply a similar product: Ultra Kennels and Duchy Farm Kennels. However, although both companies are cheaper I'm u
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I'm a teacher and I once did some private maths tuition to two muslim boys, one of whom was a bit badly behaved. After one lesson the father asked me what his behaviour had been like: "If he's been naughty; you tell me and I beat him." I didn't go back.
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A breeder of racing whippets once told me that the only suspect feet she had in any of her dogs were the ones with racing greyhound blood. She said that racing and coursing whippets and coursing greyhounds had to have good feet due to the variety of surfaces they run on whereas this wasn't necessarily true of racing greyhounds. It isn't that racing greyhounds don't have good feet, simply that they don't have to have feet as good as the others; in HER opinion.
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I'm currently done to zero bantams thanks to a visit from Tod through a tiny gap in the hedge I'd not spotted and which had been safe for the previous four years! However, I've always found wyandottes to be particularly broody, though in my case it was a negative as I was after eggs not chicks. I read somewhere about different ways of cooling down their rear-end including a quick bum-dunk in a bucket of water and (the extreme measure) giving them a clutch of ice-cubes to hatch. Well, one of my wyandottes "hatched" several litters of ice-cubes before I gave in and simply locked her out of t
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One of the best articles I ever read in the Shooting News/Countryman's Weekly (not sure how long ago it was but I'm fairly sure it was the former) was an article about collies. It was written by someone called S Merrell (I think, though not sure of the spelling) and concerned using collies a) to breed lurchers (don't know why this has come up as a smiley but it does it every time I do a "b" followed by a bracket) to produce other cross-breds and c) as hunting dogs in their own right. He mentioned a bedlington x collie owned by a friend of his which was a good little worker and a few weeks
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I've just checked and both articles are in volume 1. They're not attributed to anyone so presumably written by the editor. The article which grabbed my attention when I read it all those years ago was one in volume 2 entitled "Letter From New Zealand" which featured a kelpie x whippet called Sandy which was used for catching goats.
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Judging by the markings on the coat of the first one; I'd say it was definitely some kind of collie cross carrying the merle gene.
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I've always thought of myself as a bit of a glass half empty person but I'm pleased to say that, in general, I prefer my more recent dogs. I'd find it hard to choose between Rust (the kelpie in my avatar) and Scout (his tiny great neice). Scout, despite being pure kelpie, acts like I'd expect a small terrier x whippet to act; though having never owned one I'm just speculating. She's into everything and is very forward. Rust always makes me think of the kind of dogs you see in films or on tv eg Rin Tin Tin, Greyfriar's Bobby, Jerry Lee etc, rather than a "real" dog. I think my affecti
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I thought my two and a half year old son was an 80s throwback recently. We were walking through the local wood and he kept shouting out, "Agadoo! Agadoo!" It wasn't until my kelpie bitch stopped marking a squirrel in a tree and raced back to the path that I realised he was trying to copy me: "That'll do!"
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In an inner city school where I worked about nine or ten years ago the caretaker had cctv fitted and caught on film two year six kids climbing onto the roof of the school and cr*pp*ng down a trellis!
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We should completely ban hunting with dogs and ferreting. I cry every time I think of those poor bunnies and don't even get me started on those poor innocent ferrets, forced to work in dark, cramped conditions. Anybody caught and convicted should be deported to Australia or New Zealand...or maybe Canada, Norway, Finland or the Seychelles.
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can any of the older lads tell me what the lyrics of this song means?
Neal replied to scothunter's topic in General Talk
Completely agree with Comanche. Just because some songs, paintings, sculptures etc have a particular meaning, as intended by the artist, it doesn't necessarily mean that all do. That's the beauty of art; you can make it whatever you want and add or take what you want. One obvious example would be a landscape painting where the artist leaves out the pylons or makes one section of hedge taller. I think Paul McCartney's lyrics are another good example of this. ie he just puts things together which sound good (good being a massive understatement). Some people will tell you "Jet" is al -
I did have a hen blackbird sitting on a clutch of eggs in my hedge. It was only a day or two from hatching date when my neighbour decided to be a tad over zealous with his hedge trimming. As a result the very secret nest was given a sun roof and subsequently deserted. I've also currently got three long tailed tits spending a lot of time in the garden but not sure if they've nested here or not.
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Onedogman: thanks for the extra information.