Neal
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Where I work my dogs, thick woodland with the occasional small field inbetween is the norm.
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One of my kelpie bitches is allergic to wasp or bee stings, or both, and on one occasion her head ballooned up leaving her looking like an English bull terrier. Conversely, a kelpie/collie x greyhound I had once dug up an underground wasps' nest and was covered by a swarm of them. I'd heard that if you travel far enough they'll leave you alone so I took off my jacket, ran into the middle of the swarm, wrapped the dog up in the jacket and ran like mad. After about a hundred yards or so they'd stopped so I put him down, shook out the jacket (to dislodge several wasps from the pockets) and th
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Two of my kelpies eat logan and tay berries from the bush in the garden and the eldest is currently also pinching the lower plums from my victoria plum tree.
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I think Poacher3161's right ie that it's a buff tip. That looks like beech they're feeding on which would fit their diet.
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Anyone buying or looking to change locators?
Neal replied to FightTheBan's topic in Hunting Equipment
Minor change of subject, if that's alright: does anybody know why there are several companies making terrier locators but only one has branched out into ferret locators? I was just wondering why nobody other than Deben make both. -
Thanks for the feedback, GetOnItSkinDown, as I said, I was just letting others know there was some pest control element to that episode in case they wanted to watch. I'm afraid I missed it as my better half was watching something else until half past that week. I was hoping it may have been some kind of pest control device, trap etc which is why I thought others may have been interested. Thanks again for the extra information.
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Earlier today I was going through the memory card on my camers, deleting any unwanted shots before taking my son to Marwell tomorrow, and found some photos I'd forgotten about. They were taken at Whipsnade this year and were of a wild muntjac wandering around by a bison enclosure. It reminded me of when I went to London Zoo years ago and everybody was getting excited about a heron in the penguin pool. Also at Whipsnade I took some shots of two brown bears having an afternoon snack: some ducklings which the parents decided would enjoy a swim in the bear pool. Not a good idea. Several pe
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You should try Welsumers. My Wyandotte bantams can polish off a handful or more of pellets each day whereas my Welsumers survive almost complately on grass, weeds, spiders etc.
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You should get a pure one Stroller, they don't tear as easily. Have to say, that's a good point about their attitude to "the one that got away." My youngest doesn't even stop when she puts rabbits to ground, she just starts digging. To be honest it's one of her few faults and I'm not certain how to deal with it ie I don't want to stifle her do or die spirit but I don't want her to stop the rabbits from bolting. On one occasion I lost her in thick forestry (fortunately on my permission) and only found her by hearing her grunting as she tried to rip out tree roots under a stump. Edite
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Oddly enough, my youngest bitch was much older than any bitch I've known before coming into season too; and she's always been a tad on the slim side. She looks more like a kelpie x whippet than a pure kelpie, shame she's not as fast though.
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I've only had one lurcher with kelpie blood (1/4 kelpie 1/4 collie 1/2 greyhound) but I much preferred him, both temperament and work wise, to my previous collie crosses. However, it has to be said that the collie line he came from was particularly good, so that's hardly conclusive evidence. You're not alone in finding your kelpie cross a bit full on, Stroller, though, like all breeds (including collies) there's a lot of disparity between different individuals. All three of my pure kelpies are pretty good at switching off when they're not working...but some are slightly better than oth
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Apparently the cone was over 4' and it housed, if that's the right word, around half a million wasps.
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My kelpies, like the collies mentioned above, tend to prefer to sleep on the bare boards. However, I always put some kind of blanket/bedding in there for them (just in case) but they usually ruck it up to the edges. Incidentally, how do you get rid of the hairs which invariably come out in the washing machine whenever you wash the "washable" blankets...even my wife's hand held Dyson has trouble with them. My last lurcher (kelpie/collie x greyhound) used to drag his blanket out of the kennel and sleep on the flagstones as a pup until he was old enough to jump on top of the kennel and s
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I've just noticed that, according to my TV guide, there's some kind of pest control element to tonight's Dragons' Den. No more details other than that I'm afraid but I thought some of you might be interested.
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In that case, unless the dog is half chameleon, I give in.
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I think, to a certain extent, it depends on the individual dog. The kelpie in my avatar has small, tight, round feet and after trimming his nails a couple of times as a pup, I've not needed to do them now for over ten years but I've had some dogs which needed regular trims.
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Good point...maybe some piercings then?
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Darn it! I was so sure I was right but now that I look again I can see that the same doesn't happen with the darker green in the foreground. Was the dog still through the whole shot?
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Easily the best lurcher I've ever owned was my last one. Moss was a 1/4 border collie 1/4 kelpie 1/2 greyhound, bred by Dave Sleight. Unfortunately, I had to rehome him about five years ago at the age of seven as the antipathy between him and my male kelpie had reached dangerous levels. As he was so friendly and easy going he was the obvious candidate to go so he had a nice early retirement to a family/pet home. He was put to sleep earlier this year, at the age of twelve, after a short illness.
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In the first photo I thought it may have been a pale mark on the dog's back which just happens to coincide with the horizon, but that wouldn't explain the second photo. Is it due to a long exposure time ie enough time for the dog to wander into or out of the shot?
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It's not so much the cutting, as getting them to stay still while the nail varnish dries.
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I've been asked if my oldest Kelpie, Rust (the one in my avatar) is a husky, collie, alsation cross, basenji, fox, wolf, rescue dog and my personal favourite: "he looks like a bonsai alsation." My cream kelpie has been described as an Ibizan hound, dingo, fox and lurcher. Now that I've got three, most people realise that they're the same breed but assume I've been really kind and rehomed three mongrels from the same family.
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Drew, at a very rough guess, I'd estimate about 16" - 17" but that's just a guess. He had a nice tight gingery coat with a blond curly top coat.
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Hi, my dad had a bedlington x border during the 80s - 90s. If my memory serves me well, it was an accidental mating. It was a bit too big for going to ground but he used it as a drawing dog (is that the right word? sorry, I'm not a terrierman). It was a very intelligent dog and a real character. It once worked out how to open the bolt on one of the dog sheds in order to get inside to mate an-in season lurcher. He tried to recreate him by breeding a litter of first crosses but none of them had the same stamp as him.