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It was Browndown between Gosport and Lee-On-The-Solent. Needless to say I immediately called them back, pointed out that they'd dropped something and asked them to bend over and pick it up for me! :kiss:
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While researching this topic today I also ended up with this article about the suitability of vaccines for leptospirosis. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/k9health/wwwchc...0Nov%202006.pdf I hope I've typed that out correctly.
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I've always used the traditional route of initial jabs followed by annual boosters, however one of mine is up for his booster this week so I took the time (a very long time) to read the information put up by Ditch and as a result I will no longer be going the booster route. It's a very long and tiring read but if you keep with it it's worth it.
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While walking through a particular beauty spot on the south coast I saw two blokes leaving some bushes and walking off in different directions. Now me being a bit innocent and wet around the ears thought nothing of it until I noticed some ropes tied up to the branches in the trees at spread-eagle height and distance. Trust me to get the wrong sort of courting couple.
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I had the same thing happen to me once following a call from a "concerned neighbour." The really ironic thing was that the "poor skinny dog" was not only a half bred but was also a pup so was actually chunkier looking than he turned out as an adult. I got really irate with the RSPCA bloke then apologised as it wasn't actually his fault. When I invited him in to see the dog he was gob-smacked and actually quite pi**ed off at having his time wasted, so much so that, although calls are supposed to be confidential, he told me which of my neighbours it was.
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Thanks Mike, I thought I noticed a family resemblance. The sire of my bitches is Lyndhurst Shep who's also sired by Cracker and the Woolstone bitch, which is the dam of my younger bitch, was sired by Krypto out of another Lyndhurst bitch. I've heard excellent things about Krypto and his pups both for farm work and as hunting dogs. My young bitch is coming up for eleven months now but has still not had her first season. She's barely 18" and looks like a mongrely Manchester Terrier.
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I heard about those black squirrels recently, though I can't remember if I read it or saw it on TV. Apparently, they are ousting the greys as they are more aggressive, even though they are merely melanistic greys themselves. As for the blackbirds, I've seen quite a few with one or two white feathers, usually in the wings, but where I live now there's one with white around the head. You'd think they'd be bred out as a result of being more conspicuous but I suppose the hens must like something about them.
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Hi Mike, sorry to hijack your pup thread just to ask about the dam but I was interested to know what her breeding is. I have an Attford bred dog and two Elidyr bitches. The two bitches were sired by a Lyndhurst dog out of a Letnetti (German) bitch in one case and a Woolstone bitch in the other. I use mine for ferreting, bushing etc too though I've never used mine for beating as I've always been a tad worried that someone a bit trigger happy might mistake them for a fox.
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I've got some of Brian Brided's bramble purse nets (designed for use amongst brambles as opposed to made of bramble ) and they're great. Does anybody have any experience of his heavier stop nets?
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No, it's a chihuahua x saluki: honest! Oh, OK, I admit it, it's a kelpie.
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When I lived in the city, mine used to get their daily walk around a large park which was used for Sunday football league fixtures. As a result it was always littered with plastic bottles. He used to pick one up, unscrew the lid with his teeth while holding it in his front paws then bring it to me to kick around for him to retrieve. He'd then keep hold of it as we approached the park gates and carry it all the way home. When we got home I'd take it off him and put it into the recycling bin and after doing this a couple of times he used to just drop it alongside the same bin. On another occasio
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I had a rough coated lurcher once who's coat was so thick I remember him getting snagged on a loose bit of barbed wire, he just pulled himself free leaving behind a tuft of hair on the wire with no damage to his skin. However, when he got wet he stank for days. I prefer a good tight, thick, smooth coat over decent skin.
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Lurcher, lurcher, lurcher, lurcher, kelpie, kelpie and kelpie, in that order.
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I've had dogs with and dogs without and so far have had no problems either way, touch wood. When I bought my first lurcher somebody pointed out to me that cheetahs use their dewclaws to help trip prey up but conversely dingos don't have dewclaws and they seem to manage fine without them.
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I like several crime novelists like Rendell, McDermid etc but my all time favourite book is Roald Dahl's "The Twits." Anything by Dahl is great to read out loud to kids because of all the great voices you can make up for the completely over the top characters.
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As a teacher, I often get the kids in the class to do similar activities at the beginning of the lesson. Not just me, I hasten to add, it's a nationwide thing. It's called Brain Gym and we use it to encourage the use of both hemispheres of the brain. The kids love it. I work one day a week in an infant school and it's great seeing four and five year olds trying to master some of the things; not quite as tricky as the photos above though.
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Personally, I think she made a very valid point; after all, what this country needs is more stinger nettles!
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Marvin Gaye's "Heard It Through The Grapevine." It was either number one when I was born or the next one to reach number one, preceeded by "Where Do You Go To My Lovely?" . Apparently, I've also heard it's been voted the best record of all time by other musicians.
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If you draw an imaginary line around the pair of slots in the photo it makes an almost perfect circle; all the roe slots in my neck of the woods are more elongated than that. As to the depth, could it be that it's risen again if the ground is peat/marshy? From the photos in a book I've got I'd say it most closely resembles boar though it's difficult to tell in moist ground as when the foot's taken out the shape alters, which I have to admit kind of goes against my earlier comment about roe.
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I'd agree with Stabs' first post and Scallywag's last post; when I took my Kelpie bitch out and began my own ferreting career I simply put a ferret in every time I thought it might possibly be a mark until I got the hang of reading her accurately. Since then there have been times when I've been convinced something was at home though she ignored it and also when she marked buries I was sure were deserted eg cobwebs etc but every time her nose proved more accurate than my fieldcraft.
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Of the bantams that I had (unfortunately now the past tense as a neighbours' Lakeland popped round and has left me with only one Welsummer ) the Wyandottes were the most broody. One would go berserk at me every time I turfed her off the others' eggs. She got quite bad at defending "her" nest and would try to fight her way in if I locked another bantam into the box to lay its egg. I've never had Silkies but have heard that they make particularly good broodies.
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Try www.huntawayclub.co.uk.
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I think Huntaways use their voice to work so could possibly produce a noisy lurcher. As for Cattle Dogs, I think that the majority, if not all, of breeders in this country breed for show. I think it's because ACDs are more exaggerated/exaggeratable (for want of a better term) than Kelpies so ACDs have been imported in order to produce expensive ACDs whereas Kelpies have been imported in order to produce working sheep and cattle dogs. But then again I am biased.
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I've used a variety of whistles eg buffalo horn, shepherds whistle (or at least I tried to get a note from it) and silent whistle but I find the dogs work better to my own, mouth only, whistle. I guess the preference over conventional or silent would depend on whether or not you wanted to be heard.
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Lurchers catching Pheasants and Feather?
Neal replied to cúagusgiorraí's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
My latest Kelpie bitch, now nine months old, caught a couple of wood pigeons but I have to admit that they'd been winged by the farmer first. She has a stronger hunting instinct than her half-sister and as a result I'm finding it harder to break her to the pheasants than I did with either of my other two. But I am trying; honest!