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I think it must depend on the type of collie used, and the indivudual parents? The smallest genuine 1st X bitch I've seen was 21 inch. The largest 1st X dog I've heard of was allegedly 27ins! My bitch is just over 23ins.
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This bitch from the early ‘80s was Beardie/Border X Greyhound. I reckon most of the Collie influence must’ve come from the Beardie, as she was so similar in attitude to the bitch Stab’s describes above, I needn’t say more really. Here she is at about 10 weeks. She was quite precocious and made a decent rabbiting dog. The best thing about her was that she was a natural retriever with hardly any training. The worst thing about her was sheep breaking, we got there, but I never felt comfortable with her around sheep. Here’s my Border Collie Greyhound. Again a rabbiting dog, th
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I’ve raised retrieving questions from time to time on the various sites, and picked up various tips. Apologies to all those who've read all this before, but I'm still struggling on, and it's a slow process when trying to avoid sickening the dog of carrying. I have a 1st cross Border Collie X Greyhound bitch that’s been through the usual training and stock steadying routine, and is generally pretty obedient in normal circumstances. At 21 month old I don’t train her for the sake of it, more to provide mental stimulation. She particularly enjoys retrieving work, and so do I. But the
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Excellent pic.......
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I have to agree, AND I never bought owt either.... ....but I enjoyed the ferreting display in the main ring, ....and I met some good folk, and had a natter or three, and saw some nice lurchers.........so on balance it was much better than doing the decorating.....and I reckon my dog thought so too... (apart from the bit when she discovered the electric fence........... )
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Nope, I enjoyed reading that, looks like you've had a much better day than me....
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you cheered me up anyway!
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It’s hard to avoid posting these days, without seeming gloomy about the future. And for me, there’s still an air of unreality about the ban anyway. Saturday teatime we were mooching some relatively virgin yellow grassland down by the river. She put up an unexpected big rabbit from the yellow grass, a very large rabbit that she turned after a good run up, and boxed in against the high chainlink fence on the way back. It was only a small gap in the wire that saved the big rabbit, which went clattering up the embankment onto the railway. I was glad she couldn’t follow, it's a bit late for
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Not a great night for it, but we were out earlier tonight practising our walking to heel with the lamp......When to my complete amazement I spied a rabbit, but if that wasn't unusual enough, it was also a squatter. Now due to chances being few and far between, I've been putting her back on the string and walking her up to these, trying to do as I was shown, and get her in position to head them off, (usually with no result other than a good run). But tonight she looked like she could see it, so I sent her down the beam from 30 yards away, expecting she'd run straight by the rabbit, as
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Nice one...... ......I knew one of ewe would come back with that!
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A Welshman, an Australian and an Englishman are all in Saudi Arabia, sharing a smuggled crate of booze when, all of a sudden, Saudi police rush in and arrest them. The mere possession of alcohol is a severe offence in Saudi Arabia, so for the terrible crime of actually being caught consuming the booze, they are all sentenced to death! However, after many months and with the help of very good lawyers, they are able to successfully appeal their sentences down to life imprisonment. By a stroke of luck, it was a Saudi national holiday the day their trial finished, and the extremely ben
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It's an interesting lineage and seems worth keeping going, if Purdey is typical of the results. I can get quite interested in the "who begat who" side of things, and it means more cos I saw some of the earlier dogs in that line in the flesh. I remember seeing a pair of stunning red merle saplings by Romulus out of a James bitch at Chatsworth, probably '86 or '87? Can't remember who the owner was though we talked a bit, but I remember the lurchers. I think a photo of one of them appeared in a book or two.... :ph34r:
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Well the smoochers board is saying it's your birthday mate, 36 years old? Not bad age that I reckon, old enough.........yet still young enough......just about....
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I saw a bit of film of a Lakenois working, (don't know where, probably Sky, sure as hell wouldn't be the BBC these days! :realmad: ). And I wondered if it might make a good cross with a greyhound, and produce some workers..........and would pups be rough coated and would they look the part, and be an attractive sort of dog......and if so it might not be too hard to find homes for what was left, after the enthusiasts had taken their pick........ And then my fantasy turned into a "Belgian Sting" nightmare....... .....and I woke up and felt all soiled and dirty...........
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I’ve never bred a litter of anything, but regret not using this bitch To produce something like this
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Complex issues. And a very important point, anybody seen the film of what can go wrong in the process from live chicken to shrink wrapped roaster, right here in the UK? And if you have, do you now make sure that every piece of chicken you eat has been ethically reared and slaughtered? Thought not.......... It's not just the kind of death that these animals have, it's the life. In some ways, the shots of those fur farmed creatures going mad in the wire cages are just as awful when you imagine the mental torture. And if you have seen some of the stuff that goes on in the UK i
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If we're talking of the same Drum, according to the paper I have here............ he was sired by Billy, (a 1st Cross) out of Jewel, (Romulus X Tammy). The Griff X Rosie mating appears on the other line on this paper, resulting in Moss. If it's not the same Drum I'll shut up now........
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Not excusing it, just trying to explain it. I won't be showing anybody that clip, it's too grim. But you're damm right I won't be doing anything about it either. Partially because to be able to do anything at all, would involve getting in bed with the wrong sort, fanatics who see everything in black and white and think it's OK to dig somebody's granny up to make their point.
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Page 11 passed at their recent conference. That angling is on their radar at all should concern fishermen. "Oh well it's only the Greens".............but what if the Greens got in bed with New Labour? Their ideas on angling are very similar to those implemented by the Greens over in Germany......check them out on a British or American Army website, advice to those posted overseas! There's more than one way to restrict an activity. Subject it to enough legislation and bureaucracy and it eventually becomes not worth the effort....... http://www.greenparty.org.uk/files/confere...al%2
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Maybe he goes to a local college Borderfox? If not then yes, I agree with what you're saying there.
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Christ that's superb, I want it myself and it's not even my dog!........
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Thanks for that, grand pics and a grand looking Lurcher.
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Well I watched it at home last night, (daren’t watch stuff like that on the client’s kit). Watched it ALL the way through too. It was unremittingly grim, but unsurprising. Many of the South East Asian cultures have a reputation for callousness and don’t seem to place that much value on their own lives. So the suffering of animals won’t even register with some of them. I don’t think that delighting in cruelty is the motivation of the skinner in the film. He’s simply doing the job, probably in the way he’s been shown. Maybe there’s less blood to spoil the pelt that way? Maybe the ski
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Ain't it about time you cut that grass mate?............. He looks a smashing pup, it will be interesting to hear what temperament differences you notice training a dog as opposed to bitches.
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Awww..........c'mon..........you might as well stick around now, and let us know how the pointer X is doing. BTW chilli, I'm not sure that they were actually real women..........you didn't go and pull one did you...............
