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    I've got a really geeky memory. Didn't you have a collie hybrid called 'Maddie' which would jump anything? I'm going back to The Shooting News era. Or, even better, how about the one of Speckle jumping off the jetty? That's my all time favourite lurcher photo. Are you another dog geek?
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    I've got a really geeky memory. Didn't you have a collie hybrid called (mad) 'Maddie' which would jump anything? I'm going back to The Shooting News era.
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    Like the way the dog is using his brains. He's jumping with plenty of clearance to make sure his catch doesn't hit the wire.
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    There's a big difference between a dog that jumps for fun and with complete confidence and one that jumps but with no real confidence in its ability. Your dog looks like jumping is second nature to it. Anybody any pics of lurchers jumping hedges? That's a difficult thing to teach a dog, but when mastered it puts plenty of gear in the bag.
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    Who bred it if you don't mind me asking? A further piece of advice I would offer, is to work on recall before letting him work. A dog that won't come back to you after a chase, especially at night, is not worth the bother.
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    good way of putting it jukel,
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    Sal gives more wind and a more thinking running style. Back to the question as to whether greys are too fragile. how many prey animals do you see in the wild with the same frame as a greyhound? The only one that comes close is the cheetah which runs on the flat. Evolution has dictated that for running on varied ground, a more robust constitution is needed. For me a greyhound is like a sports car. You wouldn't run a sports car on stony, uneven ploughed field. sooner or later it will get badly damaged.
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    Thats right mate. thanks What cross is your pup mate? He look really alert and clued up.
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    Do you work your saluki lurcher on that stuff? How does your saluki lurcher compare with working Minshaw types? Totally different types of course but I would be very interested in your thoughts.
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    I've seen greyhounds break legs, hocks and wrists just running on sand at tracks. It just seems wrong to me to run them on rough ground that you would expect a lurcher to handle. Flat fields yes, but rough and tumble stuff should be left to dogs with heavier frames in my opinion. Whippets don't carry the weight of greyhounds so, again in my opinion, get away with knocks easier.
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    I always find mixy rabbits are quite slow.
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    So what is the breeding of the dog you mated to a grey bitch?
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    So the bull deerhound in the third pic is half bull and a quarter each of greyhound and deerhound?
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    Bird Id

    jukel123 replied to paulus's topic in General Talk

    bee eater image Saw some of these in Cumbria this year. Seen them in Spain too. When I saw your bird Paulus I thought it was possibly a bee eater. But it obviously isn't. I think it must have been a Wagtail.
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    Bird Id

    jukel123 replied to paulus's topic in General Talk

    Wagtail on steroids? Def not a Great tit BGD you tit.
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    Me, I love second hand underwear. It's a free country.
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    Nice tight beam. What lamp were you using?
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    I was having a wander in the hills around Glenshee, Aberdeenshire, when I spotted a hare which looked unlike any hare I'd seen before. The hills are teeming with blue hares but this one looked bigger with longer ears but not a brown hare. I am definitely not saying it was a blue/brown hybrid, just asking the question. Is a hybrid possible between the two species?
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    Don't shoot the messenger, but I had a dog castrated once, and he still wanted, and was capable of mating and tying with bitches. Dogs can take after their owners.
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    I agree there's no sport in killing leverets. There's nothing easier to kill or catch. Surprising how often you find leverets at strange times of the year.
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    I claim the prize. Rip Kip:-You Never Gave Me Any You Fecker ... - The Hunting Life
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    Be interesting to disrupt a dog's sense of smell and see if it can find its way back as easily. It may well be scent that they use to locate their owners but I'm not sure. Some dogs are uncanny at finding you and some are rubbish. Just from observation,I think there is something else involved.
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    A friend of mine, a spaniel trainer, got me to supply him with wild rabbits for his training pen. The spaniels sure knew the difference between the semi tame rabbits and the genuinely wild. They would hunt the latter with far more gusto. I'm not sure whether it was the scent of the truly wild rabbits or the panicked reactions of the wild ones when hunted up that excited them. But they knew all right.
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    I've released wild/dutch type hybrids many times just for the fun of seeing dutch coloured rabbits turn up. As has been said you get 'sports' appearing from year to year but eventually they revert to type.Not surprising evolution has dictated that the wild colour stands most chance of survival. Anybody ever read'The Way to an Island', It describes how a guy tried to colonise a welsh island with meat rabbits. He intended to live off the money he made from 'farming' the meat rabbits. Turns out he couldn't completely wipe out the wild population so his plan failed to be a viable concern. I've p
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    Kellly Maloney is in frantic negotiations with Ronnie Pckering to fight the winner.
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