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5 hours ago, jackthelad said:
She was sold to me as a bull deer grey.... but there’s bedlington in there it’s screaming out of her smallest bitch in the litter all the rest 26 27 inch good bitch easily trained entered early .... that’s a belly brother to her so that’s what’s under the hair
Nice thing that....
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It's funny ain't it, but i can remember Billy G. running a big 3/4 bull cross in his Calender Cup comps and it destroying the field on many occasion, and that dog was bred out of Warlock, Pies belly brother...
Mates of mine, over the years getting invites out by coursing men, to the fen's and thier bull bloods running really well on those coursing fields. Dogs that gained the respect of the lads that seen em run. And no, it was never their game, but jesus, for what they were, they could run..!!
So lets cut to the lampers, those bull bloods that could put 40 to 60 bunnies in a bag, night after night, and i know, as my half breds were doing that 3 times a week. I owned 3 of those, their primary ground was dune scape but i'd do the same in Wales, Cheshire, Shropshire and anywhere else i'd get a night on. And that was just rabbits..!!
Thing is, i didn't own the only mutts that could do this, easy.... You see, REAL bull bloods were bred out of a pit... A game which requires as much stamina as any dog game on this earth...
2 hours plus, of life or death grapple in the box... You better bet the best are trained for the distance... And if you don't understand that, then fool you are..!!
These days, there are many piss poor bull bloods, BUT don't for one second doubt what a real one can do...
I've seen many more piss poor Saluki crosses, than i've ever seen bull bloods...!!!
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8 hours ago, SheepChaser said:
If only the climate was different....
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5 hours ago, Leo Sayer said:
My good friend Mark Brick used to say he always looked like George Michael
Yer, George Michael in a headlock...!
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55 and enjoying every day of it...
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1 hour ago, Jonjon79 said:
No mate............
Sally Field...
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RIP Sandy baby...
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1 hour ago, eastcoast said:
Going off on a tangent here but have always liked the attached painting, that has uploaded pissed for some reason. Norman Cornish "Man at Bar With Dog on Lead". The breed is not specified but when talking to people about the picture or reading critiques they always assume that it is a whippet, I have always thought that it looks more like a whippet x greyhound or scratch dog rather than a whippet.
From the generation before me but would see the scene in bars sometimes when I was younger, not seen it for many years now. These days it is all about being proud of who you are and celebrating your culture... well blokes in flat caps having a pint with a racing dog in tow is part of my culture. It should be called "just taking the dog round the block pet 'tiil the tea's ready" the tea often ending up in the bin or in the dog's bowl.
Spot on Eastcoast...
My old bitch certainly came from such a background. My dad came back from the pub with the pup in hand.
First crosses, the biggest getting sold off, probably just for a pint or two. The pup came home, was put on the floor and my dads collie cur thrashed it. That old sly bitch hated the spindly puppy and my Mum took it to live with her spinster Aunts, 4 doors up the street.
Here she stayed, though very much my dog. She got her own back from that early thrashing, many times over. Because when doors were left open, she'd dart up our lobby, into the kitchen and wolf down the cur dogs grub in seconds, before racing out into the street and away...
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Showing both bushing dogs, and working Teckel's, at tomorrows show...
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Got both bushing dog classes and Teckle classes, as well as the Lurcher and Terrier classes tomorrow..
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Our Sandy, first cross Whippet/Greyhound. Hard as fecking nails. An avid cat killer that went through a shop window after her prey. In the terriced streets where we lived, she ran cats along the back yard walls, after leaping up off the coal bunkers. She came a cropper many a time, broke toes, ribs and sliced tendons but she never quit on em.
Thats me, on the left, next to mum, our Sandy was my first hunting dog and over the years as i was growing up, we caught loads of stuff, from rabbits to foxes. I foolishly retired her aged 15 whilst she was still catching rabbits and she pined away and died within six months... This is the only photo i have of her.
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Of course a good rub down before & after graft would be benificial, and i've seen some fantastic videos on the subject.
Back in the day on those lamping missions all over the country, it was a case of a few hours drive to your chosen speck, find a field, bail out, walk a few yards along a hedge stand still and call. Then run, hopefully catch and straight back in the motor and on to the next decent field or pair of eyes. Our poor dogs just about had time to shit and it was total stop start for them. Christ, it was tough on them, but the best did it, week in week out. No rub downs, just patched up and we're out again tomorrow.
These days i've grown up a bit, those missions are long gone, and i like to see a dog getting a bit of a warm up and a cool down on a nights work. Still don't rub down mind, i just don't have the time, or just wouldn't be arsed... I keep Lurchers, not F1 greyhounds. I expect the types i've kept to be a damn sight more rubust than a purebred BUT if folks add it to their regime, then more power to them and their dogs...
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Forced to turn off this mornings news because of the shite spouted on the dangers of 'the heatwave'...
Just bollox, it's gonna get in the early 30's between Sunday and Monday and they are trying to make out the country's in crisis...!
Boils my piss...
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A bloke I know is a kc Pharaoh hound judge and I once bumped into him talking to a lady who had a stu ning Pharaoh on a lead. I asked him if they could catch rabbits, of course they could, was his answer and proceded to lecture me about how good the breed was at hunting. The lady with him said nothing. I bumped into her a few weeks later, she remembered me and told me the dog couldn't catch a rabbit in a telephone box and, when let off a lead would either do nothing, or run itself into a state of collapse. Either way, the dog wouldn't ever come back and she faced miles of lead walking every day to keep it in show shape! I told her she'd be better off with a track greyhound, and maybe win some money back..!!
He's a helmet and so are the hounds he judges...
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On 09/07/2022 at 09:09, gaza said:
Cheers mate. St Helens is closer if he still did a run there but that shops not a million miles away to stock the freezer.
Saturdays from 11.30am
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I do like an Ormskirk/Lancashire Heeler though. As a kid there were loads of em about, sadly not so many now.
And we all knew, never try to befriend one, they had the snap of an alligator...!
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On 09/07/2022 at 21:41, Bush Rummager said:
Old one of me here... guessing about '87 ish. Trusty old school lab and an Italian Spinone. I don't think there were many Spinone's in the country back then. Stiil hardly see any now but when i have they seem big cloddy overweight things. Probably bred for the ring. He ended up in the hands of some wrong uns before my dad took him on for a new start. Fantastic dog into the wind on winter wheat to find a seated hare and throw a point.. totally natural to him it was. Very timid though.. probably due to his early start in life... hence the name we gave him.. Tim..
Check my catty out!!
Your dead right about Spinones these days. One of the Rangers on a nearby country park has one. Like it's parents, it's a big, cloddy, ungainly thing. Hardy got a run, or free movement in it. Fecking orrible...
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All i seem to see these days is dogmen and former dogmen advertising bull blooded, balls of blubber puppies these days.
It's a lilac/merle/chocolate/lemon drizzle... with the best lines in the world, FACT..!
Really..?? Who gives a flying feck....
They are a disgrace, YOU are a disgrace, for breeding with no thought to anything bar demand... Shame on them all...
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Olu Deniz would be my choice in Turkey
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Lovely place, been several times.
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Always fed a really good puppy kibble to all of my pups, along with their totally mixed diet. You've simply got to do your very best at that age.
For grown dogs I've got access to good raw food, chicken carcasses in the main but I now can get just about anything I want. Kibble is far less important to me or my dogs. My local greyhound supply man is a good mate and over the years I've tried just about every kibble on the market off him but with such a good meat supply, I just buy Lidl's working dog complete. It's dirt cheap, easy to purchase, always available and, even when fed on its own, produces hard, pellet like turds. I'm not shoveling slop...!
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1 minute ago, OldPhil said:
Good words
Thank you...
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And though i can't/don't come close to Old Phil's post, IMO I can only give my two penneth worth....
Though I've had near 50 years with lurchers, my 'training' in the begining was total bollox... I ran pastoral bred dogs, BUT simply relied on recall, and dogs not 'fecking off' with their catch... Oh, it just wasn't good enough...
Then i got them big half cross bull bred thingys and, 'foolishly' i ruled them with a rod of iron. Thought I 'should' do.
Thing was, in my ignorance, they were the easiest most biddable things I've tried to train. And 25 years later I know that was a crying shame... Those dogs would have ran through fire for me, the most loyal mutts I've ever owned, and i tried to stifle that 'instinct' so many times over.... Crass amature that I was...
Fast forward to now, and with a few more lurchers under my belt, I'm not so much of the 'aim and fire' merchant as I once was, and with one of them 'thicko' desert breds to bring on, life could be tough...
But ya know what, with age might have come a little wisdom. For I've not 'drilled' my training but rather 'let it be'... Basic, recall, retrieve etc FUN, FUN, FUN....
All I could of hammered home, BUT I'm older, (wiser) and I'd like think better, than that bloke with those half crosses back in the day...
Recall, recall, recall. Manners with food, social, children, recall again etc, ALL a must, but FFS bond, enjoy, appreciate, just what is running through your fingers...
Teach your charge the basics, BUT always do your upmost to try and let natural instinct shine through....
NOTHING taught can beat it, natural instinct is all you can give to make the best shine through...
Please, try it....
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RIP...
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1 hour ago, Daniel cain said:
popped over my mum's after work for a cuppa...my brother has dumped a litter of pups on her
..where the f**k does the merle colour come from? and this platinum, chocolate,blue and tan,brindle etc in French bulldogs???
Recon your mum should be in the Seycelle's by September... £££
How do people find the time to run multiple dogs
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Hey, no worries from me mC, i know what i know and seen, and you can keep on laughing on here....
