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Taz-n-Lily

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  1. First off, the OP is right to be annoyed that someone shot a heron on his permission, whichever way you cut the cake. If the bird had been flying to garden ponds and someone shot it with an airrifle and it made it back to the pond wounded, that's wrong. If someone without permission shot the bird on private land that's wrong too. I have a vested interest in ponds - I manage the first semi-wild smolt rearing pond on the Wye. If any kind of fish-kill happened on my watch I'd be bloody furious. It's unlikely to though, and here's why. We have the whole pond netted off against avian predati
  2. So your saying that the more deerhound in the mix the quicker they mature? So maybe it's not deerhounds that are slow to mature it's the other breeds. What I'm saying is that I believe that it is the mix, but that the mix requires a predominence of DH, if that makes sense. From what I've read a second X can live to 16 at least, so maybe that has something to do with it as well - who knows. And the individual dog has some bearing on this too of course. If every dog was the same this forum would be a very boring place. A lurcher with no deerhound will mature fairly quickly, in my exp
  3. My dog is slow to mature. I really think it depends how much deerhound is in the dog. Deerhounds and first crosses, from what I can gather, mature faster than second crosses, or mixes with a good dose of deerhound in them. My dog has deerhound (pronounced occipital bump/shaggy coat - top part anyway/twenty seven and a half" tts/GH, and something else (probably terrier) in him. His still very puppyish, still growing - his snout is anyway. He's settling, but still very excitable, and an adolescent rather than full-grown. Still growing is a fairly good sign (to me anyway) that the dog is not
  4. Teflon probably would. I'm sure someone did some work on this subject on the B B S some time ago, and he tried rroller-bearing washers, which made very little difference. Polishing the spring-ends and a bit of light lube works well in my TX - I don'e have any washers in there.
  5. Just read the whole thread - good on you for doing the right thing, and sorry for your loss. I didn't see the pic in question, but overall it's good that you posted it imo. Living with an animal day in, day out, it's easy to miss what others will see straight away. I did with my last old dog,
  6. Looking at those growth plates I'd go aywhere between 20 - 24 tts. Nice looking pup, and the terror looks in fine fettle too.
  7. You got it - rabbits and rats only on mainland UK. Not even mice, squirrels, foxes or mink are legal quarry - if you are hunting for them on purpose with a dog.
  8. The little staffie/whippet bitch Lily is good with rats, but showing her age and slowing down a bit now. The newish deerhound X Taz is keen for rabbits, but taking Baw's advice on this - he can look but not chase yet. He's turned out to fairly adept at finding mice, strangely.......... I'm keeping him off squizzers. We had a period in the Park where he would catch but not kill, and let them scratch/bite and get away - he looked like something out of Heidleberg Duelling School, and it made him very hard-mouthed - but he's reverted to being soft-mouthed so no harm done. So rabbits,
  9. I would say get her to a vets. If that was a human we'd be removing the rod - x-ray to make sure nothing was left inside or had flaked off, deep irrigation, and antibiotics. Clean-out under anaesthesia if anything was left indside, possibly slow-release antibiotic beads if there is bone infection, dressings and rest until things had started to heal. I wouldn't be advising salt water for that one.
  10. Always a hard decision but you did the right thing - sorry for your loss.
  11. Hi, The CD trigger unit as fitted to your Pro-sport is every bit as good as the Rekord, but it needs tuning. Easy to do yourself, and plenty of free advice on the web. It'll take you a couple of hours tops - very easy to do, and you'll have your ultimate springer!
  12. Greyhound Rescue Wales. They'll have a record somewhere I've no doubt. The advice I posted was not to use a shock collar, because I don't think they are necessary unless the dog is old and set in it's ways, and that there is no set time for a dog being stock-broken. I know - heinous heresy, isn't it? Chill guys, I'm away for now.
  13. you admit to being a beginner, so why won't you listen to what others are trying to tell you, you have contradicted yourself far to often to be taken seriously. My dog is next to stock every day - lambs loose on the path - two foot away. He totally ignores them. He comes in to heel when called. I'm just not happy to let him off with the number of lambs we have around at the moment. He's not broken to horses because there aren't any around, same with cattle. I've taken advice off here before and found it very useful - I'm delighted to take advice - tell me what more I can do. if he doe
  14. Right - that sounds good - I'll ask the farmer tomorrow about rams. I'll report back. Cheers.
  15. you admit to being a beginner, so why won't you listen to what others are trying to tell you, you have contradicted yourself far to often to be taken seriously. My dog is next to stock every day - lambs loose on the path - two foot away. He totally ignores them. He comes in to heel when called. I'm just not happy to let him off with the number of lambs we have around at the moment. He's not broken to horses because there aren't any around, same with cattle. I've taken advice off here before and found it very useful - I'm delighted to take advice - tell me what more I can do.
  16. Well, it looks like it could be a re-run of the other thread, so I'll bow out now while the going's good.
  17. I can take any amount of respect:) and back at you. I can't fault the way you train your dogs. I've made it clear on the forum that I'm a beginner with lurchers, although I have some ferreting experience with other peoples Bedddy and Saluki X's - my dog is miles behind even a one year-old Saluki X. For my training info I have to make do with what I read on forums, what I read in books, and what I pick up from otjhers (one of my mates is an ex-gamekeeper). I have the dog to the point where he comes in to the whistle straight away, and right in, like a second skin. He leaves ducks alone
  18. Nice looking dog. I think it all depends how much deerhound is in the dog. Mine has a fair old dash of deerhound (see recent pic in avatar) and conseqently is just starting to settle down now at two and a half. This was ridiculed on the other thread, as was my Jackie Drakeford quote, but it's a fact that some deerhound X's take an age to mature. If you can get them to stock early then that's clearly the way to go, and I have no argument with that at all. With a rescue which was six months old before I got him (I had to wait to find an intact dog, most rescues have their nuts off), it's a
  19. Salt water soak, and tape the pad so that the cut closes.
  20. There really are some interesting comments on here...... So Jackie Drakeford, well-known working dog trainer and author, won't let her deerhound-cross dogs out in public for two years, but you sort your deerhound X's out at three months old? Hmmmmmm.......
  21. This works - don't forget to praise the dog if he goes through sheep or lambs without bothering them. Mine is still learning but fine with new lambs jumping around 2 feet away from him. He's on an extendable lead at the moment but will come off that in the next few months. He's very excited by rabbits, but not sheep, but I wouldn't trust him not to chase if he was off the lead and the sheep were running. Forget the shock collar - it's not necessary, except perhaps for an older dog. It takes time to stock-train a dog and your dog is only a year old. It's not a nightmare - it's part of y
  22. This works - don't forget to praise the dog if he goes through sheep or lambs without bothering them. Mine is still learning but fine with new lambs jumping around 2 feet away from him. He's on an extendable lead at the moment but will come off that in the next few months. He's very excited by rabbits, but not sheep, but I wouldn't trust him not to chase if he was off the lead and the sheep were running. Forget the shock collar - it's not necessary, except perhaps for an older dog. It takes time to stock-train a dog and your dog is only a year old. It's not a nightmare - it's part of y
  23. This works - don't forget to praise the dog if he goes through sheep or lambs without bothering them. Mine is still learning but fine with new lambs jumping around 2 feet away from him. He's on an extendable lead at the moment but will come off that in the next few months. He's very excited by rabbits, but not sheep, but I wouldn't trust him not to chase if he was off the lead and the sheep were running. Forget the shock collar - it's not necessary, except perhaps for an older dog. It takes time to stock-train a dog and your dog is only a year old. It's not a nightmare - it's part of y
  24. Understood - we're all learning. Deerhound crosses take an age to mature - sometimes well into their third year. At two and a half he's still puppyish, but maturing slowly. I think a year for a big dog is nothing - if the OP's dog was mine I'd be training without a shock collar, and I'd be reconciled to the fact it could take another 3 to 6 months. But at the end of that time - provided the basics are in - the dog should be on the road to being very well-trained and responsive. It's a collie X so the intelligence is there in spades - probably it just needs to mature a bit. Any aversion
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