Taz-n-Lily
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He'll bulk up naturally as he gets older. For a year-old dog he looks ok. I would vary his diet a bit though. Raw chicken with the bones, raw and cooked meat, and liquidised fruit/veg are all good. Raw bones are good too. I don't buy into the dried or tinned dog foods diet myself, except for mixers. The dog food market is vast and worth millions each year, and that's mainly due to advertising. Mostly the products are poor, and the nutritional value is not as good as you can provide yourself.
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Vets, with a pup that young. It's not the bones, but the growth plates (epiphyseal growth plates if you want to google it) that I'd be concerned about. My deerhound X was pretty much useless direction-wise at six months. That's a big, fast dog to be charging about with no steering. My other dog (staffy/whippet X bitch) used to set him up to crash into trees and (once) rugby goalposts. He's good now, but he's over two.
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Salt is not good in a dog's diet - it's in both bacon and corned beef.
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Missing lurcher - Botley, Hampshire
Taz-n-Lily replied to Fabapocalypse's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
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My deerhound x is still a pup. 2 years, 2 months now. He's improving, but it's slooooooooooow. I wouldn't trust him around stock yet, that's for sure. On the + side he should live to a good, old age, and on legal quarry he should be running for a good few years.
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I have to disagree. I know of a dog that yapped because it was holding an injury that the owner didn't know about. and once a vet checked it over properly and found the problem. the dog never yapped again. I would go with this - is the dog trying to tell you something, or is it a pup which just gets excited? I also noticed Woz saying that Europeans are way ahead of us in dog-training? I don't feel knowledgable enough to argue with this, but I can't think it's right. I've seen excellent sheepdogs, and gundogs who did everything required. Hell, in the UK we even teach dogs to dance!
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Whenever I pose a daft question like this to myself, rather than go on an internet forum for ridicule I talk to the wife. I get enough ridicule there to keep me happy, and as a bonus it keeps it private .
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I use a gundog whistle on my dog too. It works, but the recall is far from perfect - dog comes in maybe three times out of five. I go with the others who said it is her age. Pups have short attention spans, and there is a lot of interesting things out there for a pup too.
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Hi, Is this link any use?
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Great to see the dogs enjoying themselves.
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Well here's something I can speak about with a bit of knowledge (being a novice with lurchers). It's sometimes difficult for a noob to contribute positively on a specialist forum like this. I've done a lot of cross-frictional massage on humans in my professional life. Usually it's used to speed up healing in already-healing torn tissue ( this could be muscle, or around ligaments and tendons). So you wouldn't use it on a new injury, or on an injury which, for whatever reason, is not healing. Neither would you use it on ligament or tendon damage where the tissue is badly torn and needs sutur
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Any distinguishing marks on vehicles? I'll look out over here........
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This is my sapling Taz. He's deerhound/grey/bit(s) of something else. He was a rescue at six months, but I got to him before the Rescue cut his bits off. He's 26 and a half inches at the shoulder. http://i758.photobuc...ke/DSCF0203.jpg He's now two years and two months, as far as I can tell. He's not stockbroken, but not interested in sheep, except when they run. That and his recall are what I'm working him on at the moment. You can see from his head that he's still very much a young dog, but muscling up nicely. He's got a high prey drive, and will go for rabbits and squirrels where h
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Hi, Another just starting out here. As others said, your dog is still very young. Mine chased at 6 months and was a bu**er for young blackbirds in the local park. He wouldn't have known what to do with a rabbit at that age though. His first bunny was a mixy, and he hasn't looked back - although he is by no means a trained dog. It's a great journey for me and the mutt.
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Fair enough . Here's a pic of him late Spring 2012. Still on the lead because there's a busy road 40 yards away, and lambs in the fields. The river Wye (5 yards below him here) is no problem unless it's in very heavy spate. He's a great swimmer! His ribs show now, and he's generally much more defined. He's being broken to stock gradually.
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All the deerhound x greys I've come across have something else in there too. I believe that a straight X leaves something lacking in bone strength which can be sorted by a bit of beddy or other terrier. I'm no expert though, and happy to be corrected/learn from others on here. My deerhound x is a very smart dog for a sapling.
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Thanks lads.
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Pluck and draw bird, place in pyrex dish, little bit of white wine, 3 rashers bacon over the breast, put lid on and put in oven at 200. Give it half an hour or so, then draw off the liquor for gravy. Replace the liquor with water. Give it another 20 mins or so then remove the lid (drain off any more liquor at this point, and replace with water). another 10 mins will do it, with 5 mins or so out the oven to rest the meat. Reduce the gravy and season to taste. Lovely!
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Action shot......... http://i758.photobucket.com/albums/xx221/dogbloke/CNV00030.jpg[/img]"]
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Hi, Can't help with ferrets but with the airrifle you should join a club if you can (unless you are already a great shot). I found when I first started shooting live game that I had a problem with trajectories and distances. A problem I never had on the range on tin chickens. And I was a reasonable shot on the range out to 50 yards or so. Shooting a rabbit with a legal-limit airrifle you really need to know, and be able to hit, the kill-zone - it's not very big. If you already know about trajectories and kill-zones and stuff I apologise - just not great practicing on live game.
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Hi guys, The dog was a rescue, so I believe grey/deerhound and at least one sort of terrier. He stand 26 and a bit at the shoulder. I git him before he went into rescue so he still has his bits. I'll keep him entire - as graham pointed out - canny nads! He's still very puppy-ish, but settling down gradually - I believe deerhound x's can take ages to mature. I'll look out a pic of him standing to give a better idea of his stature.
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Just to introduce myself. Dave, 62, bringing on a deerhound X lurcher - now a little over 2. I'm experienced with dogs, but this is the first lurcher I've had. He's a house dog who will be used for rabbiting when he's ready. He had a few bunnies in the Spring/Summer, including one when he was on the lead. Squirrels made him hard-mouthed so I've kept him off them. Rabbits he kills before returning (retrieve not the best though). We're cutrrently working on recall to whistle. Most times he'll come in from over 100 yards away straight away, but he's still easily distracted. http:/
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Hi guys - noob here. Re- rabbit shortage: Bit obvious, but with all the rain this year - has the land been flooded?
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Just to introduce myself and dogs. Dave, early 60's, I fish, shoot airrifle (TX200 mk3) and am bringing on a two year-old deerhound X lurcher. My other dog is a 7 year-old bitch staffie/whippet X. I'm also looking after the first semi natural release (SNR) smolt pond on the Wye. This is a spring-fed pond which allows us to bring the smolts on without them needing fed all the time, or becoming tame. Once released they'll go down a little culvert and into a brook, then into the Wye, and eventually the sea. We hope 10% will return after a couple of years or so as adult salmon. We releas
