Taz-n-Lily
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Hi, Get yourself to a club if you can. The people will be friendly, and some will let you try their rifles. Shoudering a gun in a shop is ok, but you really need to shoot a rifle to decide if you like it. I have a TX200 mk3 which I bought 2nd-hand. They are built like brick sh*thouses so you are very safe buying pre-owned, and you'll get one with a scope comfortably within your budget. On the subject of TX's, they don't have much recoil at all, but a simple selftune (can be done using original parts) transforms the rifle completely - from great to excellent. Anyway - hope you get
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Does the lure zig-zag or is it a straight pull? If a straight pull how fast is it going?
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That pic of just the terriers after the rabbit is a classic - well done!
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I have a bitch in heat at the moment - she's moved out, but you cannot sit down in our house for the dog trying to hump you .
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Try taping it - pm me if you need to. It'll be fine.
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As said, deal with this yourself. Looking at the pic I'd be taping the claw and toe to the leg (not bandage which is easy for the dog to pull off). Let it heal, then clip it back. Should only take a few days to heal.
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Good luck mate.
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Easy job to remove a nailbed in humans. I've done loads (I'm qualified) painlessly and permanently, and I can't see why it would be difficult in a dog. Second vet opinion needed.
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Salt water is as good as anything - and it's drying too. No bandage or dressing needed - just the salt water dabbed on.
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If he's not going to run use a martingale collar. It's like a choke collar but adjustable so that it doesn't go tight enough to throttle the dog. There is no way a snakehead can get out of it. And my dog was an expert before I tried this type of collar.
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Good advice - Jackie Drakeford's lurcher books are good for a general feel of what to expect when taking on a lurcher. I would advise getting your head into those before looking at specialist books.
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This was something I wondered about when I first had my TX Mk111. Eventually I twigged. It makes the rifle steadier to shoot and the recoil does not push the barrel all over the place. A mild self-tune helps........ Lovely to shoot from a bean-bag or prone off the elbow. A bit heavy for standing shots, but as long as you don't faff around for ages before pulling the trigger it's no big deal.
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Yes, but why would a deerhound x collie be better than a deerhound x grey x collie?
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canny dog - good colour too!
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Not sure why you would want a deerhound X with no grey?
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They can be headstrong but that's matched with fire so it's a good trade-off imo. I've seen one beddy X in the park here which is command perfect, but it's timid as anything and TBH I wouldn't want it as a dog. My mate who trained gundogs was talking about one of his spaniels yesterday. It was a big bugger and evidently on the edge, as in - it would do what he wanted and more, but it wouldn't listen to anyone else. It was evidently so enthusiastic he lost a few trials with it. Not that it wasn't obedient, just that it was a proper working dog which thought things through rather than bl
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Lads Need Ya Help To Put It To Bed
Taz-n-Lily replied to moocher123's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
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Maybe poisoned? A healthy squirrel is pretty sure-footed. I stopped mine catching squizzers when he was much younger - stopped going in the Park anyway, which is full of them. He used to come back without the squizzer but face scratched to hell. Squirrels are a good way to make sure the dog becomes hard-mouthed. I lost him once - he was stuck up a tree about 7ft up . Mine reverted back to soft-mouthed when he was catching summer rabbits last year.
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Pup Enjoying The Water
Taz-n-Lily replied to scottish hare hunter's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
Nice one - I like to see a dog enjoy the water. -
No need to catch rabbits - he can just trample them to death . Thanks LC - I have a feeling Taz may grow a little more before settling - he's still very much a pup. Taxi Driver - this is him nine months ago.
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After having my dog weighed at the vets last week and finding that he was around 70lbs, I was in personal communication with another member on here (cheers Trev) and he mentioned "chunky", which for a deerhound still growing is ok - but I was a bit niggled, especially since my dog is only 25-1/2" tts. So I looked up heights and weights of purebred deerhounds. Hmmmmm - so I measured him again last night - turns out he's 27-1/2" tts. He'll be two and a half end of March. Will he get much bigger do you think? He's deerhound X grey X ? second or third generation and still changing shape.
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Would You Want It Back?(Stolen Dogs Recovered)
Taz-n-Lily replied to a topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
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My deerhound X pup is over two years and we haven't done any retrieve work yet. Listen to the lads on here - there is a wealth of experience - some bo**ocks too, but mostly it's good. As already said, keep the training sessions really short. I would concentrate on recall until that is 100% from a good distance away. We do five mins or so twice a day - you can interspace it with walks. The pup doesn't get bored, he's still very willing, and now comes in on command (whistle) from 150 yards away. Yours will be less easy to train - I know because my other dog is a staffie/whippet X. Lovel
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this pic - it's only twelve years old, but looks much older. It was taken with the camera pictured - a 1941 Leica 111c. I know nothing about the dog other than it's an ex-worker/rescue.
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I've got one - bloody untrainable! . . . . . . . . ........ but good with rats Lily and Taz July 2011.
