mackay
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Labtastic, we will agree to disagree mate, on the subject of finding game (dead or alive) I never seen said bitch bettered and I can say that with all honesty.
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Only 4 pages before it arrived....."good as any gundog i met and was a country mile in front of the rest".........allow me to tell you the shoot you went to was full of pat-lickers then..... Yes lurchers can do a decent enough job retrieving game but proper picking up isn't just dolly droppers in an open field. Run them thats what there for and leave the real work to the gundogs....... I suppose with your user name the likliehood of nudging your nose out of joint was a fore going conclusion. I'll elaborate slightly, I don't think every greyhound blooded dog would better a gundog
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So when we say lurchers we are lumping all running dogs together, lets narrow it down to say a first x collie/greyhound. I had one who knew when she was out lurchering so to speak and was well trained and bright enough to know when out shooting/beating. She as good as any gundog I met and was a country mile in front of most. It is possible but to be honest well beyond the needs or dare I say it capabilities of most lurchermen.
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Yep it is possible for a single dog to take 1 of these , not my dog but the sire to my b1tch was deer/grey x saluki/grey 30 1/2 " tts and i watched him do it a few years ago the stag followed the hinds and was pulled with great style if he had stood for the dog he would have smashed him up without doubt but once they run half the battle is won , he was held for a good 20 secs before another dog was slipped to help , not an easy task by any standard but very true Fair play to that dog, but holding a stag for twenty seconds doesn't constitute taking it single handed in my book. Also
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I had a bitch from the Rufus dog, she was a handy animal.
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You shouldn't need to weigh a dog to know it's at it's proper weight, your eyes should be able to tell you all you need to know, if they can't you've got a problem. Just for you I've weighed my dog he's 24" tall and weighs 51lb. He's 3/4 grey/ 1/4 collie X whippet/ [3/4 grey 1/4 collie]. Spot on mate.
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What evidence?.....you stated in your first post you've just taken an interest in lurchers.Seen the dog run first hand did you? And the owner could have enough rosettes to wallpaper his living room, that makes it a pretty dog not necessarily a good one.
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caught a few red stags up the north of scotland in late 80s ,their a lot smaller than ones down south, they have a slower running style to the eye than say fallow ,but they travel just as fast if not faster ,the fastest recorded british animal is a red stag (well it was last time i read guiness record books) What kind of weight were the stags you caught coming in at mate and how many dogs on one stag?, I worked as a ghillie on a highland estate and a stag gralloched in the parlour could be 230lbs add the puddens on and that's a formidable weight for any dog. From my experience any do
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Ran quite a few red deer with the dogs whilst working up north, both my dogs at the time could do a red hind but never in a lifetime would they be capable of a stag and they were both very experienced dogs with a fair tally of deer to their credit. I still ran stags now and again perhaps hoping for a positive outcome but if I'm being honest it was more just to observe and one thing I did notice was that with red (especially stags) on the side of the hill with the dog up their arse it looked like the the dog was running at 100mph but the deer were cantering it was like two seperate chases so wi
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Surely between you and your mates there must be enough work to keep a six year old dog occupied and content, also how much of a working life can there be left in her?, I think I'd rather she was laid out my back door then I'd know where she was.
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That settles it then, you're kilt could blow up over your head and cause an accident, I'm staying in on the computer.
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Not according to some posting on here it aint, they're not going out it's too windy.
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What age is the bitch mate ??.
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No nose, no lurcher.
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Think they might spot the million candle power lamp before the light coloured dog.
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Good dogs mate......obviously i'm a Lab' man and would always choose one over a Golden. Think they take a bit longer to train than a Lab.....well so someone i know who has had them tells me... ours sire was gundog\showdog champion but our dog showed no interest in anything but eating,shagging and drinking beer. he would sniff out my dads cans of beers open them and drink them. I've owned working lines, show lines and a mix of the two, the gap between work and show is massive, the only thing they have in common is the fact they are all labelled golden retrievers.
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The advancement in modern medicine is a thing we all now might take for granted, people (thanks to new technologies) are surviving illness and injury nowadays that would never have seemed possible' On another note and not intending to hijack your thread, but if there was ever an arguement for reducing the cut off for terminations in pregnancy, then that photo alone should suffice.
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Aye right, was the dog hanging off it when you weighed it ?.
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Looking good mate.
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That'll save me reading it.
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We complain here about sentences not being a deterent, Well it has stopped him from smuggling drugs for eighteen years and possibly a few years to come, seems to me their system is working, we should try it over here.
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longdogs/lurchers no diffrence i.m.o
mackay replied to baldockbanks courser's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
Most greyhoundy shaped dogs are capable of catching game if given the opportunity and have enough game put in front of them, but if you want to define the true meaning and the original job that said lurchers were intended to do then to my mind saluli, borzoi and all the exotic crosses whilst they have their own specialist traits, they are not lurchers in the true sense of the word. -
I was more concerned about having state subsidised housing but being able to afford a new 7 series BMW with private plates. Perhaps he can't get a mortgage, perhaps he doesn't want one, does it matter as long as the occupior is paying full rent, or perhaps it would be better if a fat chav bird with six kids and a boyfriend who stays over had got it and had the council pick up the tab.
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I'd have a winter like the last one every year, loved it, hard frost and clear blue skies, better than the pissing rain and wading through muck up to your knees and a damn sight healthier too.
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Oh yes please that would be wonderful.
