Tozer
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it's always good to ask for new answers.
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i'll get a couple of video's up, a few days training and I think I am turning it around. Thanks for the advice.
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Her dam was JRT, the rest is a best guess, came over in a horse box and in pup from Ireland.
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I honestly couldn't tell you, I was 11 and wanted a terrier to go ratting. We responded to an advert for a JRT pup (no internet then), and was met with 2 bitches that at 8 weeks old stood as tall as the dam, their tails were docked, with the bone poking out and had mange. We said we would take both, but someone else had put a deposit down... bullsh*t . Took a shaky, nervous and ill pup home. Got it treated and turned out to be an epic dog, retrieved winged geese from water and did everything I could have asked, had a proud place in the house. The most loyal dog I have ever known. I loved t
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Exact problem, keep her nose up and her eyes open.
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If you are hunting, farm labouring?
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it's been up several times, but this was my dog (brindle): The only way I can describe her is she just did. She would get through anything, as stubborn as a mule.
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I am lucky in my job I am all over the country on a daily basis, I always have my eyes open looking about. It dawned on me today, I like rabbits, when I used to work in a team they used to joke saying I am 'pigeon w*nking again' when I'd be distracted by a field full, suprising fox cubs bouncing around a hedgerow, a vixen carrying a rabbit back. Like the RSPB, Wildlife trusts build walkways through their reserves, we are the users of the countryside, the reason things are as they are. Nothing makes me smile as much as a tightly cropped field of rabbits (and a cheeky ask). We are al
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With the nights drawing in, I am finding myself exercising the dogs/training in the dark. Is there any advantage to doing retrieving training with a torch ready for lamping? The pup is only 4 months old, I don't have enough hours in day light. I'm hoping to get a couple of late season runs come march.
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Always been my opinion. I tried some 7.5's (I had left over from shooting clays) decoying crows the other day and packed up early because I was knocking them out of the sky and they were getting up again and taking off! I won't be making that mistake again. I liked No.1's for foxes, but I only ever shot the ones round the chicken pen and a couple walked up. I have stopped them close with 6's but I wouldn't feel comfortable doing it all the time.
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Thanks, I have just been doing some training. I think I can turn it around, I'll put a video up of it. She did something good(ish) the other day, took them to a farm and let them hunt about for a few rats, and the farmer asked me to knock off a couple of the collard doves round the grain store, so took the 12 bore. I shot at one, thought I'd missed it, the dog went off across the field in the direction it headed and went out of sight and came back with it a few minutes later, I wish I'd got a picture of it. Didn't exactly bring it to hand, just proceeded to rag it a few feet away fr
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Nice read and some good pictures, makes you sad it doesn't happen any more.
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Sorry that should have read lurcher, I've got a four month old lurcher pup too and the terrier I am training is 10/11 months old, I make sure I do any training separately, the other terrier is a litter sister to her and is my dads. So far the lurcher is showing some good signs, effortlessly brings things to hand, will bring toys to me and give them up without fuss and sits, but is a much gentler temperament. I'll keep trying, I know that if she was retrieving and has since stopped it is my fault, just got to work out what it is I am doing wrong!
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Cheers, she is running past/around me with what ever I am trying to use. She can be a pain, if she thinks there is nothing about she'll try repeatedly to snatch a rabbit I'm carrying. I don't really want her retrieving rats, but it was just there to test with and she is pretty hard mouthed, but she is a terrier. I just feel I am stuck at a point where she understands to go for the game/toy/ball/dummy on command but won't retrieve it, it is her game then. I have tried the advice of tug from CMW and that is how I ended up training with her sitting in front of me. You wouldn't expect gund
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I have a bit of an odd situation. I would like to correct it before it goes too far if it hasn't. I've got a terrier here that I taught to retriee from the start, as first she was really good ( 8wks- 6 months), then she started dropping short, running round me and a few other bad habits now I can't get her to bring anything back really. I know this is my fault. Sorry this is long winded but the odd part is this, I have tried the tug game, she will grab and release on command. 1) I have got the command 'fetch' down to an art: you can drop something, call her off it, walk 100 y
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This could be interesting, nice and white to be spotted form above. They reckon 6 rabbits eats the same as a sheep (can't confirm that), but you can keep 6-10 sheep per acre, so calling that 8 you would have 48 rabbits per acre. 48 x 1.5 is £72 per acre profit, assuming he has no cost of keeping at all, after that he has to feed them.
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They nake nice little dogs
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i do like this type of lurcher, racy with a bit of a coat.
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I like those. Is the first 1/2 and the other 1/4 terrier?
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I guess it comes down to giving the dog the time to learn and it is likely pastoral dogs learn the game well. Are there any German shepherds still used for herding?
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Is that the pup you have settled on? I can't wait to see how they shape up later on.
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A practical explanation, I think we have all been there trying to convince the dogs that what we are trying to get them to do is for the best. When you are lifting a bit of bored for the dog to get a rat and she will only stand where you are lifting it, not where you know the rat is going to bolt! I give in a lot of the time and just try to get them to see me as useful when I'm out.
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The only place I have seen them was up in Durham at my Aunties, there were literally hundreds of rabbits out for about a mile stretch of along a woodland. Looking through the bino's I could see mixed in were the odd half white or with white bits like that. Never seen them anywhere else though. I have always assumed they were the result of released tame rabbits breeding.
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Did you pick your name 'cus of the camera fuji?
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I had it as a kid. I hid it for months. Get it treated ASAP. it's easy untill it spreads. Simple fungal cream.
