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My dad has a 1/4 spaniel 3/4 collie it's daft as a brush and 10 years old now I use it ratting. It overshoots too muc bushing. You just walk in the yard with her. Give her the command and wait for her to mark a location. She's the closest I have come to working a collie. There is a reason there are so many collie lurchers I guess. I am suprised there aren't more lab/hpr ones about but that is something different.
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I'd definitely agree with that, there are very different collies out there. I guess this is what I was talking about. It just dawned on me watching the dog bring in the sheep if it would be doing the same with game.
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Just to tag on this, I get cheap meat from the butchers, freeze it into 1/2 day sized batches and feed it to the dogs, it is everything from chicken carcasses, lamb/beef trimmings to pigs heats/offal, good stuff but as it comes from him (since I got the dogs and started buying meat there I my feeding has improved a bit as well ) I try to make sure it is handled as well as any meat I would eat myself. But I have found occasionally the dogs can seem a bit constipated, especially if the chicken carcasses are a bit lean. Does adding pasta tend to stop this a bit?
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My first dog at the age of 3 was a collie, she did a lot of things without asking her. I took her fishing that many times she would sit and watch my float, letting out a yip when it went under, I don't think everyone else thought it was that funny But without realising it looking back at nearly every picture of me as a child she is there, either a tail disappearing out of shot or the pair of us covering sh*t I had another later on, but I was working/in education and he wasn't getting the time he needed and ended up mouthing/biting a brothers friend and we gave him to a friend of the f
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Just something that I was wondering today watching a dog working sheep. I know a good dog can learn to push things out towards you/the dogs. But does anyone who works collies/kelpies etc find it happens more with them?
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For Sale Black & White German Wire-Haired Pointer Bitch For Sale
Tozer replied to Bobba_fett's topic in Working Dogs & Livestock
I must admit I like this, if I did the shooting the justify it I would be after one. -
So far it's this one she's still only 4 months
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Off Out Tonight And The Mrs Is Coming Too !!
Tozer replied to Dewclaw69's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
my missess has offered to hold the lamp, I left mine in a gateway the other night, when the new one comes in the post I'll try her out, I think she might need doubling up though -
I enjoy your pics and posts IWW, it is one of the nicer threads on here, not to take away from some of the other hunting posts. But in no other sport do I come across so many people willing to put down other people within it, no wonder the ban came in, there is no way we could all work together.
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I hope so, essentially I was aiming for a large whippet without the shaking. Dam was a 22" Saluki Whippet, sire a 22" KC Whippet. Hoping for around 22-23". My first running dog. She is proving to be a brilliant dog to train, retrieving is where I would hope it would be by 14 weeks. She came already house trained at 8 weeks. Recall seems to be spot on so far, though she shows signs of deafness, my biggest thing is her feat are impeccable. She is no collie lurcher but i reckon I can get somewhere, I have been in contact with a dog trainer from Cheshire, I'll follow that up. i have
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The pup: She is cracking, after the terrier she is bliss to train, very good feet as well.
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I've got one here. Only 3 months old though. I was looking for a whippet/greyhound but went for a 3/4 whippet 1/4 saluki instead.
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I know next to nothing about it, but I read this a while back and thought it was quite interesting: http://www.high-lonesomehounds.com/Catch%20a%20Jackrabbit.htm I was doing a lot of research, the more I read about hunting (and fishing) in NZ, America, Canade and Australia the more I am inclined to emigrate!
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Has anyone read the comments underneath A poodle apparently stolen and kept for dog fighting? The housing was god awful, a couple of nice looking dogs.
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I don't doubt you are good with dogs. But anything homeopathic is utter pish. it is the idea that water has a memory; that what ever it has come into contact with. if you sprained your ankle I would expect it to come down wothin 36hrs! Don't buy this stuff purely to stop financial support for it. At best they offer false hope to people with serious illnesses, at worst people shun genuine treatment in favour of a lie.
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I am liking these. They look very healthy.
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sometimes a handy dog is just what is needed when bushing and ferreting in woods To be fair a lot of the time yes. I saw the video of yours and it is a different thing. Whilst they aren't lurchers they aren't true bushers either. I know I'd enjoy one.
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Just my 2 pence worth, but I don't really see a first cross terrier/whippet as a lurcher. More a handy dog, I had one of a type. Yes failed as a lurcher and a terrier. But could catch in crops/tussocks/reed beds, had the length of leg to get about obsticles after rats and could still get through most cover. The sort of dog you take for a wonder with enough speed to pick up tree rats, peg the odd rabbit and push things out. I must say though after that, I have gone for terrier and whippet seperately.
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Had mine about a month now, saluki whippet. Already found her place in front of the fire: And scenting out where the squirrel bothering: I really can't seem to get a picture of her. I'll get the hang of it.
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Ah that explains it, I quickly gathered it wasn't about being a nature reserve. I asked about shooting in the area I visitied (Wexford and Longford/Leitrim) and was told as long as there isn't a sign on the gate just leave the farmer a bottle of wine/whisky and he won't mind. Though he might not want you on with a rifle!
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I used to fish in Ireland every year, are these the areas I see with 'reserve'signs on the gates?
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You've done a good job bringing them along, keep some pictures coming as they take shape.Will you be keeping in touch with the rest of the litter?
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when you see the numbers them hare shoots take with lines of beaters beating to a line of trigger happy cnuts it sickens you and im sure they will kill more than lampers doTo be fair the small syndicates do leave them round here. These hares were there because no one had touched them.The number that went was about the total for that small area. I've noticed them repopulating from the next valley over the last couple of years. Don't get me wrong I'm not against it. Lamed or daytime. I'd have more interest in a hare than a fox if it was still legal.
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I think this is just it, there are very few hares in some areas, there used to be a lot over a bit of land near me, then they went. I bumped into a bloke who bragged about lamping over 100 hares a few winters back... if you look on miles of farmland in the UK there is little space for them anymore. I think there are a LOT of people taking too much, too many stories from gamekeepers etc of hares being lamped and dumped.
