krawnden
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Solid looking pup. Good to hear she's confident - at that age I think some of their stuff is the complete opposite. Hard to tell from the pic on their website, but Alex doesn't look too big. Some of their collie studs are enormous.
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Sighthounds are dogs that hunt by sight - greyhound, whippet, saluki, deerhound, wolfhound, borzoi, sloughi, pharoah hound, Ibizan hound etc The term longdog and lurcher just refer to a sighthound type rather than a pure bred. Ted Walsh always maintained that a longdog was the result of crossing one breed of pure sighthound with a different one, ie greyhound x whippet, and that a lurcher was a pure sighthound crossed with another breed ie bedlington x whippet, collie x greyhound etc. But you'd also get a lurcher from a lurcher to lurcher, lurcher to longdog or lurcher to sighthound mating.
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Nice pics - thanks for sharing. Any more?
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Perfect start - now she knows rabbits are catchable, which is half the battle
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Don't know for sure but I think it's highly likely to be the latter; after all it's dead easy to prove you do have permission (assuming you do, of course!), whereas it's much harder for them to prove you don't.
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Lamper - there are two 4 month old hobs in Manchester - see Kara Breasley's post http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/221018-ferret-re-homing-thread-free-to-good-homes-only/page-56
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I'm as big a sassenach as they come but i reckon I've eaten my fair share of clootie dumplings. Mind you, if I hadn't married a kilted lass I expect things would have been different
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You're right Gaz - there's a lot to be said for doing it that way. Not the end of the world if it's a relatively small vet bill but if it's something major you don't want to have to be stumping up a few grand and then reclaim it.
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Best Pic Of One Of Your Lurcher
krawnden replied to the big chief's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
Nice dogs Jekyll -
Used to be with Petplan but now with John Lewis. Recently had my first claim which they paid without quibble, though they were rather slow about it (though to be fair I suppose it could have been my vets who dragged their feet - I fiil in the first part of the form then take to vets who fill in the remainder then forward on to the insurance company)
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Tremendous pictures - 2nd one down's a belter
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Very cleverly done, but it wouldn't be something I'd ever choose to do to any of my dogs - I think they're stunning beautiful as nature made them.
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Years ago I helped out on a couple of days longnetting hares that were being caught to stock another estate. It was like a days' driven coursing, except the hares were driven into nets. Each hare was put into its own specially designed little carrying box. I assume they survived, though I never had anything to do with it other than beating on the day.
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Long time since I last saw a stoat kill a rabbit out in the open, but it's a fantastic thing to witness. Sounds like you had a top day.
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Lovely to watch - thanks for sharing.
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No worries Harry. Would've definitely put more in the bag if you'd been there but they'll be there for another day. Will give you a shout about next weekend.
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Had one of those days today where if anybody had been watching they'd have thought I was clueless. Rabbits throwing the nets, bolting out of holes I hadn't seen, getting backnetted but still getting through the net - the list goes on! Total bag for the day; 3 rabbits and a springer spaniel. One hedge I was doing had a footpath running along the other side of it. A rabbit bolted on the footpath side, ran down the hedge then pushed back my side and hit the longnet. A few minutes later some woman was walking her springer along the footpath. It picked up the line of the rabbit, smashed through the
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Good point Ross - sounds like the perfect compromise (for me, anyhow)
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Just in from a walkabout where I tried without a slip for the first time. Definitely much less hassle without a slip. But I don't think it was quite as productive. No way to be certain but there were a few runs where I think if I'd had the dog on a slip I could have got him into a better position. But I'll certainly persevere with it as it was a more enjoyable way to lamp.
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:laugh:
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You're right - ferreting's way more enjoyable with a dog. Adds a whole new dimension.
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I think a lot of it's down to the fact that people just blindly take 'accepted wisdom' as fact and then it gets passed on from one generation of hunters to the next and before you know it everyone's an expert on every different cross. But the same thing happens in all walks of life, not just hunting. The older I get, the more I realise the importance of taking 'accepted wisdom' with a generous pinch of salt - in my experience lots of so-called 'facts' about dogs are nothing but sweeping generalisations that may or may not apply to any given individual. And so much comes down to the ind
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Just picked up a bag of [BANNED TEXT] hex nuts from Wilko today - managed to cram about 170 in for £1.99. Weighed about 750 grams. That's about £2.65/kilo. Doubt you could buy scrap lead that cheap, unless buying in huge quantities, though to be fair it's a long time since I bought any so don't know what a current price is likely to be.
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Great when it all comes together. And all the more satisfying if you've successfully worked through various problems to get to this stage. Enjoy...
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Good idea - never thought of that
