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I used to ferret up that way 30 odd years ago an arab owned the moor, we used to get over a hundred every week, but one day it snowed and we had to leave early we only got 70 odd that day lol, when I was a kid there was a farm in the village run by four brothers, and I went to tell them their cows were out one day and they blamed me the b*****ds, our old man went mad. I poached there land for years after that.
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my dads mate was joe betts, might be there dad I know there still there because the lad I get poults from supplies them, small world mate.
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decent post, the stamina thing also helps with recovery, and the ability to catch several animals one after another off one slip, I like a lot of saluki in my crosses, but for most lads doing general lurcher stuff quarter is plenty when the rest is lurcher, the modern line bred coursing dogs are almost pure saluki in percentage terms, though very different in reality.
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I dropped my doughter at work this morning anon the way saw a black and tan old fashiond looking mongrel about 22" and said to her that would throw a nice level headed pup to a grew, I was born [BANNED TEXT] near welbeck my old man was mates with some of the keepers was his name betts tommo.
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most people who work ordinary lurchers have the wrong temp for saluki type dogs, the ability to be trained and intelligence are not the same, ive used em on the lamp worked em with bushing dogs and ferrets and they pick up all these natural given chance. I also work cocker spaniels , and one of if not the best cocker man in the country said the best dogs are always on the verge of going wrong, I have an old cocker dog here that I badly trained, and yet is so naturaly talented he makes me look good week in week out. let your sals use there natural ability you may like it.
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the problem with trying to improve what you have is every thing you add can move things to much, then you add something else to correct it, and your further away from your goal, the top quality coursing blood we have today has decades of best to best breeding, the quality shines through time and time again, because there is so much depth to it, having said all that I am sure it will improve your type of dog atb.
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as long as you worm your dog regular no probs
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in the late 60s and all through the 70s the hare population in the east and north midlands was very strong, and hunted regular round the pit villages by the mouching lurcher boys, so the hares we ran were good hares and on a good cross section of land from almost fen like to small fields with thick hedges, from heavy clay, to blowing sand, so dogs that made the grade were proper dogs, not much about now where I was mate.
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great producer deacon, but we had saluki lurchers 20 years before him and the staminer was bottomless, and as a young lad I ran mine all year round from hard as rock to bottomless bog and I never broke one lol and people talk about testing dogs, ours went out nearly every day and we never talked about 3s and 4s we expected ours to kill every one, lol
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they might not be running stuff they might be shooting it, but if I was shooting stuff ilegaly at night I would use night vision not a lamp, if you sin against poor farmers its worse than being terrorist.
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casso's advice sounds very good to me, I work cockers and sal crosses, so know nothing of dog training but does anyone else walk this dog? if so is it the same? is he good at home ? and could this dog be protecting you because he see's himself above you in the pack,
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that's a bit deep trench
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what did she go to mate if you don't mind me asking. -
nice is that the pup you was telling me about very well bred good luck with him.
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4 in the spring mate
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cant believe I managed that all on my own lol that's my bitch with seagull in it.
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a chap we used to course with before the ban had a first cross bitch from an out cross mateing by a pure breeder, she was a fast and big strong good looking bitch but sadly had the heart of a mouse, used to jack all the time. and I saw loads run in the 70s decent enough for what they were but their days were numbered, they could not compete with saluki crosses and most of the early saluki crosses were saluki lurchers, not saluki greyhounds as the lads that had the chance used salukis over there existing bitches, I kept and bred this type since the late 60s none better, these early coursing dog
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chears just interested how they turned out.
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how are these doing in the field max, did you keep one .
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I ran saluki crosses right through the 70s and 80s and loads of lads ran dearhound crosses back then and I never saw a gooden day time, ones that were good lampers all had something else in em , if its a rough lurcher that's wanted beddy cross all day long for me.
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back in the 70s a mate of mine had a lab cross he was a tidy dog for mouching another bloke in the village had one his was a bit racier and cought the odd hare, walking home one night we had just hares and I saw a rabbit squatting and cought it by hand tommy begged it off me and for the next 20 years always mentiond that when he saw me, made me smile tonight, I have a first class cocker dog would leave a good pup to a grew dog never stops and always finds the unfindable when picking up.
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go and do some beating can open doors for other things.
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another thread gone west, we work dogs because we like it, so chill out and enjoy what you have it will seem so much better, when my cockers f**k up I don't get excited I just get on, my dogs and me are as good as some and better than most, but I don't take myself to seriously these days, its so much better that way.
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I have had saluki crosses for many years and used them for coursing hares, lamping rabbits, and general mooching about, but only because hares were my main interest so the dog of choice for that had to do it all. if rabbit work was my top priority I would get a rabbiting dog off proven rabbiting parents simple as that, I only ever had one dog with bad recall or none at all realy he was a found dog he stayed couse the kids liked him he was as nice as pie in all other ways and a good killer but when he missed that was game over so he ended up a pet.
