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Depends on your point of view and what you want from a dog. Personally, having met him and read a couple of his books I don't believe a word of what Plummer said or wrote.
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But for how long? If you cross a pair on year 1 the pups won't be ready for mating until year 3 at the earliest and it will be 4 years before you know what you've actually got. Even then you can't be sure that the genes you are aiming for will be passed on to successive generations. to do it right takes year and years and as Wilf says; what do you do with the rejects? Read up on the how the big organisations; Met' Police and Guide Dogs for example set up their breeding programs. It takes at least 4 or 5 generations before you see consistency in the offspring. And they have the benefit of
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I really don't get this crossing malarkey. There is no guarantee that you will get the improvements that you want. You might end up with the worst traits of both breeds and the pups could be a right mixture. It takes knowledgeable people many generations to achieve a stable line of the traits that they have set out to obtain. And there will be more failures than successes.
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Interesting comment. Given that we don't know why the dog failed I don't see how you can dismiss it off hand. Just because your mate got lucky doesn't mean that there aren't others who ended up with problem dogs. Also, you can't base judgement on pup's future ability based purely on one generation's abilities. Good, reliable breeding takes many generations and even then, even with the best breeders, you get poor specimens. My view has always been that when you view a pup you can never be really sure how it will turn out. But if you view a young dog, say under 12 months old, you can alread
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The police dog failures can be cracking dogs as they should only be failed for faults that would not cause the public any harm such as searching or tracking. Those that are too aggressive end up patrolling compounds in Afghanistan. ? just as a link to the press issue on the Coronavirus thread; we once failed a GSD for lack of motivation. To be perfectly honest it should never have started a course let alone been licensed but that is internal politics. Anyway, the dog was passed onto a local newspaper reporter who was told of the dog's issues. He either mis-heard or more probably exaggera
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Same as Deswal; with re-home dogs you have to see it and spend time with it as well as, if possible finding out as much about the dog's history as you can. A lot of dogs in sanctuaries are there because of problems with the owners, not the dogs, but you need to assess it properly just in case it has got a major issue.
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One of my friends had an indoor mole problem after the cat brought one back ? Nice to see you back Uncle Pesta ?
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Spot on Gnasher At the moment the BBC are ragging BoJo at every opportunity. Why? Because he's said that he'll break up their cosy arrangement with the public licence fees and force them to fend for themselves like other companies have to. If they are so clever then why don't they stand for Parliament?
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'Getting it' and being officially diagnosed with it are two very different things.
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Earth Thrower, Max and now Sandymere. You can tell they are mad when they make multiple posts, one after the other each one answering a single point.
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Yeah. Like SARS and all the other recent pandemics that were supposed to decimate the masses but just faded away. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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It is mainly a British thing. The British press are always looking for blood. Hounding public figures for their resignations while burying their own mistakes. There is a German newspaper called Der Spiegel. you can read the International edition online. These are the guys who raised the Man City financial irregularities and the German motor industry's malpractice that is going to cost them € Billions in fines. Meanwhile the BBC's Laura Kuntsberg is busy trying to get Government Ministers to resign because they took some advice off medical experts that proved in hindsight to be flawed.
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So newspaper reporters are experts are thy? Remember there is no template for dealing with this. Every country has different issues. But only the the newspaper reporters have 20/20 hindsight. And theGrauniad isn't exactly supportive of the Tories in any situation.
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It is nothing to do with listening to the WHO. Germany had five times the capacity to conduct tests from day one and that is what they did. They had more masks available from day one. The WHO got it wrong from the start and have not exactly covered themselves in glory since. Each country has different criteria for recording and reporting infections and deaths. So nobody can accurately compare stat's between countries. At the moment China is lying through its teeth in a damage limitation exercise.
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When I cancelled my TV Licence we got letters for years afterwards threatening legal action. I just ignored them. Never got a knock on the door while we were in and we didn't get another TV until we moved to France four years later. We were still getting letters right up to moving.
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To be honest it is pretty much the same as the UK. The main difference is that mostly fishing in rivers and large lakes is free once you have bought your €95 annual rod licence and you can use small boats without restrictions in most public places. Many rivers are full of carp which isn't always a good thing and you will struggle to catch a barbel over around 8lb except in a very few locations. It won't be long before they are pulling out 100lb catfish from the Severn, Thames and Trent the way things are going and I would hazard a guess that the Gt. Ouse system will soon be discovered as
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Sorry, but I don't agree with that. The Allies paid £ millions to Germany to restart their economy after WWI and turned a blind eye to their re-armament. Yes, there were some repatriations of machinery but that backfired as we ended up with their old stuff whilst they bought new stuff with the money we gave them. Then latterly the debts were wiped out. At the end of WWII the Russians took a load of German equipment and tools including the Zeiss factory that they transported Ukraine by train and set up manufacturing. The Brits nicked all the stuff from the Leica factory and some car making
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I'm hoping to be fishing by the middle of next month dependent on the restrictions being lifted. It will be the spawning season for carp and barbel so I'll target roach and tench on a local lake to start with then go onto the rivers towards the end of the month. River carp and a French double figure barbel are on the cards. I've had a lot of carp out of the river whilst barbel fishing so towards the end of last year I switched tactics and went for the carp as they run much bigger than the barbel. I'll also have a rod out for catfish. Last summer I bought a small boat complete with trailer
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RihMw0rvWIU
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You are so right 'Arry. They made the mistake after WWI in assisting Germany re-build even though we were skint and then repeated the mistake after WWII. The reason that Germany's manufacturing is so good now is down to the Martial Plan and writing off their debts. There is no wonder countries like Greece that were starved to submission by the Germans in the 1940's are so angry.
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That's right. The way the EU work is to recruit poor countries who historically have traded with countries outside the EU. Cyprus used to buy grey import cars from Japan, Bulgaria and others got their tractors from Russia and their fruit and veg from Nth Africa. Once in the EU they have to buy from EU suppliers because customs duties make non-EU goods more expensive. So they buy their cars and tractors from Germany and France. Germany is the biggest industrial nation in the EU and makes everything from domestic appliances to coaches and trains so every €1 they put into the EU comes back to th
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That graph does not show the whole picture. The graph does not show how much the UK consumers contributed to the EU via VAT and Import Duties because the EU do not recognise those incomes as a tax. What people do not realise because the EU hide it is that the UK pays 0.3% of all VAT revenue to the EU and 80% of all import duties levied on goods brought from outside the EU to be sold in the UK. Because the UK is a major consumer the amount of import duties attributed to UK sales is enormous, estimated along with the VAT contribution as around €30 billion. And it is all paid for by UK
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Basically the UK can't support its own home grown delinquents yet imports even more from all over the world. It is a crazy situation that historically has lead to situations like the Third Reich and the Balkans conflicts.
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No way. The immigration system is a disgrace. But, hopefully if Boris carries out his promise of opting out of the ECHR it will be a lot easier to repatriate failed asylum seekers. Then, once it dawns on the liberals that the country cannot afford to house all the world's poor they might stop inviting some of them in.
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Gnasher, Basically - yes. There is an element of society that does not fit into society as we know it. Today isn't 1939. They aren't ever going to contribute and they will forever be taking from the State purse. As will their kids, and their kids.............
