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Thanks for the offer Socks . Pm me with details. dates ect. would love to take you up on that one... (even if I have to do the hard slog)

Sounds like im expecting her to go from zero to hero before she has grown up. thanks for the advise guys, really appriciate it. as i say , first pup so im just finding my own feet with it, just as she is. Is treating everything a good idea? i.e. positive reinforcement. i don't want her to just work for the food reward. Is it possible to bush with a single dog? any kind fellas out there fancy letting a novice tag along for a bit of bushing / lamping / ferreting? (obviously id leave the pup at home as shes too young) but just so I can see how its done? I'm based on the oxon/glos border

Nice looking pup mate. doesn't look like he has taken any of the beddy coat?

Hi Guys, So the exciting time has come and I have finally got myself my first pup. A chap in the next village was selling a litter of working lurchers, and they looked like what I was looking for. Sire is GreyxWhippet Dam is BeddyxWhippet I've not had a working dog before so Just thought I would post some photos and let you guys see her, and also invite any advise from the older and wiser in the lurcher world. Hoping to get her out on the lamp and a bit of mooching/bushing when she is older. just letting her grow and develop a bit for now. Basic training is going ok. she is n

Does playing tug with the Lurchers encorage them to be hard mouthed? Iv just been trying to build a bond with my pup, by playing tug, but Because she has 1/4 beddy she really goes hard on the rag. wondering if this is teaching her to grip everything that goes in her mouth for grim death? she is only 12 weeks old, but I don't really want to be doing something now that could mess her up or give me issues to deal with later on in her life if she is hard mouthed. any advice welcome lads... (shes my first pup so go easy )

So it is pretty important then? Any example of folk who have used both (success or fail)? Also any more on the breed for a first lurcher? Obviously guys bowing to your greater experience to help me avoid a few mistakes...

Evening folks, looking into getting a either a pure whippet or a whippet x collie or similar. A few questions as I have been around pet dogs all my life, but this would be my first working lurcher. Is this a good first dog to start with? Also thinking of getting a bitch, my experience with my mums corgis is that the dogs are a bit daft and switched off, and the bitches are more sharp and intelligent, is this the case with lurchers? Ideally will be used for: a bit of lamping general mooching/bushing (just the dog and me, is that possible?) also for retrieving shot pigeons/rabbits with

thanks mate. has anyone had a s10? looking on the bsa website i cant find them, i wonder why?

just wondered what you thought of this offer. the other gun i have been looking at is the air arms 410. i belive that the bsa gets over 200 shots per fill and the airarms only gets 100. is this true. jyst wondered if any of you have had any experiance of the bsa. i know lots of you shoot air arms and most cant speak highly enough. cheers brecon3

hi all. i have been offered a bsa superten .177 with only three shots threw it. just wondered what you guys thought to it.. the bloke selling it wants £400. cheers brecon3

thanks for the input they are asking for £150 when i said that they are good looking dogs i wasnt meaning they were cute i ment that they were strong , healthy ,alert pups who all of them were jumping at the gate of the kennel when i came near the only problems i would be thinking of are that the father is very flghty and skitish and the mother has had a go at my mums corgi and a jack russel up the road that required vets attention would this be passed onto the pups? neither mother or father has really worked thanks

it first cross cross if that helps and the gsd is the mother (is that sire?) i can ask about the gds history of hips as i know the lady well and they look strong stocky dogs although the mother did have a nip at me when i walked through the gate (would this be passed on to the pups) then there is the question bitch or dog? what are the pros and cons for each? thanks brecon3

the stables over the road from me have just had a litter of suliuki x greman shepard pups just wondering what they would be like if i bought one i havnt had much experiance with either breed so wondered if anyone who has could help i guess they will be quick but weather the greman shepard will slow them down or reduce the hunting insting i dont know thanks brecon3

nice dogs and welcome

i live in south oxfordshire but cant be much help as i dont have much to shoot on either only a small stables with the odd pigeon not much where abouts are you mate?