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    I used to a lot of hedging without stakes, just use lots of baling string to tie it all together in a long sausage shape, it doesn't look nearly as neat as stakes and binders but makes a passable hedge non the less. All the stumps and pleachers sprout out just same, when it greens up you wouldn't know. That said if you can get stakes use them. Keep in mind if you use willow for the stakes they are all going to grow.
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    Neal what a tale of woe,that was hard to read, you do have my sympathy. I enjoy your posts & I guess it's you who writes articles on kelpies in EDRD, interesting & well written. I suggest you and the kelpies enjoy a long summer of R&R Cheers
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    Dogs like most animals cannot speak English, they communicate a lot with body language hence anybody (or dog) having a seizure is going to be giving some pretty strange or possibly even frightening messages to their animal companions hence having a fit around dogs could get you attacked. Just my theory. Not the dogs fault.
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    Just enjoy the puppy phase. It will not need any encouragement to chase, ALL dogs enjoy chasing rabbits, this time next year you won't be able to keep it out of the hedgerows if you wanted to.
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    never met a terrier border or otherwise that could use a shotgun. Sorry about that but it is late.
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    Good luck to you, I have always admired the Airedale, they need a champion it seems. Incidentally I have just read an advert for pedigree Airedales. The ad uses terms like "gorgeous" & " fabulous pedigree" The best bit is they are only asking £950 for a pup, perhaps it should buy a brace? Doomed to be a minority breed.
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    Why risk introducing dog aggression into your little pack? Spanial & hound crosses would hunt just as we'll wouldn't they? And almost guaranteed to be sociable.
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    Great another thread on Airedales, a breed I have always admired and deserves its place in the hunting field, I do hope to own one one day. Many thanks to the originator of this thread for the lengthy and informative post. But for heavens sake is everybody on this forum obsessed with "gameness"! I have read a few post on Airedales and they always dissolve into a squabble about game mess. "yeah but is it game." not everybody wants a fire breathing tear em up nutcase. Is it wise or even relevant in our currant situation (UK) to want to breed such hard dogs. I would like to see the Airedales ch
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    Sounds like a nightmare cross, I imagine it would be more interested hunting down other dogs than any legit quarry. Hate to be negative but I wouldn't have one for a gift. But hey never seen one in the flesh so could be wrong.
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    Thanks for sharing the pics, looks like top dog sport! I spent 1994 in the states, we tried to shoot some troublesome coyotes one night with a "stake out". I sat in a freezing pick up over looking a dead cow for hours. It was about minus 15c that night & by the time the coyote pitched up I was too cold to shoot or care. Needless to say no coyotes were harmed as a result of my hunting activities! In those pre internet days I never came across anyone hunting with dogs in the US - Rifles being so freely available I suppose. How do you get the Quarry out in the open like that? Do you just d
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    I must be an idiot! Just like one or two others I clicked on to this topic hoping to learn a little about the modern airedale as a hunters companion, thanks to all those who posted relavant opinions & experiences. What was all the other nonsence? The airedale is a breed I have allways admired & I hope to own one day. It seems as if the only thing for it, is for me to actually buy one, rear it, train it & report back in two years or so and let you know how I got on! Just like the starter of this topic I want a versatile dog that can hunt alongside the lurcher that is too large to
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    What's illegal? running the dog alongside a bike? I think I got that wrong: its illegal for a dog to pull a cart on a public road in this country: for 'cart' read buggy, sled or whatever! So I won't be dog scootering along the roads! I am believe its illegal to use a dog as a draught animal in the UK.
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    Looks like robust little fellers getting a good start in life. Look forward to a few updates in the coming months
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    Hi, I am one of those wierd people that enjoy long distance running. If am running with the dog on the roads I use an elastic lead I got from the "CANI-X" people, I sometimes use it with an "x" type harness like the husky types use for pulling, the whole kit was a shocking price but it does seem quite rubust, My dog must be nearly seventy pounds and if a deer or cat crosses the road I can be in for a "wild ride"! The kit has never broken yet. I rarly use the harness as my dog does not ordinarily pull, she infuriatingly trots by my side for miles, even when I could do with a hand up the hills.
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    Thanks for the replys (well the sencible one`s anyway). I am not into shows but I guess it is the best way to get out and see the dogs. Will try some of those forums also. Cheers.
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    Had to be reading for me the likes of Jack Ivestor Lloyd & -let it be whisperred- David Brian Plummer. I am from a farming background and up untill I read those tales I thought you needed a 12 bore to catch rabbits! I actually knew nobody who hunted with dogs. I pestered my parents for a whippet but had to settle for a beagle/mongrel puppy, I hunted relentlessly with that dog, never caught a thing, Enjoyed every minute.
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    Hello lads, hope you don`t mind me butting in on your topic, but as most of the plummer regulars are assembled here I thought it would be a good place to get a bit more info on these cracking terriers. Since my last terrier died over a year ago I have been considering getting another terrier and a plummer in particular. as you point out there are different lines & outcross or "pure" to consider. I have tried to get on the "working plummer terrier forum" with no joy "registration disabled"? apparently. I guess I could just phone some of the breeders who run ratting packs but I would prefe
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    Pup every time, I know pups are messy & demanding but do the training your self, there is no substitue & there are definatly no shortcuts! I have bought two 1 year olds in my time - never again!
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    Thanks for sharing, great pics, looks like you had a great day. I heard many tales of threshing from my farming forebears & the sport that went with it. It dont happen like that anymore.
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    Morning Gents, Hope you dont me asking a qestion in your topic. I have been considering getting one of these for all of the above reasons. Also I get tinitus due to the stupidity of not wearing ear defenders in my youth. Would you say its safe to use a hushpower with out ear defenders? Thanks in advance Longbow.
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    The springs are "cheap as chips" bought separatly. If memory serves I got some at a game fair for about 50p each.
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    ITs the moult, no one ever mentions the moult when talking about rescued hens, they just go on about "horendous conditions" etc. All hens wether kept outside or under artificial lights have to moult sooner or later (autumn for outdoor hens). When they have moulted and recharged their batteries (no pun intended) they will begin laying again, not so much as in their first year though.
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    Only species can go extinct and dogs are still very common. Meaning the genes are still there to recreate the heavy hunting dog of old, if thats your bent. Just my opinion but I see them as a recreation of what the type may have been like. Iff you want to revive the term ALAUNT to describe them, why not? Yes in terms of modern "breeds" they are just mastif/bull/grey. Some cracking pics/dogs again lads cheers
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    Great post Bodger, The archetypal lurcher, a lowprofile moochers dog. Nice to see there are some thinking dogs & thinking owners on THL. Cheers
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