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    Thanks, I take your point Dave, though I pm'd SS earlier today about the same thing. Sounds like you have a good game whippet there. For all the times i've lamped those dunes, about 25 years, thats the first time that has happened. Yes, it probably will bring back that night if I go back because I/we know what happened BUT knock's, bangs and injurys are all part of the night game, we just hope they don't happen too often and are not too serious. It's all about perspective. I lost a young promising dog last year to a broken neck whilst lamping, so i've had my share of bad luck of lat
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    Sorry to read this mate and I really hope things work out ok for Ox and you. My whippet hits cover and hedgerows hard when after prey. He has punctured his eye once and it took a month to heal. Luckily the thorn stayed in the tree. I would have probably done the same as you and felt the same feelings as you obviously did. I too (coincidently) was rabbiting last night in the sand dunes. The same whippet was again ripping through the brambles and cover with no regard for his safety. I already decided last night that its a place for the ferrets and nets and just reading this has rein
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    A brilliant result considering the conditions. I waded through mud, shit and floods for 3 hours on Wed night all for a single straight run. I slipped on a half submerged telegraph pole and as I tried to stay upright, my wellies sunk into the mud. the dog got spooked and pulled and I banged my head on the pole and the lamp handle dug in and bruised my chest when I fell on it. Still I couldn't f'ing learn and kept going, soaked and miserable for another 2 hours to see nothing!!!! Good on you for keeping at it. Dave
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    Well done. Dave
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    All good advice mate. I started late and worked away out the country for the past 25 years. When I came home and fulfilled my long awaited wish for running dogs, I also didn't know a soul. I spoke to every tractor driver and famer I met. I walked every field for miles around in my search for signs of rabbits, mostly in vain I must add. it took me over a year of field walking my dogs with and without the lamp to find little pockets of rabbits (and their cousins). I couldn't begin to count the amount of nights I have come home after 3 hours without spotting a sausage. But I never g
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    I sent mine straight back to my own tax office who sent me the forms in the first place. I rang my local tax office and gave them my nat. insurance no. They told me which office I was to deal with and even put me through to the right department who told me i was eligible and sent the forms out. I filled them in and sent them straight back. The cut off date to get them in is 31 Jan. dave
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    I don't see how this counts as scrounging mate, it's your own fecking money, no one elses. I agree with you mal. It was the first time have claimed for anything from the government and I was trying (not very well ) to point out that I didn't think of it as handout. Dave
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    I hate scrounging f'ers, but my wife came home from work a couple of weeks ago and said her boss told her to look into a claim. She phoned our tax office and they told her the biggest tax payer should make the claim. They confirmed I was eligible and sent the forms for me to fill in. I'm now waiting a 500 quid rebate. Dave
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    The wind

    tdavepat replied to Gav's topic in General Talk

    Sometimes difficult to do Gav, when the power is disrupted. It blew a stiff breeze here all night after a horrible daytime storm. I was waiting for the rain to abate as forecast as it was a marvellous night for lamping. Although as you pointed out, the windchill felt severe. Problem? My bloody kids decided they all wanted to go out to different venues and come back at different times so bloody taxi driver dad here sat around waiting for the calls to collect. One of my dogs would go lamping at 12 o'clock miday in the middle of summer if he could or in an arctic blizzard.
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    I'm from up on the coast but would travel down past your area quite often for a nights lamping. I had to rehome my ferrets as I wasn't giving them enough work, but I would still lamp with my 2 whippets most nights. Rabbits are thin on the ground up here so decent permission is precious and jealously guarded. Plenty of rabbits (and other stuff) down your way and a bit beyond though. Try PM'ing Milliken off here, he has a whole rake of permission near you. He runs a couple of whippets but does a bit of terrier groundwork at weekends. Dave
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    Hackney movements are wrong, and you will find most show dogs do not do this, its a serious fault, so I expect you had some crap in the ring if they were moving like this. Theres not that much difference if any between show and working type whippets as SOME may make you think The WORKING WHIPPET thing is just a name to sell whippets IMO A person after my own heart. For me, probably the most sensible post I have ever read on here. Dave
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    Agree entirely. My other roachy backed whippet has blinding speed, tight feet and a great frame. Coupled to high prey drive, fantastic eyesight and intuition, he should have it all. His problem......his method of trying to beat the rabbit on pace alone takes him past it. He overshoots regularly and aways gives his prey a fighting chance. My black whippet is less pacey, which makes for good turns. He gets up behind the rabbits arse and stays there no matter what. He keeps the pressure right up until the rabbit makes a mistake or tires. Dave
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    a lot of SS bred dogs are now well down the family tree. His progency was top drawer, although I would say it would be well diluted in most offspring by now. I put my whippet with SS ancestory into his first open show on Saturday past. I was showing our show pony dobe and as the whippet is recovering from a broken elbow and out of the field for a while we just stuck him in too. Judges comments, 'He's a bit muscular in frame and scarred across his head. He moves differently from the other dogs and is obviously from working rather than show lines'. Well yes, he moves properly!
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    Had a couple of hours out. Perfect weather here, blowing strong and spittng rain. I took my black whippet out, he's my No 1 when he's fit. This was simply to knock the rust off him as he has just started running after recovering from a broken elbow 12 weeks ago. I was really pleased with him as he was looking down the beam every time. I slipped him just a couple of times on long shots to give him a straight run with no tight turns and he obliged by running both the distance until they disappeared over distant rises. When he knew he had lost them out of the beam he came straight b
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    what about the guy the night before who wanted to search threw the night for the duck? or the guy who cryed and couldnt eat the duck lol i nominate them Thats who I would put up. How many times did the big girl's blouse say I'm not normally that squeamish after gaging and running out. What a friggin' fat fairy. If he was a veggie he need to cut down on the cakes. Dave
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    Just used one from N. Ireland to Scotland yesterday to send over a whippet pup to a lady in Perth. Clean, efficient, really looked after the pup and well worth the £. I got these numbers off here. Ben McBride - 0035350441019 covers Southern Ireland. Lenny and Aidan McAllister - 07714455188 cover Northern Ireland. Usually costs bout quid. They also cover different areas of England, Scotland and Wales. Lenny - 07759690354 does diff route to Pat will point you in right direction if can’t help. Pat O'Hare. - Eire 0872556634 Dave
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    I'm part puting my neck on the block here wih Bezza. I'm going to agree with him regarding the macho pics of caught game and vermin. My whippets are good enough for a decent night out lamping or mornings ferreting to put food on the table if I desired to put it on my table. One is soft mouthed, so much so that I could release the rabbit and it would be none the wiser that it had been retrieved. The other takes it to a corner of the field and crunches it until its unfit for any dish other than their own. However, I differ from Bezza in that I have no problem with bull x or bull breed
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    I agree, not a mini mars bar to be seen anywhere. Dave
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    John I entirely agree with your comments that people are quick to judge and slate. However, here we have two young dogs unproven, one who won't retrieve (as yet) and one from a rescue who eats her catch and who once belonged to a now dead farmer. The qualifications for a decent litter don't look good. They might be in the future if the lad works at what he has and proves them. Thetruth, would you be willing to run on a couple and have more patience than you are currently showing. Dogs need to be nutured and shown what you require of them. To post ridiculous pictures of both of
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    Try filling them with chocolate, it works a treat. Dave
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    I thought so as I was thinking and typing but couldn't resist the dig. He'll end up with a litter that will only chase ice-cream vans. Dave
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    Are you quite sure that you want to breed of a dog that won't retrieve and a bitch that eats her retrieve. I take it you'll cut down on the chocolate intake when her teeth rot and she can't eat her retrieve. Dave
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    Managed to get out with Lewis my whippet and Millikin with his whippet, Prince on Friday night. I watched the temp whilst driving all the way to his spot and thankfully it stayed at between 3 and 5 degrees. The ground was beautiful and quite heavy in places. His dog nabbed 10 and mine 5. Dangerous and a no-goer when it hardens though as the farmers have left their stock out and they've chewed the ground. It just makes for frozen 100% certain leg breakers. I've not been too bad on the coast as it really has to drop to freeze the ground. Dave
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    That would be my point. It might be done but it would be a one off I think and the dog would be done in. Dave
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    What was the injection RH, was it cartophen? That's what my best whippet recently had for a broken elbow + 'strike' powders. It apparently promotes growth in the cartilage. I went to Brian Jones in Newry for him when his lameness (even with crate rest) persisted for a couple of weeks. Hope she gets better mate, my whippet is still hobbling around after 10 weeks now, but at least now he looks like he may get better. Dave
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