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  1. birddog
    she's looking good and hats off for the training, she seems to be the amenable type.......i wonder though would she nail a wild bunny in the garden or will she nail a coloured wild one in the field.....how does she know the difference ?, you'd think they both smelled the same (aye with their noses) or is it colour or environment or what ? i once had a non ped that would play with next doors pet bunny yet took all sorts of game in the field, she saw the bunny dailly from a pup and was schooled to race before she hunted
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    has to be some kind of wind up....i wonder if hes a member on here
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    easiest with a photo bucket account simply copy and paste
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    been looking forward to seeing 'mya's' little helper bud, stop teasing..... get the pics up !!!
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    cracking pics n good to see cass looking so well, she'll be mowing them down come harvest time
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    hares have all been shot, deer have vanished and no rabbits in scotland
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    bitches are the natural providers, dogs can be more interested in their libido,or territorial matters, bitches are only in season once a year, so for me unless theres a real big reason its bitches every time, but having said all that the best potfiller i've had and my once in a lifetime dog was a male
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    i like the intense, serious stare........does this mirror their personalities
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    i've got one too but,.......i dont use it as a rule
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    jazz hiding playing feretting
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    gaz, she's been on here loads, her dads a 29" deerhound lurcher to deerhound lurcher and her dam's a 26" greyhound her sire........rip stan
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    winking posing making friends practising a day out with the family out n about thats what the practise was for still posing
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    i know most lurchers are better trained than most pets / designer type mutts, i know most lurcher owners understand canine behaviour and mentality better than joe bloggs dog walkers but the bottom line is our dogs are our responsibility
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    night shifts done, just catching up again, surely it's a combination of a lot of factors, breeding / genetics must come into it how many of the top lampers have collie blood? conditioning to get the best out of the dog, no point in having a dog with all the right traits and breeding etc only to let it down by overrunning it or running it unfit. surprised feeding hasn't been mentioned more, you can't expect a dog to run hard and feed it rubbish, we've got to modify the diet according to workload, also different dogs have different metabolisms, some thrive on 3 or 4 hard nights a week a
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    great pics, cracking example of a good whippet, i spent my teens hunting similar ground and the backs of factories etc my wee collie x never come to grief crack on and enjoy the dog obviously loves it
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    much as i like whippets and they do have their uses, why do we cross them with other breeds ? bull x for heart, deerhound for size, collie for brains, beddy for toughness, saluki for stamina etc my guess is they are not all rounders and they need a wee bit of something else
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    i'm not keen on saluki's but a wee bit in the lineage is great, I like the look of a GOOD bull x (too many poor examples going around now) and can see the benefit of a touch of bull, but i've never had one, had pure greyhounds, whippets and their x's and had some great sport but not again, had a beddy x too much do and not enough thought and a pishy linty coat, i keep going back to collie x's and deerhound x's and who knows in the future maybe a mix of the two
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    18mnth not too old to learn jumping or retrieving, the police and armed forces don't start that sort of training till around that age, maybe need a different aproach though, where a pup retrieve and jumping can be more natural and fun to learn / teach i think a more mature dog would be best less fun and more command so to speak, i'd use easy but varied hurdles (wire, gates, walls ditches etc) and reinforce / strengthen the up / over command
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    interesting how many highly rated dogs are bred from collie greyhound stock, and indeed from hancock stock ie bull/ grey x collie/grey...........deerhound/grey x collie/ greyhound...........saluki/greyhound x collie/ greyhound etc.....
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    would have been interesting breeding / litter for sure, dl travelled for the stud maybe folks would travel if its what they really wanted, especially given the stamp he's thrown with the ern dog and dl smart red pup, i would imagine with his abilty and heart some of the fen lads would have taken a punt he surely has a lot to offer to a daytime bitch
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    such a shame, and as far as i know the only time he went to a collie x it didn't take.........but just out of interest how many of his pups needed advertising ?
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    facts are, bryn (and ray knows how highly i rate him) hasn't been used, the snipe dog (imo for me higher rated sorry ray) is retired from stud, phil doesn't churn out litter after litter, if i breed my jazz it'll probably be a one off,.................pups out of decent well bred, worked, known collie x's just aren't available all that often (and most are spoken for before they see daylight)........hancocks are
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    my 1st ever phone call to him he spoke to me for around 40 minutes, what i'd like, what he has, what i'm like, indoors or outdoors, do i shoot, have i had collie x's before, what i expect from a lurcher etc. ......we can only speak from our own experience, i wouldn't call it vetting but i honestly think he was trying to match me with a dog that suited perhaps trying to ensure a good permanent home, surely it makes commercial / business sense to do that a satisfied customer will come back.......on the morality issue, the pups are there because thats his living, it's what he knows its what he d
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    just catching up after weekend night shifts...............the first of a few points, i'll put it in question form so we can hopefully get a grown up response / discussion..........he has in the past admitted to putting pups down, if this still happens, is it not better to put an unwanted pup to sleep rather than have it join the free to good home, lurcher just starting type merrygoround where it will never settle or get a proper chance ? my own answer...if i'd bred a pup that was punted from pillar to post i'd be heartbroken and given the time over, with the benefit of hindsight it would
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    dictionary definintion of peddling:.....to travel about selling wares ie peddling door to door, to engage in the illicit sale of (narcotics), to seek to disseminate to give out (peddling lies) can't see anything about successfully and honestly running a dog breeding kennels for decades,writing or photography
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