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    i dont chase him, i walked to the other end of the garden & sat down, he came looking for me eventually but wouldnt come close, he then buggered off again and chewed sevral holes in the dummy!
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    lately my 7 month lab has been a bit of a twat! his retriving was getting better, but in the past few days he's started f*****g off with the dummy! i started his retriving in a chickenwire alley kind of thing in the garden but as soon as i stand back from the entrance or give him a retrive out of it he pisses off with it and runs round the garden with it (our garden is very big) and he try to turn it into a game of me chasing him! when he bring a retrive to me he gets his tummy scratched for a bit then i take the dummy and then he gets a biscuit! i dont get why he dosen't want to come ba
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    block, say a garden gate with fence posts however high you like, step over it and walk away from your dog, i did this yesterday by acsident with the gate into our wood after feeding the chickens and my 7 month lab jumped/scrambled over a 2ft-ish gate (i thought he'd gone through already) and befor that he had only jumped 3 fenceposts with a tennis ball
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    made it myself, great fun to sit on but i dont have any room for it! im near enough 6'2 and it fits me easly £50 or swap for gun cabinet (any size considered) or gun dog traning kit. scottish borders pm me for pics if this one dosen't work
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    i was trying to avoid straw as im going to newton rigg in september and taking him with me, but your not allowed loose bedding
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    he is a 6/7 month lab 1. (my dog as a bed in his kennel and one in his run) he always drags his indoor one into the run, dose this mean he dosent want it?! 2. he eats shit, not sheep, horse etc. but dog. to the extent it hadnt reached the ground from coming out of one dog before it had gone in the front end of mine! :sick: 3. he is also constantly eating grass... is he missing some thing from his diet? (hes on a 3:1 mix of beta puppy and adult, with 1 or 2 eggs a week and occasionaly tin dog meat)
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    pretty much... do it in the heather or reshes, strim the tracks using strimmer & brush saw blade.... best to find a big clump of cover for it if you expect lots of foxes, have 2 or 3 snares per track and up to half dozen tracks. Ive made them in woodland also, brash in tight using dense branches. Hi, Would i just pit some thick branches in the ground as posts and then wind thinner branches between then create holes for the foxes and snare the holes. Make a 6 foot diameter circle put thick brances as posts then wind thin branches between them ? and what could i use as my ba
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    Why not slabs mate ? they fiil up with crap (not litterally just buts of leaves etc. and as they they settle they unlevel quite alot not a huge bother just dosent look as good
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    do you mean my one? its got a proper path, drain and angaling now though all i can say is go with poured concrete, not slabs!
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    its 5'3 at the front and (i think) 4' at the back, im nearly 6'2 so its a bit of a duck but hes very clean so i dont have to get right inside very often. the frame for the run was made using 2x3, with 3x3 posts at the corners away from the kennel, then it just coach bolted to the 3x3 and the kennel so i can use a hose if i need to without rotting the frame. i think we used 3x2's for the kennel aswell so we could fit insulation inside and over lapped 6 inch planks for the cladding!
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    we just took the designe from others that we saw. re-sized it and hey presto!
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    Just an idea that worked with my lurcher, tie a long string like a washing line to his collar and pull him in a couple of times with the ball. Then instead of pulling him all the way just give a quick tug and he'll come expecting you to pull him in. Worth a try. I was in the same position and it worked a treat! Good luck. i gave your technique a try and i must say that was the best result since i tried them out side of his kennel , i didnt even have to pull, i gave a wee tug when he vered away and he came stright in to me! top stuff cheers for that ben 077317
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    well... that didnt work he wandered up to me but only around 4 feet away, ill try incoraging him when hes close to me... might work!
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    to true, i know a underkeeper who hasnt passed yet and the companys moving him to a different shoot were he wont need a licence to drive (still the same company) it was that or get fired
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    ive got a 6 month lab pup thats doing really well but when i roll him a retrive, (not making him sit or anything)the problem is as simple as when i roll the ball he runs, picks it up, and then tries to either run away with it (i made an enclose traning bit of the garden to stop this) or he just sits down with it and chews the tennis ball. he dose it well in the run of his kennel but when i try it in the "traning patch" it all goes to pot! he gets lots of fuss and a biscit if he comes back, but when it gose wrong i call him, get down on my knees, ive even lied down, the usual clap the hands of
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    im going to newton rigg for the ''BTEC national diploma in game and countryside managment'' in september, i got given an unconditional offer at my interveiw so im well chuffed
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    its finaly finished!! exept the path but its close enough!
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    were outting it on the inside of the frame, 1. it will look better 2. it will stop the dogs from eating the frame work and save us on the angling
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    its the boards that you can see, 3 inch rock wall insulation on the roof and 3 sides ( the fluffy stuff, we were going to use the solid type but it would have made it even heavyer) then mdf for the inside, and the windows double glazed so we didnt do all the insulation for nout
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    i think we've spent around 300 odd pounds but dont quote me on it but we now have something far bigger, better and so heavly build thats its going to oust most kennels built by companys, so if you handy with your tools mate by all means i'd build one, unless your short on time!
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    now that the snow is gone/coming & going we were able to crack on with the kennel for my 4 month lab! its a 7x5ft run and a 5x4 kennel, but its so well insulated that the inside is almost 4x3! tell me what you guys think! http://
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    call her grace! thats what i want to call my first bitch
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    ive got a lab pup thats living outside, and two pet spaniels that live inside. i want the lab to be able to come inside every now and then, but the problem is our cocker (the most anti-social dog ever, we took it off a mate that couldnt keep him anymore, he hardly ever had a posotive encounter with other dogs (aged 8 at the time) hes met the pup out side, somewere he's nevr been so teritory wasnt an issue. ( he still didnt like him) when the pup comes indoors, maby twice a week for no more than 5 mins, the cocker sits and growls, barks, and makes that noise when dogs fight, the kinda bark/
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    right...the problem is, due to the now melting masses of snow we had, kennel building got prosponed, (have now started building and it is half way done) so the pup is being kept in the tack room of our stable, with a weld mesh door so he can see out, but thats were our chickens stay, but the chickens can be shut away into the wood, would that be the best thing to do?
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