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----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- :nea: Greyhounds heads are small as u know,sometimes the neck can be just as wide ,and in this case they will slip their head out with ease if they get spooked or excited enough.a slipp lead with a noose stops this from happening. you can hold the lead as tight as u like but u may not have a dog on the end of it,no m

Why do you bother then? Why kill them, if you arent going to use them in some manner? Well said, Rabbithunter - the antis have enough muck to throw at us already, without handing them more on a plate. I suppose you do get the odd rabbit that tastes like sh*t, but that's just evidence of a dog with a hard mouth or not paunching them carefully! Threbb, I've got some lovely recipes I can let you have for any number of rabbits, as long as you promise not to give the antis any more encouragement

Last night run of the season, and the dogs and I had a wailing and whinging challange on the drive back from our various blackthorn marks - hopefully no tips left in that I could see, so lots of warm water and salt, bit of green oil to keep it clean and dissuade too much licking, and much the smae for the dogs Didn't know it was the grey powdery bloom on the thorns that did the damage - have never stopped to think what might be the cause (normally too busy jumping aroudn like ten men muttering "oooh, you b*****d"!) For the sad and the spotterish among you, though, I can point out tha

Ditch, at the risk of giving my grannie a bit of a lesson in egg-sucking, the "no discernible wind" bit is a bit of a give-away. It's not just a question of whisking the scent away, it's about background noise and cover for the enemy's ears. Whoever it was said that scudding clouds and on-and-off moonlight seem to give Charlie a false sense of security is definitely right, and just the same is true for bunnies (although whether that's because the wind covers the sound of you moving, or because Benjamin doesn't like wind in his ears and therefore keeps them down and so can't hear you, I've ne

Hateful thing to happen to anyone. Best of luck in the hunt to find her - try http://www.sighthoundsonline.org.uk/forums/ as well - they have a forum for lost & found hounds, and they're another part of the same extended running dog family. We may not share all their opinions, but we can all agree on this one. Good luck, and if anyone can help, let us know - this is SO much more important than "I had a really big bag of rabbits last night" type posts, fun as they are. R&D

Rover, Don't know about the terrier side of life in France, but I can confirm that running dogs are a complete no-no. The blether below is a copy of a reply I did a while ago for someone else, but it'll give you the idea. Hope it helps. R&D 1. All forms of hunting live game, whether fur or feather, in France need the permis de chasse. 2. Like the German Jagdschein, the PdC also allows you to buy firearms/shotguns and ammunition. There is no equivalent of the shotgun certificate or FAC that we have here. Put it another way, even if you wanted to blast nothing more lively than cl

Those will be the injured foxes that you're merely reducing to hand, of course, Staghound, rather than healthy ones that you illegally slip on (as if you'd do a thing like that.....) Don't forget, not everyone reading this is friendly forces.....

u got a bargain [bANNED TEXT] ive shot hares wif mine and i paid 300 pound for mine with scopes [bANNED TEXT] it first came out and [bANNED TEXT] i was looking in a magazine the other day theyve gon down to 215 pound Franco, with the greatest respect in the world you're eitehr a champion bull****er or a cruel b*****d who gets the rest of us a bad name. Don't EVER fire at a hare with an airgun - she deserves more respect and more knowledge than that. Rant off -

A quick shave with the razor on the foreleg and a squirt up the vein with some blue-juice for a quick and dignified death. It's the only answer. And no, I don't mean the dog

Before the whole world says it, the best dog for the job depends on the job! And the world divides into those who believe that a lurcher without a trace of saluki is like a pie without a pint, and those who wouldn't trust anything with feathers behind the ears. The pro-saluki lobby point out that anything bred to course gazelle for dozens of miles over the desert has got to bring staying power in huge measure, while the anti-saluki crew point out that anythign with Arab blood is unreliable, theuir recall is shot to pieces, hunting-up isn't so mcuh a failing as a mark of the breed, and so

Given that I've seen a pair of whippets bring home a brace of roe (before the ban, obviously), that salukis will go on for ever because they were bred to course gazelle over Persia, and the permissions tend to be just a wee bit bigger out there, that once you've seen a deerhound in action, nothing else can ever make your heart beat twice as fast, that anything with any bullx in it is always going to be backed in a head-to-head with Charlie, and that you can't go wrong with agood dollop of greyhound, isn't the answer obvious: The best lurcher for any job is the one that you own, and the one y

"On your grave, beneath the chestnut bough Today no fragrance falls, nor summer air; Only a master's love who laid you there Perchance may warm the air 'neath which you drowse In dreams from which no meal-time calls may rouse. Unwakeable, though close the rat may dare, Deaf, though the rabbit thump in playful scare, Silent, though twenty foxes screech their vows. And yet, mayhap, some night when shadows pass, And from the fir the brown owl hoots on high, That should one whistle 'neath a favouring star Your shade shall canter o'er the grass, Questing for him you loved in days gon

Careful, Irish Lurcher - there's nothing worse than premature congratulation - lol Hope she stays that way. [Long blether about salukis, wonderful or damned irritating deleted on reflection, as I remembered i'd said it a thousand times before at a dozen different shows ] Good hunting, insh' Allah

Meeri's absolutely right, in that a saluki that's cream-crackered is a lot more biddable than one that's full of the joys of spring and keen to get off and over. Our last-but-one acquisition is (judging by his lines and bones and bit and bobs) a good chunk of Arab dog with a healthy dash of Beddie thrown in. Combine the tempraments and you can imagine that recall wasn't his easiest lesson to learn... But a combination of (1) running him absolutely ragged on the lead (and my own 10k race time came down no end as a result as well!) before doing any actual training, (2) starting over massively

Easily solved, I should have thought - isn't this where the eejut who slipped it is given (according to rules) 100 yards law, and then a couple of bull-greys are slipped I'm usually a deerhound kind of a guy, but I can see this is where the bull-blood could come in handy For what it's worth, the team that made the programme are on record as admitting that they came to it as standard BBC Islington antis who thought that it was evil blood-smattered snobs, and during the making of the programme they realised that they had been deceived by the nonsense, and in fact were producing a lam