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    I'll try that with the bowl. There is more collie than saluki in this bitch. She has never eaten or tried to eat a rabbit, but it i like what feral dogs do with food. She fetches everything else well. I think it would help to get her a lot of runs, but I'm really struggling to do that, despite best efforts! Anyone fancy taking me out on some decent land and letting me deck off on my own trying to train the idiot lol.
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    - She always takes her food bowl into her bed after she has finished eating, and burys it in the straw. - She has flushed other stuff and performs just fine. I am very much contemplating taking her away somewhere for a week where there is a lot of game and trying to run it out of her. It is almost impossible for me to get her a decent number of runs (more than 3) without anyone else being there, anywhere near where I live or hunt.
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    Just off out the door, so only a quick reply. Thanks for the advice so far - my natural thoughts was bombard her with bunnys, and do it on my own. The problem - there are no rabbits on my land any more or near by, so getting her on lots of game involves either poaching or going out with other folk, but very difficult when you have to go find your dog after every run as she is off burying a rabbit in the hedge. It makes it almost impossible to get her on a lot of bunnys on the lamp. She does it when I am alone with her now.
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    Best thing I ever did on this front was get sheep lol. Have different phases. There is a pet lamb that will come up and nibble the dog, followed by a flock of 50 to work around. And if that fails there is a big f**k off ram called Boris. But mountain sheep at the worst!
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    I'm sticking this post up because I genuinely need some advice. I've got a problem with my young bitch that I just cannot fathom, and it's got me at my wits end. It's really doing my nut in. A bit of background - I got Bree at eight weeks old, she is collie/whip/grey x collie/grey/sal/grey/bull/whip, basically lurcher to lurcher. She was born in June, so her first real season has been this one, coming into it at 15 months. Her first winter she was 3-8 months, so just did a little at the back end. So anyway, i've had lots of time to work on the dog and train her. Did all of the usual st
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    The Vila was top notch. It had big gates we could lock, a garden for dogs to mess about in, a balcony, a decent kitchen, good lounge and comfy beds. One thing - if it's hot as hell in October is the scent going to be shite in those dusty hills?
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    You said my pastys weren't as good as Kev's the year before so you can feck off you bald Scotch Kunt Cheers, D. Yeah. I'll eat Jim's pasty. Dirty b*****d.
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    Yer, he'll know better than me what kind of live / dead weight would suit for the machine, the cooking and the servings. Get me the info and i'll do the pig at cost. Which would be somewhere in the region £100-120 (including slaughterhouse fee).How does that sound? That would be for a pig of around 75kg live weight.
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    I get you pig. Very nice price lol. Naaaaw, that should be fine, i'd just need a bit of info on size, weight etc. Also needs to be got to the comp as a whole carcass lol (i.e it won't fit in a small car).
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    Mate had a dog pre-ban, smallish thing, not more than 23tts and quite slightly built, looked like a beddy whip type, but lurcher to lurcher. Quite happily knocked over fox, roe, fallow, without much bother, single handed. Also seen a few very small 20-21tts dogs handle fox and roe single handed pre ban. Knew of a 22tts whippet thing that did fox and roe, but just couldn't anchor a fallow. Mind you, having said that i've seen more 23-27tts dogs do it.
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    Prefer daytime, just letting the dogs hunt up, and see where they take me. Best sport there is, and a real sense of achievement when they knock something over. But lamping just puts more in front of the dogs, and with the current situation it's sometimes a lot less hassle. It's a means to an end, but an enjoyable one. Dogs are better in the day though. Not problem with them catching on the lamp, but they can both be twats at times. Always got a nose to the wind lol.
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    I have used them a bit recently, with friends. Used them for two days in Spain, and it converted me. Being able to track where the hound is, and it being no big deal that she is 3 miles away and you can't hear her anymore, because you know she is not moving and marking, or when you holla for the dog and you can see its coming back. Even better when you set out in the direction you are sure the dog went and then check the gps and realise they are in a totally different direction. It's also made me realise that most of the time they are closer then you think, so you don't have to wor
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    Too true mate. . . Donked feck out of something the other night. Was thinking of you and bobby.
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    I agree. Although on the ground that we were running, I would go for a team of good, strong curs, the kind that can find and bail a pig. With a good bit of bone, and feet like iron. I'd worry less about speed, and more about durability, whilst still having the weight and power to stop / slow one down. In this country its a bit different. At least from where i've seen the boar.
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    You would be horrified by the amount of damage birds of prey can do. Many keepers are stuck between a rock and a hard place. And when they get caught they have to take the fall for what is often a 'company policy'.
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    Hahaha
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    Still got that rouge boar on the lose here I think mate lol.
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    And a somewhat different approach. Let the dogs do the leg work, gps on them all and sit down and have a cuppa. Start running when the wee flashing blobs all stop moving at the same place lol. Mind you those ibex would probably become rapidly extinct lol.
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    To be fair if I was there on my own or with a couple of others I think I may have approached it totally differently. But then I'm an opinionated so and so. Maybe it'd have worked, maybe it wouldn't - but I'd love to try, just to satisfy my curiosity. I would go back but not to do it was we did and ideally having tweaked te combination of dogs a little. I certainly saw plenty of game and I think if at one or two points I had two or three catch dogs with me, rather than miles away with other folk - then I may have killed one. We were all out of our comfort zones, both men and dogs,
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    Biglurks - For the majority of the time, most of the lurchers were off the slip. I'm being very honest in saying that I doubt many on here would have managed better, given the conditions etc. Everything pretty much, was against us. But it was fun having a crack! I'm sure that there are folk reading this thread who think their lurcher would have been pulling things right left and centre. But it's easy to think that from an armchair.
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    Was up to 15 degrees mate, with the mist and damp burning off. Scent was pretty good first day, but half way through second day just went dead. Put a fox out and saw where it ran, hounds started off on the line and lost it within 100 yards. Felt like hunting the hills in July lol. Plenty of fox scent. And with a bit more hush, we may have scored a few. As it was two were sighted, but again, no running dog near enough to get a run. As said, we learnt a lot and had a laugh doing it. One of the biggest issues, as was pointed out by Joe, was that the dogs that could find and hunt t
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    Aye, bitch coming into season, in field, lamp on, three foxes in field, lamp off and then suddenly one almost hits the dog. Big randy dog fox. Got himself shot.
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    My girlfriends sister and brother in law recently lost their dog, to a broken back. They are looking for a replacement and are wanting a small, rough coated lurcher, beddy x type. It won't be grafted hard, but will be a loved family dog, and will have the opportunity to do plenty of opportunistic pest control as the husband is forester on one of our large local estates. It'll have a home for life. And who knows, I might just convince him to take up lamping properly, as he has some decent ground. So anyone who knows of any litter coming up that fit the bill, let me know.
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    Just had a really weird one. Anyone ever had a dog fox run at a bitch while she is in season, trying to court her?
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    I'll add my tuppence worth later. But it was the worst ground you can possibly imagine to run lurchers on. I'd never take a running dog there in a million years. They usually use 20 beaters, 50 hounds and 20 guns to do this 4000 Hectare, ragged mountainous, wilderness. And those beaters and dogs are used to the ground, the quarry and working together. We got close a few times, errors were made, boar was lost. Closest I saw was when Ollie and Gwen hunted one large Boar for around 3 miles (had GPS on), pushing it out of cover twice. Eventually managed to get a lurcher sighte
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