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No problem BRY, will do
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So what exactly is the date? I've got to go see the fishery owner in an hour. Scot - I'm looking forward to meeting you matey, i've a feeling we'll have a few things in common lol.
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Very good reply. Yep, but it's all about perspective, like every other breed, there are many different 'types/lines/strains/breeds' of collie and not ALL of them are worth a fecking carrot when crossed with a greyhound (or any other sight hound!) for 'Joe Soap' when he's looking for a 'shit or bust' hunting partner... Unfortunately, half the tossers that breed don't take this into account, sort of 'don't read about what they breed' (and certainly don't really work it!) the other half are the tossers who believe everything they read..... Hey ho, ya pay's ya money....! Aye, that g
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Very good reply.
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I'm sure that this has already been said. . . . . But for me, it's not what the dog does, but sometimes, how it does it. It's not in the big things that you notice, but in the smaller ones. And for every time you hold up and example of what the collie brain can do, someone, somewhere will hold up a dog that does the same that isn't collie blooded. It's odd stuff, like using cover to their advantage, cutting game off rather than running after it, working off other dog, using them to make it's life easier. Things like that . . . .
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Oh aye. . . . I woke up, thought we were going to get murdered, grabbed my gun, got up out of bed . . . went to the bathroom and shot through the door. . . . . . And at no point at all did I look at, speak to, wake, or check my wife was lying in bed. . . . Aye. . . Right. . . .
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Cheers matey I know exactly what you mean The piglets are weaned, the sow was not happy to start, she slept outside in the rain the first night, which of course, was the only cold, rainy night we had. She's happier now though, and the pigs are growing. First two go off start of june, so not long now. . . . and it's sausage time Been doing a bit of chain sawing, cleared way for some more fencing, and also to bring in a JCB, to scrape out a space for the shed / barn, and level out an access track. Also going to get him to drill the holes for the posts. Luckily, it's the farm manag
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To be honest, when on a still water. . . . . it's pretty much all I use. Either buzzers, or small scruffy flies, like a furry buzzer. And the odd dry. I have a lot of success with black and red and black and green, skinny buzzers. Sometimes, with a slight 'ruff' just behind the head.
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Aye, it's definaly a strong collie trait. Watch a sheep dog trial. . . . . Doesn't mean other dogs dont do it, as ultimataly the collies working style, is a refined hunting style. But all of the collie curs i've seen do it. . . . . And i've never seen a whippet do it lol. Cheers for all of the positive comments anyhow!
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Cheers all, she's certainly a strong bitch but also plenty nippy. Incredibly smart bitch, real thinker. Sirius - both sides mate Sal/grey/collie/grey/bull/whip x collie/whip/grey
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Socks - Oh aye . . . . she's certainly a collie lurcher 10 months, just over 24" and around 25 kilo.
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Just remember sock, it's only a flight away. Had some mates who moved to japan, they say is an awesome place. When you are young is the time to do these things, sooner or later life gets in the way.
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You're not wrong. But not everything that's protected should be. Have a wee think about it. Why exactly are buzzards protected? For what reason?
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Jesus :laugh: Take it you love them Not their greatest fan
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Who gives a f**k, good riddance. At the end of the day they are vermin. Why does the o.p think it's ok to shoot deer, fox, rabbit, hare etc etc etc and not a buzzard? f***ing rats with wings.
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In all honesty I wouldn't pick a 3/4 greyhound dog for ferreting mate. In fact . . . . I don't think i'd pick any dog that had a pure grey as a parents . . . . for pretty much any task. As for a bull blooded dog being as good as a collie blooded dog for the ferreting. . . . . aye perhaps so . . . in some cases. But i'd say 9 times out of 10. . . . . if you were looking for a ferreting dog, to do regular ferreting and pretty much just that . . . . . i'd be willing to bet a pastoral blooded animal, rather than one with bull blood will have more success. Now don't get me wrong. . .
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What a load of shite!!! Why cant bull crosses make good rabbit dogs then?? And your saying collie cross cant catch hares in daytime?? Aye they both can. . . . . but I think if I was going to be ferreting a few times a week, every week . . . . a half x bull/grey might not be my first choice, and if I was on the fens every week of the season . . . . I might not pick a half x collie/grey. Obviously you get dogs that just defy logic. . . . . . but there is a reason why some dogs are mostly selected for certain tasks . . . . . and to argue against that doesn't make sense. . . . . . It
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I think it does depend on how much you do . . . . The whippet . . . . I didn't start him lamping until his second season . . . . . and he was a b*****d for hunting up. Not f***ing off around the whole farm, but just running other rabbits he had scented in the field he had been slipped. It probably doesn't help that we have a lot of small fields here, so the rabbits were relatively close to him. Probably also didn't help that I had a habit of putting him straight on another rabbit if he missed one. And what he did every day for his first season, was hunt up in woodland, rough land etc......
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Another fantasist . . .
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One thing I've been thinking since I read this last night . . . . . it made me reflect back upon the standards thread. I think at the end of the day, whether they admit it to themselves or others, or not . . . . . most of the folk on here, and most of the people into dogs, just don't require anything that's particularly outstanding. Most 'decent enough' dogs will do. . . . . catch a few rabbits on the lamp, do a bit of ferreting, hunt up cover a bit, maybe kill the odd fox here or there, pull a couple of deer. Their owners are out for the enjoyment of being out, and working their dogs, and
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Ok so everyone knows it's a gamble when you get a pup. But surely the basic logic is. . . . That you strive to get a pup off two dogs that do what you want the pup to do, to a high standard. Obviously you can't always see both parents work, in an ideal world you would be getting a pup out of dogs that you have hunted with, or seen hunt for a few seasons, but at the end of the day, sometimes there is better blood. . . . out there that you may not have seen, or maybe no one you know works the kind of dog you want. But If you do your homework and area good judge of people and are not
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I reckon so, also I think they also spend so much time away from anything human smelling, living out on the hill and in the forest. The worst are also the ones in the forest, so I guess it's because the dogs are not mentally prepared for a sheep, whereas a lot of the places we go, they just look through them as they are every where. I've had a couple of really 'proud' moments with the whippet around stock, over the last season, one time, on the lamp, he was running a bunny and it went through a hedge into a field full of sheep, followed by the dog. . . the sheep panicked. . . a couple of h
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