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SJM is right: you will get, as you have already done, a load of different answers: IMO the karate chop is for kung foo experts or amateurs who have never learnt to do the job less violently: pulling the neck is the quickest and easiest way for someone to kill a rabbit if they aren't a karate expert, or the rabbit won't keep still. As with all things it takes practice. As far as being a team is concerned, its down to you to take the dog where you want it to hunt. To be a lead member of the team you need the dog to understand that you will take it where there's rabbits. IMO half the probl
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Unreal! I wonder how long it took them to figure the whole thing out: I must admit I was more expecting some dramatic ending where something kicks the person out of bed: assuming it was a wake up call. LOL
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down: This list varies according to which part of Germany you live in so you can cross the street and your legal dog suddenly becomes a banned dangerous dog! Cat.1) American Staffordshire Terrier Pitbull Terrier Staffordshire Bull Terrier Bull Terrier Neopolitan Mastiff Spanish Mastiff Dogue de Bordeux Dogo Argentino Fila Brasileiro Roman Fighting Dog Chinese Fighting Dog Bandog Tosa Inu Cat.2) Akbash Briard Beauceron Bullmastiff Dobermann Estrela Mountain Dog Komondor Kuvasz Maremma Mastiff Pyrenean Mastiff Pyrenean Mountain Dog
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Done: I added as a comment ..... To blanket attack all dogs of certain breeds is in my opinion is a type of 'ethnic cleansing' which should no more be applied to dogs than to humans. Each animal should be assessed in a FAIR way: to assume a dog will turn nasty is the same as assuming a man with a gun is a homicidal maniac. The owners should also be assessed by COMPETANT people as to their suitability for owning guarding breeds. Only problem is that if they ever did assess dogs and owners, which I'm afraid I can't see them doing because of the expense, then WHO would choose the assessors?
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Dam: lurcher to lurcher for years, sire: a little Gollie/Grey.
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cheers Byron: I had an idea it might be a foreign invader: and not I'm not about to go and pull it up: it covers an area of about 12 x 12 feet and is right in the middle of a load of nettles.
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SSSHHHH... dont let the cat out the bag
skycat replied to mole catcher's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
I'd love to have seen his face. What did he say? Or had he already gone by then? -
Growing next to an old railway line: about 4 feet tall. Don't look wild to me but I haven't a clue: Or maybe some exotic escapee!
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Got me alittle water dog: as at home in the water as she is on dry land. Just loves it: I'm going to teach her to dive for stuff LOL. Well, you never know when it might come in useful, like when you drop your lamp in a stream or something: easier to get the dog to fetch it out!
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I must admit I've had to have dogs humanely put down in the field after suffering fatal injuries, but by choice I'd call out the vet to my oldies: f*ck the expense: the years of pleasure they've given me means they deserve to die quietly at home in familiar surroundings: and if the vet knows their job it is very quick indeed: one minute they're there, and the next they're not: just like a massive overdose of anaesthetic. Having undergone GA myself on several occasions it really is just like the lights going out: even quicker than falling asleep. Luckily my 2 main vets are women, and my dogs
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Some petty arguments when running a lurcher club
skycat replied to doxhope's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
I'd have said that it must be in the bag at the end of the night. In a coursing competition the number of hares caught only counts when the hares are laid out at the end of the comp.: Seeing the dog catch one in the distance, then failing to find the 'body of evidence' always meant that without the carcase it doesn't count as a catch. -
A few more..
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A few pics from the festival of hunting: didn't get there til midday so missed most of the terriers plus chin wagging with old mates
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spayed jill,seperated from mother now fighting??
skycat replied to mooster's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
When a female animal is spayed, be it dog or ferret, its hormone producing ovaries are removed: the animal then smells completely different to an entire female. I've had this problem before with spayed bitches. I've also noticed that entire male dogs will get very excited in the presence of a castrated male dog, often trying to mount it. I suppose its possible that the ferret just doesn't smell like 'family' any more and is being seen as an intruder on to the older jill's territory, or could be that the old jill just can't understand why the spayed one smells different. -
And there was me thinking that his teeth looked in pretty good nick considering he's no spring chicken: how old is he S? 7 or 8 at a guess I'd say.
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Those are incredible photos Moll.
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Well said Ferret15: I know I'm not exactly in this debate as I haven't had a litter this year, but I can honesly say that in 20 years of keeping ferrets I've never had a jill eat her kits, unless she ate a couple at birth that I didn't know about. We did have a litter one year that had a few swimmers which had to be put down but that is the only problem we've ever had and our jills kittle togther, live together all year round and there's never a cross word among them. Though of course they are either related or have lived with eachother since kittenhood. LOL My OH who has kept ferrets since
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Killing them at 12 weeks old???! NEVER heard of that before: this gets weirder and weirder: strangely enough this is the first year we haven't bred a litter, so I'll never know if it is something to do with the weather. When I first started reading the posts about jills killing kits I assumed it was inexperienced messing about with the kits while they were too young, but this is obviously not the case and its happening to a lot of people who've had ferrets for years. Glad I didn't open my gob when I first saw the posts about it! Edited to ask: were all the jills and kits housed in
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Have the same problem with mine: years of working cover as well as to ground have left my 10 year old bitch with heavily scarred ears that are crimped over at the ends with scar tissue: one plus is that the more they are scarred on the ears the less it bleeds! Not a lot you can do about it IMO, just keep the scratches cleaned up and keep the dog out of cover until they are well scabbed up. It'll just keep happening as long as the dog is pushing through brambles with dertermination. Mine just live with it: just make sure they don't get swollen and infected: clean with salt water and dob on
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Has anyone else noticed this seems to have been happening quite a lot this year: judging from the several posts on this forum. Weird:
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ALL land is owned by someone: part the common land round my way is owned by a big Angling Club, though very few members of the public would know that (if it weren't for the bloody great signs saying so! LOL) Other so called common land can be owned by a nearby town, or its council, some can be held in socage (originally a feudal type of tenure) to the crown for example. So even if you think no one owns a piece of land you can be sure that there is an owner somewhere: a town council, the crown or other organisations. I lost valuable permission when a local council tenant on whose land I
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I bred from both my Hancock bitches: one litter was average like the mother (it was a long long time ago and my excuse is I didn't know any better at the time! LOL) From the excellent Beardie cross I bred 2 litters to proven lurcher x lurcher dogs of mixed breeding: the pups were every bit as good as their mother and even better at some things: but the sires did come from very good old working lines.
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Smashing pup: I'd have been very interested in a pup from this litter if I didn't have so many bloody dogs! LOL. They all look full of potential and so well reared too>
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In my experience each pup from a litter is different: some are more playful, some just want to mooch off down to the bottom of the garden on their own, some sleep more, some hardly ever sleep, or so it seems! Some pups will need more work doing on a one to one with their owner to bring them out of their shell and bond, others are in your face 24/7 and are more people orientated: dogs are just like people, all different. Is your mate playing with his pup the same as you are? Obviously the more you 'activate' the pup's brain by playing interesting fun games with it, the better it will devel
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Skycat is one of my dogs: when she was little I called her Crazycat cos she was like a cat with a rocket up its a*se! Mental!