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I see that many of you use some form of tracking collar on your terriers when working them. I never have. Mostly because my biggest problem has not been getting them out of an earth, but knowing which earth one has vanished down in 500 acres. This is due to the nature of much of my hunting. Rather than going out specifically to hunt, my dogs come with me when I'm working. With the best will in the world, I cannot keep my eye on them constantly, and several times I've located one only by backtracking and checking every rabbit-warren, hollow-log and hollow tree within 100 yards of my track.
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I assume that the initial comment was an attempt at sarcasm? The point of electing a representative is not to give them a divine right to vote as they please, but for them to vote in a manner that is truly representative of the wishes of those who elected them. Hyperbole aside, I suggest two strategies. (1) A mechanism whereby an electorate is able to recall their MP and force a by-election. If that mecahnism required - for example - a major percentage of the registered voters in that electorate signing a petition in order to force a by-election, it would not become a referendum on ev
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sunset/sun rises pictures feel free 2 add
Tsayad replied to rocky1's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
The pool at Mungerannie is an artificial one , the result of the overflow from an artesian bore. Given that they have to walk across something like 700km of desert to get there, I suspect that there aren't a lot of crocs in it. If there are, the owners of the hotel are keeping pretty quiet about it. http://www.mungeranniehotel.com.au/mungerwhereinsthaustralia.htm Father-bear used to love sitting out and watching the thunderstorms boil up from the west. I have good memories of keeping him company. The amount of dust and smoke in the atmosphere often gives us very colourful sunsets in summ -
sunset/sun rises pictures feel free 2 add
Tsayad replied to rocky1's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
Mungerannie Roadhouse, Birdsville Track. About 5 hrs drive from anywhere. A t-storm west of home. -
Human hunters would interact with wild canines in two ways. (a) Scavenging (or just taking over) canid kills and ( taking game that is running ahead of a hunting pack. It wouldn't take too many occasions of this nature before campfire talk after an unsuccessful hunt would have turned to, "Remember when.....? How can we make it happen again??" It is also possible that canids - being pack animals and accustomed to working as a team - learnt that there are benefits to working with people. A parallel would be the cooperation between dolphins and aboriginals on the east coast of Australia in f
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How about the right of the electorate to suspend their MP if he doesn't vote according to their wishes. ...... With a rope.
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Really nice pics. I find it very hard to get good ones of the dogs running game, because the range varies so quickly. Would you care to share how you do it?
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Pardon me for butting in As I understand it, "Lurcher" is you term for a generic cross between a sighthound and a working dog. "Staghound" is a term that we apply to a similar cross of hybrid of the smooth-coated sighthounds - mainly greyhound - and the roughcoated sighthounds, predominantly deerhound. They may be either rough or smooth coated, although it is more common for the rough coated dogs to be referred to as Staghounds and the larger smoothcoats as Kangaroo dogs. Try here http://www.kangaroodog.org/
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Considering the immense damage that they do to our native wildlife, here, there is only one reasonable answer.... Of course!
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A brief post and photograph on this topic is part of my ongoing thread. http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/212465-another-ruddy-australian/page__st__15
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Docking is illegal in this country, too, and I agree that the ban is bullsh.... Reading and personal observation indicate that there are two good reasons for docking. One was that in working spiney cover such as gorse of heavy thistles, a long tail ends up bloody after every day of such activity and, as noted, they take time to heal. The second, and in my opinion equally cogent reason, is that a longer tail is more likely to limit a terrier's ability to move backwards in a tight den. This is partly because a tail has the potential to catch on roots or projections, and partly because in re
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An update, with a couple of short stories. Please enjoy. Peter http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/212465-another-ruddy-australian/page__st__15
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Rob... No more than taking a tumble or getting bitten. Like all training, it must be done well. (1) The "zap" should be no more than required. Instructions on the collars that I've seen INSIST that you start the correction level low and work up until you are just getting sufficient reaction from the dog. The dog should NOT react as though it has been struck by lightning, but as tho you have just corrected it hard enough to get its attention. I'll qualify this by adding that some dogs require more to "get their attention" than others and that appears to include some of the bull-bree
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If you plan to work your running-dog with your staffies, that increases your options a little. A whippet or smaller lurcher does not have to be able to kill a fox one-up, if you have other dogs there that will back it up when it bails Charlie. I'll qualify that by questioning how open the country is that you intend to work. If it's very tight, then you may need a dog that can pull up a fox very quickly on its own..... but the good thing about whips is their speed off the mark. I've seen a whippet bitch give an adult fox a forty-yard running start and catch it before it reached 100 yards. A
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All.... Because I run multiple kinds of dogs, I've decided that it will be easier to keep my pics and stories consolidated in one thread. I've started on my terriers, on my thread in the Intro section. Somewhat pic-heavy. http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/212465-another-ruddy-australian/page__st__15 Cheers.... Peter
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His problem is not ignorance, but lack of discipline. When he is running and you call him, he decides that continuing to run is more fun than coming back to you. He needs to learn otherwise. I suggest the electric collar. Used appropriately - and you need to read the instructions - they work well. Discipline always seems "hard", but the better controlled a dog is, the more he will be able to hunt. Peter
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I would agree that they are tougher than they look.. Mine tackles foxes and sleeps out in her kennel on frosty nights, although she'd much prefer to be inside. However, she's a slight little bitch and isn't quite hard enough to pull up an old dog fox who whows were cover is and is determined to get there. I wouldn't expect the average whip to kill a fox one-up. They just lack biting power... although there are some bigger whippets about. The job I ask of mine is to make them bail until the other dogs can catch up. First fox she met, bit her when she poked her muzzle down the earth. The s
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That was the best drive I've been on. It had been a good season all around and we were driving the rice stubbles. We were trying to make a point - that we could make a sizeable dent in the local fox population - so it was a mixture of drives conducted over Saturday and Sunday, and some very keen spotlighting teams working Fri and Sat nights. The ultimate tally was in excess of foxes, some hares and a couple of feral cats. The local MP put up a prize for the most successful shooter and participated himself... he's the balding gentleman in the blue jacket standing near the centre. One way
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Foxes are a problem with poly grainbags. As you know, they like to climb on and leave deposits on the highest thing around. At about 5' high, the grain bags are the highest thing around, but they are slippery, so Mr Fox has to dig his sharp little claws in.As the storage of grain relies on the skin being moisture, gas and insect-proof, you can understand my lack of appreciation. Not methods that bring a warm glow to a dog-man's heart, but whatever it takes,. Shorty is still convinced that it wouldn't happen without her help. ..... and yes, that is a privately owned
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Thankyou, Sir! Compliments on a man's dogs are always appreciated. The fox drive in question is an annual affair that takes place a couple of hours west of here on plains country. It was a drought year - one of four - aas can be seen by the patchy state of the young crop in the background. The drive itself was conducted along timbered creeklines and through scrub or cane-grass swamps. Beaters with terriers and running dogs, and the line of shooters across the far ends. A very pleasant and social exercise. .... and sometimes fairly productive, although the tally in the pic below was
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That's about the worst thing you can do With respect, have you tried it? I've had to treat an elderly kelpie with one of the worst cases of mange that I've seen on a dog. Treated her with clean engine oil broken down with just enough diesel to make it rub through the coat (what's left of it) Within 3-4 days of the first treatment, the redness had gone out of her skin and after another two treatments over the subsequent 10 days the irritated areas scabbed over and healed normally. Next year the thickness and health of her coat was remarkable for an old dog. No recurrence. As fa
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My two bitches on a fox drive a couple of years ago. Mother and daughter. The older one - oddly enough, the one with the darker muzzle - was put down 18 months ago due to cancer. Both spannable with a knuckle to spare. The taller bitch is 12&1/2" The apprentice is coming along nicely. Hyperactive on rabbits and mice, goes to ground nicely. Bays foxes, but is not hard.... so far. About 8mo when this pic was taken. 11&1/2" Spannable with a knuckle and a bit to spare.
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Chatting with some wildlife biologists who do surveys on my property, amongst a lot of others. Their records are showing three times the normal number of foxes this season. Rabbits in numbers and mice in huge numbers so it's not surprising that old bushy-tail is breeding well. CP has chosen a good year to visit. Rabbit vary locally according to the cycle of myxo and calici. They will breed up until one or other disease knocks them back again.
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My older JRT bitch wears a collar that is rivetted with no buckle. It's made to be a tight fit over her head, which makes it fit nicely on the neck and the reduction in hardware means that there is less to snag when she's underground or in hollow timber. I've not had her come out of it in normal use, but my hope is that she could if stuck. Standard plasic collar-strap, d-ring and copper harness-rivets. Peter.
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They are used here on hounds in rough country, although there are potential legality issues as the freq used is not one assigned for the purpose. Those who use them order by mail from the US. By all accounts they work well within their limitations. They have neither the range nor the battery life of telemetry systems, but word is that if a dog drops off the tracking unity, you know where is was last and where it was heading so it's a matter of moving closer to the last known position.
