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One and a half year later...
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It isn't my cup of tea either...but posts like this are also a thought experiment on ethics...where do my fellow man and me put the border on what is right/wrong... I wonder where the concensus comes from...where does the feeling change...a fox hold up in a pipe bitten and shaken to death is "right", an animal strangeling itself to death in a snare is "right" but having a dog attack a tethered animal is wrong? Where on the scale is for example gassing millions of male chicks or other nasty agricultural practises involving millions of animals...or pig hunting with catch dogs? What if
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Sooo...testing keeness of your hounds using bagged/tethered quarry is pityfull...but digging to fox with terriers is not? And what about snaring? I smell some subjectivity here... L
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L.S., I've read before that lamping lamp shy rabbits with red filters gives good results. But do the dogs take to that as dogs cannot see red (or very little)? Or is it just the handler using a red filter to get close and than switching to white light again? L
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I think...terrorists like public fear and media attention. They don't have money or possibility for a normal war...the best would be to ignore them. Like kids who destroy something out of revenge. Sorry for the casualties yeah...but if we are talking casualties I suggest a good look at the government's actions. How may british people were killed in the subway bombing and how many british in Iraq? The World Olympics would indeed be a good target to get a lot of media attention. But that is rediculous in itself if one isn't into games like me. Financing such a circus from my tax money...I do
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Yeah Muslims and bombing yeah yeah... When the fundamentalist/political catholics and protestants, who did that anyway?, were bombing stuff in the UK because of Ireland you had more chance of being blasted I think. L
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I almost never run with the dog leashed...that saying I do sometimes sort of fast walk sprint to get closer when the dog did not see the rabbit. But my main terrain is really hilly...sea dunes... L
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I am with Eggy, Hook more Ah/h to the lamp and get the internal battery out, that makes it more comfortable to use anyway. If you don't want to spend/don't have the money for the professional kits a cheap lamp is better than no lamp. L
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With musk oxes around you are really polar Nice dogs...I don't know which one to pick from a photo. Some nice feet on the second photo. The terrain on the pic looks meditteranean. L
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Graag gedaan meneer! I saw the name Lipjes on your website...you cannot have a name that is more Dutch L
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Seeing the sticker of the Club de Bleu de Gascogne made my day! That is class man, using the hounds of the Languedoc in Africa! L
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hmmm a led system of 5W is not very much light...you want a beam like that of a car or motorcycle which is 55W...in English it is called a "spotlight". I mean something like this: I am situated, more or less, at 52°12' NB 4°24' OL...check it out with Google Earth L
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Hmmm good lamps....the sets from the UK seem good but they are expensive...if I were you I would go to a big building market or a boat shop and look. You should be able to find one of the 20 euro lamps that give a lot of light for only 20 min... L
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Longhound, thanks for the pics. That is pretty open terrain, you for sure have a good chance with the galgo! You must be pretty far up north, the flora and landscape look pretty polar with the birches...you have places without big trees. If you have a lot of these artic hares I would run to the shop to buy a cheap ass lamp and try the dog/lamp out right away. When I think of scandinavia I always think it is like New Hampshire or Vermont...really hilly with thick older forest everywhere and where you live it doesn't look like that. L
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Biologist, now in medicin development. L
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thanks. I was wondering as we have a lot of musk rats and musk rat control out here and it is not a used technique. I wonder if a musk rat would fight or bolt? L
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Your welcome longhound, thanks for the pics! So you have the artic hare. In the UK they run them with dogs in heather landscapes. In the wooded areas of the US people use beagles to flush similar wood inhabiting hares for guns...if you have some open space it should be possible to catch them with a galgo. I don't know if you should breed...I cannot tell from a picture if it is "the perfect dog" that you want a pup of...when it is nice considering temperament and it does what you want it to and you have a place for the 7 other pups I'd say go for it. L
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Depends what you want...if you really like hare dogs like galgo and saluki I would stick cross these and leave terriers away...that said the terrier might add for your situation? For forest and hills where your hares are in cover fast the real hare dogs are less suitable than something speedy and light, like whippet. But that said a big galgo will catch some when it is smart with lamps, they are fast dogs anyway. Do you have "real" hares? I mean do you have the brown hare or a kind of artic hare that lives in the woods like the snowshoe hare? Coursing is legal in most of the US and for
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Dear all, Does anyone have any experience with ferreting musk rats? Would it be possible? cheers, L
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Yeah I work my galgo...both day and night but more night time work. I have a podenco (cross) as well. If I were you I would not cross podenco with galgo if you want a serious working dog. For sure it will be tough and fast but the pups might have a lot of nose that makes them less suitable as lamp dogs, they might want to use there nose too much. And you will have 8 of them. Podenco style hunting is much different from long dog work...it is more scent hound...kind of superfast beagles in a way. Very impractical if you do not have the space or when hunting with hounds is illegal. But I gue
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Dear SkeetChamp, I would wait at least for 12-15 months, working on obedience. When you start stimulating the prey drive it will be hard to add any field obedience. Also at 9 months the dog might not be mature enough mentally and speed wise...that combined with difficult rabbits might lead to an unruly yapper. Be patient, get it obedient, fit and wise and start off with some really easy rabbits and you will have years of sport. A dog entered to early with the faults related to that WILL turn you off. L
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I don't know about height...but an average dog is around 25 kilo and bitches are a bit smaller. I would say they are saluki like for stamina but faster for sure...but then I have seen some very fast salukis too. Saluki is a more variable breed than the galgo. The top dogs for competitive jack rabbit coursing in NM and CA are sal-greys and pure galgo. Courses of more than 5 min are no exception there and in Spain. L
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I have one and it works fine for me. Fast and endurance, pretty obedient too. For daytime rabbits or lapming in difficult terrain it is a bit on the big side. l
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Sweet! L
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sigh...THE longdog and THE lurcher don't excist. I'd say that in general...longdogs are faster and lurchers have more power/trainability...but all generalisations are dangerous. L