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  1. beast
    millet judging by the number of "my dog chases sheep, help me!" posts on here, you could make a few quid hiring that ewe out as a stockbreaker! nice to see your dog is so steady with them, obviously plenty of work been put in
  2. beast
    hope the pup doesnt suffer any long term bad effects. and yes, definitely get him round as many "nice" dogs as possible
  3. beast
    i certainly wouldnt eat it myself, but even meat which is pretty high is ok for the dogs if they are used to raw flesh (not rotten though!) guts are full of bacteria, and if they have bust open the meat will spoil a lot more quickly, but theres no reason you couldnt take say the legs and neck. if the carcase is pretty fresh just rinse well and freeze for a week or so to kill the worms before feeding
  4. beast
    weel folks i knocked on the owner's door 9atually a tenant afrmer) and had a chat, i wasnt aggressive or acusatory, simply said "i just thought you ought to know...." . landowner was apologetic and said he would speak to the shooter straight away. he was very discreet, saying he wouldnt tell me the chap's name etc but said "you wont have to worry again". thanks to everybody for your input and advice
  5. beast
    this one doesnt even need to run, just hits them with a laser from its nose. no feeding, no cleaning up turd, no grooming, just plug it in when the batteries are run out. wonder if they do lithium ones....
  6. beast
    maybe some of is dogs turn out okay, but i reckon thats despite his best efforts, not because of them! the man is not all there
  7. beast
    clicker training isnt the be all and end all like some behaviouralists would have you believe, but for shaping a specific behaviour, or ironing out faults which have developed it is a really useful process to know. it all depends on timing, and takes a little practice to become proficient at it yourself, but it is another tool in your kit.
  8. beast
    used to know two old boys when i lived in norfolk. they had worked on the elveden estate years before, harvesting literally thousands of rabbits every year. they would breed collies to pointers or seters to work with the long nets, reckoned they took to this game very easily. both men are long since dead but had a million fscinating tales and taught me a lot about dogs and hunting
  9. beast
    last year was the worstbyear i've evr had umbers wise, i would say that at the moment we are back to almost ahwt i would expect for an average year. plenty of time for that to go wrong though......
  10. beast
    you are right, brians original stuff when he was a lad came from arigho, but after myxy brian bred deerhoiund and saluki into his line as there was not much rabbiting for them and he was running more hares. these dogs were smarter looking (like snowball for example) but not as useful for all-round hunting, especially when the rabbit was making a comeback. so he put the collie blood back in, used merle and rusty and various other collie crosses to try to recreate what he had had 20 or more years previous. fathom was bred from penguin, (which was from the plummer/saluki/deerhound lines) back to
  11. beast
    yeah seen lots of white fallow and a few white reds, but never a white sika. saw a white lechwe antelope at blair drummond safari park a few years ago, they are supposed to be a sort of orangey colour
  12. beast
    yeah, that would be just my luck!!
  13. beast
    ive owned a couple of collies, one from top winning trial dogs on both sides, one from a long line of honest farm workers. the trial dog was one of the most difficult dogs ive ever had to deal with, hyperactive, domineering, basically unhinged. conversely, the farm bred dog had probably the best temperament ive ever seen in a dog of any breed, and i didnt have a minute in her company which i didnt enjoy being around her. she worked everything from ducks, geese and lambs round the smallholding to cattle round the yards on a couple of local farms and new exactly how much pressure to put on depen
  14. beast
    i think i shall take the advice to have a chat with the landowner and ask him to tell the shooter exactly why there is an issue, rather than just kick him off as he may just go and be a nuisance elsewhere if he isn't advised of the nature of the problem. thanks for your input everybody
  15. beast
    thats the ironic thing, there hasnt been a hare there for YEARS!!!
  16. beast
    there is some land near me where i have the odd walk now and then, part of an estate manged by the national trust and grazed by sheep and cattle from local farms. never in almost 20 years have i seen a hare there, and only the occasional rabbit, but i found this sign up today which i found a bit annoying. for a start, i had a word with one of the graziers who i know, and he said there had been a couple of local boys loooking for rabbits with the lamp one evening and a passer-by had called the police, certainly no hare coursing going on. secondly the idea of putting wires in the grass is a ne
  17. beast
    thanks for some interesting and well-informed answers. i guess that by shooting over the footpath itself isnt an offence, but i feel very strongly that the manner in which the weapon was discharged was potentially dangerous, as i said i was less than 20 yards from him when the gun was fired. also the fact that he could see very little of the path from his seat except about 5 yards either side (i went and sat there tonight just to check). labtastic, he wasnt roost shooting but had set up decoys in the rape, obviously visible to birds but not from the path. signs would have been a very sensi
  18. beast
    she eats a lot of grass and silage/haylage on the farm so I assumed she wasn't getting enough fibre, what should I feed her to help that? yeah I mean fitness training as well as lure training - she's already fit but needs to be fitter to have a chance against the proper racers. sorry, what i meant was that a handful of cereal based feed added to meat would be enough fibre. some dogs get a bit bound up if they are getting a lot of bone, for example. i give mine a spoonful of bran mixed with cod liver oil if they are having issues in the poop department......
  19. beast
    as has been said, you havent left the jumping too late, dogs pick it up pretty easy. just put a bit of a hurdle up maybe 18 inches high, dog on lead, trot towards it and hop over with the dog beside you. command "up" just before dog has to jump. repeat with GRADUALLY increasing height, until you have to run next to the hurdle as it is too high for you but dog still jumps it, then try a few off lead. good luck.
  20. beast
    there is a large field of rape just behind my house bordered on one edge by a strip of wood. a footpath runs along the side of the wood, its a handy spot to exercise the dogs. i took my little girl for a quick stroll this morning, usually she runs on ahead but today she wanted a carry, luckily enough because as we were passing the wood suddenly at most 20 yards in front of us some twat decided to stand up in the wood edge and let off both barrels at a woody! straight across the footpath (the only direction he could actually shoot in). apart from scaring the child no harm was done, but it was p
  21. beast
    some good answers here, i would just add that as long as you keep handling to a minimum (hold the kids at arms length, wear gloves etc dont hug them to your body) your scent is unlikely to put the does off returning to them; they will normally give them e real good sniffing and a thorough licking then carry on as normal
  22. beast
    LIES!!! who you been listening to!??
  23. beast
    dog looks well enough, but i personally am not a great fan of cereal based feeds. a bit to add fibre to the diet, but thats enough for me. when you say training i assume you mean fitness training, so as the exercise increases you will need to increase the protein levels to allow muscle development, and increase the fat to keep condition on the dog
  24. beast
    i just work on bonding with the pup, playing wrestling, doing this whilst out walking. recall just becomes part of its routine. get it holding stuff whilst i hold the other end, so already playing with retrieve. and as you say out to see as much of the world as possible, stock, dogs, people, motors etc etc. instructions like sit and stay are so easy for a dog to learn at any stage i dont really bother to fomally train them, just let them pick it up as they go along. one tip i would say is always keep a toy in your pocket, so when the pup starts play biting our hands you dont have to suffer th
  25. beast
    the source of any puppy or adult dog for that metter is a question for your own conscience, just as how you keep it and what you use it for. i've been to hancocks several times over the years for a visit if i was in the area, and although i wasnt buying he still made the time to have a chat and was polite and welcoming. one thing which has struck me is that over the last few years the place certainly is cleaner 9on one visit about 12 years ago i was almost overcome by the smell of ammonia in some of the pens) and that fewer litters are being bred, which means not many pups on death row. i
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