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  1. beast
    i once had a pup grab a chinese by the arse, didn't know how to finish the job as she was only about 10 months and put the deer up by accident. by the time i got there the poor critter was pretty shredded and i didnt even have a pocket knife on me. by straddling the body with my whole weight on it and twisting its neck (using the end of the muzzle to get leverage) i managed to dislocate it, just by twisting an inch at a time then resetting my grip and another inch and so on. took several minutes and had to twist virtually a complete revolution and it was really difficult and all in all a very
  2. beast
    i once had a pup grab a chinese by the arse, didn't know how to finish the job as she was only about 10 months and put the deer up by accident. by the time i got there the poor critter was pretty shredded and i didnt even have a pocket knife on me. by straddling the body with my whole weight on it and twisting its neck (using the end of the muzzle to get leverage) i managed to dislocate it, just by twisting an inch at a time then resetting my grip and another inch and so on. took several minutes and had to twist virtually a complete revolution and it was really difficult and all in all a very
  3. beast
    should come out by themselves. plenty of gristly meaty bones will help
  4. beast
    not these days, but seen a couple and they can make very good dogs in the right hands.
  5. beast
    i seen a little 22" 42lb bitch many times taking fox, first cross border grey. she was just pure evil round them, do anything to get hold of one. used to trail them from about 4 months old, n ose down like a scent hound. plenty of speed for the job took her a while to work out how some of them will jink and twist but once she figured it she was very very good. didnt mind taking a bite either, although after a couple of seasons the bites became less common.
  6. beast
    as the man said, you need to get the obedience side of things all sussed before you even think about going hunting else the dog will just feck off and chase rabbits without a second glance at you. all summer to get some training done, ready for a bit of work in september, no rush
  7. beast
    only used to keep collie x bitches, around 22-24 tts and expected all of them to take roe, munty, cwd and fallow does. these collie crosses often ended up in quite long runs as they just lacked a bit of top end speed, but usually managed to get the job done. to be fair they would often struggle with a good fallow doe for pure size and weight. fallow bucks were just too strong for dogs of this nature to take regular and i always worried that they would seriously damage the dog. entered right these dogs were game as hell (most dogs get pretty fired up about deer anyway) and would have died tryin
  8. beast
    used to bullet the spares at a few months, mostly dog pups and mostly blacks or gay pieds. i am told that his daughter is a lot more involved nowadays and she will keep them on indefinitely. supposedly she doesnt breed so many litters so supply doesnt outstrip demand quite so much and it would seem that there arent many spares to bullet now
  9. beast
    try going back to basics and using a dummy, then a rabbit skin then a dead rabbit. not had this problem myself, but just an idea?
  10. beast
    well done folks on the pictures, some great workmanlike dogs here. might open a few peoples eyes who think collie crosses are just good rabbit dogs! and despite the hancock theme, no crappy comments yet!
  11. beast
    some really interesting dogs on here, not all yappers and jackers then!! keep em coming
  12. beast
    A lovely bitch if its the same bitch on colliecurs called eve she sounded like a cracker. A real shame about the bitch. atb. yes mate, her name was eve. her owner has another hancock now not sure the breeding, i havent seen him since he moved but will ask him next time we exchange e-mails
  13. beast
    just purely for my own interest, anyone fancy putting up a photo of their hancock dog, and who the sire is? i havent got one myself, but heres one from a mate of mine (with his permission). the bitch died young but was a very very good dog, in all sorts of departments......the sire was called mr jones
  14. beast
    might be short of roughage/fibre in its diet? let it eat grass in the garden, and add a spoonful of bran to its feed
  15. beast
    i spoke to my vet about this, he reckons that because their is not the same amount of money involved in animal drugs, the fake stuff is unlikely to be copied from odd ingredients but more likely to be generic versions manufactured cheaply in the third world countries then relabelled. so as sirius said, some stuff may have been badly stored or handled, but unlikely to be poisonous just ineffective. he said some drugs it doesn't matter too much how they are stored and if you know about drugs you would know which ones are likely to be damaged by bad storage or handling. the vet did stress however
  16. beast
    i think there are several factors here, structure of foot, weight of dog, how it runs, ground etc but i am going to generalise and say that the most important factor is genes, and you can breed for good feet, both shape and toughness. the structure of a tight foot is such that it acts as a shock absorber better than a flat foot, but you still have to put in the work to get it really strong. likewise although flat feet tend to be weaker due to there structure, you can still get them fairly tough with the right work. i have never seen a first cross beardie or border / grey suffer a serious foot
  17. beast
    that pup looks very well, and calmly settled in his new home - credit to you. i get mine out with the hens, and even more important with the panicky ducks (their feathery hysteria seems to set the dogs off more easily) from day one, throw some corn round the pup and half a dozen hens running over squawking and flapping puts the fear into any pup!! i have found that for some reason ex-battery hens seem really confident and quite happy to have a go at a pup (or sometimes a big dog!) and had black rocks which would do that also.
  18. beast
    Is water any better or worse than lucozade sport i guess it depends who you ask!
  19. beast
    purely for rehydration, (not for animals with an illness0, are things like recharge and lectade actually any better than water? in my experience a dog which has diarrhoea or similar may benefit from salt/glucose solution but pure water better for simple rehydration?
  20. beast
    you're right paulus, even if these discussions just get a few people thinking and talking maybe we can share a bit of knowledge and learn a bit. interesting stuff and a little bit scientific for me in places, but personally i cant see past the idea that vomiting will affect stomach contents and not too much else......
  21. beast
    he never got it back.
  22. beast
    no dog will ever make itself ill by not eating, unless it has some serious problem internally. even the fittest dogs carry some internal fat as an energy store so no harm will come to the dog.put the food down, if it doesnt eat give it nothing till the next day. a dog might miss one meal, might even miss two, but it won't want to miss too many more! especially if it is getting plenty of exercise to build up an appetite. remember that any change in the diet should be gradual over a few days or the dog may get the runs
  23. beast
    and because they paid a LOT of money to the labour party...........some crooked feckers in parliament....................
  24. beast
    you need to get your parents on side, show them how keen and interested you are, and how committed to looking after the dog right. and remember its a long commitment to have a dog, your folks dont want to be having to look after it for the next ten years!! build a nice good run and house outside before you get the pup, do a really good job to show the folks how seriously you are taking it. and dont worry about the pet dog, it will most proably just play with the pup and be some company for it. and no, personally i dont think a saluki grey is necessarily the right first-time dog either
  25. beast
    i'm not trying to be a tit, but how on earth does bile get into the lungs and air passages? and if it did, there would be serious trouble for the dog! the digestive system and respiratory system are totally separate.
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