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  1. beast
    well done mate, you doing the decent thing by that dog.
  2. beast
    thanks for that longdog and skycat, very interesting good thread this
  3. beast
    now i never saw a picardy cross run myself , but a friend reckons the ones he's seen are incredibly intense, full-on dogs loaded with drive and desire, which is great except he reckons at times it goes beyond the line of duty and is a bit too much for some situations (dogs almost uncontrollable when working, hard to discipline etc). for me, that would be as much a fault of the handler as the dog (lack of experience?), but as i say this is second hand so don't know how much truth there is in it. he also said they often turn out really big, powerful animals. again, someone with some actual exper
  4. beast
    i've had several bitches spayed, and seen others owned by people, and none of them showed any difference to drive or any other working quality. some become more prone to putting on weight but a sensible owner can manage this with diet and exercise. there have been some studies linking mammary tumours to bitches which keep coming in heat but aren't bred so from this point of view you may be doing her a favour. Women who are on the pill for years are prone to all sorts of health issues and its possible that the same is true for bitches. i also understand that certain hormones are important f
  5. beast
    it is good for an underlay to a bed, very absorbent and dust free, but my dogs never managed to make as good warm bed in it, so i used to put straw or shredded paper on top for them to nest down in
  6. beast
    i dont know the oxford side of aylesbury too well but the other side (hemel hempstead side) is crawling with muntjac and fallow, few hares but rabbits not that common this year except in certain places
  7. beast
    if they cant cope with the collie psyche.......................THEY AINT MODERATELY SKILLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! personally, i am highly skilled.................i just cant cope with the saluki psyche!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  8. beast
    First x can all go tits up for a moderately skilled trainer pretty quickly - if I was advising a first timer/youngster to for for a collie x I might suggest a 3/4 bred - they can be less of a challenge...just my opinon...and experience... i agree, 3/4 bred better choice for a novice. i dont think a first timer/youngster is moderately skilled at all, i would class them as unskilled.
  9. beast
    first cross vs workerxworker. good question. any pup gets half it's genes from each parent. so with a first cross you can guarantee a dog with half its qualities, both physical and mental, from each parent. you know what you are working with, you know if this is what you wanted, the rest is up to you. as soon as you breed even one step away from a first cross you cannot guarantee the genetic make up of the animal, even say collie grey x collie grey can throw anything from near pure grey to near pure collie, and everything in between from perfect hunters to imperfect rubbish (imagine a collie w
  10. beast
    i would go for a first cross collie grey, it will do all you want no problem if you are even a moderately skilled trainer. water, carrying feather, cover etc. as for hancock, i have seen some first class workers bred by him. if you dont want to go down that route you might have to really search and wait for a genuine first cross. if you get something bred from two collie based lurchers you have no guarantee how it will turn out; i have seen dogs bred from two first crosses whwich turned out just about pure greyhound, and i seen them just about pure collie. a line bred collie grey from a true b
  11. beast
    just my opinion......almost any collie will give pups with brain, nose, good feet, coat and wind. even the raciest collie will not produce desperately fast pups, and the difference in pace between pups from a leggy collie and a stockier model is going to be minimal. so if you can find a steady, calm, sensible herder, and even better one with relatives of simlar character, that would be the one to use
  12. beast
    are you sure she hasnt picked up an injury bud?
  13. beast
    heard and read a lot about that bulpa dog over the years, supposed to be a very very good dog. likewise from what i hear that don dog is following in his footsteps. keep up the good work, fuji!
  14. beast
    i looked at this advert on dragon driving, and at the bottom is an e-mail address. jill@1stchoiceanimals. now, if you google 1stchoiceanimals you find it is a company run by jill clark which supplies animals for films etc and also offers consultancy for training etc. for somebody in such a position to be acting so irresponsibly in producing these pups is frankly very, very disappointing
  15. beast
    i have seen some very useful mooching/ferreting reverse crosses but personally i have yet to be convinced that they can do anything that a good first cross can't do. trained and entered right, first crosses take some beating at the rabbitting game but are capable of so much more. i will have to get one of those scanners to put some old pictures up, some folks who havent been round a good first cross owned by an experienced dog man (woman) might be surprised at what these dogs can do. not all of them are yappers and jackers!! there is another interesting subject on this topic, which is the
  16. beast
    skycat is right, get a vet to make sure that there is no part of the internal organs protruding through the hole, as this would be very serious as the hole seals and the protrusion gets strangled. its more likely to be just fatty/connective tissue but i would get it checked for my peace of mind
  17. beast
    any luck with the house breaking neems?
  18. beast
    agreed. i am no nutritonist/dietician/ whatever but there are certain things upon which i like to base my opinions. firstly, what i have experienced first-hand myself. secondly, information gained from good research and experimentation; and thirdly advice from people i have come over time to trust, in other words whose advice has been shown again and again to be good. its not just nutrition sandymere, everything to do with running dogs seems to attract opinions based upon old wives tales, misunderstanding, gut instinct or bad information, or "my dads uncles brother knew a bloke who did such
  19. beast
    personally i wouldnt think it would make any difference to the incidences of bloat, but another member posted on the first page that mixing dry and raw can increase the chances. i just wondered if he/she was basing thae statement on anything solid or just hearsay?
  20. beast
    some interesting posts here. i'm just wondering why feeding raw and dry together would increase the chances of bloat?
  21. beast
    niced write up. to any youngsters or beginners out there, bear it in mind that a couple of hours in the company of a skilled experienced stalker is time exceedingly well spent
  22. beast
    yep, that is a pudu, they are south american and are the smallest true deer. the mouse deer come in several varieties and are smaller but are not "true " deer, apparently ther are some biological differences. seen those pudu in a couple of zoos, they are smart little animals and yep i reckon it would take quite a special dog to take one in cover...! oh and fitchet there are about 7-8 species of muntjac.
  23. beast
    ????She was born DOROTHEA URSULA NOBLE at Fareham in Hampshire on November 10 1906, the daughter of an Army officer. She was educated by governesses, and, later, at a boarding school in Wimbledon. In childhood she concentrated her love of dogs upon her Sealyhams. it was in the information that the man kindly put up for you, guess you didn't notice that bit!
  24. beast
    we have fallow in enormous numbers, muntjac and water deer to the point of being vermin, and roe have been seen round here this winter for the first time in many years. the water deer dont seem to do a lot of harm as a rule, although sometimes you can see 20 in one field (especially on beet or rape over winter) and i guess they probably eat into the farmers profits a bit! the muntjac and fallow have basically eaten everything up to about six feet off the floor in almost every scrap of woodland round here, but its still very very hard to get any permission; people seem to guard it very closely
  25. beast
    the only time i've seen problems with raw bones has been with really greedy dogs, which sometimes try to swallow them whole or sometimes try to chew up really big hard bones and end up with broken teeth. i always start them on bones when they are little puppies so they learn from the start to eat them sensibly
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