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    Jesus Christ!!! 10 pages wasted on a cross, that, if bred off half the shite that smashes it's nose against suburbias back gates, would do nothing to the already diluted, shite infested crap that most folk call Lurchers and end up in the nearest dogs home. Look, it's simple.... Has anyone seen an Akita run.... They cant! A stiff legged mutt if ever their was one How many can wander, no, be controlled off a lead...? None, i've ever known or heard of. And the size of bone!!!!! I know two well respected dog men, one works terriers, though he has a lifetime with some quality lamping
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    I know all abouut trenching them railway banks too Topper, by christ you'd have a sweat on not knowing the outcome, young and foolish eh!! But on this topic... Fair play to you boys, you stuck at it and got the right result. We don't here much these days regarding rescue but its good to know lads are willing to pitch in to see a gallant worker safe. Well done all.
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    I now have a one eyed dog thanks to Blackthorn! I too thought it was a small bit of shit in his eye, when I looked and tried to fish it out, ended up pulling a Blackthorn out of about an inch and a half, his eye then deflated and he was rushed to the vets, subsiquently he lost the eye and his use as a lamp dog. Moral of the story..... Get your dog to a good vet asap! What you think may be nowt now, might land you in a whole heap of shite later. Your dogs eyes are far to precious to take a gamble on!!
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    Aye Roady, they were tough mutts years ago and many did do the job very well indeed, makes you wonder how really! My first Lurcher back in the 70's, though well housed, was never really 'looked after', tipped out onto the street in the morning and out all day in any weather, she would be heard scratching at the front door at bedtime. She was a Whippet/Greyhoundy type. Banished to my spinster great aunts up the street, coz she had a nasty little habit of getting excited then running upstairs to piss on the beds! Fed scraps and little else, a tin of Chappie or the like was fecking luxury
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    I wouldn't...... All gloss and no content! A rip off of an early Terrier yearbook, the one that DH 'rushed out' and used the forum section as a filler!
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    Just what I was saying in my post Poach, different area's produced differing Lurcher types, dependent on what was around. When folk refer to the 'traditional' Lurcher as being herding bred, i'd always beg to differ. Yes, some of the first Lurchers in print were wrote about of this type of ancestry but who knows if that was just the type that belonged to the writers particular area??? Anyway's, good thred lads though it's hard to get past Dan Edwards avator!! Thank's Dan
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    Please do mate, great stuff
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    ' Stick by the rules' you say Sunny.... What feckin rules?? You just try to operate within the law, which, these days is getting harder and harder, nigh on impossible! If you are going to be that defeatist, then go on, take up fecking stamp collectiong or sommat! Anything else bar growing a spine and getting out there and working your dogs. Dogs, that unlike you, live for their work. Dogs that will now possibly have to go to new and not always better, homes, no matter how hard you try!! Folk should realise that they can respect both land and quarry and live by there OWN rules whilst w
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    Fine strong pups, their breeding sounds just the ticket too
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    'Old style Lurcher', that is the question? To most folk, this cungers up the Deerhound or Norfolk type, typical old gypsy type dogs...?? The thing is... there is no defined type for a Lurcher, no standard, never has and never should be!! I've wrote on here before about this, what is defined by some as 'traditional' is probably way off the mark. I belive, that in days long ago, before the age of the motor car when everywhere was a damn sight more difficult to get to, folk of certain areas defined a Lurcher by one thing only, its field ability. How it was created came about by wha
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    Lurcher X Lurcher, bred right, with a few generations behind 'em, from solid grafting stock, over almost any ground, these types should see you right.
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    Good stuff Ray, great pics too! Them dogs are a credit to you
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    Ashington, Doxhope off here is/was from there, his stamp of dog too, so he might be a lead for you but if you wan't folk to pick up on this you should put it in the Lurcher section under a better title. Best of luck
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    Very surprised this bitch is still for sale. A very tidy bitch, with a write-up like that, pics that back it all up and not to mention the price.... She should be snapped up!!! Meg, i'll bet it was a wrench to put her on the transfer list but i'm sure you'll steer clear of 'helmets' and find her the best possible home, best of luck
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    The old Bulldog factory was in Wigan, dunno if it's still there. Maybe anyone on here from 'the land of the pies' could help?
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    Ted Walsh for me, my first and 'the' best , some bloke called Lloyd wrote a very engaging book of late too It's easy to knock Plummer, by Christ i've done it enough but some very good stuff, has been produced and just when there would of been a lull, his stuff was always there. The older members on here, i'm sure would agree as, if like me, hunted down ALL things dogs and hunting during the 's, you would have read most of his books. Rougues, was a good read, though it's widley known that most material in it came from 'different' sorces and (off lurchers) Fell terrier is outstanding, e
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    For me it's simple, I don't/won't own anything I don't feel is up to scratch (my standards anyway!) and it's rare that i've bought dogs on that were already 'doing a bit'. Suppose there have only been two dogs that have fitted into this category, the first a Hancock 1/2 bred beardie/border, merle, a stunning lookin bitch. Unwanted, I took her on, sadly she was usless on the lamp, she was brought up as a day dog and I must say to that game she was mustard! She would find game where most failed, quarter a field for a hare as good as a Beagle and was a superb marking and ferreting dog but the
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    Would agree with you there Max, to get near the title dogs NEED two attributes, the heart for a fox and the legs for a hare, i belive everything else can be put in IF the dog is in the right hands.
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    It always seems to be the big stuff folk want to do but really these ain't too hard if you want 'em enough! For me it's a lurcher that would be consistantly good at taking feather (amongst other things!), seen some crackers in the past, none of late and certainly never owned one. Still don't know if these dogs are born or trained, either way I'm limited!!! Nearest I've owned was a EBT of all things! Put every Lurcher i've owned to shame as a hunter (never much of a catcher, for obvious reasons!) of game birds.
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    Chalkwarrens a past winner of Lambourn, the NLRC sell the Lambourn book that David Hancock produced. About £12 I think, good read. Lucy won supreme champion at Lambourn, it may have been the 'bling' collar she paraded round in that swung it, cunningly fashioned from a Ford Transit bumper! Love that tale Chalks
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    Parks or Nuttall, they are all Fell Terriers and both lines originaly came from the same source, both obtained their foundation stock from the same man but Parks preffered the reds and Nuttall the blacks.
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    That was in a John Wayne film too........ Cant stand any of the macho type names, Tyson/Rocky/Rambo etc etc etc etc Hondo was the John Wayne film Simo, the dog was played by Laddie the rough collie that also starred as Lassie. I thought Troy was a bit macho:thumbs:
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