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  1. Tracy Priestnall
    plummers chasing a duck .. wow ! i have been missing out on life ! and for the first time ever i agree with the wirrel redline countryman plucky one .. i don't know why you bother explaining ?
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    just got a message saying six weeks ..is this you ? don't know what a p m is , or how to send one , but give me 48 hours and i'll get my number to you ... just took me twenty minutes to re-find this page !!! kev..medlock crew
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    coat has nothing to do with it , your lurchers have the same coat and their doing more cover than the little bitch . how many rabbits do you see on a average walk , has she caught or seen a catch yet , is she chasing in full view , ten foot or less behind a rabbit and still not hitting cover hard ? did you have her last winter when the cover was down ... more info needed
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    i think you'll throw some fine pups , i like the stamp of both dogs and their a nice match, i'd be interested in a bitch pup if your trading ..
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    superb photos , particularly on the river and the head shots
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    its not who votes but who counts the votes .. ?
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    that dogs got character .. love the way it springs over the privets
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    giro you represent no one but yourself ..what would i do .. not start a dumb arse club in the first place but the question is what will you do , beside going to ' talk 'to timid tim ,what are you and your club going to do ? you've got your name , want £ 11 for what ? .. a news letter ? were there ten of thousands asking you to start this club , if so you should have ten of thousands of members, how many members so far ? how many lurcher men are members of the countryside alliance ? i'll let you use both hands ! call it giros jolly lurcher club no problems but a w l sounds like you represent mo
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    i know what you mean squirrel .. but back to the original question i'd keep a pink poodle if it would do the job . I wouldn't be asking which cross ,which breed .. i would be thinking what does the pack need , its a lot too ask one dog too face hard cover each day throughout a season but in some areas you can rely on one bushing dog. I would recommend hound types too anyone because they pick up on ground scent that lurchers and terriers only feather on and pass , but from your description i'd stay they are not what your after and remember don't assume the lakeland will understand how the hound
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    NOT IN MY NAME , no thanks ..let me guess a few shows , lure chasing ,a few articles and a meeting with the plum mouthed weaklings at the country alliance.. whats their latest campaign rural bus stops ? you don't , or won't , represent me .. better to call yourself giros lurcher club..anyway i'll let you get on with your ' best practice ' report..
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    no two bobbery packs are the same , and there are NO rules in bobbery packs ..two of the greatest things about bushing and anyone trying to set standards is in the wrong game. i don't do enough rabbiting to care about retrieving and anything bigger doesn't need retrieving . if mine saw a ferret they'd think ' yellow mink! i like well run , organised packs and i like' wild as hawk's ' packs.. no snoberry bobberry...kev , medlock crew
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    amazed at how many on this site keep terrier's but knock them for going to ground , its like knocking a water dog for coming home wet ! terriers that work rabbit shouldn't go to ground it serves no purpose and terriers for fox should at every opportunity. SIZE isn't always the cure , cockers , beagles , basset, small lurchers , collie's, anything up to the size of foxhounds can, and do , trench into an earth and need digging out, a mates brindle 21-22 " lurcher went to ground and bolted one just last year.... so it isn't so much size has inclination , i have a 12 " beagle type who won't pass
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    which quarry requires the best nose , hare or fox ? i assume most agree its the hare ,beagles find the straight running fox easy work compared to hare. has for beagles staying up with foxhounds , hard on big open areas but beagles stick tighter to the line. your foxhounds going full steam over run the line , take a big swing like a flock of pigeons ,come back on the line only to find the beagles are now in front..modern beagles hunt like mini foxhounds and over run nearly as much , old type beagles don't over run by hundreds of yards and make time not waste it ... only talking small gun pack
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    Most modern pack beagles are harrier's .. 17 - 18 " isn't a beagle in my view , its a small harrier . As for beagle packs , in rough country they under cover and away whilst foxhounds and harriers are ' bunching up ' trying to push through bramble.and any pack that riot on squirrel , hares , deer is down to the huntsmen not the breed/strain . plus , the reason beagle cross foxhound are not often bred is down to size , I've seen first cross beagle x foxhound , 21 -22 " thick set , stocky hounds that weren't fast and would be left standing by foxhound or harrier. i don't know enough about foxh
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    top write up ,been a while since i heard the gaskins name .. a lot of great characters in the match dog game.
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    read a book on red foxes that said foxes have been recorded as having litters, in the u k , in 11 months of the year , i think-not sure - it said December is the only month they hadn't been recorded
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    I love whippets ..but i wouldn't own one , i had a bitch on slip , ten terriers started yapping under cover 150 yards away and shes starts cart-wheeling , so i un-clipped her her lead and held her under my arms and we got a run...struck me later that i'd just had a longdog capable of rat to roe ( pre fecking ban ) under my arms ! vary handy and vary odd - how many lurchers could you pick up ? and they look so ' innocent ' if you get a pull
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    saw a photo of two first cross in the shooting times a while back, they were on the heavy side but looked right enough for lamping and tops for daytime ratching, i was shocked at how nice a cross they were ,vary handsome . plus heard of one in early 90's , but never saw it , that was a top fox dog in salford . I've never seen one to be honest but it's a cross that i'd be interested in
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    from the early 80's i remember seeing brindle terriers but only in rough coated dog's were it was called grizzle not brindle , any smooth brindle were classed as cross-bred.or bull cross . the ' grizzle's ' i remember were out of litters throwing black ,red or black and tan pups with the occasional grizzle, no bull that i know of ,they were really thick coated. the only time i see grizzle now is on the odd pet cairn ..but your right ' were is the brindle ?
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    it's gone from a fella wanting opinion's on getting another terrier to stamina and coat's in terrier's ? .. to whoever said a 40 lb dog can't match a terrier of 10 lb go on youtube and type in spaniel field trials . has for stamina it's all about desire and substance , the desire to hunt all day and the build to carry it out, if you have a little terrier with a good build ' a little lump ' and it love's hunting it will go all day. however once you hunt 3 -4 day's a week it break's as many dog's as it make's . despite what the ' mocker's ' say bushing is hard work , it's true that any dog will
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    i would call him a ' bullet ' hound ,i know some welsh head's that would call him a ' hill dog ' what do you expect from this dog ? does he run with hound's ? does he ' mouth ' ? do you see him as a hound or lurcher ? and what is his main role , a finder or a catch dog or a bit of both ?he's a lovely animal.
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    on the size of bushing dog's i think ' shape ' is has important , i keep hearing whippet cross dog's described as belly-crawling through cover yet there are plenty of springer spaniel's of whippet size and they don't belly crawl ! also, weight isn't being taken into account , a dog of 45 -50lb is the equivalent of three terrier's weight-wise and if they have the 'desire ' they'll split a bramble in half. i like all good bramble dog's but i have seen them of all sizes and stamp's .
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    it is the rabbit's defense to take dog's into a maze of run's and lose them ..two terrier's won't catch regularly , you need another terrier .. better still another two , if a rabbit flushes the terrier's can't hunt it down like a hound ,or race it like a running dog .. so it's best to ' contain ' the rabbit, i e , try and keep it in the bramble , clap, shout ,turn the coneys back into cover ,so they have to run back toward's the dog's ..once in a blue moon you'll get a catch out of it. another way is too hold one dog in your arm's till the first dog find's .. drop the terrier only when he ha
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    i was talking to your rusty on the phone , he reckon's your a jinx !
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    did i just read someone saying you can train a terrier not to go to ground ? the world's gone mad ! try selling that litter TERRIER'S FOR SALE, THESE DOG'S WILL NOT GO TO GROUND...good luck with that ! even plummer's ..some of them , will go to ground. it 's what earth dog's do ! a mate dug six foot deep to a cocker spaniel, i know of beagle/spaniel that have been dug too, i have owned beagles and griffon's that went to ground , a mates 21" bully whippety thing bolted from a tight earth .. i read of a corgi that was used as a earth dog ..the list goes on, if you want dog's that will not go
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