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    No idea why it didn't work for the hobs, but like I say it did for the jill.
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    An Airedales tail does not get cut in brambles, that is why it curls over its back. What makes you say a curled-over-the-back tail doesn't get cut up in brambles?
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    That didn't work for me - I kept 3 in a big run on a concrete base, 2 castrated hobs and a micro jill. The jill's nails were never much of a problem but both hobs grew nails like badgers' - the concrete didn't make the slightest bit of difference.
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    I used to have a greyhound bitch out of an English coursing Barbican Cup winner by an Irish track dog. She had real fire in her belly once in the field but was as soft as shite around the house. Put some stuff in the bag, that's for sure. Unfortunately she was just too fast for her own good on the ground I run, which is quite rough in places. She had some nasty injuries, worst being a snapped achilles tendon. After she died I vowed that, much as I looved her, I wouldn't get another pure greyhound unless I moved to somewhere the terrain was a lot easier. Golf courses and bowling greens are abou
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    I'm with you there Phil. In my twenties I used to bust a gut to put stuff in the bag. But now I just enjoy standing back and watching the dog work - nose work is far more important to me now than it ever was back then. Always great for the dog to catch but if he's had a good hunt I'm happy regardless of the outcome.
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    Yes they are quick once they're running - it's easy to get left behind when you're following. They always seem to find a way through/under/around obstacles.
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    OK, have re-uploaded the first one - http://youtu.be/3EBa8h9rU38
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    You're welcome - glad you liked it.
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    jeemes - the Westerby was the first pack of bassets I ever saw. That must be going back about 30 odd years now. From what I remember (but the mists of time are a bit cloudy so I might be mistaken) they were quite leggy.
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    Sorry lads, there was a slight problem with the first one where I said you can't hear them speaking so I've deleted it from YouTube and will try again and re-upload it.
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    OK, here are the other clips. Excuse the sometimes shaky camera work - it's a new camera I was given for my birthday and I'm still getting to grips with it. They've just hit a line in this first one and are speaking, but because of the wind direction and the fact they were quite a distance away from me you can't actually hear it - http://youtu.be/7AH3AgkLOTs The rest are pretty self-explanatory - http://youtu.be/MTBDJ57ErW8 http://youtu.be/bSPZhav28xM http://youtu.be/y39fd8kqH0U http://youtu.be/oV14s4pFPNM Hopefully these links all work....
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    I've only been to Hancock's place once and that was 6 or 7 years ago. He took me into a pen with a litter of 8 week pups and they wouldn't come up to him. He was trying to tell me he thought this one particular pup would suit me, so he slowly sidled over towards it and once he'd managed to get pretty much above it he suddenly pounced on it. The poor wee thing near enough shat itself in terror. I've never seen anything like it. I made my excuses and walked away. IMO socialisation is of the utmost importance and I personally wouldn't want to chance taking on a pup that had been reared that way.
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    Don't know why the first one doesn't play properly but if you copy the link and paste it into a browser it should open up ok. Need to recharge my camera battery before I can upload the other clips, so I'll put them up tomorrow. They're deceptively fast. It's easy to assume they'll just plod along but once they're on a line they move at a fair old clip.
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    I love their music. It's the Leadon Vale.
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    Nowadays they can only legally hunt rabbits or a trail. In the days when they could legally hunt hares they could easily stick with one for 90 minutes or more. Didn't catch as many as beagles, but I've been out on days when they'd catch a brace.
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    Out with the bassets yesterday. Couple of quick clips. Drawing at the start of the day - http://youtu.be/UKJkKi7nPRk Coming through the hedge on a line, losing it, casting about to pick it up again. (There was more footage of them disappearing over the skyline on the line once they hit it again, but a guy standing near me made a really irritating comment to me at that moment which totally spoiled it, so I've edited that bit out.) - http://youtu.be/bXufF6TSAfU I have got a few other short clips of them casting about on plough and rough grassland. If anyone's interested in seein
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    I agree bunnys - in the right hands I think a first cross would be a superb dog
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    Fantastic vid - unbelievable agility & drive. And very fast too for a non-sighthound. Agree with the comments that it would be one hell of a handful. But if you had the work for it, a first cross to a greyhound would be awesome (and plenty fast enough). But by Christ you'd have to know what you were doing....
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    Great pics and great whippet to take to water so happily. Never seen a rabbit swim before, but to be honest I've hardly ever lamped or ferreted near water. Interested to know - did the rabbit immediately go for the water as soon as it bolted, or was it only pressure from the dog that forced it?
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    Morton - if you want a stud from a lurcher to lurcher background there'll probably be a right old hotchpotch of different breeds that have gone into it. That's a different animal altogether from the collie/grey-Deerhound/grey in the title of the post. That's not to say it's necessarily any better or any worse for its ancestry, simply that the two things you've mentioned are very different IMO.
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    Looks great - agree you could get some superb coursing pics with it. But at only a 15 minute battery lifespan you're a bit limited as to what you can do with it.
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    I knew someone who used to use a staffie for ferreting rats (among other things) - she was fantastic at it. Once saw 3 rats bolt into a tight space in quick succession from under a pile of crap followed shorlty by the fert. Staffie was snatching and shaking left right and centre with the fert right in the thick of it. Dog completely ignored fert even though it was only a few inches away from one of the rats. Doesn't answer your question about rabbits though - I don't know if he ever used her for that. But she worked fantastically well in a team with ferrets.
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    Great start - no wonder you're made up! Was the spaniel cocker or springer?
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    Good luck with them Tozer
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    Oddser - although they need to run while working, trotting them on the roads is the best way of developing really hard muscled condition. Once they've got that condition they then have the power and fitness for hard work.
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