A dog for your head and a dog for your heart

[rabitin girl 16]

That's a great ending to a horrible start: I'd love to hear more about her: how old was she when you got her? Got any pics of her: I'm a sentimental old fool and love to hear happy ending stories LOL

 

 

 

Not sure how old she was , but I would guess about 4 months . these are the only photos i could manage to upload.

 

First one is when she had just grown all her hair back , the other two are more recent notice how wooley she has got LOL

 

 

 

[Paid 935]

She is a beaut, well done you for giving her a new and better life.

[Simoman 110]

In the past I have been almost obsessive in having dogs that are almost robitically obedient, my old boy is more of a point and fire dog who works well on the lamp, retreives and is a pleasure to work with, the pup I have coming on is a lot more of a free spirit and I'll be interested to see how he progresses as I have done very little but the basics with him after previously being almost OCD in training...............

[Paid 935]

I'm still only on my first lurcher, and he is certainly a heart dog, not too sure if that's my lack of training, or

just his nature, prob both. But what evers the cause, I like him how he is. A hunting partner, and not a servant.

[Bosun11 537]

It's a heart dog for me Wilf, every time. Though that can come with a price!

 

For me it's about getting the basics right, to get them in the field young, sound entering and then letting good breeding and long legs do the rest!

 

I like a partner, an ally, not a robot. Sometimes you'll curse them but admiration is forever present.

 

That price I mentioned..... well that can be fatal but thats the game i'm afraid....!

 

Oh yer, that Mercedies chapter 'gets' me everytime too!

 

Edited November 2, 2009 by Bosun11

[whin 463]

p sky cat i see guys who i go out with once in awhile they still have them on string i lookk at my life ny string goes as far as i want to go so why should i hammer it into them ,i have had them up to a high standard years ago but it didnt put much more in the bag at times ,i do like awell behaved dog but not sit there looking at master all the time shall i go leave that to the sit and stayers doneit wore the tee shirt ,

[Macsen 4]

I think I'm with the majority here when I say it's heart for me. I like my dogs to have their own personality and its only fair to the animal that it makes its own mind up sometimes. After all we humans are far from perfect ourselves so what right have we to expect our dogs to behave like machines.

Such is the joy, and sometimes frustration of owning a deerhound x, after close on 12 years with these noble dogs I have come to realise that no other cross comes close for me, even if they sometimes are a little stubborn, slow to mature and suffer from selective deafness. What I expect from my dog will differ significantly from others...I'm not after a bionic dog that takes x amount of game on a night, nor does it have to be the fastest or most intelligent on the planet. As long as it listens most of the time, catches enough for our needs and has some degree of decorum, then its good enough for me.

Most importantly I like to see my dog be happy in itself whatever its doing, whether thats a 15 mile trudge across moorland and mountain or a stormridden night out on the lamp. I believe a happy dog rewards its owner with loyalty, companionship and respect, the rest then comes easy.

So as I have already said, its heart all the way for me.

[skycat 6,173]

Thanks for that update Rabitin Girl: looks a beautiful animal she does.

 

AS far as my nearly all Saluki goes, I'm just glad I'm more intelligent than him as I can still con him into doing what I want 99% of the time: I've just got to be quick about it and I've learned to read the signs that say "There's not enough happening right now, I'm off to look for my own game" LOL

 

Having said that he never buggers off out ferreting: great attention span and dedication.

Edited November 2, 2009 by skycat

[whin 463]

nice bitch when shees stripped out , not a wooly coat lover bare skiinned and bootiful lol

[whin 463]

aww macsen you sound like a [bANNED TEXT] romantic i wonder if the poor scottish heelanders or nobles thought like that, not bother if the hind gets away we will starve lol , come on now you no the scorttish deerhound was a good dog in its time and there maybe still some out there ,who can still do a job , the nearest ive saw to decent derhounds are over the pond

[Macsen 4]

Romantic?...nah, just a realist, I dont need to go out and catch several cartloads of game, I'm not a big time hunter or a pest controller, just somebody who likes the dogs for what they are and occasionally to see them at work.

[whin 463]

so do i like seeing dogs work and when i started going over buy to the usa, saw some old fashioned deerhoundy dogs mate and made me think how we f****d up good dogs in our small island ,i think the show people feched the deerhound up shame realy as the were good dogs in there day and there will be some about some were who can still fill apot ,being a scot likie the deerhounds and there type

[rabitin girl 16]

Thanks for that update Rabitin Girl: looks a beautiful animal she does.

 

AS far as my nearly all Saluki goes, I'm just glad I'm more intelligent than him as I can still con him into doing what I want 99% of the time: I've just got to be quick about it and I've learned to read the signs that say "There's not enough happening right now, I'm off to look for my own game" LOL

 

Having said that he never buggers off out ferreting: great attention span and dedication.

 

Theres not enough happening now , im off to look at my own game is spot on , never had a dog with so much prey drive LOL

[Macsen 4]

so do i like seeing dogs work and when i started going over buy to the usa, saw some old fashioned deerhoundy dogs mate and made me think how we f****d up good dogs in our small island ,i think the show people feched the deerhound up shame realy as the were good dogs in there day and there will be some about some were who can still fill apot ,being a scot likie the deerhounds and there type

 

I agree with you on that point mate, a lot of the show deerhounds are really not to my liking, never had the pleasure of seeing the hounds from across the pond in the flesh, but from what I have seen from film and photo's they look like handy dogs.

The cross that I own may not be everyone's cup of tea, but he ticks the boxes for me.

[WILF 47,345]

I pal of mine runs a couple of Deerhound crosses and they are real machines.......the bitch (and mother to the younger dog) is out of Doxhope stuff so my pal tells me.