is it me

[steveS.Yorks 161]

  On 13/01/2010 at 23:44, FLINT08 said:

  On 13/01/2010 at 23:33, steveS.Yorks said:

Open minded about what exactly?

 

Ive given an opinion,if you disagree fine,lets hear your reasoning,exchangeing ideas is how we all learn more.

 

atb steve.

thats what im saying

 

Sorry mate misunderstood

[stormyboy 1,352]

  On 13/01/2010 at 23:00, FLINT08 said:

  On 13/01/2010 at 22:51, steveS.Yorks said:

A couple of things bother me about this thread,

 

The really good Lurchers ive ever seen without exeption have had "drive" a lot of it,they dont get to 18 months and suddenly get it,its there from a young age,you get such a pup and keep it bottled up until its 12 months old and then run it,the drive and determination takes over the pups common sense and lack of experiance with obsticales and it runs into something? more likely with some breeds than others granted,give them all the obediance/schooling you like but when they see a rabbit at 12 months for the first time ever a dog with real drive wont care much about that imo.

 

the other thing is it seems to be turning into a "who leaves it the longest" competition,personally i dont know anyone who wouldnt run an odd rabbit until a dog was 18 months old,what about reading the individual pup and just using common sense?

 

I take things steady myself but some people on this thread are taking the piss imo.

BE OPEN MINDED

 

 

Im being open minded by asking about your methods.You are unwilling to respond.Looks like we're all destined to mediocrity.

[steveS.Yorks 161]

  On 14/01/2010 at 18:32, FLINT08 said:

  On 14/01/2010 at 17:52, stormyboy said:

  On 13/01/2010 at 23:00, FLINT08 said:

  On 13/01/2010 at 22:51, steveS.Yorks said:

A couple of things bother me about this thread,

 

The really good Lurchers ive ever seen without exeption have had "drive" a lot of it,they dont get to 18 months and suddenly get it,its there from a young age,you get such a pup and keep it bottled up until its 12 months old and then run it,the drive and determination takes over the pups common sense and lack of experiance with obsticales and it runs into something? more likely with some breeds than others granted,give them all the obediance/schooling you like but when they see a rabbit at 12 months for the first time ever a dog with real drive wont care much about that imo.

 

the other thing is it seems to be turning into a "who leaves it the longest" competition,personally i dont know anyone who wouldnt run an odd rabbit until a dog was 18 months old,what about reading the individual pup and just using common sense?

 

I take things steady myself but some people on this thread are taking the piss imo.

BE OPEN MINDED

 

 

Im being open minded by asking about your methods.You are unwilling to respond.Looks like we're all destined to mediocrity.

i have responded yesterday PM

 

Flint i havent got the pm?

 

 

Stormboy

 

The post more or less says it "my methods" read the individual dog and act accordingly using hard earned experiance,ive hunted with dogs all my "viable" life,although my real knowledge involves terriers ive had a plenty of experiance with lurchers and associate with people who i consider second to nobody when it comes to "allround" lurcher work,not one of them would not run a dog at all until it reached 18 months,to not run a specialist match type dog seriously until its a decent age ie 2yrs is standard practice,but not running a dog on rabbits at 18 months old? Got to be a wind up?