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i had lurchers since 1984 the last 1 died nearly 3 years ago and has not been replaced as yet. unfortunatly i can only use a terrier on my ferreting permission and its all in woodland and scrub shit l

None kc. very good nose will hunt up all day. very good marking dog for ferreting nearly 6 years old. took feather on occasion catches in cover. stubborn to train as a young dog. just plenty of patien

the terrier dropping to ground is not a problem cause we don't have anything for them to go to ground on did look at a spaniel cross but just didn't fancy one not my type of dog

for those that bush with beddies, or any terriers for that matter.....how do you get on when the terrier has flushed a rabbit and the lurcher has caught it? don't you end up with a tug of war? or a lurcher wanting to give the terrier a good hiding for trying to take the rabbit off it? a spaniel would be train to flush but not catch, but could you realistically do that with a terrier? from what I can gather most bushing terriers catch their fair few when in cover so there's no way you'd be able to get them to stop chasing as soon as the rabbit breaks cover, is there? or is it a pecking order thing? when the higher ranking dog (i.e. the lurcher) has the prey the terrier leaves alone? in my limited experience with terriers of any kind, they don't tend to fully respect what should be a pecking order!! :laugh:

 

I'm just picturing a rabbits that have been chewed up, stretched and fought over and end up good for nothing more than ferret food, which for me partly defeats the object of catching them to begin with.

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join the bedlington forum and keep away from KC reg dogs

 

Think you'll find a few lads on WBF work KC above and below depends who you get them off and who you speak to.

why would anyone intentionally get KC stock for working when there is working stock around? especially from a breed that has been mutated beyond recognition by KC breeders?? I don't get it......it'd be like deliberately massively stacking the odds against you having a decent worker for no reason other than to try and prove a point.

 

I'm far from an expert on the breed, but looking at the state of every show bedlington I've ever seen I'd be amazed if there's a single one in the country that has even a fraction of the capability of even an average one from working stock.

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Rob if i was after just a busher I would get a spanial, for a few reasons, my lurcher was retreiving a rabbit live this morning till my beddie grab hold of the ass of rabbit and wouldnt let go, good way to ruin a lurchers retrieving but managed to get the beddie off and kept walkin so lurcher had retrieve it to me, the lurcher has told her off before for it but not this time shes a softie if was a different type of lurcher it could kick off or refuse to retrieve atall! theres a few lads doing earth work with kc but does the bit of paper mean anything????

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join the bedlington forum and keep away from KC reg dogs

 

Think you'll find a few lads on WBF work KC above and below depends who you get them off and who you speak to.

why would anyone intentionally get KC stock for working when there is working stock around? especially from a breed that has been mutated beyond recognition by KC breeders?? I don't get it......it'd be like deliberately massively stacking the odds against you having a decent worker for no reason other than to try and prove a point.

 

I'm far from an expert on the breed, but looking at the state of every show bedlington I've ever seen I'd be amazed if there's a single one in the country that has even a fraction of the capability of even an average one from working stock.

 

I'm no expert either mate just stating a fact, when you mean working stock i take it you mean the border/fell crosses??

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