Malamutes Have Got No Bottle Ha Ha

[paulsmithy83 567]

 

 

 

Well feck,.. ever eating that cold porridge,...there is no future in that grey game....

 

Get your drift Wilf,..regarding why folk suddenly opt for using various exotics, to try and produce a better/different style of hunting dog....and yes,..a great many folk, just seem to flick through the pages of a canine encyclopedia and think,."now that would be a good critter, to put over a Greyhound"..

 

That being said,.a few others,..give such projects a brave try,.but they usually keep things, 'in house' ,..and retain the good ideas and success stories,..and abandon the foolish wastes of effort,...

 

For my sins, I've stood in both camps...

 

The Malamute would not be my choice,.however,..I've spent some time with Siberian Huskies, Sledge Dogs, whatever,..and I like them, plus it is something that has been tried, many years ago...The guys that created various examples, locally,..have always extolled the virtues of the mix,..and to be 100% honest,.I've had my finger on that red button for decades....

As a functional working canine with amazing physical attributes,.the best of these incredibly varied types really are quite something...

Personaly,...I would have enjoyed getting a breeding program going, but time has run out for me,...I've missed the boat,...and as wee all know, supposition, boasts and hunches, mean feck all.

Talk is dirt cheap,..but,....one can never say never, eh...

We put , isnt the sib the most athletic . Bit like the saluki in terms can run at flat out pace over long distances were malamutes are the heavy load carryin plodders. From wat I seen there a shit load more drive in them sibs

there be the racing sibes , very fast and relentless ,40k races round forestry i was a spectator at many of these round the local forestry blocks , indesructable and also loyal and good guards . atb bunnys.

If we was in colder climate I think they would add lot of qualities they seem alot more driven then mal and athletic but then would they still open up like mals??? I think for this country if you like those type dogs the gsd x ticks the boxes

[shaaark 10,694]

shaaark.as i have said it is not theory it is fact .i have bred gsdxg and three maximum will break to the greyhound the same would apply to malxg

[WILF 46,596]

chalkwarren.thats a nice looking dog well built powerful thick pads good coat good stamina great bone.if combined right with the greyhound genes .bingo

Ok, I will allow myself to be drawn in for a second......these are not rabbit dogs you are breeding, so never mind the " mechanics" of such an animal, what is the animals history of mental attitude to " hard & heavy" situations and by what measure has this been tested ??

 

Like all of us, I have seen some truly stunning physical examples who could hold their own in random " heavy" situations but when push really came to shove the old head and heart were found to be wanting.......given the fact that its so hard to find a handy animal with years of breeding behind it what is the point of this random messing around ?

 

I am not trying to be flippant and I will freely admit others will know much better than me but I have never heard of anyone who is killing serious amounts of serious tackle using any of these types of crosses, certainly not in England......if they were that good folk would have been using them since time in memorial to kill hefty amounts of game

 

They may very well use them in country's that have vast open plains on which such an animal can literally run down a quarry species but our geography is simply not like that........there are some very capable killing machines already been thought up and very thoroughly tested to the limit and beyond.......why just play around especially when it's with a living, sentient creature.

Edited April 29, 2013 by WILF

[bunnys 1,228]

i toyed with the sibe xs as the racing type bitches around 40 pounds in weight , and a half xs of around 55 ta 60 pound would and should have a decent turn of foot . as for the yodelling the ones i saw were silent run in 4s or 6s tried ta help a female rider once she had crashed and was badly gashed up cart had overturned couldint get near to help they would have ate me was pre mobile days six mile hyke back for help . these were kept and raced on the old tripe .atb bunnys.

[bunnys 1,228]

 

chalkwarren.thats a nice looking dog well built powerful thick pads good coat good stamina great bone.if combined right with the greyhound genes .bingo

Ok, I will allow myself to be drawn in for a second......these are not rabbit dogs you are breeding, so never mind the " mechanics" of such an animal, what is the animals history of mental attitude to " hard & heavy" situations and by what measure has this been tested ??

 

Like all of us, I have seen some truly stunning physical examples who could hold their own in random " heavy" situations but when push really came to shove the old head and heart were found to be wanting.......given the fact that its so hard to find a handy animal with years of breeding behind it what is the point of this random messing around ?

 

I am not trying to be flippant and I will freely admit others will know much better than me but I have never heard of anyone who is killing serious amounts of serious tackle using any of these types of crosses, certainly not in England......if they were that good folk would have been using them since time in memorial to kill hefty amounts of game

 

They may very well use them in country's that have vast open plains on which such an animal can literally run down a quarry species but our geography is simply not like that........there are some very capable killing machines already been thought up and very thoroughly tested to the limit and beyond.......why just play around especially when it's with a living, sentient creature.

 

wilf i see where though coming from i believe there is far betta lurcher types lines etc out there than any f1 xs of any type atb bunnys.

[Bosun11 537]

 

chalkwarren.thats a nice looking dog well built powerful thick pads good coat good stamina great bone.if combined right with the greyhound genes .bingo

Ok, I will allow myself to be drawn in for a second......these are not rabbit dogs you are breeding, so never mind the " mechanics" of such an animal, what is the animals history of mental attitude to " hard & heavy" situations and by what measure has this been tested ??

 

Like all of us, I have seen some truly stunning physical examples who could hold their own in random " heavy" situations but when push really came to shove the old head and heart were found to be wanting.......given the fact that its so hard to find a handy animal with years of breeding behind it what is the point of this random messing around ?

 

I am not trying to be flippant and I will freely admit others will know much better than me but I have never heard of anyone who is killing serious amounts of serious tackle using any of these types of crosses, certainly not in England......if they were that good folk would have been using them since time in memorial to kill hefty amounts of game

 

They may very well use them in country's that have vast open plains on which such an animal can literally run down a quarry species but our geography is simply not like that........there are some very capable killing machines already been thought up and very thoroughly tested to the limit and beyond.......why just play around especially when it's with a living, sentient creature.

 

I can't put it any better than that, so i won't....!

[beast 1,884]

beast.germanshepherds can catch foxes.gsdxg if they throw right do catch hares easily compared to a dog that has to chase it for four minutes thats of course if the dog dont run out of runway

 

i know gsd catch foxes, used to run my pures with the lurchers but it was the lurchers that did the catching, the gsd just did the crunching. however, your post said that the heavy slow mal xs would take foxes. not sure what you mean by the second bit of your post? if gsd x takes hares easy all the match boys would be using them

[stewie 3,387]

not gonna read the whole thread as i no how it will go..........but every cross has been slagged off from pillar to post at one point or another..........so surely the malamute x is just another type to be ripped apart by the experts who have never seen any of that cross work.......................

Edited April 29, 2013 by lurcher1

[Huan72 687]

I cant say what a mal will enter into the mix, but I have owned a 1st cross GSD/Husky bitch, called her Isis as she had the egyption eye make up thing going on. Clever, really fast with staying power, agile, physically outstanding but behaviour was a bit twitchy, highly strung. Could fly through forrest as if it were flat land. As BG has previously said about the mal crosses needing carefull handling, she did, but for physical ability in every sense, she was outstanding. If the genetics bouced right in a breeding I can ony imagine the possibilities if she had ever bred with a greyhound, but her temperamant was so twitchy I wouldnt have bred her. She wasnt specially bred, no lines, just a cross I happened to get but one of those dogs......a natural athlete.

[paulus 26]

these have some stamina

[Huan72 687]

these have some stamina

Not bad...............well I had this pugX one time..............................................

[J Darcy 5,871]

I'm still confused......so would a mal/grey X al/grey actually smash a polar bear single handed?

[paulus 26]

I'm still confused......so would a mal/grey X al/grey actually smash a polar bear single handed?

only after 3 shreaded wheat

[J Darcy 5,871]

 

I'm still confused......so would a mal/grey X al/grey actually smash a polar bear single handed?

only after 3 shreaded wheat

 

Is that a wild polar bear or one in a park?...

[Huan72 687]

I'm still confused......so would a mal/grey X al/grey actually smash a polar bear single handed?

Only if it gets stuck in his throat