Collies?

[wuyang 513]

This little bitch lived to hunt and god was she a natural. Lived in a stable for her first year of life, had a litter at 10 months. My mom asked if they wanted to part with her, that was that she came home with us. Took her out with my other three dogs and she never looked back.

 

[Mustelid 143]

A lovely looking bitch. Do you still have her?

[Neal 1,873]

Not quite the same thing, but I have two kelpies which I use for bushing etc (actually, that's not quite true as one is now fourteen so he just bimbles along) and I've said several times on here before that I've caught more with them, working in this manner, than I used to get working lurchers in the open.

 

One more thing; it's mentioned above that if you have the time you can teach them anything...I'd go one further and say that if you have the time, and the inclination, then they can teach you a thing or two!

Edited November 24, 2013 by Neal

[morton 5,368]

Not quite the same thing, but I have two kelpies which I use for bushing etc (actually, that's not quite true as one is now fourteen so he just bimbles along) and I've said several times on here before that I've caught more with them, working in this manner, than I used to get working lurchers in the open.

 

One more thing; it's mentioned above that if you have the time you can teach them anything...I'd go one further and say that if you have the time, and the inclination, then they can teach you a thing or two!

If you,ve taken more with a bushing kelpie than you have with a lurcher in the open then?.Im the Collies biggest fan,but at times we need to be a tad more realistic.The lurcher was bred to overcome the limitations of their pastoral cousins,well most of them.Ive seen a couple of Borders that could leave any lurcher in their shadow when working,hunting and marking,the catching bit is best left to the lurcher as ive never seen a Collie compete on that level,yet?.

[TheLurcherBoy 69]

i have a german shepherd dogs that is keen and will bush well but has no speed and never catches... i leave that to the whippet!!

[Neal 1,873]

 

Not quite the same thing, but I have two kelpies which I use for bushing etc (actually, that's not quite true as one is now fourteen so he just bimbles along) and I've said several times on here before that I've caught more with them, working in this manner, than I used to get working lurchers in the open.

 

One more thing; it's mentioned above that if you have the time you can teach them anything...I'd go one further and say that if you have the time, and the inclination, then they can teach you a thing or two!

If you,ve taken more with a bushing kelpie than you have with a lurcher in the open then?.Im the Collies biggest fan,but at times we need to be a tad more realistic.The lurcher was bred to overcome the limitations of their pastoral cousins,well most of them.Ive seen a couple of Borders that could leave any lurcher in their shadow when working,hunting and marking,the catching bit is best left to the lurcher as ive never seen a Collie compete on that level,yet?.

 

Sorry Morton, I should have made that clearer. What I mean is that my kelpies have caught more in general (almost exclusively in cover) than previous lurchers...maybe my lurchers were just crap though! I blame the owner!

My permission (which is about to be covered in concrete over the next few years) is all small fields, tight hedgerows and overgrown woodland which used to be coppiced but is now covered in brambles and bracken. My youngest (now six) screams like a banshee if she puts up a rabbit in the open but they rarely see any in the open; it's all a quick five yard dash or nothing.

I completely agree that a lurcher is better than my kelpies at what most lurcher owners want their dogs for but...I simply have a better day out with mine than I used to with lurchers. I suppose it'd just down to different character and temperament.

[wuyang 513]

A lovely looking bitch. Do you still have her?

Thanks, but no she passed about 10 years ago, she was natural scrounger and unfortunately the vet believed she may have eaten some poison.