Anyone run beddy/grey x collie/greys,,?

[poxon 5,751]

19 hours ago, Daniel cain said:

 Every line overtime will eventually need  a little something fresh to pep it up ...some folks are honest about it..some not,there's some smart lookers of this type on here,I really like the type,I'm not knocking them

 

I'd just swap the collie for bull

Any breeding runs out of steam in the end
I think the beddy collie cross is overlooked as a incapable tbh I like that about the cross

As I’ve said before I’ve a sneaky liking to the sound of bull bedlington x
 

[poxon 5,751]

7 hours ago, OldPhil said:

Hi Tats,.no the dog was bred from a collie/Grey bitch owned by Tony, a full-time rabbit catcher from Burnley..

I originally met the guy at the Waterloo Cup, and he was raving about the sagacity and working abilities of his rabbiting gal, so I had to take a look. He was spot on about her and I said if he ever bred a litter, please keep me in mind...

 When the bitch came in season, Tony told me to come on up and get a pup..

The Sire of Moocher was Gary Hosker's Bedlington Lurcher , Spud...

Gary had pick of litter and offered it to me,...initially as a gift,..but when I travelled up,...he asked me for £50...

No problems,...I paid my money and took the jukel back down South.

I trained Moocher to a fairly high standard and his catching and retrieving to hand, was top-class...

It was difficult for a dog, initially bred to work the 'tops' on the Dales to fit into woodland rabbiting...

 Catching bolted conies in dense woodland requires a determined type of lurcher, one that will fully commit to a one chance  only,.. strike,..whilst hopefully not snapping his neck or legs...

 

Woodland hunting can be dangerous

 He found it hard at first, but I schooled him slowly and everything fell nicely into place.

I caught rabbits, hares and foxes with him, (we even took him to the Fens).. he managed to get a good run on a hare and eventually captured it when they both leapt into a deep water -filled ditch....We managed to get everything on VHS, ..it was quite a sight...

Anyway,.my business partner and great friend,Robin Tarrant had just lost his own lurcher through the Big C and was looking for another rabbit dog... Him and Moocher were great pals..

I'll never forget the day we were at a big old Lurcher Show in Telford...

We were there with our Second -Hand Movie Camera,.. I had the crazy idea of making a film depicting the Lurcher Showing, Obedience and Racing events,..I felt that it might be a good seller...Mind you, to produce such an epic required meeting and interviewing a whole lot of ultra-competitive folk, that quite frankly, were not to my taste, so,.I abandoned the idea

 At the show, I was approached by a big old guy,.he looked to be a serious kinda fish, and he wanted to buy Moocher. He offered me £200 cash,..( a lot of vonga back then) but I turned him down,...I just didn't like the fecker....

I could see Robin looking a tad forlorn, so I said, 'You like this juke don't ya,..and he likes you, I know this"... "Do you want him?".....Robin was beaming as I handed him the lead....

The guy with the cash was not so happy, and shouted across at me,..."You are fecking nuts"....

Of course, he was not far off the mark,...we all know this

Funnily enough, Robin for some strange reason, immediately entered Moocher in the Gundog Scurry...

It was a speed event type of thing and predictably, Mooch won it easily..

Robin offered me the girt big bag of dog food that was the prize,..but I declined....

I only feed raw...

Good read that Phil

[shaaark 10,884]

14 minutes ago, low plains drifter said:

We're going through a transitional period, the instinct to hunt still burns strong in some of us, but the necessity isn't always there, say if a case has a yarking freezer full of chicken nuggets, turkey twizzlers, and crinkle cut oven chips, aswell as a crate of beans, and a tin of custard creams etc, there's a chance the said case isn't going to be hightailing it back to the hovel to disrobe the recently acquired Coney, and pull an onion from the plot. I believe an overly high blood sugar level can result in the overflow of banter sometimes building up to the suggestion of an offliner, and happy shopper jam rolls at five paces

You know?

Obvs! 

[Black neck 16,065]

2 minutes ago, shaaark said:

Obvs! 

Turkey twizlaz 

That's how jordies say it furg

[low plains drifter 10,676]

13 minutes ago, shaaark said:

Obvs! 

What's this soy boy speak?

[shaaark 10,884]

1 hour ago, low plains drifter said:

What's this soy boy speak?

Latte sandwhich, sir?

Edited June 24, 2021 by shaaark

[shaaark 10,884]

1 hour ago, Black neck said:

Turkey twizlaz 

That's how jordies say it furg

Izit, braa?  Irie  seeen 

[Black neck 16,065]

15 minutes ago, shaaark said:

Izit, braa?  Irie  seeen 

[shaaark 10,884]

2 minutes ago, Black neck said:

What on earth is that, blacky?!  Lol

[Black neck 16,065]

18 minutes ago, shaaark said:

What on earth is that, blacky?!  Lol

You know I can't tell u

[shaaark 10,884]

Just now, Black neck said:

You know I can't tell u

Ah yeah, I forgot.  

[Black neck 16,065]

Just now, shaaark said:

Ah yeah, I forgot.  

[LamperNM 117]

On 24/06/2021 at 19:00, Black neck said:

Turkey twizlaz 

That's how jordies say it furg

Torkey not (turkey)

[Black neck 16,065]

1 minute ago, LamperNM said:

Torkey not (turkey)

Soz ard 

[LamperNM 117]

2 minutes ago, Black neck said:

Soz ard