Lurchers

Alright guys i'd thought id tell you all that im madly into running dogs, It's where my passion for feild sports started, and now still belong, there's nothing like it, you have to be as quiet and as un-noticable to your prey as possible, then you have to remember not to be too keen on the lamp, only keep it on for the amount of time you need, otherwise the rabbits become weary. I also use a red filter on my lamp alot of the time as rabbits generally cannot see the red light.

You need to get your dog perfect at retreiving, and coming back as soon as the lamp has gone off before you venture into the feild, as I have witnessed with some peoples dog's they get too excited and run the rest of the feild on their own, which hardly ever ends in a kill, and generally meens that feild is useless for that night.
Also a younge dog will take a while to learn the trust the lamp, they need to learn that when you slip them there is a rabbit at the end of that beam, this is done by positive re-inforcement. For example with a younge dog you have to be sure they have seen the rabbit you want them to see, they may pull on the slip leed but don't be fooled most will run in the oposite direction.

When your dog is up to scratch and you personally know what your doing nothing can be better!

Pre-ban we used to ran fox, but since i have seen no point.

Anyway here is my new rabbiting dog "Buck"



Ed Palmer

very in formative ed

very good topic ed heres some pics of lurchers i have owned in the past till some fecking pikey low life scum knicked them as you know ed they made a number of vists to my kennels which is why i gave up dogs


here is a young bull cross which was also stolen what the feck do they want with a pup

nice dogs ed and andy

my old bull whippet

my border being lazy



me and my saluki pharo x grayhound with the head of his first stag prebanish


WE HAVE TO STRESS THIS WAS PRE-BAN

Nice dogs andy mate, sorry about your dogs being nicked mate, you'll have some more 1 day!

Taz thats a big stag for a smallish dog did it take it itself?

Palmer wrote:Nice dogs andy mate, sorry about your dogs being nicked mate, you'll have some more 1 day!

Taz thats a big stag for a smallish dog did it take it itself?

it was a smalish stag m8 and he aiint small he is 30 tts and yes it was by him self but i was thare to help him wasant the niseist of kills but it had to be done

Taz remember we dont want to talk too much about pre ban stuff.

Let's keep this thread mainly about lamping guys, i know ben does abit with his wippet x?

Ed

Andy i feel for you mate as i know the passion you have for your animals!!!

That pup would have been a cracker!

feck me taz get a hair cut you scrufey fecker no wonder you aint got a girlfreind

hound wrote:feck me taz get a hair cut you scrufey fecker no wonder you aint got a girlfreind

pmsl i agree

You lost some good dogs there andy mate, i like them all but the red colliexgreyhound stands out, real tough luck that mate if its one thing that winds me up its dog and bird thieves

taz wrote:

Palmer wrote:Nice dogs andy mate, sorry about your dogs being nicked mate, you'll have some more 1 day!

Taz thats a big stag for a smallish dog did it take it itself?

it was a smalish stag m8 and he aiint small he is 30 tts and yes it was by him self but i was thare to help him wasant the niseist of kills but it had to be done

to me taz he looks to small to me 30" you sure he took a red stag by himself



this one was 27" one of the best dogs i have owned till he broke his neck when he ran a rabbit

spughawk wrote:You lost some good dogs there andy mate, i like them all but the red colliexgreyhound stands out, real tough luck that mate if its one thing that winds me up its dog and bird thieves

rob heres a few better pics of the collie/grey

here she is with a dog from the same litter which a mate owns

and heres the dam which another mate owns this pic was taken when we out ratting on day

Andy i agree about the 30" defently looks too small for a stag like that.

I'll see if i can scan some pictures of dad's old dogs on.
You had some crackers Andy

Ed

Well the scanner wont work so i had to take pictures of pictures!! ill put some up in a min.

Lol what a waste of time they were, cut half of them off.

Note to self dont take photo's of old photo's!!

lol ed well at least you tried and bet the originals were good

There thousands but i can't be botherd maybe when the scanner works

Your dad looks young there ed, say hi to him for me and Deb will ya mate, looks like he had some good dogs

Will do mate, he's been out on motorbikes all day!

Yea dogs were good mate! especially the first brindle

me and my saluki pharo x grayhound with the head of his first stag prebanish


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taz i found this pic of you last year
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