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Far from the madding crowd
For some people one is too many and life for all would be better if they did not keep any. I am just hacked off by the neighbours dogs so feeling grumpy.
For some people one is too many and life for all would be better if they did not keep any. I am just hacked off by the neighbours dogs so feeling grumpy.
I think normal families tend to have just one dog. Many country people have two or more.
Over the years I have had two and sometimes three, very occasionally four. These days I tend to have two of my chosen breed with an age gap between them and then a rescue.
I agree that once you start walking more than two, you do get looked at as if you are slightly mad. Occasionally I walk 5 and that is mad especially when the extra two are a lurcher and a mini dachshund!
I think normal families tend to have just one dog. Many country people have two or more.
Over the years I have had two and sometimes three, very occasionally four. These days I tend to have two of my chosen breed with an age gap between them and then a rescue.
I agree that once you start walking more than two, you do get looked at as if you are slightly mad. Occasionally I walk 5 and that is mad especially when the extra two are a lurcher and a mini dachshund!
The only dog here that's an issue is the lurcher 😒
I am currently advertising on Facebook for a deer-free county where I can go and live. (please note, Millie has NEVER harmed a deer in her life!)
I am never owning another lurcher again
Enough said?
I am currently advertising on Facebook for a deer-free county where I can go and live. (please note, Millie has NEVER harmed a deer in her life!)
I am never owning another lurcher again
Enough said?
I am fairly sure you get muntjack there, if you don't and you go to live there Lev you can take my miss long legs too if you like?City of London?
We were walking today and put up a group of fallow bucks. I said to OH this is when you really remember why you don't have lurchers...or spaniels.
I am fairly sure you get muntjack there, if you don't and you go to live there Lev you can take my miss long legs too if you like?
I'm sure you get muntjac too. I bloody hate muntjac
We were walking today and put up a group of fallow bucks. I said to OH this is when you really remember why you don't have lurchers...or spaniels.
Two is enough lol. No deer around here but my front gate was open earlier and I spotted a cat outside before the dog did and ran over to the other side of the garden squealing HEEERE! OH GOOOD BOYYYY! to distract him. Both he and neighbours must think I am mental.
The other reprobate would have been gone
OMG I have got off lightly My lot are so inept they never catch anything (except, I have to admit, Amy catching a couple of grey squirrels when she was younger, before I could intervene.....) and thank goodness they have never brought me or been anywhere near catching a deer!
Actually I still remember the last hound of mine to catch a rabbit.... it was Islay just after I adopted her. in 2008 or 2009.....
Ah, sadly I cannot say the same. The first summer we were here there was a terrible case of myxomatosis in the local rabbit population and little Dee took it upon herself to limit the spread . Because of her size it was hard to catch her doing it too, so we usually found her just as she'd killed one . I don't know how many she despatched, but it was lots.....on the plus side though we haven't seen any myxi rabbits since and the neighbours say it's the first time they haven't seen myxi rabbits knocking around through summer in years.
I do walk three lurchers and a dachshund cross (all mine!) in deer country...all on leads. Not sensible at all but never boring. And s.d what the neighbours think. Life is really too short to worry about being normal.
This will no doubt attract screams of condemnation but many many years ago when I had the whippets myxi was still prevalent in Oxfordshire..... if I came across a myxi rabbit I would notify the whippets who would despatch VERY quickly and cleanly (far better than greyhounds!) rather than let the poor rabbit have a long lingering death. I still believe that was the more humane option. That has to be 30 years ago now I think of it
I am interested that your whippets would dispatch a mixi rabbit Levrier. Neither my whippets nor lurchers would touch them.
Clodagh, I was out riding with my lurcher who set off after a muntjac. I found her standing on a track, no deer to be seen, but the whole of her back was ripped open looking like raw meat. It was hell getting her home. I thought she had ripped it on wire. When I told the vets , they thought she must have caught the muntjac by a back leg and it turned round and sunk it’s teeth in her. Apparently they have two very long jagged teeth. The vets did a brilliant job , so much stitching but she was broken coated so the scarring never showed.
I was always terrified of muntjac after that and my next dog was a Flatcoated Retriever that could be trained not to chase things!