Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[Karabiner]

A friend of mine that i play golf with has a cockerpoo puppy similar in looks to Poppy, except his is a dog and it's nine months old.

He's having trouble getting it to eat although it gets plenty of exercise. He says he'll take it for it's morning walk and then put a dish of food down for it around 11am and the pooch won't touch it. After a bit he'll take the food away anmd offer it to him at tea-time presumably after another walk and he may or may not eat some of it.

He says the dog is fit and healthy and his missus (who worries about it) tries to tempt it with cheese and suchlike but it just a very picky eater. What would you suggest?

If it's fit and healthy Ralph he has no need to worry.

I would offer it food once a day in progressively smaller amounts until it clears it's dish immediately. Then I would stick with that amount and only offer more if it is obviously looking for it.

Thanks Tom, I've passed that advice on.

[Skippy]

1/2 bull 1/2 deerhound X 1/4 bull 3/4 greyhound.

What a great looking dog

Click to see full-size image.

This dog didn't skip leg day.

Very much enjoying this diary at the moment. So much good stuff.

[typhoon13]

Ever been to the Waterloo cup Tom?

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Ever been to the Waterloo cup Tom?

No Trev. I've done my fair share of hare coursing but the Waterloo cup was not to my taste. I don't like to see two dogs slipped on one hare.

Any good lurcher can run faster than a hare, but that's only half the story. A hare can turn in it's own length with virtually no loss of speed, a lurcher needs 20 yards to turn in when he's at full stretch, so it's a good contest and the hare has the advantage. Add a second dog to the equation and the hare's advantage is gone.

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1/2 bull 1/2 deerhound X 1/4 bull 3/4 greyhound.

What a great looking dog

Click to see full-size image.

This dog didn't skip leg day.

Very much enjoying this diary at the moment. So much good stuff.

Thanks Skip.

I wonder how he managed to keep one foot clean.

[david3103]

1/2 bull 1/2 deerhound X 1/4 bull 3/4 greyhound.

What a great looking dog

Click to see full-size image.

This dog didn't skip leg day.

Very much enjoying this diary at the moment. So much good stuff.

Thanks Skip.

I wonder how he managed to keep one foot clean.

Maybe there's a little bit of Cocker in there somewhere

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For some reason, the dog with the odd foot reminded me of a young lady I knew back in the 70s. She was excellent company, but very reserved and proper, and would blush like mad at anything even slightly untoward.

I was checking my coat prior to entering a dance hall one night when she arrived and stood beside me. She took off her coat to reveal one of those long flowing dresses with a broad band of stiff bodice and a cheese-cloth top. (Don't ask, they were popular in the day).

Anyway, this young lady, despite being quite slim, was rather well equipped in the baby feeding department and as she turned to face me I noticed that she had managed to get one breast over the bodice/waistband part of the dress, and one under it.

The effect was mesmerising. She looked all lop sided, like a cross between a Picasso painting and that thing that Eric Morecombe used to do with his glasses.

I couldn't bring myself to tell her, she would have died of embarrassment, and I didn't want to draw anyone else's attention to it, but I couldn't stop staring. It was like one of those situations where someone farts at a funeral, you know you mustn't laugh, but the more you try not to, the funnier it gets.

By the time I got home, I had almost died of heart failure.

I can't imagine being so impressed by a simple wardrobe malfunction these days.

Oh to be 17 again.

[RED-DOG]

I saw an item the other day about a bloke who was arrested for flashing his headlights to warn other drivers about the presence of a police speed camera van. He was taken to court, found guilty of of obstructing a police officer, and fined £175 plus costs.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole idea of speed cameras were to encourage people to drive more slowly in hazardous areas, not to trap them by stealth. That's ostensibly why they are well signed and painted bright yellow.

If that is the case, wasn't this bloke assisting the police officer rather than obstructing him?

Otherwise it seems to suggest that it would be OK for a policeman to wait until a crook had robbed a bank so that he could arrest him rather than make his presence known and deter the robbery in the first place.

[typhoon13]

Ever been to the Waterloo cup Tom?

No Trev. I've done my fair share of hare coursing but the Waterloo cup was not to my taste. I don't like to see two dogs slipped on one hare.

Any good lurcher can run faster than a hare, but that's only half the story. A hare can turn in it's own length with virtually no loss of speed, a lurcher needs 20 yards to turn in when he's at full stretch, so it's a good contest and the hare has the advantage. Add a second dog to the equation and the hare's advantage is gone.

I was joint master of a pack of Bassett hounds for five years

Obviously the brown hare was a lot faster but it will naturally run in a very large circle with the hounds following the scent

We always knew if hare coursers had been through within the last week because our hunted hare would run more of a straight line

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Ever been to the Waterloo cup Tom?

No Trev. I've done my fair share of hare coursing but the Waterloo cup was not to my taste. I don't like to see two dogs slipped on one hare.

Any good lurcher can run faster than a hare, but that's only half the story. A hare can turn in it's own length with virtually no loss of speed, a lurcher needs 20 yards to turn in when he's at full stretch, so it's a good contest and the hare has the advantage. Add a second dog to the equation and the hare's advantage is gone.

I was joint master of a pack of Bassett hounds for five years

Obviously the brown hare was a lot faster but it will naturally run in a very large circle with the hounds following the scent

We always knew if hare coursers had been through within the last week because our hunted hare would run more of a straight line

That's interesting Trev, on so many levels.

I always knew you were the type to play your cards close to your chest but I wouldn't have had you down for either of the things you've revealed in the last couple of days.

Why do you think the hares run in straight lines after the coursers have been through?

[typhoon13]

Ever been to the Waterloo cup Tom?

No Trev. I've done my fair share of hare coursing but the Waterloo cup was not to my taste. I don't like to see two dogs slipped on one hare.

Any good lurcher can run faster than a hare, but that's only half the story. A hare can turn in it's own length with virtually no loss of speed, a lurcher needs 20 yards to turn in when he's at full stretch, so it's a good contest and the hare has the advantage. Add a second dog to the equation and the hare's advantage is gone.

I was joint master of a pack of Bassett hounds for five years

Obviously the brown hare was a lot faster but it will naturally run in a very large circle with the hounds following the scent

We always knew if hare coursers had been through within the last week because our hunted hare would run more of a straight line

That's interesting Trev, on so many levels.

I always knew you were the type to play your cards close to your chest but I wouldn't have had you down for either of the things you've revealed in the last couple of days.

Why do you think the hares run in straight lines after the coursers have been through?

There is nothing cast in stone but i presumed when the hare has been chased at high speed by the lurcher it has to defend by jinking going off again and jinking etc until it escapes or is killed which isn't running in its natural wide circle

So when we appear over the arisen shortly afterwards it feels more threatened and just gets going at full speed straighter to escape the danger zone

When a Bassett puts an hare up it is coursed for a very short while because the hare soon outstrips the hound so it can then move to its natural circle until the hounds catch up via smell then it goes on another short burst and so on
 

[typhoon13]

Whilst we are on the subject of Dogs and field sports have you ever done much shooting sir

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Whilst we are on the subject of Dogs and field sports have you ever done much shooting sir

Yep.

I was very keen on gun dogs at one stage. Prior to that I'd always hunted with an air rifle and a sight hound, (great for spotting game and chasing down runners) but then I sold a part trained Labrador puppy to a bloke from Lincoln and he introduced me to shooting proper.

My dad and I ended up being part of this bloke's syndicate and we had shooting rights over a vast tract of land. There were six other members but they were so rich they just went of driven shoots and couldn't be arsed to walk the land like we did, so for the princely sum of £60 each pa we had it virtually all to ourselves. It was beautiful too, but it had a lake and a wood and everything.

Then I met a bloke called Brian Toppliss who was a skeet shooter at the Olympics. He got me into clay pigeon shooting and as it turned out I was reasonably good, but it was far too expensive for me to peruse properly.

Eventually, changes to the gun laws made it virtually impossible to keep a gun legally in a caravan so I surrendered my licence.

I did hang on to an old 4:10 that Mrs Red had bought second hand from a rat catcher for my birthday, but a couple of years ago I got worried about it and handed it in at the police station during a gun amnesty.

[Rod Paradise]

I saw an item the other day about a bloke who was arrested for flashing his headlights to warn other drivers about the presence of a police speed camera van. He was taken to court, found guilty of of obstructing a police officer, and fined £175 plus costs.

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole idea of speed cameras were to encourage people to drive more slowly in hazardous areas, not to trap them by stealth. That's ostensibly why they are well signed and painted bright yellow.

If that is the case, wasn't this bloke assisting the police officer rather than obstructing him?

Otherwise it seems to suggest that it would be OK for a policeman to wait until a crook had robbed a bank so that he could arrest him rather than make his presence known and deter the robbery in the first place.

It is a nonsense.

I was warned by a friend who is a traffic cop that posting 'Police speed trap at Brock's Straight' on Facebook could get me charged the same way.

[Rod Paradise]

Whilst we are on the subject of Dogs and field sports have you ever done much shooting sir

Yep.

I was very keen on gun dogs at one stage. Prior to that I'd always hunted with an air rifle and a sight hound, (great for spotting game and chasing down runners) but then I sold a part trained Labrador puppy to a bloke from Lincoln and he introduced me to shooting proper.

My dad and I ended up being part of this bloke's syndicate and we had shooting rights over a vast tract of land. There were six other members but they were so rich they just went of driven shoots and couldn't be arsed to walk the land like we did, so for the princely sum of £60 each pa we had it virtually all to ourselves. It was beautiful too, but it had a lake and a wood and everything.

Then I met a bloke called Brian Toppliss who was a skeet shooter at the Olympics. He got me into clay pigeon shooting and as it turned out I was reasonably good, but it was far too expensive for me to peruse properly.

Eventually, changes to the gun laws made it virtually impossible to keep a gun legally in a caravan so I surrendered my licence.

I did hang on to an old 4:10 that Mrs Red had bought second hand from a rat catcher for my birthday, but a couple of years ago I got worried about it and handed it in at the police station during a gun amnesty.

In 2017 they bring in a similar licence up here for airguns (or air weapons as plod/the govt call them). Need a secure storage (ie gunsafe) bolted to  a structural wall. Licence restrictions the same as for a shotgun, so lots of airgunners going for shotgun licences too.