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David's a patterdale man but this Year Book is about terrier work in general and is a good read. I put up a review at >> http://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2007/...ox-full-of.html There's a link at the end if you want to order the book via credit card. P.

Nice to see the old people getting out in the field Groundhogs do not have deep jaws, but they have very powerful bites that can remove a kerf of flesh. The most serious-looking bit of dog damage on an anti-site in the UK is actually a picture of an American dog nailed by a groundhog. Go figure. As BShadle says, most of the time the terriers come away with light damage (if any) but if you are digging on the dogs every week, 1-6 critters a day, it's just a matter of time before a dog catches a hard bite and is out of commission for a while. If you want to dig more than a few times

Just having fun with Haggler, who is a friend and more than knows what he is doing which is why he can do it the next day too. Old people making old jokes about getting old. As for badger populations in the UK, the Mammal Society reports that there are now more badger in the U.K. than red fox -- an astounding thing. A bit more and links >> HERE. P.

Good to see Beth in the field. We dug nearly every weekend for a year, and she's a grand gal. Know Ema well, and saw Tara as a pup and adolescent. Patrick

Wonderful pictures as always, Haggler, but of course the one I like best is of that poor old man having to get a hand up off the spoil mound. Poor thing The dog looks to be in fine fettle too; clearly not up to the task of getting wrecked. I know you'll get it right someday P

Be very cautious of going on a walk in the late afternoon in the winter, unless you would like to be able to tell the story of digging 6 to 10 feet, in the snow, in the dark, alone. In fact, if anything bad happens in the evening -- losing a wandering dog, for example -- everything gets quite a bit worse than if there is no more daylight left to work with. P.

The definition of a canned hunt is overstocking land with captive-bred animals in order to collect a price-per-unit fee from shooters who may know little or nothing about the animals they are shooting or the wild lands they are walking. Call it what you will, but the bird shoots are all about planting birds and blasting them, and enormous bags are put up as a consequence, with a price-per-bird paid for animals that came out of an incubator the same as a chicken. This is not part of America's historical hunting culture, but it has long been part of Europe's, where a small economy has been bu

Actually, canned hunts are relatively rare in the U.S. and quite the exception -- maybe 3 percent of big game as far as I can tell. When one of these things goes on over here and the public gets wind of it, there is a huge stink, and some states are starting to move to ban them. It cannot happen fast enough if you ask me. They are not needed and quite destructive to true hunting. We have millions of truely feral pig in this country, and many, many millions of deer which need to be shot, to say nothing of 500,000 black bear, billions of geese, more turkey than before Columbus, etc. Wh

I've been posting on this, and predicted what it was: a tame farm hog that was put in a pen and shot by a punk kid and his punk father (who is, ironically enough grossly fat himself). This is about as pathetic as it gets in the world of hunting. The pig was named "Fred" and he used to play with his first owner's small children. He was shot at a canned hunt a few days after he was sold off, supposedly to be bred to a couple of female hogs. Instead he was chased around a pen for 3 hours by a fat kid with a gun far too big for him to be able to use. The result: a maimed pig that

This fellow's a complete phony. Basic facts here >> National Georgraphic's Phony "Wolfman" Stunt Follow up here >> http://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2007/...year-award.html Pathetic television at every level. P.

A positive review and credit card ordering links for The Working Terrier Year Books 1987-1991, edited (and often written) by Dave Harcombe, is up at >> http://www.terrierman.com/harcombe-books.htm As always, a link to order EDRD magazine is up at >> http://www.terrierman.com/harcombe.htm Patrick

What you have there is a Hudson propane fogger for insects. Google it and you may be able to get it for less. Other propane insect foggers are indentical, and the smoke is produced by using food-grade mineral oil as the smoke-generator. These things put out a lot of smoke and that smoke is very easy to direct into a rat hole with a wide flexible corrugated copper pipe wrapped with a bit of cloth and tape so you don't burn your hands. I have tried mine as an insect fogger, but not yet as a rat smoker. I blew smoke through an all-but-clogged french drain with visually impressive results, ho

The dogs are not a complex theory to be sorted out, and there's no shortage of land or quarry which are the ultimate "library" to answer any question. If you are going to be digging anywhere, look at what the people who have dug more than 300 or 500 in your area are using. In the states of Maryland or Pennsylvania, this is not too short a list. More terriers and dachshunds have been dug to in Maryland and Pennsylvania than any other states in the union. As for Ken James or Ken Chambers, you could not do better for advice (though KC is now dead) as both dug many, many hundreds (an

Dog fighting and cock fighting has nothing to do with hunting with dogs and never has, plain and simple. To suggest otherwise is bunkum. This law is not a threat to hunting with dogs in this country, and changes very little. Dog fighting has been illegal for quite a long time in all civilized countries, including the U.S., and cock fighting has been illegal in all but three states for quite a long time as well. As to hunting with dogs, I assure you that we have a lot of that in the U.S, from dog hunting for bear and cougar (mountain lion), to fox and raccoon. It remains entirely legal

Joe Bowman named the dog and also created the foundation stock of the breed. See >> http://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2006/...patterdale.html and >> http://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2006/...patterdale.html The term Fell Terrier is older than Plummer by some distance, but has never been very descriptive as it referes to a place and, as a consequence encompasses a lot of variety. P.