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Im no marble sculptor mate ive no idea if its good,bad or indifferent but as someone mentioned earlier to have it in a public cemetery feet away from where others might want to sit in quiet reflection......nah not for me that....on a private traveller site or whatever yeah fill your boots but imagine having Stormzy music and a load of hand carved African sculptures alongside your nearest and dearest. Anyway.....if im still kicking around when you snuff it mate i,ll be personally shoving you next to the Lawrence family plot alongside some nice marble sculptured Nigerian traffic wardens ?

Hi Levigsp,.. yes, I like to use a lurcher for as many different tasks, as I can,...possibly I am just a bit mean, and want my money's worth?

Some of what others have written echo my own experience with the D B Plummer book thing. Was not born into a hunting family and did not grow up in a hunting community, or so I thought. I did though from a young age have a drive to "cross the tracks" and enjoy being away from the norm searching for newts or frogs and stuff. Lifting old chevron signs on the grass of motorway roundabouts and hand catching the bank voles that lived under them became an obsession. Then I found Working Terrier by D B Plummer in the local library. For me it was an illuminated manuscript. I have seen the Lindisfa

Well the little whippet slept all night last night not a noise! been screeching at night last 2 nights barely slept she ain’t messed in the house once which is good being that she was born and reared in a kennel, always kennelled mine but this one’s staying in, kids love her and she’s took like a duck to water scoffing her grub n all

Not spelling though …..

I used my Beddy type for beating and picking up; Cheers.

That was about 6:30 this morning.......

One things for sure they don’t forget there dead like a lot do and are there like clockwork year in year out our lady’s island he’s buried at. Beautiful place it is.

Dropped on a spot we do every year this morning early doors. Drey poking is almost as good as ferreting or ratting. Managed seven compared with 38 in two visits last year. Definitely noticed an increase in the birds last summer so we’ve made a difference. Due for a final check on Friday but it was a lot quieter this morning ??

I think egg collecting was the gateway into the countryside, everything else followed, air rifles, fishing, dogs, ferreting etc, it was the done thing?

Hi , yes, I favour the herding based lurcher hybrids,.. I find them easy to school, and I understand their often curious mind set...? I don't have many photos of my earlier Lurchers and Longdogs,...my own abysmal lack, of any PC Security cost me dear,...and its all over now..? Life goes on though,...who needs the photos, when you have the memories, eh..?

So how easy do you want it ? A dog bred to kill a thermal to make life easier and a lamp that lights up the moon and all the summer to knock em over hang on while I lololol

At the beginning of this thread there's a lad who refers to him as "Mr Plummer" and appears to think he was some sort of God. Guess he was just a young lad with some spare hero worship to get rid of. I can well imagine Plummer addressing others as inferiors. I suppose the game he got into: lurchers and ferreting, are traditionally working class pursuits. So he no doubt thought he was superior as he was from a middle class background, in a middle class job, and was, in effect slumming it with us peasants----- "educating" us in the process. I think he would have got right up my nose!

I recon your missing a gear...lol

As above anyone ever use their lurcher for any other work apart from catch dogs? I used a couple of mine as gun dogs, and good they were two.

Hat trick this wk

Not gonna lie,as a kid I loved his books,but as I grew I came to realise that alot of what he wrote ,you needed to take with a large pinch of salt....my favourite book is still the Fell Terrier...even if he did embellish a few other men's tails ??

still got to stop em ? if you read the small print on the pulsar thermals it says not compatible with a whippet or kelpie x you may aswell get a catapult ?

I'd say he must have been smart/intelligent to have written and marketed his books the way he did. Evidently he was the most stolen author from libraries at one time ! We all know he used huge amounts of "poetic lisence", (some would say plagiarism), but his books were required reading for most young lads starting out in the game ! I never met him , but know one first hand tale; he came up to Lemington in Northumberland to interview some pals of mine for one of his books, and possibly buy some game birds and miniature working jack Russell's from them. After listening to him

Whether its dogs from home or abroad dog rescues are not places with a dogs best interest at heart any more they are sales centres plain and simple.....deranged little old women wanting you to pay for their hobby mostly. Im sure theres some genuine rescues about but few and far between id say.

Its all attention seeking and virtue signalling. We have a retired border lakey, it had originally been taken off someone who wasn't looking after it but its done a bit of work for one of the fell packs since. Then my mate stopped doing the terrier work so had a few to many dogs on and this oldish dog came to us for a pet/odd ratting dog. Mrs can't help telling every fcker she meets its a rescue. When they love dogs it's a compulsion to 'rescue!'. So bringing a dog from abroad is even better for em....even better still if they can say its come from a 'kill shelter'. Same with the obsessi

Im as big an advocate for the breed as you will find but as a general rule of thumb a pure,purpose bred Apbt makes for a terrible household family pet dog.

Same as we shouldnt be paid for housing Ukranians when we have our own homeless......and on and on and on........

Couple of youngsters

Still do it to this day, slow worms, toads, frogs, adder, grass snakes, and garter snakes ?

Yep ruble is about to become worthless and to pay in rubles would mean lifting certain banking sanctions presumably, he could stop his invasion but chooses to kills thousands of Russian kids and Ukrainian women and children for his expansion program . West needs to up sanctions and cut off russian gas and oil... I'd rather suffer financially than be led into war ....hurry up and top him .

Even at my age, I still get excited when a new pup gets its first kill. Cheers.

Never new there was a factory in Newcastle! theres one in York, the company did a lot of good things for old folk all round North Yorkshire, mainly York but we built a massive old folks home in Scarborough.. was really nice but the view is onto the crematorium ?

I dont know about the other breeds but i always feel sorry for Apbt's put in the pressurised day to day constraints of household,family pet dog life its not fair all ways round.

I’d never have a apbt or any bull terrier we’re me kids was as a pet same with a rottie mastiff Mali etc many dog can turn and they all do serious damage

There shouldn't be a rescue brought in from another country whilst there are dogs needing homes in our own rescues.

tell you what though them hares was flying....don't recon mc dogs would get a bend in..

Bigger decoy tonight sd?

This is what happens when you breed for colour,shape or size...what sort of cnut breeds,owns then passes on such a f***ing liability? Should start charging the parents with neglect charges etc..send them to jail along with the cnut that bred/passes on said dogs...why do folks have kids then decide they want an adult dog? Retarded clowns have killed their own child?

? that eager you fall over ? the excitement isn’t it i do to be fair jumping dykes etc with little legs can be a c**t ?

Old plummer always had that school teacher thing about him, that never offended me, as im not that insecure especially in the field or around working dogs, plenty of fakes in the dog game, always as been, always will be.

The dog was an XL American bully.I know the parents and they have good temperaments.Also know lads with pups from same breeding and they are good family pets also. This dog was bought as a pup at 8 weeks old and was passed to 3 or 4 homes before ending up where that terrible tragedy happened. No one contacted the breeder with regards this dogs temperament and I know for sure he would have gave them the money back and had it put to sleep if they did.

Blow 10/10.

Don't know if American History X has been mentioned in this thread but Edward Norton in that was brilliant. The scene at the beginning with the kerb makes me shudder.

Have they said it was a bull breed? I don't think they should be bringing in the feral street dogs from other countries either, mutts that have had to fight for food all their lives and live on their instincts are no good round kids that will try and take stuff off them. No dog should be left alone with kids though.

Plastic-pikeys, loads of them in sunderland last time I was there, buy a piebald horse, tether it on the waste ground where the houses used to be in Pennywell or down Ford allotments,get a trotting carriage, get a big thick 9 carat belcher chain, forget you were born in a terraced house down Millfield or hendon and adopt a weird macken/Irish, traveller accent, oh and make annual pilgrimages to Appleby and do numbers lotteries on Facebook for dirt bikes and transit vans, voila, instant traveller status ??

Way too hot we done 5 holes got 7 rabbits everyone happy even the pup got a run out just turned 6 months

Terrible better of with a whippet