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Immunotherapy is working! Tumour reduced from 23mm to 16mm Cheers, D.

Just thought I'd share a few pics of my mongrels from some of our most recent adventures..

Bet you can't even remember his name....

Hey up matey,hope your keeping well yeah my little Pom was like my shadow for over 15 years,I still miss her every single day,she always lay on the back of my chair as if sat on my shoulder,her ashes reside in that exact spot here on my chair,I have lots of pics of her around the house. We had some unbelievable adventures over the year's we did & like you say she lived a fulfilled & long life,the best companion & friend I've ever had. Merry Christmas & all the best for 2024

My old dog Boots who is a son of Razor is still putting bodies on the ground even though his next birthday will be his 12th,just yesterday morning seen him add to his impressive scorecard..he's totally blind in one eye now & is crippled with arthritis due to having suffered many injuries throughout the year's. He's been a honest,durable dog that has not once thrown in the towel in no matter how tough things got,he's not been the best at anything but he's been pretty darn good at everything.

In terms of routine basic back maintenance we can all do more with simple exercises,posture and building a stronger core but unfortunately its the kind of thing most people dont pay any attention to until it breaks.......last year i had a few stem cell sessions where they shoot stem cells directly into the discs to regenerate tissue ive had amazing results with it in my elbow joint as well.....its just not something they'll do on the nhs so the treatment gets overlooked. Actual injury or damage will always need correcting but for general wear and tear theres so much more people can do wit

Here's Boots on one of the many occasions I've worked him until almost his last breath,the dog has no quit in him,Bear & Rose his pups are exactly the same,all these dog's would lay their life on the line & die trying for me. None are world-beaters but they are trier's & I have no qualms in owning such dog's. On this occasion I travelled over 1000 miles,in fact it was a 1037 mile return trip to test Boots. Within 30 seconds of him exiting the car on arrival at our destination he proceeded to run flat out into an unseen ditch chasing a beastie, honestly when I got to where he was, h

Today Scram a DC. Last nights dinner Lamb leg steak and deep fried spuds. Cheers Arry

I put my back out yesterday again. Thing is I know what makes it a risk, I know how to stop not being a risk, but I go in a cycle because of work and other things! When I am eating well and exercising regularly I have no issues whatsoever. I keep this up while work is quiet. When work gets silly busy my exercise and eating well goes out the window, usually twinned with increased drinking, longer hours, more travel and sat on my arse longer days. Site I'm trying to hand over next week has been hectic for about 2 month now and I have been all but living there. On Monday I said to

I dont normally get too involved in xmas decorations but realising we need to hold onto our culture and traditions before even xmas gets taken off us ive been out there with the whole 9 yards this week lit up reindeers all over the gaff,some ginormous great big santa sliding down the roof that i risked life and limb putting up,lights and bells all over the trees it looks like Blackpool illuminations on my little plot,f**k knows what the electric bills gonna look like !

Mushrooms under minimum weight for such harsh treatment

Toad in da hold tonight, proper winter food

Hope your keeping well Phil,I've just finished reading one of your books AGAIN,whilst reading it I was wondering how you were keeping,I'll never forget in my early year's of keeping running dog's & reading your articles in the Lurcher Journal & the then called Shooting News & taking it all in. I took heed of much what you wrote about & was always intrigued by the collie curs you kept back then. When I got my first heavily saturated collie cross I hoped above anything that it could do some of what yours did,all these year's later & I still have old Don here,the last of my cu

Well, we have all survived,...just about... Keep the faith mate.....

I'd better put a pic up of my Cocker Suzie too ...oh & I still have old Don too he will be 15 on the 21st March upcoming.

Razor is the grandsire to these two here too,they are out of Boots (Razor x Abi) & their dam Roxy is a 5/8 Grey 3/8 Bull who is from a long line of hard working bull crosses the likes of dogs like Hammer,Remus & back to a dog called Shane who was a genuine first cross APBT x Greyhound,the APBT was an undefeated dog called Nailer. These two are both disabled with the bitch Rose having snapped her leg in two places back in February 2022 but she came back from that in better form than she had ever been,testament to her for doing so,she's a real handy animal both day/night,both these are g

Rots their teeth out! Booom booom

ye it’s in the beginning of what we have now mate the majority of saluki blood in the coursing bred of today all go back to the pures and saluki greys me old man bred and run fly or mccouloughs sal fred geoff smiths blue all had the saluki grey in them then russ rowley with prince me old man bred that razor breeding back to gingers luke me old man bred that deacon come from dogs he run russ rowley geoff smith chalky white alwyn willie tough geoff ogden all had dogs from dogs that had run the bush hares this way lol

You’re 100% right there Chid My bitch killed 500 foxes before it's first birthday, she's 14 months now and I'm gonna take a litter from her because she'll NEVER Jack. Now everyone be quiet and mind their own business because I'm over the moon with my super duper double hard Jack Russell.

I’ve never been without a dog since the 60’s even when I lived abroad. My missus whinges on that they are “tying” but they are less tying than the hens, ducks, quail I keep on my allotments, and less tying than the chihuahua she bought in Australia with my daughter and is sitting here on the settee ! My dogs are always kennelled and looking after them and working them is almost a full time job, it keeps me busy and hopefully fit. Strange isn’t it that walking a muddy field in the middle of winter is more satisfying to some of us than sitting watching daytime telly ? Cheers.

Bitch now 27 months, got her for a mooch dog with the catty aswell as a bit lamping/ferreting now and again have to say she's turned out a decent bitch, quick walk out with catty tonight dropped one 25yrds, had to go through some real thick cover to find it but did a cracking job pleased the effort I've put in paying off

This was how Bear was every single day for a month after breaking his neck then another pic of him as he is now,I never went to bed for 30 day's,I turned him over every 2 hours to prevent him getting sores but he still got them,he couldn't stand to clean or eat/drink..I fed him by hand & squirted water down his throat 6 times within every 24 hour's to prevent dehydration,from how he was here,then thought his recovery & learning him to stand & then walk to how he is today is quite remarkable really. He is disabled but he doesn't know that I don't think. He can jump anything again no

One from the archives..a son of Razor in pursuit.

Putting aluminium fascias/soffits on a beautiful house on the edge of the moors, I think its the messiest site I've seen...everywhere is like a rubbish dump, I don't know how trades work in this shit...its not my Job, a bit of a favour as I do loads of work for the blokes uncle, glad I'm only here a couple of days..messy fuckers!

yes mate he bred luke john stanley bought him as a pup think he was a mix of dogs originally windswift and knightellington

At the end of the day there his dogs and its decision though for the type of work these types are used for it would just be common sense to test them over a few seasons unlike say a line of springers i kept that i bred some out of a bitch that was smashing cover and bidable to another spaniel doing the same so to me the bitch did not need to be 3 or 4 years old as i knew the pups would do what was required but coursing and earthwork and what ever these types are used for you need to have a different approach in testing them over at least a few seasons.

Good bit of history and knowledge there your dad seemed to know what he was doing and talking about, I would have thought he would have passed some knowledge down too you lol

Yrs ago,was out ferretting on my birthday,had my Oldman and middle brother out ...my brother spent all day moaning and winding everyone up like he does we were climbing over a wire fence,and the fat cnut ended up like that fox we all stood around laughing like f**k... Oldman says f**k him,off we went for half an hr and did another bury,while fatboy was pleading and shouting for us to cut him looseHe was unusually quiet on the way home

Beef stew tonight, got some shoulder from the butchers, I remember when that was cheap, not anymore, 7 quid for 500g, she needs to start eating stuff I shoot

My changing point was how the monarchy has abandoned the countryside. The countryside has been good to the royals. Harry after his mum died was out digging with hunt terriermen regular, not one of them lads, all on £100 a fckin week, grassed him up to the papers, lads who could really have done with 10 grand from the newspapers. The king sought solice out fishing and shooting, again, none of those keepers or ghillies betrayed his trust. William out hunting in Africa. Now those same lads are loosing everything and the royals are all about rewilding and apologising to the darkies.....not a

I was wondering that myself ? If I’m reading this right the dog is 3/4 Wheaton, 1/4 Greyhound, 28” seems very tall for that breeding. Cheers.

28" tts?

Im inclined to agree,when i first started coming on this forum one of the first important things i learned was the difference in mentality between dogs that hunt and dogs that compete....trying to make something that by its very nature is not " fair " into something competitive is not only hard work but almost impossible.....for me if the chaps dogs do what he wants a dog to do thats good enough,though i do think using the same terminology that people who compete with dogs do is wrong and somewhat naive.

I thought that, but the great betrayal of the British and more particularly the English happened under her watch as far as I'm concerned. The young queen who hunted with Freeman at the pytchley has sat and watched the same hallowed land get covered in concrete to house the 3rd world invasion. She wasn't what I thought she was.

And there you have it in a nutshell mate, the madness is that we expect similar people to arrive here (by legal or illegal means) and, just by dint of being here, act just like us like they are the same as us….. These people are not like us and they won’t be, ever !!….just like I’m not going to wake up in the morning and look like “Shaft” ! Its just total f***ing nonsense !

Just finishing off the next section of corridor, but the Cotswold hills on the horizon are looking more tempting than work today

Can't believe people actually pay good money for Christmas trees. I took my lad up the shoot and we cut one from in the woods! The Mrs is back off holiday today, bit nervous as to if she will like it

Was no great numbers today although I needed to be home by 1 so short and sweet. Packed Mia, Amber and little Hector and took off . My plan today was to have the pup jumping some walls be in amongst some hill sheep and hopefully when she's finished being a pain in the ass mark 1 or 2 holes . 1st 10 mins where the usual like tourettes at Amber until she settled. 1st hole was a kill in so we moved on, Mia is just coming back from a bad injury and today showed she's about 3 weeks away from anything testing yet . Little Hector's only young but starting to move them now and th

What a difference an hour makes