Fair play for getting out Deadeyes. Have you realised the Bull bitch ain't going to be an Earth dog now you've had a couple of digs and seen what occurs?
Sounds like your bitch is going well Fatman. I'm about finished now too Dillydog. Had my first lambing call last weekend. The farmer had put his lambs out on the first night and one disappeared. I really felt for him he was past himself with worry. Luckily we got a pregnant Vixen from bales on the same field and had a dig to my dog Cash a field over so hopefully he will lose no more.
I think time is everything HPR.
What's getting tested more a dog meeting a tough customer in sand at 2 ft or a dog meeting a tough customer at 6 ft deep in hard clay? They're both meeting difficult opposition but the second is going to havto keep it up for a hell of a lot longer.
I'm pretty certain there was a re-print the same year such was the books popularity Waz. I remember there being a similar thread on the Patterdale BBS site a few years back.
In some places you could dig a dog 100 times and it wont havto do more than an hour on any dig. In other places an average dig could mean the dog being to ground 2-4 hrs. Which one is most tested?
I don't think it's controversial either. It's just a down to earth book about how Badger Digging was carried out humanely and decently with no frills, despite what the Antis and suchlike try to have us believe.
Tuzo is the book on ebay supposed to be a First Edition? I'm pretty sure the First Editions don't have the 1985 in the first page. I was led to believe they had no year date inside and then the second Editions had the 1985 stamped in?