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    Good luck mate .Try hard enough and it will happen.Pester everyone you know so its fresh in their minds when anything comes up .Answer everthing in the sporting press as you never know what it leads to .I really do wish you all the best for the future mate
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    Done both years ago and would rather stuff any day .
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    You have to ask yourself why anyone is selling a worker in the first place .A terrier should never be treated as a machine but there are many out there that come very close ,bomb proof .
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    Can only reply from own experience mate .We are weekend only now but i wouldnt like to think upping the work would cause any spewing but never know .
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    3 farms locally under water .A drive round the lanes and full ditches tells me drive on from past experience but did get a dig today in sand but only 3 ft deep on a hill .
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    Not true
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    The last dig you had to a dog is all you can ever judge it by is often quoted but once a dog is in the swing of it and dosnt get sickened then its usually on the road to a good career.Dosnt answer you question but thats my take on it .
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    Brings a tear to the eye to think we lost all that ,ok maybe not the horn blowing but the rest was commen place, outlawed by assholes with no take on how the countryside works .
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    You need to dig the back of the hole level with the front at least as far back as the spoil needs to go .Do this before you start and in conjuntion with a bigger hole youll be ok .Also we like to put a step in it at that depth .Dont allow anyone to walk around the edges either .Sounds a fuss but we dig it all the time here with the added two layers of stone we have locally to contend with .Saying all that you did the right thing to lift bitch when you did .
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    Do you provide any means to secure the box to a truck base mate as that would get nicked for a past time .Interested in a double terrier box .pm me please with a price ,
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    Where were all those call out dogs we hear of when all this was going on. lol. Apprentiship served and taken on board in this era but thank god for locators. Some of the worst stuff to locate without a finder is sand i think .Nearly lost my life after a cave in due to tunnelling too far on a tip near us that is long since capped over .Hearing the dog,the temptation was always to tunnel that bit further .I still shudder now think of the blackness and pressure .Only the strong arms of my uncle that saved me .Nowadays its a hole straight to it .
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    Would be interesting if someone could start a poll about who does what .Not the technical type myself
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    He will be sorely missed in the field and the show ring alike .A very good judge ,fair to a fault Will miss the banter will this lad .RIP mate . The work he did to champion field sports was tirelesss.
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    Excess protein fed is pushed out the back end, sometimes in the form of scours .Basically its 25 % or there abouts for moderate work increased when the workload increases to 30% no more and 18-20% in the summer for maintenance.Balance the diet to suit the needs
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    The Op asks if its a good idea to be able to call your dog out .As a digging man that likes to test before breeding i find it an alien practice ,a weekness in both dog and man but then thats just me .To want a bolt is also alien to me so to wish to create or own such a dog to facilitate such is alien too .The advocaters of such practice will never know the satisfaction of consistently digging to a dog no matter what the depth,the same as i will never appreciate the dog that comes away in whatever circumstance . I do worry about the future though which is why i may get a bit passionate about
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    IM GUESSING YOUR A WIND UP MERCHANT LAD
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    Prosperous new year to all
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    For those that condemned me early on it seems we are closer to being on the same sheet than first thought .My early rantings were aimed at those that think its ok to own work and breed a failed earth dog .Anyone with an interest in digging to a terrier must agree this is the road to ruin .As for looking to the future of these gallant dogs it annoys the crap out of me to think there are those that would publicly steer others away from digging to there dog as the foremost passion and end result and rely on a yappy jacker to satisfy the law or any public image . The breeding strategy i wrote of
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    Seems ive not put the point across too well ,bit emotional maybe.What im saying is the backbone to any breeding plan that involves digging to your dog needs an influx of hard ,not stupid, blood to maintain good DIGGING BITCHES.What annoys me is the seeming acceptance that a bayer come awayer call out thing is the future .Call me a dinosaur if you want but my conscience is clear .
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    But does it stay to see the job out or does the man call it out because time is everything ..What people are missing here is the past and the future of working terriers .ANY terrier of any breed will rush in and do a stint on charlie if given the chance,coming away when charlie wants out and ups the pressure on the dog .To promote this and think that its ok is wrong however you hunt .To breed from a dog of this type is why we have so much shite about now and why the russel is reduced to a yappy ankle biter .Personally i do care about how a terrier is worked as the in out version fucks up not
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    Another messer .The list on here unfortunately grows by the day
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    why would what i breed for affect your stock as your being blunt. why dont you concern yourself with what you value and i will do likewise. but consider this times are changing i'm sure we have and as our idea's are so far apart there is no point in going over it add nausium. i'll leave with this thought. there are many types of running dogs. many types of gundogs and have you thought that what you breed for are culls in other kennels needing different qualiities. it would take me a week with stay till diug. to get round what i could do in a day with a good bolter. and 50 times t
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    Outdated ,what a load of shite .The terrier you speak of is a pretender which renders you the same mate .Those of us that live the game and i mean the digging game not in and out shite rushing from farm to farm ,do so in the knowledge that centuries of men have bred for the same quality before us and to let this go would be treason .Give me your hard dogs but you wont get any shite from me in return . Carry on your hopeless breeding but dont let any true digging man have a pup as it will end up shot .A dog is not necessary hard if it can kill a fox,not all killers need time in sick bay ,heads
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    and have you thought that what you breed for are culls in other kennels needing different qualiities. it would take me a week with stay till diug. to get round what i could do in a day with a good bolter. and 50 times the work. thats if a hard stayer could stay fit long enough. FFS. You write about getting round the land so you are providing a service for someone .What if the quarry wont bolt ,does the dog come away/get called off .What service is that providing apart from making you feel good .Enough bolts are had when doing the job properly let alone encouraging it .
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    A hob ferret will do what you want mate .Im sure weve done this before, you and i, and i stand by what i write .For those coming into the sport i would like to think none of them thought it ok to feed a dog that wont stay until dug to.
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