Jump to content

Squirrel_Basher

Donator
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    18,044

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    36

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Squirrel_Basher

  1. Squirrel_Basher
    As usual ,you pair have succeded again .Bet them roe were glad it was dark Save a few for me mate or next spring you can sit in a high seat down here for 4 days solid .
  2. Squirrel_Basher
    We start our youngsters on rats ,purely to boost confidence for when they start work propperly.Some will say that a good dogs will start on fox but ive seen a enough knockbacks to re-inforce the reason for starting the pup on lesser stuff . I used to put a pup straight to charlie but after a few bad jackers ,which in hindsite was probably the dogs in question ,we now bring them up winning right up until their first dig .What happens then is up to the dog .You cant win them all and its silly to think you can .Its just a pisser to think about all the time spent on training and feeding plus you
  3. Squirrel_Basher
    he worked before he showed them and at 1 point everybody had or wanted a middleton lakie.the question in hand is why x breed its to improve up to him if he wanted to make money from it.least these men have got books to there name they all proved thereselfs before hand dont see any of your books around sunbeam Sunbeam -yes i suppose i am a ray of light . Mate ,dont treat everything you read as gospel as you'll end up as deluded and self righteous as some of those that write them .
  4. Squirrel_Basher
    So your saying that Middleton took advantage of the strong jawed fox terrier to improve the working quality of the lakies he owned .Right mate ,its all clear now ,say no more .Nothing to do with the fact that fox terriers had by then been accepted by the fecking kennel club and anyway middleton wasnt the first to use fox terrier .Let me quess, a quick character run down would suggest a teenager with an extensive Sean Frain collection .Maybe wrong about the teenager
  5. Squirrel_Basher
    nothing wrong with improving? improving what ffs... looks for the show ring... gave them bigger heads and stronger jaw in the show ring ... sounds good... wtf fox terriers ars the original working dog before the rest came along.considered a bit big for the job in hand so x bread with a smaller breed to make it harder if it was never done terriers wouldnt be the same today its all aboot improving Original and best ,thats why theres loads about now .Cant move at the shows for quality working fox terriers .That dream died a century ago mate .
  6. Squirrel_Basher
    telling me you could breed any better no chance Middleton never created the lakie mate ,he took an already tested breed and tried to smarten it up for show plus work .He saw a few pound signs when the dogs bred towards the show side and used 'pedigree' stuff to hammer the final nail in .Theres a few breeders of lakie stuff about these days that dont owe anything to middleton thankfully . he did create some of the best and am sure there are folk out there that have middleton lakies that will match the best workers around Aye ,ive seen some really picking there feet up prop
  7. Squirrel_Basher
    Just to recap there Gazza .Are you saying that middleton stuff has been improved of late by crossing or are you saying it was once improved before he got hold of it ?.
  8. Squirrel_Basher
    telling me you could breed any better no chance Middleton never created the lakie mate ,he took an already tested breed and tried to smarten it up for show plus work .He saw a few pound signs when the dogs bred towards the show side and used 'pedigree' stuff to hammer the final nail in .Theres a few breeders of lakie stuff about these days that dont owe anything to middleton thankfully .
  9. Squirrel_Basher
    nothing wrong with improving? Not wanting to give anyone a history lesson but -The fox terrier added to the lakie was already in decline mate and was used purely for looks and nothing else .
  10. Squirrel_Basher
    Middleton ,white throw backs Pity he cant throw back the years to a time before he laid hands on a dog and went the racing pigeon route . White lakies been an embarrasement for decades
  11. Squirrel_Basher
    Correct me if im wrong but wasnt the fox terrier added to improve jaw line ,as if the lakies of yesteryear needed that
  12. Squirrel_Basher
    Once youve experienced the fighting qualities of a barbel it becomes an addiction ,or would have if i never married .The barbel has the first run of a 20+ pike combined with the bottem hugging of a 20+ carp ,and those over a pound and a half are worse
  13. Squirrel_Basher
    Yes mate ,BUT,why cross in the first place if other examples of the breed are doing the job as well if not better .There are very good dogs of each earth working breed and i include borders and beddies in this . Why set out to create the unknown is beyond me .
  14. Squirrel_Basher
    Whats that staff seen to make you want to use it as a cross mate ?
  15. Squirrel_Basher
    Farmers money stopped by government ,bollocks and you know it .Whos this fecking joker anyway .The more i read from his hand ,the more i have my doubts .
  16. Squirrel_Basher
    Hybrid vigour ,that seems to be the word of the month ,can be attained by breeding within a line as well as to something vastly different .For instance -Two lads breeding a line from the same source ,both outcrossing to a different sourse periodically and then get in touch by one means or another and use a mating of the same line to reinforce the gene =hybrid vigour-Recommended .
  17. Squirrel_Basher
    I was going to say that but cant spell phenon......either My argument is that in todays advanced communication era ,there is no excuse for not looking for a same breed or even same line to put your worker to .No excuse not to see the sire /dam work either.Thats what sites like this do/should promote. Ive found a sire for an outcross on here, and if i can anyone can .
  18. Squirrel_Basher
    Interesting thread Swansea and you will get some interesting replies too .I would say its part curiosity and part not knowing the whereabouts of a suitable sire/dam of the same breed .The trouble in this from my point of veiw is that of throwbacks that look like one or the other and are often passed off as such ,only to throw back again when bred in the future .Some will say what does it matter if its worker to worker but to me it does .
  19. Squirrel_Basher
    Is that one in hard antler mate .Our fallow are still very much in velvet .
  20. Squirrel_Basher
    Perhaps he wanted to impress the missus .Works for me .Piss taker .
  21. Squirrel_Basher
    Any smelly bait mate .More to do with where you site said cage .Good luck .
  22. Squirrel_Basher
    Your definately on form mate ,good to see .Hope to meet you in September when i come up to Marks .
  23. Squirrel_Basher
    A good shot mate at an awkward angle behind a swath of straw .A pleasure
  24. Squirrel_Basher
    Double posted
  25. Squirrel_Basher
    The breeding of a line of workers is the basics for easy entering ,and vice versa,self entering should,IMO, be the base stone for a line of terrier .Coaxing a dog to ground will not ,hardly ever ,result in a worker that sticks to its task .Darcy sums it up by saying a terrier should see its time underground as part of its life in general ,should be natural .
×
×
  • Create New...