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    For those interested in cooking (and a bit of old-school humor) see >> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,632-2452108,00.html about "Willie Fowler’s culinary masterpiece, Countryman’s Cooking" which was first published in 1965. The recipie on how to cook a cormorant is supposed to be a joke bit that includes setting the carcass on fire to remove the feathers, burying it for thirty days, and worse. This book was pointed my way by falconer Stephen Bodio in New Mexico. For those into working birds his books are a good read -- See Amazon. P.
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    You're in Canada? See >> http://www.terrierman.com and buy the book as well if you want to save a fair amount of money and time and not kill your dog. P
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    See >> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ferreter/working1.htm This about covers it. When the fox hits the net, it will be at a full run and the net will bag around him at the draw cords will pull it all closed behind, bagging the fox. The rings and the cord are all part of a continuous cord around the outside of the net. P
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    Word is that the web site is only partially finished -- a little more stuff is being added to it, so check back ina week as well. I forgot to mention they also have a PDF of their catalog linked off of the site -- a print out is a thing to leave in the spouse's car with the right stuff circled . Patrick
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    Bellman and Flint have their new web site up, and it's well worth a visit. They are selling the locator, of course, but also a wide variety of well-made terrier and hound couples. These appear to be made of top-quality leather and can be custom-assembled in any number of sizes, leather types and bit of gleaming hardware for terrier, beagle, lurcher, and hound alike. Along with very nice terrier and hound couples and leads, there is also a nice collection of digging tools and some very nice knives that, from their labeling, appear to be made in America. I am a bit of an old stick with my
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    A russell can stop growing anytime between four months and a year, but generally grow a bit in height until at least 9 months, and then they will fill out. I agree that 13 inches is likely and over 12 almost assured. Patrick
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    Four eggs from my "collection". The dark one is an emu, the largest an ostrich, and the other two are chicken eggs that were just eaten for breakfast I include these last two for scale, but also to show the diversity of what eggs can look like -- they can change shape (to some extent) from bird to bird and coloration and markings (to some extent) as well. Egg identification is an in-exact science, especially where speciation is not complete (a LOT of birds) and the number of look-alike eggs are quite numbing. Another small thought: We have pushed a lot of birds
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    No tree hole dwellers like owl - they tend to be round -- and no ledge nesters as they tend to be pointed. Mostly forest and field birds, and a lot of finches. My emu egg is amost black green so maybe this one has faded a bit? Hard to tell without scale, but a lot of finch eggs of one sort or another. P
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    My dogs have free run of a 1/2 acre yard during the day, and access to a heated kennel in a stone garage attached to the house as well. In short they are cool in summer and warm in winter. At night they sleep inside in crates in the laundry room, unless they are curled up in the study. There is no distinction between pets and workers in this house -- they are hunting partners and treated as such. They are not treated as humans -- they are dogs -- but they are treated with a great deal of respect and given more than food, water, warmth and medical attention. Dogs have minds and crave atten
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    Answer here >> http://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2006/...ved-collar.html
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    Just having a bit of a pull :11: . For the record, this is a real creature and was very much alive and kicking hard when the dog bolted it, but it is indeed a groundhog with five really LARGE tumors on it -- some soft and some rock hard, each about the size of a hard ball. The poor thing was feeding itself a lot and still starving to death at the same time as the tumors took all the nutrition, which is why the back end of this creature is so emaciated. The purple on the belly is from Poke Berries in the hedge, and the lack of fur on the belly I think is due to the fact that the tumors
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    We sometimes hear of El Chupacabra, but it's very rare to know anyone who has actually seen one in the field, much less been lucky enough to bag one. But that is what the dogs and I did on Sunday, and I have the pictures to prove it. But I am getting ahead of myself. What, you may ask, is a Chupacabra? El Chupacabra is an animal that is known to inhabit rural areas of Mexico and parts of Central America. Its name, translated literally from the Portuguese and the Spanish, means "goat-sucker" for its habit of attacking and killing lifestock and draining them of all their blood.
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    I guess .. maybe ... someone has to do the job to keep SeaWorld in Orca calfs, but of all the people in the Park, how would you like to be the one they select for this And do you put it on your resume? :11: Glad to know it's for AI purposes and not just more perversion. That's best left to the experts in Congress. P
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    A great web site I'm going to have fun going through this one -- thanks! This is exactly the kind of web site that is always needed -- science based, pro-wildlife, pro-wildlife management, not averse to hunting and predator control done in a sensible way, etc. I used to work for the largest bird-conservation organization here in the US (despite the fact that I am not even the best birder in my family) and took some pride that they sued the animal rights crowd (successfully) to keep fox trapping legal in California. A few semi-related links along this line that folks might like:
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    Yes, that is exactly what that is. Now, here's the question -- how (exactly) do you train a killer whale to do that? And why was that deemed to be a useful trick And what the hell is that guy looking at? Patrick
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    As new breed names, it's not bad -- much better than the Jack Russell Shitzu cross
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    Nice pic against the black leather couch -- makes the dog pop out nice. Patrick
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    You've got it about right Dave. People will do what they want to do, and in the end they will get what they have got, and that's as it should be. If they are happy, they are happy, and I am happy for them. The dogs seem to survive it all, some types as pets and some types as workers and some types as dogs that do things other than work, but which are fun enough for owner and dog. No dog will be ruined for the purpose it was selected for. Now what purpose was the dog selected for? Ask that of people and you will generally get a quizical look A dog? A purpose? And yet, we
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    I cannot speak to every dog registered in every country and every registry in Europe. There are several registries and quite different selection criteria are used depending on the country, breed, and registry selected. That said, in the you.S., very few people who are serious bird hunters are looking to the American Kennel Club for a bird dog, and that is true for pig dogs as well. To carry on that theme, no one at any track in the world is looking to bet on a Kennel Club greyhound, nor are the folks mushing in the Iditorod looking for Kennel Club sled-pulling dogs of any breed.
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    If you sanction putting any working dog like a Jack Russell into a closed registry, you are ruining the breed. So YES, you are helping to ruin the breed. That's as straight as it can be said. Yes, yes, yes. Read the entire article at the link previously given to find out why .... and why your race horse example is perfect .... and why no performance breed of dog (or cow or chicken) is in a closed registry. I realize that when you joined the Kennel Club and followed the Kennel Club "breed book" advice you were not intending to help ruin the breed. An accidental shooting kills s
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    The Parson Terrier is a dog bred in a closed registry, and the history of closed canine registies is that they tend to result in pretty high coefficients of inbreeding (COI) and a marked decline in performance, fecundity and health. In short, Kennel Club dogs tend to go to shit in time. As far as I know, no performance breed of animal (not racing greyhounds, pulling sled dogs, working border collies, or working terriers) is bred in a closed registry, and that is certainly true of race horses (your chosen example) where Coefficients of Inbreeding appear on the race forms and any animal wit
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    Plummer's book reads like the "begats" section of the bible and the tale he presents is not very clear, despite the fact that it is not very complicated. As a general rule, I like Plummer, but the story he tells is far too convulated to make much sense out of. Here's the simpler (and I hope straighter) version: 1. The Patterdale and the Matterdale hunts were combined in 1873 to form the Ullswater Foxhounds. See >> http://www.huntinginquiry.gov.uk/evidence/centralfell.htm 2. Joe Bowman was master of the Ullswater beginning in 1879 and continuing on until 1924 (he died in 1940
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    Damn thing bolted!
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    And post somewhere else, as this thread is not whatever it is you are trying to talk about. Maybe start a new thread or topic. P
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    This is thread is quickly sliding into silly by people that (apparently) are breed blind and kennel blind. If you do not know a white dog, a black dog, a brown dog, a red dog, a smooth coat, a rough coat, a liver nose, a black nose, a bitch, a dog, etc. that digs and does well .... you must either not be paying attention to what is around you, or you must not be getting out too much with people outside of your own little crowd, because the color of the dog, the color of its nose, the lay of its coat, and the gender of the dog does not mean a thing. And yet, go back in this thread, a
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