Setanta, I havent been to a show in the north in over ten years. Boys standing around the edge of the rings drinking buckfast and cans and inevitably trouble seems to kick off regular.
The degenerate that is the centrepiece in tonight's show has only been in the game a few years and in that few years done more for the ruination of the sport than most. Unfortunately we are getting very close to the end.
There are 68,385 members on this site Flasher. Out of that number i'd hazard a guess that there are well into a couple of thousand of them antis (maybe more). Any tom dick and harry can have a name and profile set up in a matter of minutes. As you say it is a working terrier section but by name only, you only have to go through the first page of posts to realise that the majority of terriers are not in fact 'working terriers'. No problem posting pictures of terriers without the graphics. Social Media has unquestionably shone a spotlight onto digging and has contributed hugely to the inevitab
Had one dig so far to a bitch i was unsure about, went ok jury still out. Too warm, too much livestock, too many briars/undergrowth, ground too hard, grass too long. I'll leave it another month before upping the ante.
Have dug 3 pairs there this last few sundays ShovelShy. I have been hitting a lot of foxes to ground this year. Some change from last season were they didn't seem to be as plentiful.
Good work SS. Seems to be plenty about so far. Dug two yesterday morning after the storm we had Friday night. Ran one to ground this evening there and dug it. Season starting to take off.