neil cooney
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It's nearly 20 years since I dug with you DD but I had a funny feeling you might say something like that, LOL.
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Bring some rats with you for some sport but bring mink too, to leave behind to kill the remaining rats.
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If Eddie the tranny really wanted to stand by his true convictions he'd have done the marathons in stilettos. Then I'd say "what a man."
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I made Nettle ale a couple of times and it smelt awful but tasted nice. I make a batch of Elderflower Champagne most years. But for ingredients out of a super market you wouldn't get easier than Ginger Beer and it's as nice as what you'd buy. My brother took it to another level though and even grows his own Hops.
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Also, there's another way of looking at it. Every time your dig goes over 8 or 10 foot in a way you're already risking your life to get your terrier out. Look at the photo in Broadhursts book of the dig with Mr Edwards and Mr Mousley in it. 26 feet deep with the sides propped with scaffolding planks. Very risky. I'm with Goat, you do what it takes to get them home safe and sound.
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This topic has changed route a little bit but as it's gone from backfilling (what the f**k is this backfilling anyway) and is now about personal safety it reminds me of the well known story about Mr Breay having the terrier trapped in the rocks and Frank Buck insisted he'd crawl in and get it out. Mr Breay insisted that Frank Buck tie a cloths line around him ,just in case. That's why I always bring a cloths line and a small child digging with me nowadays. Haven't had to use them yet but maybe someday.
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Black Chihuahua Taking By A Fox
neil cooney replied to jiggy's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
Would a lap dog standing barking at a fox ? Would it have the chance if the fox stalked or ambushed it ? Does a fox drop a rabbit or a leveret when it catches one because it's screaming ? No to all the above. I find it strange but believable when I hear of foxes biting people. IMO 9 out of 10 of the times it's because the fox has got too close but ended up feeling vulnerable so protected itself. I know what it's like to have my hand (and foot) in the mouth of a fox who felt threatened. Do I believe a hunting fox would take a small prey item that offered absolutely no risk of defence out -
Old Traveller Picture First Saluki Type
neil cooney replied to marshman's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
The dog has a collar and lead on which the woman is holding. That suggests to me the dog was of value and was meant to be in the photo. Usually dogs in similar photos just happen to be there when the camera clicked. I'd like to think the dog was an important part of the family. -
You'd be surprised how well that can work. My daughter used to work for a trainer who's yard was 1/4 mile from the gallops and they had to hack that bit on a busy road. They used to ride out near the white line because it made driver slow down. If they kept in drivers would pass them doing 50. A horse spooked one day and my daughter landed on the road 3 feet in front of a squad car. People nowadays don't want to slow down so sometimes have to be persuaded. I remember 4 or 5 cars stopped one time to let hounds and horses across and still a motor cyclist tried to pass the cars even though e
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Bet you don't look like that now Yokel, LOL.
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Black Chihuahua Taking By A Fox
neil cooney replied to jiggy's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
On this weeks fieldsports channel there's a news clip where a carp angler woke up with a fox standing on him. He reckons it had been licking his mouth. The fox gave him a nasty scrape under his eye and the angler decided to pack up. He says the fox stood nearby while he packed up (which with a carp angler probably took 2 days .). I recently got a fox that was hanging around a yard and the farmer wanted him gone before it got into his hens. It was an easy fox to get as he showed up every night at the same time, 8 o clock, but the night before we shot him the farmer had seen the fox lookin -
That would be nice to see Bosun. Regarding coursing or racing ? The add was from the 20s when terrier racing was very popular and as far as I've ever seen was always called racing. Coursing was always called coursing. The coursing club I was a member of for many years is only 6 miles up the road from there and was started in the 20s too. I've seen the minutes for all the meeting for the 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s. Fascinating . Another point, any racing I've ever seen advertised has always been by height , ie. 12 inches and under, over 12 inches. For this meeting the handicap is done by weight
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Dapping is still done but never done it myself. A special hook is used that clips the Mayfly or Cricket to the hook and no line touches the water. The wind keeps the light line of the water and apparently it can be a lethal method. I think some still use a cow horn for keeping the Mayfly in.
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In my copy of the add for The Grallagh Terrier Coursing Meet what would they have been coursing ?
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I only took out my fly lines a few days ago to take the curl out of them. They've been hanging from the shed roof since but there's plenty of lads been out and plenty of fish caught. Loch Lene has already produced several big fish on the fly.
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I thought the bit where you said you'd "make love" to them in woods etc. was funny. Is a quick shag in a church or a golf course considered love making ?
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I doubt it will happen but I'd like to see the dog men who saved their own arses by liaising with him get a kick in the arse too (they know who they are) and hopefully those who were wrong done by him might have a case now. I wont hold my breath.
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Lost an obvious 3 pound Perch at the net. Broke my heart.
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And that is the truth.
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Since it's the quiet time o year I thought I'd mention something I bumped into recently. I'm reading a book at the minute about the next village to the one I grew up in , it's called "Olden Times in Garristown." Garristown is in North County Dublin and is a proper country village with a big hunting tradition and it's biggest claim to fame is that the best steeple chaser of them all "Arkle" was born and trained nearby. The famous racing dynasty The Carberry's are also Garristown folk. On page 105 there's an old add, ........................................................................
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If it's the so called puppy farm I think it is then a friend of a friend owned it. The telly only ever shows the stinking shit hole establishments but some dog breeding establishments are clean and well run. With the one in question the owner filmed the condition of his dogs and runs etc. before they were taken away to prove the dogs were in great condition. Philpott gave them back in terrible condition and as far as I know the owner successfully sued. Back when Philpott was raiding anyone in the North who owned bull type terriers the other dog wardens and vets asked him to stop slaughte
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I must be the only angler in the world who never read that book, LOL.
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I had the chance to buy a first edition of Claphams book for £50. The photos were individually glued to each page. I didn't buy it. I bought a reprint a few years later for £30. Sorry to this day I never bought the first edition. Another good book about the lakes IMO is Gamecock and Countrymen. A classic.
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Of course he was on here . It WAS his job, hopefully. In fact I'd be surprised if he wasn't on here on several computers. But I wouldn't say he ever got anything, sure who'd be stupid enough to incriminate themselves on the WWW ?
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His wrong doings have been known for years now. He probably caused the deaths of more animals than all the working dog folk of Northern Ireland put together. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
