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  1. neil cooney
    Spent 14 years as a scaff with only a bad back and fecked hips to show for it, but did some very interesting jobs in those years too.
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    Mice

    neil cooney replied to Lab's topic in General Talk

    why..would you inspect a mouses genitilia sounds strange
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    Bloody hell, that pup has wrists like a bricklayer's.
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    Mice

    neil cooney replied to Lab's topic in General Talk

    I remember my mrs telling me that she was horrified as a little girl when her grandad used to throw the mice that were stuck on the dack paper in the fire, still alive Yes, horrible stuff. You get the same result and a cleaner floor with traps.
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    Mice

    neil cooney replied to Lab's topic in General Talk

    With the mild weather I'd say mice have been breeding up until recent. IMO dack or glue boards are not a nice way for any animal to meet their maker. Get more traps.
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    The very first deer I ever seen on the lamp was a 12 or 14 pointer Red and he was facing me as I walked in to the first field of the night. I was used to seeing deer but this night all I seen was a pair of legs, two eyes and a set of antlers about 50 feet in front of me. I thought it was Beelzebub I was looking at. It even took my lurcher a minute to register. Mind you, I seen a gang lying in a hayshed casing a wealthy man's house one night and as one of them followed me I was a bit more worried about that than the Red Stag.
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    I'm not sure how good a trainer the fellow that Juliette interviewed was ? But, maybe he wanted to stop other folks dogs, it's the only explanation for such bad advice. Mind you, if I wanted to stop other folks dogs the advice I'd have given in a book was "Feed your dog half a pound of cheddar just before the race, never fails." LOL,but it's easier to stop your own dog than others.
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    Wildlife this Winter ? Walked out my back door a few minutes ago to check on the dogs and thought that one of them had shit on the doorstep. It was a bloody big slug.....................at 10 o clock at night on January the 7th. Doesn't make sense.
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    Personally I wouldn't touch it, it's a nice even head and a very nice plaque A toothbrush with some soapy water might just liven it up somewhat without affecting anything.
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    The beauty of living in country well hunted with hounds we don't see too many wounded or handicapped foxes. The average lifespan of a fox is 18 months so for a handicapped fox to be thriving at 3 years of age food and safety must be plentiful.
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    Yep, they're amazing creatures. if you don't want to watch all this video go forward to around 3.20.
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    So far I'd say most wildlife has been OK. Apart from the obvious like the heron and the kingfisher most animals have been making do with the mild weather and the fresh growth. There's even still plenty of insect life around. I've been trapping very few rats but did get a squirrel in a trap this morning who must have been hungry as the bait was a handful of corn in a stubble field. I did however yesterday seen a kingfisher fly across some wide open country quiet a bit away from a river. I feel for them as they rely 100% on fish, whereas the heron is an opportunist and will take most prey. I
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    http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2016/01/06/north-korean-h-bomb-test-revealed-to-be-kim-jong-un-falling-out-of-bed/
  14. neil cooney
    That's the Cork City Otterhounds in that photo.
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    What was the name of the documentary Neil.i would like a watch of that. Juliette of the herbs.
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    WELL , you learn something new every day. I didn't know Mr Hinks was Irish ! So, the ENGLISH bull terrier is an IRISH dream, what can I say lads, . Funny enough, the reason that's usually given for the Munster area of Ireland producing the famous white strongdogs that eventually gave us Psycho etc. is that they were decedents from the white bull terriers left behind by the British troops when they left the Irish republic in the early 1920's.
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    The lads above have more or less described the origin of Mr Hinks baby. One thing I do know about the breed is that when ear cropping became illegal those behind the breed were breeding dogs with pricked ears within 3 generations. Does that sound like something that's done with a working breed ? I've seen a few EBT crosses that done a bit but they tend to be flukes but IMO the greatest of all the EBT crosses and he must have been a fluke was "Frisco Sport". Just my historical curiosity has me interested in such dogs, nothing more, nothing less.
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    It's terrible Jigsaw, up here in Meath we had 2 or 3 heavy showers today and they're telling us that we'll have a few showers tomorrow. Then every time we go out it seems like every earth has a bloody fox in it with the bit of rain we've been having. We were even shooting the other day and even the Springer Spaniel was marking foxes to ground. If I had been wearing a coat I'd have took it off and thrown it at the dog.
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    The lady that King is talking about has been dead for a few years now so I presume her book is quiet old ,so I wouldn't worry about any top trainers going around the tracks spreading distemper with their sick (but very fast) dogs.
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    It's a pity that she put that in her book. The documentary really is very good and interesting.
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    I'm convinced he was picked up on the road or moulted darker the following year.
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    I hear ya FD, BUT in your opinion is there not more than a few lines of good working terriers out there that IF needed the same result could be got by using as an outcross ?OR, are you like some other good breeders out there, who, when they needed an outcross were too proud to ask another terrierman so used a bull type as a shortcut whilst also not having to say they used such and such's dog ? Genuine question , with no harm meant but I know of well known breeders who've done such. Neil - Ive never used a straight staff but have used bull infused stuff from a lad i know well .I take the sho
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    You're talking about the trials, right ?There were EBTs that certified as sounders too and there was a lad who also qualified his beagles. I've seen breeds you wouldn't believe run a chute. Yes a couple of EBT's did leave there mark but if in todays climate you said that you have EBTs that are the real deal and that you'll put your money where your mouth is I would say that your phone would be hopping with offers. The dog in this vid neil, red hand of ulster, champion badger dog, he was a goodun, not manyperformed like him neil you reckon. The Red Hand of Ulster was over 50 lbs. What d
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    Is that the book you were talking about in the other thread King ? I've seen the 2 hour long documentary on her called "Juliette of the herbs". One of the best documentaries I've ever seen, fascinating. But, she was no working dog person and if I remember correctly I think she was a vegetarian. She also had her own family of Afghan hounds and used to watch them for hours to see what herbs they ate to cure their ailments. But how she can say that inoculating a dog slows them down is beyond me.
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    DC,I think that depends on where you live and how you keep your dogs, all the lads that I've seen with parvo in their kennels have also been knee deep in sh*te and even after burning and replacing everything they've still had it back years later even after the jabs, look at Plummer he was a scruffy dirty bast**d,lost whole litters and adult dogs to it, I know lads in North Wales that kept kennels that were always sh*t high and it ravaged them, same in Crewe,the list is endless, keep clean kennels and feed the best and you will have the best out your dogs, mine live in these days and they are o
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