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  1. neil cooney
    In this post Pablo you're talking about a pup coming off, the subject is failing to find in the first place. I agree with Dillydog. I always let a pup have a rag and keep entering as simple as possible.
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    Brilliant, LOL.
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    Can't mention Christmas trees in my house if we have visitors. My daughter just loves telling the story of the time I came home from the pub and fell over the Christmas tree and it landed on top of me.
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    We've been getting of lightly on the East coast, hopefully it will all stay down there, .
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    That's pretty tough talk for someone who says "joggers".
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    Santy's come early for you.
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    I would agree (I think) but the subject here is a youngster that's been brought out a couple of times. I suppose your advice is to shoot the pup, LOL. Edited to add - to me using another terrier to start a youngster is doubling up, a big NO NO. Letting a pup get all the sights and smell of a dig is very far removed from doubling up.
  8. neil cooney
    It's good that you're bringing a trustworthy terrier with you to let you know about the pup. If she's had a rag before then better still. If she fails to find again and the older terrier does make sure the youngster sees the older one go to ground, let her hear the other terrier below while getting a nostril full of the terrier and game. Wind her up. Make her jealous and wonder why isn't it her that's not having the fun.
  9. neil cooney
    Looks real.
  10. neil cooney
    That was a small, maybe juvenile Wolverine IMO. There are 3 specimens of American Badgers in the natural history museum in Dublin and they're small. A lot smaller than their European cousins. There's always been lads on the net trying to compare the European badger to the American, why ? I used to be a member of a couple of American terrier forums and one thing I did see twice over the years was American badgers killed by imported terriers from the UK. Both terriers were bred by men who's terriers don't make an impact on working blood lines over this side.
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    Just out of interest regarding Jackdaws ? Does the male or the female incubate or do they share ? There's one beside where I live that's around ten years old. I photographed it in it's first year as it had a few white feathers and it's got whiter every year and is nearly pure white at this stage. I was coming back from a dig an hour ago and it was on my lane with a normal Jackdaw. It still turns my head and I see it most days. However it goes missing for a few weeks in the Spring and IMO is incubating. Hence my question. If and when it pops it's clogs I hope to pick it up as I'll get it m
  12. neil cooney
    He either a genius or a mad man. There can be a very fine line between the two. One thing is for sure, he's not getting into politics for his own needs as he's a billionaire and there's probably nothing he couldn't buy. So right or wrong I'd say he feels he can do the right thing.
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    Marshman, you need to calm down and just look forward to the holiday period. I hope Santy comes to you. Let me be the first to say "Happy festive period to all," Have to agree though, I even hate to see Xmas, it's Christmas.
  14. neil cooney
    That's interesting, a petition to keep someone out of your country because he wants to keep someone out of his country .
  15. neil cooney
    Great bait for a fox trap or behind a snare. I even used them years ago to breed maggots for fishing .
  16. neil cooney
    Any animal is much easier skinned while warm but not usually practical to skin and then put them in the back of a car with dogs and lamps etc. plus the fact that a lot of lads once back at the vehicle need to get moving ASAP. But one thing is for sure, rabbits are a lot less smellier when paunched straight away and I suppose if you're lucky enough to be carrying several it lightens the load.
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    Hopefully not. Funny enough I had a red bitch also called Penny who was spade shy. She'd find anywhere, stay all day , wasn't hard and as you were about to break through she'd stand back a foot or so. Not sure why she done it as I never touched her with a shovel etc. but it didn't stop me getting a tally of 100s with her over several seasons.
  18. neil cooney
    I wish I had been in the pub then. Pmsl I gave the same ol' boy a lift to the shop one day and his glass eye popped out and landed on the floor of my van. Now, the floor of my van is covered in magpie and crow feathers, squirrel and fox fur, mud and blood but he just popped the eye back in, no bother. I hadn't the heart to tell him.
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    Stopend, I think you're the one that's Psst. Of all the terriers I ever owned nearly every single one of them was entered by myself, whether they worked out or not. That's 30 years of entering my own terriers. So how you can try telling me how to enter terriers is IMO very funny when you consider that you buy and swap adult terriers on the odd occasion that you're in and out of them. Edited to add. Stopend, read the first line of your post. The subject of this topic is first season terriers. Lets face it, you're just looking for an another argument with me.
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    What tomatoes ????????
  21. neil cooney
    There was 4 of us at an earth one day and the words "I have a mark here at 10 foot" had only left my mouth when 2 of the lads said they were going home to watch the football. LOL. On the other side, I remember having a 10 hour dig and the lads who were with me had a long way to travel. One by one they rang their wives to say they'd be late and what made me laugh was I could hear their wives on the phone saying "No bother love, are ye stuck at a hole again ?" They all more or less said the same thing, LOL.
  22. neil cooney
    Sitting in the pub one morning one of the ol' boys took a pinch of snuff. He started sneezing and his glass eye shot out and landed in his pint. Another ol' boys down the bar laughed that much his dentures went flying across the bar and into the sink.
  23. neil cooney
    I hear ya, but if a good glen is not available then the only other option is a wheaten and yes, some wheatens are small but most of them have 50 pounders in their pedigrees and one thing about breeding is that you might only hope for heart but the breeder can have a say on size.
  24. neil cooney
    Just-a-snap, I don't agree when you say the advantage is always with us. There's lads on here who'll spend weeks exercising their saluki crosses making sure that their dog is eating better than they are only to bring it out, give their quarry a sporting chance and be made to look silly. There's lads on here who have packs of hounds who'll breed hard, cull hard, feed well, exercise hard and be lucky if they're rewarded once in every 4 or 5 hunts, and be happy with that. Terrier lads who'll spend 18 months rearing their well bred pups only to let their pride and joy go to ground and an hour l
  25. neil cooney
    Toys and gadgets aside it's a big pity that there's not more lads doing their time instead of wanting to become "The Best" overnight. Being taught in the school of hard knocks does get rid of the wannabees and leaves only those who know what they're doing. Areas being decimated of game by those who cheat with gadgets is one thing but just as annoying to the lad who's got a right to be there is the area that's full of game but by September they're highly educated by the ,smoking, loud talking, door slamming, up wind experts who are out regularly, catch nothing and by October are moaning about
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