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  1. neil cooney
    So true.
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    If a terrier is well bred but ended up deaf I would still give it a chance. I've never dug to a deaf terrier but it's their nose they use to find and their heart they use to work and stay and although most terriers like to know if the terrierman is on his way I reckon they'd know as much through vibration as through their hearing. Unfortunately he probably couldn't be allowed to hunt up but during exercise most terriers return to you when they see the others turning anyways.
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    I reckon mine are all deaf as when you try to call them up when out they just ignore me,lol. I couldn't blame them .
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    LOL, Stop End if I had said 3 days you'd have said 5 days. I respect Daniels opinion as he obviously does a bit, but not your's. You buy in your dogs as adults and sell them on again and how do you get a vet to call in on his farm visits in the middle of a city, LOL. In your first post you say that at 5 days there's too much pain, blood and stress. You sound like an anti and those words prove you haven't a clue about docking. Years ago old timers done it at 3 and 4 weeks and although I don't agree with that even then there wasn't pain, blood and stress.
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    Ask on the angling forum too as most the lads on there hunt and shoot too.
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    Have to agree, it looks like a rival male. Are Kestrels that territorial ? The looser probably sulked on the ground for a while. Even so Pinnacle you were lucky to witness that, let alone catch it on camera. We don't see as many Kestrels now as we used too.
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    Who knows ? Might be a genuine question. Seen it several times. Terrier working away, break through, terrier there but nothing else. When it's my terrier of course it's bolted and my terrier might be stuck. If it's someone else's terrier , Wanker . If the terrier is trying to push into a tight spot then the fox has gone into a tight spot. If the terrier comes out and it's my terrier then it's obvious, he's killed it. If someones else's terrier comes out, Wanker . But what I don't understand about the original post is who is it that said when you crown in that they should be "mouth t
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    Wasn't Henry one of the folk that filmed the Great White off of Plymouth ? I bet he wouldn't tell it that it's mother was a man, LOL.
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    You're right Two Crows about some dogs being cautious about picking them up. If a woodcock lands on it's back and is still alive it seems to intimidate some dogs. Two weekends ago I dropped a left and right on Mallard (I admit it, I'm boasting) and my friends second season springer went across a swollen river twice and retrieved them. Last weekend she refused to retrieve a wounded Woodcock from out on a field where it was lying on it's back feet up.
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    That was a good find Fireman. Anyone notice the tail carriage on the un-docked terrier ? Staff influence IMO. Terriers knew their stuff. Killing them quickly and the second the woman touched the rat they let go.
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    Fifty Million ? If you don't want to sell pups then just give those lads Mr Booths number. He's in France and he can get his hands on fifty million pups easily. And he's cheap ,only a few thousand euro a pup.
  12. neil cooney
    Did you lie on top of it to get caught ? If so, I bet your glad it was your belly you stuck in it,
  13. neil cooney
    I don't know about the RSPCA Dan but the ISPCA have already prosecuted someone for docking a litter of Jack Russell pups and in the letter of the law it's classed as mutilation which sounds bad, especially for something so simple. You can pierce a 6 month old baby's ears but you can't dock a 5 day old pups tail. Silly.
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    I don't know you Daniel, so no need to be paranoid.
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    Wolfy, because it's illegal to do it yourself now and only a fool would come on the inter-net admitting to breaking the law, that's why. Imagine getting a visit and having the police and SPCA's looking at all your dogs over a litter of pups all because you put up on the net that you do your own docking .
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    That's a new one on me and who's to argue. If it works then that's what counts.
  17. neil cooney
    Just voted. Not enough women hunting IMO.
  18. neil cooney
    Either ways, it's excellent.
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    Also meant to say, that the reason I leave it 'till 5 days is that after a bitch has pups the only things I need to know is that she has milk and that there's no pups stuck in her. I'll throw a quick count on them and leave her to rest and have peace and quiet with her pups and I wont handle them 'till she's comfortable with it and by the time they're 5 days old I'll have handled them a few times and docking their tails will be a lot less stressful on her. I'm talking from experience not like a fellow I see here giving advice on docking when I'd say he never even reared a pup let alone bred
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    Always and ever done it at 5 days with absolutely no problems so 5 days IMO is perfect.
  21. neil cooney
    I doubt that anyone sets out to purposely catch woodcock with their lurcher but it's nice to see some dogs doing the traditional fur and feather. Let's just call it a nice bonus if a woodcock is added to the bag. My own lurcher isn't bad on a pheasant.
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    Because they're delicious, but to be fair to a great bird I'd rather give them a sporting chance. If a lurcher is catching them then there's a good chance they're just after coming in from their migration and are weak. The full moon at the moment means they've more or less just landed. I shoot them (when I'm lucky enough) and if any of you lads are lucky enough to get one in the bag thanks to your lurcher do yourself a favour and have him for your dinner, just give the head to your ferret.
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    a lot of meetings are cancelling as a protest Glad to see I'm not the only coursing fan opposed to muzzling. What I can't understand is that they're is no immediate threat to coursing at the moment ie. a current bill going through the Dail etc. Yes the anti's are always demanding a complete ban but all their protests in the last few years have targeting park coursing and they have a big issue with hares being injured when pegged by muzzled greyhounds. IMO the threat to open coursing wasn't as big as the threat to park coursing and IMO open coursing is much easier to justify. I feel that
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    I agree Fireman, although not necessarily the method but with the speed it can be done with no stress to bitch or pups. Also, IMO, it doesn't make common sense to bring 5 day old pups to a vets surgery. What if the last patient was a parvo case ?
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    Good stuff Ollie. It looks like as area just made for woodcock.
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