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  1. neil cooney
    Just to add Mike. Not good practice to submerge a dog into warm water at the end of a days hunting and then put it out into a kennel for the night. Also, you say you did little checking your hounds after a days hunting. That's your business but don't compare hounds to a working terrier. A terrier will hide an injury, you have to look for them. Or are you looking for someone to go into graphic detail on what wounds terriers pick up in a days hunting ? Same as other dog that's out in the countryside IMO.
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    Mike, I gave you constructive advice and it appears you've taken offence. Think about it, if your terriers head is swelling up then there's a reason. I get the impression it's happened more than once so IMO you're not looking hard enough for the cause. As I said, if the wound was on yourself, what would you do ?
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    Took two lads one night who were brothers. One of them had wellies on the other wore a pair of shoes. They were behind me all night and at one stage when we came to a boggy part of a field I looked behind and the lad with the wellies was giving his brother a piggy back ride. And yes, he tripped. They both went forward into the bog. They were roaring and shouting at each other for the rest of the night. Never again.
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    Have to agree that it's a bit silly to work your terrier and then wonder how to fix any wounds. All dogs that are out in the countryside get wounds, whether the wound is from thorns, barbed wire or bites from snakes, insects or vermin you should know what to do. Most of it's common sense. If you got an injury and your hand or arm went swollen with a risk of infection, what would you do ? Terriers deserve nothing but the best of TLC when they require it.
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    Didn't Bert Gripton dig a lot to a whippet cross. The famous photo of Bert with the dead badgers lined up on straw shows the dog. A friend of his told me he dug plenty with it.
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    Over the years I've dug a few times to lurchers. A couple of times they were bloody close to their quarry and a couple of times they were stuck but one time we took our eye of a bitch of mine, Blue (Bedlington cross X greyhound) and as we broke in on the terrier Blues head came up behind it.
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    Very good. I wonder what they painted on the pumpkin to make the Squirrel chew there in the exact area
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    Look, at the end of the day to any novice that's reading this it's a simple list of tools that you need to successfully reach your terrier. You need a long handled shovel, a short handled shovel, a folding shovel, a two piece shovel, a shovel with a torch, a shovel with night vision (if your terrier is good enough to stay that long) a mattock, a finding bar (great for sticking in terriers) another finding bar (for letting the quarry know there's something else other than a terrier around) a bar for breaking stone, a bar to go to on the way home, a sharptooth fork, an illegal sharp
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    You're right Donny. If the inbred gene pool is big enough and the breeder knows what he's doing outcrosses shouldn't be needed, unless it's needed for work means not breeding means. It's reckoned that when the Plott family moved from Germany to America they didn't make an outcross in 60 years. The Plott hound is still in the Plott family today.
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    Do they live on that pond all year round ? If so, when you clean them and the flesh looks and smells alright then cooking should make it alright. If it's stagnant water they might taste muddy. But, like most places there's a good chance those ducks have come from elsewhere and if that place was 100% is in the lap of the Gods. But I do know where you're coming from. There's a mine about 10 miles from me that has a lake beside it. The ducks off it have a green flesh. But you'll see that before sticking it in the oven.
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    I actually knew that someone was going to say that.
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    JMHO but a breed is in trouble as a working type when there's more being bred for show, money, pets and money than for work and IMO the JRT has been in trouble this few years as well as the Border. Yes, I know that these breeds have their devoted owners who only have work at heart but if a novice was to come into the sport which type would he have a better chance of getting a worker, the JRT, the Border, the Lakeland or the Black ones ? IMO breeding for work has always been about survival of the fittest in that lads using common sense will always go for the type that will give them a better
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    Danny, that pup looks like it owner, nothing but trouble, LOL. Nice cobby type, just how I like them, it's a beauty.
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    I agree Jiggy, it's great that we have someone promoting us in this day and age. I do think the other fieldsports organisations do defend terrierwork but the IWTF is probably the only one promoting terrierwork. I've also noticed that they're one of the only organisations to address the fools on FaceBook.
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    I'll take your advice Zilverhaze as you do talk sense and I'll withhold from making comments about contents I disagree with and maybe my comments do make the issue bigger (a bit). But, you do know who the real victim is ? ME, I'll find it very hard to keep my mouth shut, LOL. YIS.
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    Is that your mate on the left or right of the photo ?
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    I know what your saying Silverhaze, and maybe you're right. But, this site used to be full of photos of injured dogs, lurchers drawing and foxes still alive. I don't remember the mods removing too many of them. This site now IMO is spot on, BUT, you do now and then have lads talk about illegal practices. Some lads don't realise what's legal and what's not and it's no harm to tell them. But those that do know whats right but don't give two damns about anything other than their ego need telling IMO. The lads who are silly and get a visit I feel sorry for, the lads who don't give a shit and
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    LOL, bad enough the lad has to carry ferrets and box, nets, spade and hopefully a load of rabbits but you lot will have him wearing chainmail. Hopefully the only thing that will bite him is the hunting bug and not the ferrets or rabbits. In 30 years I've never been bitten by a rabbit. LOL @ the wind up merchants.
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    Stevie, I had a look at my profile the other day. You've added yourself as a friend. LMAO, you couldn't make it up. It would fit you better to get out and actually do a bit with a terrier or two. That's if your dog swapping mate hasn't got out of them by now, again. Please remove yourself from my profile, LMFAO.
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    Jesus you have to be on drugs you have the biggest ego in here No, not on drugs but assholes like you would make me want to take some.
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    LOL, did you ask if I wanna beer ? It's 8.11 in the morning !!!!!!!!! I never drink before 9 am, (don't want to develop a problem). But judging by your post Stevie I'd say you've been at the beer.
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    Steady dog, steady fowl. A bit like my own.
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    I'd imagine at this time of year it's a serious weight of the shoulders and to get on with ones job would be enough. Mind you, a barring order against the scumbags would be a bonus.
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    No wonder he's so fat, he's eaten a whole fox bar the brush.
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    I don't think yer man in the photo can blame the dog.
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