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So Dai, if you come out with me you're saying that you're prepared to carry 3 or 4 red deer ?????????????
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Mushers feed their dogs frozen meat / fish all the time and look at the amount of work their dogs are expected to do.
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Did you write a stiff letter, putting them right neil? LOL, no just stopped watching it. That's how ye really hurt them, LOL.
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Very true. Mankind needs to take a long hard look at itself. When that lion got killed the media got two weeks out of it and there's still the odd mention about it. That poor child who got washed up on a beach earlier this week is already old news. The likes of the RSPCA don't need a high profile solicitor to win their cases in court when the dickhead has filmed it himself and when shown in court the accused has already done their work for them and a prosecution is secured.
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Class me arse, it's set in the 60s and had an episode where there were lads out digging badgers (badger baiters) wearing balaclavas in the middle of the night. Badger digging was a completely legitimate fieldsport in the 60s, and most of the 70s for that matter. Where do these producers get their researchers ? Nursery school ??
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JMHO but you could go in to a lads yard and looking at his dogs know what he's feeding them. IMO if someone thinks their dogs look just as good on tinned food as they do on raw then they should take a trip to Specsavers.
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There's not many of his kind left, and they'll be ever rarer in the future.
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Only Schizophrenics can have two user names. There's a few on the site though, one of them might help.
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I know a lad has a dog that when it hears a bell "Ding Ding" it sits in the corner of the room for a minute and then comes out fighting. It's a boxer.
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Any Of You English Guys Experience This Mad Shit?
neil cooney replied to jigsaw's topic in General Talk
You're joking right ? A girly game where they wear helmets and over sized shin pads ? Helmets were only brought into hurling a few years ago. The All Ireland Hurling Final is this Sunday and do yer selves a favour and look at a real sport. -
You were lucky Pablo. IMO for every old timer that is truly great at the game there's 99 who are only experts in their own heads. But I do love to see the old boys out. We were doing a bog with hounds one day down Fatmans country and I told my father and an old man in his 80's (who I'd never met before) where to go and to try and get the fox to go over a hill that had a lovely earth on the other side. Turns out there were several foxes on the bog and they all headed for the hill only to turn at the last minute and head in a different direction. I looked up the hill and here was my father an
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My old bitch, Pip, was quiet hard on herself and I used to keep her in the house beside the fire for a few days after a dig. And I would swear it made her harder !!!!!!!!!!! LOL. After a days hunting she'd go to the front door instead of the back and she'd curl up in the bed beside my old bitch Penny and keep quiet. Normally she'd try and kill Penny but she knew if she done that in the house she'd be put out. Then as she'd be recovering in the house I'd swear she'd pretend to be sore for an extra day or two just to get a bit longer in the house. On her last dig at 10 years old we put her i
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Any Of You English Guys Experience This Mad Shit?
neil cooney replied to jigsaw's topic in General Talk
I've seen road bowls a few times but it's not that big in my part of the country. I worked on sites with a few road bowlers and to appreciate what it take you should see them throw a stone underarm. The distance has to be seen to be believed. -
I see someone mentioned getting pissed after a dig.................never happened. I would consider myself up to date on how to work a terrier and most certainly have no time for a lot of the old fashioned methods (even though they're fond to remember and are an important part of our heritage) but looking at some of the posts on this thread it's obvious that lads nowadays dig to a terrier, get it home and clean it up, feed it and put it under a heat lamp before heading back out to try another terrier. So if they work 4 terriers in a day does that mean they've gone home 3 times before the last
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Or if a keeper is looking for you he'll know when you're holding up one finger to him.
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Just to add. It does me good to see a young lad say that as the terrier should always come first. You're right. The day's we're reminiscing about were days when everyone knew what a working terrier was and they often sat beside the fire in a pub after a day out. Also here in Ireland it was usually baying types, hence the presence of the strongdog and it was only ever a pint or two, not a night of it. I never seen any dog suffer for the day being stretched by an hour or two. Besides, what do you do on a long days digging ? Do you bring the first terrier you've dug to home before entering the
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I seen an add recently. More or less it said. Lurcher for sale. Nothing wrong with it. Have no time for it due to going to college. Would think about swapping for a bullcross. The college he's going to must only allow bullcross's in. A more loyal dog you could never meet than the lurcher and yet they're treated like shite. Say's a lot for mankind.
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Most hunting in those days was within a half an hour or so of home and the pub was usually your local. An hour in the pub never did any dog any harm and besides, lads nowadays think nothing of travelling 3 hours for a dig so what would you suggest ? Get a Ferrari ? A friendly few pints was a great way to celebrate the end of a days hunting (still is) and if you were lucky the farmer who's land you'd been on would be in there and get some pints in if you'd done him a favour, and if you'd blanked you told him you'd done him a favour anyways. There was one pub we used to have pint or three in
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Just remember Francie, that the bar is the most over used piece of equipment and should only be used when stuck. (Here we go again.)
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There was a time that nearly every farm had a buck rake dumped in a ditch and there'd always be a few bars cut of by the local ferreter's or terrier men. Nowadays all the old machinery is either gone as scrap or been cleaned and painted for display. Francie, most Farriers or Blacksmith's will whip you up a good bar for a few quid.
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LOL, I have 3 Francie.
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T-bar ? I seem to remember a discussion on here before about them. Never be without one, LOL.
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OK, because I was the first to remark on your post where you admitted to stealing a mink trap I'll reply. The fact that you put the word 'found' in commas IMO is you admitting that you should not have took it. OK, you say you were 12 when you took it (but only now you decide to use it) but it is the age you are now that you put the word "found" in commas. Why didn't you just say in your first post "I have a mink trap, how do I use it ?" If you're going to spend time on someone else's property while in the presence of someone who's worked hard to earn that permission then you're going to ha