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  1. neil cooney
    "A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more ye beat them the better they'll be." LOL, I'm not condoning domestic violence or beating a dog for one minute but that's an old rhyme and it was believe long ago that a walnut tree should be beaten every year to give a good harvest. At least with a tree it can't hit back or bite you.
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    Normally I would say that one hound by itself would be near useless but I remember one time the huntsman asking me to go to a spot and not let them in to a place we weren't welcome. After a while a fox beat me and got by. Ten minutes later a brilliant Welsh bitch called "Fanny" came along the line and try as I might Fanny beat me too. Anyway I stayed on point while the rest of the pack went around and around and around a large hill on another fox. Anyway,around 40 minutes later and things have gone quiet and there I am standing there listening when from behind and past me comes the original
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    What's an i-phone ?
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    That would make a nice present for a hunting person.
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    "He must have slipped out un-noticed Sir." or "He must have been in it last night". Everyone happy.
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    Billy who bred Sam has been known to part with several good terriers over the years. Pete got Sam and gave it to Macker who dug with Pete anyway so he was still in the same camp ,so to speak. Macker at the time was fairly young and the way it was told to me was that Macker was more or less bullied into parting with Sam. Some of Sams offspring made it to the states around the same time that the Kennel Club over there were recognising the so called Patterdale terrier and I've always wondered how many American registered Patterdales are in fact Border crosses. At the same time that Pete
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    She's all there Glyn.
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    I'm a bit embarrassed, Sam was bred up North by Billy C. who happens to be a good friend of mine. Billy sent Sam down to Pete in Dublin who then gave him to Macker. Macker then either sold or gave Sam to those who made the dogs name as a stud.
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    Sam was out of a border dog called Dandy and a smooth black bitch called Brandy. Dandy was Ray Walker's breeding and believe me was a very good terrier. Brandy, I think, was of RRs breeding from the North. I had a daughter of hers who was good and hard but died young. Sam was bred by P.M. in Dublin. His blood graced many's a good kennel.
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    No disrespect to your friend but IMO some lads can be at this game for years and still not have a clue and some lads can pick it up in 5 or 6 years. Take that mans word with a big pinch of salt because 9 or 10 months is too young.
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    Skycat, just to let you know, I've reported your post to the mods for talking about showing. Be warned, LOL.
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    I do.
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    It's a mask Fireman, a bloody mask, not a head, get it right FFS. LOL, I bet it's a cracker. You'll have to put a reminder on the back or a brass plate on the front with the date of the hunt and name of your unfortunate bitch. Don't forget the pic.
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    So are you taking it PK ? Nice opportunity.
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    Do enjoy yourself, do have your dog clean and healthy. Don't tell anyone where you live and don't be upset if you loose. Oh, and don't believe everything your told, especially in the beer tent.
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    What's in a name Around £200 in the difference.
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    Yes you do have the Marsh frog.
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    I wouldn't know Chesney. Back then I used to see plenty of different terriers of different lines working every season. Nowadays I tend to see only 2 or 3 different families of terriers working all season and I have a couple of good friends who although I don't dig with them they keep different breeding altogether and they're very happy with their's too.
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    Believe me several years ago the blood of that particular dog was very common. Niggers breeding was nothing to do with his last owner but he sure put it out there.
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    Personally in Ireland I think it's been a local thing. The Cork boys have always been too stubborn to leave their white terriers so we can't talk about the biggest Fell influences down there. Come up the country a bit and there was one man in particular who had some very good Gould breeding about him and in return this blood sorted out a lot of men in that part of the country. Then up the country a bit more TP flooded the terrier scene in the last 20 years or so with the Nigger blood he got his hands on and this sorted out a lot of lads in the East and Midlands with some very good blood. Fo
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    I dont think they are any more competetive than any other part of Britain........would you not agree that a lot of the relative success the Irish have had with sporting animals,particularly dogs.......has a lot to do with the freedom they have regards to laws and the open spaces etc compared to somewhere like London ? Could be, could also be our competitiveness, could be the way we test ourselves and our animals or it could be the limestone in the water. Believe it or not that last one could be true, particularly regarding Irish horses.
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    Of course they did...and no doubt took their Game dogs and Game cocks with them...as did the English,Irish,Welsh and Cornish dogmen...its a modern day romantic myth that the APBT originates from dogs that 'mostly' came from Ireland No romantic ideas at all. It's more or less a fact that the Irish originally got their dogs from the British and the Irish bloodlines were popular with the yanks. So after the British left their dogs with the Irish the Irish just made them better. Same as today with terrier lines (patterdales, russe Thats your opinion and your entitled to it...its an ignora
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    Really?

    neil cooney replied to walshie's topic in General Talk

    Seriously though, not only do local councils need to grow a pair regarding religious and animal rights but anyone walking along that's mobbed by a seagull should send it flying. I worked on sites near the coast where gulls would have their nests on piles of topsoil and would mob us regularly. Not mobbing as in trying to rob food but aggressively as in defending their nests. Gulls nowadays IMO are bullying people because nowadays people are easily bullied.
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    Really?

    neil cooney replied to walshie's topic in General Talk

    Seagulls can be a nuisance. When I was young a seagull flew down and took my chips. Chips was a 3 year old collie.
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    Alugan was great stuff but taken off the market for health reasons. Apparently breathing in the stuff had long term health effects. Pity they got rid of something that you only used a few times a year but was great for a dogs well being.
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