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A chap tries to get into a nightclub but the bouncer stops him for not wearing a tie. He walks back to his car but then gets an idea. He takes the jumper cables out of the boot, put them around his neck and ties them like a tie. He goes back to the door of the club and asks the bouncer was he OK now ? "OK, " says the bouncer "you can go in, but don't start anything."
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Nice pics again Blaise. We're after having a lot of hard weather too and every huntsman I've spoke to has mentioned having a lot of lame hounds. It's hard on hounds. Did you get a hare ?
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favourite type of working terrier and why?
neil cooney replied to Lenmcharristar's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
What happened to the Lakeland worker was nothing but a disgrace and sadly some of the idiots who caused it's demise as a worker were the same men who get all the credit for turning it into a worker. They couldn't refuse the almighty £££££££££££££ and shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as hunting men. Back in the day when there were plenty of good working Jack Russells I always though of them as the thinking mans terrier. The man who needed a terrier for badgers, and then some for fox and then ones that could be used for stopping and bolting or called out if digging was out of the q -
favourite type of working terrier and why?
neil cooney replied to Lenmcharristar's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
IMO most sensible thinking terrier men will use a type that suits their country and style of digging. Quarry is a big factor too. So for that reason IMO it's not an accident that the black terriers followed by the Jack Russells are the most common types worked. Years ago I always found that the all round terrier man used a Jack Russell and the man who liked to spend all day at one big place used the fell types. But work wise the fell working type is nearly confined to the black ones now. Other types now and again become fashionable, ie. the borders, beddies and Cork terriers but it d -
I doubt it, I'd say those pens weren't intensive enough. He'll probably replace them with battery cages.
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Take two asprin, ye'll be fine.
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I'm no expert but isn't there 3 or 4 types of coat in the Saluki depending on where the particular strain originated. The colder the climate the warmer the coat. Not all Salukis were desert dogs. And then of course the Saluki and the Borzoi have a common ancestory.
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Get well soon Rob, have a merry Christmas and New Year and then keep up the good work,
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And you too.................it would be a boring world if the only comments ever made were "nice dog mate".
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Maybe he does but my post was made in jest. But come to think of it............when at shows (I can only comment on Ireland) the only men I see with those silly show slips are those who take showing seriously and not their terrierwork.
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The lad I shoot with every Sunday has a Springer who's class at hunting a foxes line and marking him and will go in a couple of body lengths if possible. But she's mute. Fatman used to have Springer years ago who'd let a few yips out of her if there was a fox in a bog etc. and was never wrong.
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I had a Springer who was a demon on rats. She was an excellent gundog but the rats did make her a wee bit hard mouthed. My fault completely.
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Yep, after a short stint on here rumour has it that Thanh is now a racist alcoholic obsessive eater in a rehabilitation center for sex addicts.
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With one of those show leads on it ?????????????????
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Take the Wheaten terrier for example. It was a dog used for herding and vermin control and if the history books are correct it was a terrier also used to see who had the toughest dog in the locality because a bit of lighthearted dog fighting would take place among those in the local area. It was the same with most of the Irish breeds and only when breeding got refined did the cream rise to the top. Back in the hard old times it was easier to feed one all round dog than several specialists and a lot of those American settlers were Irish too.
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His Deerhunter clobber is under the old army surplus. He's keeping it clean for the show season, which up his country starts next week, LOL.
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http://www.countrylife.co.uk/articles/presenting-patterdale-terrier-85060 I didn't know Brian Plummer had a son and I didn't know that Brian Plummer was a Patterdale expert considering he wrote an article in an Irish fieldsports mag showing his hatred for those who keep black terriers...............in other words proper terriermen. Anyhows, the above article shows the Patterdale terrier has really fallen into the pet fraternities hands.
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Have to say, the crosses look workman like and very similar to the Bedlington you see in photos from 100 years ago. You can't say that about todays full Bedlingtons.
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Probably the worst thing that could happen the species. There'll be a massive demand for Greenland Shark penis or similar now in China ,thinking they'll live for centuries.
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There was a proper Wolfhound coursing club set up in Britain a few years ago similar to the Coursing Club for Scottish Deerhounds with a judge, slipper and I presume beaters etc. Some coursing expert went to a meeting and wrote a report in one of the magazines. If I remember correctly his comment was something similar too "upon reaching their quarry the Wolfhounds showed no desire to kill it." That was on Hares and lads are talking about taking Coyotes etc. with them. The Greyhound blood would need to be pretty game to carry the blood of these giant curs. Pretty dogs but that doesn'
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Topper I judged a show in August and there were more Bedlingtons to be judged at it than I'd seen in my whole life. Not one of them had what I'd call a practical coat. I take a terriers coat serious, most lads don't care, but I've seen a good coat help a terrier and a bad coat near kill them. I know your terrier is a cross but in that photo of him covered in mud it looks like it's a hindrance. I know conditions were extreme but no way could a dog enjoy it's work with that mess on it ? Or am I wrong ?
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Amen to that FoxDropper. If the breed is unfortunate enough to have breeders making idiotic excuses like his then there's the answer to why the Bedlington struggles as a worker.
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If 31,000 was the tally from the trappers we could probably safely say that packs, terriermen and wildfowlers probably killed many more so in reality there might have been a population of 50,000 at one time. And a cull was 100% effective. I read somewhere recently it's believed there could be 2,000 wild boar in Britain. Beavers will no doubt become a nuisance somewhere at some stage and political correctness will ensure that there'll be no culling whatsoever. The Coypu cull proves that evasive species can be eradicated.
