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  1. neil cooney
    That wouldn't surprise me Jigsaw and I'll bet all that good meat is lieing in a ditch somewhere.
  2. neil cooney
    The CA has shown photos of the victim out with his hounds since the attack. Fair play, don't let the b*****ds beat ya.
  3. neil cooney
    You thinking of getting a tank Jigsaw ? Poor goats.
  4. neil cooney
    Britain must be the safest place in the world to live in. If they can send two squad cars to someone they suspect of poaching then they must send out a whole squad to a burglary etc. I envy you's. Over here if you report a burglary one policeman might show up two days later.
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    thats the one buddy that spot where they are is not very far from me, i have it on dvd it came with a book i got, the lad just gets the dog out and it all drops down was a close call that lol Yes, it worth seeing and I still have the video. There's a few surprising comments on it by some of the big names in the hunting game. I can't find the report of the rescue I mentioned that cost big money , I think it might have been in EDRD that I read it. However, I did have a quick look in the 1999 - 2000 yearbook and the F. & M W T C expenditure on rescues that year was £2,224 (in '98 it wa
  6. neil cooney
    Craggers that story of the terrier surviving a fall like that reminds me of a time I was only exercising terriers in a quarry when two of them hunted a fox along the top of the quarry. I was standing the other side of the quarry and watched Spike come out of the covert and fall around 30 feet landing on his feet on a boulder that was at a slant. Two minutes later I watched Dixie do the very same thing. Both times watching my terriers sailing through the air I thought I'd be scrapping them up of the rocks. Both terriers kept going. The Fell terrier is just designed for the job. That was yea
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    Fair play Craggers for putting that together. To those who work rocks in the Lakes etc. do they still enter 2, 3 and 4 terriers at a time ? Or has the locator changed this ? Why were several terriers entered at once ? Was it to worry the fox quicker or was it to guide the diggers to the fox the same way a lot of old badger diggers used to use a few terriers at a time to find the tube that the badger was actually in ? Also how many of these legendary fox slayers would have been getting help back in the day or was using more than one terrier an exception rather than the rule ?
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    I agree Rat Face and if I lived in the UK I'd definitely be a member. I have a couple of their old Yearbooks and some of their rescues were massive. Would I be correct in saying they had a rescue a few year back that cost £2000 and that bill was picked up by the club. Remember the video ? Where the lads were just finished the rescue and it collapsed with the boys standing nearby. Regarding bales ? it probably would be a good topic but not one that would feature monumental rescues. But they sure do hold foxes. The round ones do anyway. And not just between them either, foxes will lie
  9. neil cooney
    It's unusual. Is the shank still green ?
  10. neil cooney
    I remember when I was an apprentice butcher we were doing around 14 pigs a week and now and again a pig would come in with a full tail and all his teeth. We called it a farmers pig and it would be where someone had probably reared two pigs together to kill one for the house and sell the other to cover the cost of both. They'd be reared on slops and we (the butchers) would buy it off the boss (with our 20% discount) and share it among ourselves. Best pork you could get.
  11. neil cooney
    Exactly, surely roots are a bigger danger to get under a collar and that rarely happens.
  12. neil cooney
    A hunter and a dog man, he's one of our own.
  13. neil cooney
    I bet you're licking your lips already.
  14. neil cooney
    Latest news is that the sabs have been I.D.'d.
  15. neil cooney
    lovely ground ther pall,,, just like the fells were i hunt,,, we dont use loacaters in the rock as most of the time you carnt here them,, Robert would it not still be sensible to have a collar on the terrier? Todays boxes you don't need to hear them as you can read them and if a terrier was stuck a collar would give you the nearest mark. The last time I worked a terrier in a quarry was two years ago and she went into a crack in the rock. I got her from the top of the quarry at 16 foot and if I'd went where I thought she'd be it might have been 30 feet. Cut a long story short I was 8 f
  16. neil cooney
    Make sure you know how the horse died. A horse that's been shot is OK but when a horse is killed by an overdose of anesthetic enough is used to kill over 20 dogs.
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    I'm sure the law was applied and a vet docked them and believe it or not IMO vets are some of the biggest culprits for docking too short. Who cares anyway ! Raymond they're lovely pups and they're the spit of two pups a friends got off Ken G. about 20 years ago. Are they that breeding by any chance ?
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    That's interesting regarding size because when the Fell types started coming into Ireland in the late 70s, early 80s most lads considered them too big and that included for badger digging. Yet these terriers coming in were from dogs worked in rock. But I have to agree with what I've seen of terriers working rock is that a fine, medium size is best. A friend has a bitch that came from a Welsh pack who was bred to work in flint and IMO she's quiet small.
  19. neil cooney
    It's very easy to get annoyed and say "let's beat the shite out of them" but that would make the papers quicker than a MFH getting knocked out and would enhance the "Animals" image that the antis try to portray of us.Remember too that it's been said manys a time that the 1/2 million or so that marched to London that time caused no trouble whatsoever. This itself shows that hunting folk are decent law abiding folk. I'm totally against using physical force on anti's as they'd have their cameras out in a second and film the hunters being brutes. That's why you should always come up from behind
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    Oh, and make sure there's no witnesses.
  21. neil cooney
    It's very easy to get annoyed and say "let's beat the shite out of them" but that would make the papers quicker than a MFH getting knocked out and would enhance the "Animals" image that the antis try to portray of us. Remember too that it's been said manys a time that the 1/2 million or so that marched to London that time caused no trouble whatsoever. This itself shows that hunting folk are decent law abiding folk. I'm totally against using physical force on anti's as they'd have their cameras out in a second and film the hunters being brutes. That's why you should always come up from behin
  22. neil cooney
    Just my two cents worth but there's no need to use a mill to keep a terrier fit. A mill is a brilliant tool in the right hands and a bad tool in the wrong hands. But for the level of fitness that any terrier need's for work an hour or so of walking on the road or 40 minutes running around a few fields every day is enough. Let's say if you had three terriers and were giving them 20 minutes on the mill that takes an hour any way, and lets face it you can walk 3, 4 or 5 terriers together anyway. Another thing a terrier needs everyday is something to keep it occupied and running hard looking a
  23. neil cooney
    even from the same litter. It's never going to happen where all dogs will be born with the same ability, even in the same litter there's good and bad BUT if they were then those in good hands (and some luck) will make the better dogs.
  24. neil cooney
    No problem at all.
  25. neil cooney
    Don't look at it myself but there's an awful lot of decent lads saying that the assholes and their egos on FB will be the ruin of hunting. Might be time to start naming and shaming them.
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