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Foxtrot, please, please, please don't ever start a thread on scent. It would go to 100 pages, LOL. Only messing, but, scent is often called a science, IMO it's a mystery and it is something I never ever give my opinion on until the first covert has been done.
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LOL, JD did you press the wrong button ? SURELY you meant to press the ££££££ button, or am I wrong.
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If terriers can catch bolted rabbits then why are we feeding 50 lb lurchers when we could be feeding 16 lb terriers ? Think about it. It's good to see lads still working terriers and ferrets alongside one another, I was beginning to think it was a forgotten art.
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I remember a son of Micky's coming to Ireland in the mid 80s who made a big name for himself. Self entered at 8 months old with an 8 foot dig if I remember correctly. I had a son of that dogs a few years later who ended up paying the ultimate for a working terrier.
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OH, and just when you had your terrier broken to the ferret the ferret will then latch onto the terrier's nose and then it's "goodnight" so make sure your ferret is broken to your terriers. Good luck.
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Sorry, your question asked how to get them used to one another. Familiarity and then familiarity and then some familiarity. I used to have 4 week old pups drinking milk out of the same bowl as ferrets. Then as I'd be putting dogs back into their kennels I'd have ferret in my hands and to the dogs a ferrets would just become part of the scenery. In the field it was the same a ferret was part of the scenery but hopefully the dog would soon realise that the ferret going to ground resulted in sport. BUT, when action is fast the steadiest of terriers will grab what they see, it's their nature.
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I used too. Used to do a bit of ratting using ferrets to bolt them and the terriers to catch the rats. But nowadays I would think the smoker has made the ratting ferret a forgotten art. As for using ferrets to bolt rabbits for terriers ? WHY ? Terriers IMO are no use to a rabbiting man. Not as good as a 22" inch well bred lurcher anyways. A good ferreting lurcher will mark, behave itself and catch. Will a terrier do those things. Also as much as I can break lurchers and terriers to livestock and even the ferrets around the yard IMO to break and trust a well bred working terrier to leave a f
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No because of regestion, I think it's called.
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Funny that one Tiercel, but the lad who showed me how to lamp with a lurcher 30 years ago always reckoned that at 1 or 2 in the morning rabbits were furthest from home with a belly full of grass, hence they were easier to catch. So to answer the question now is, Is a hare first thing in the morning after being active recently but with a belly full of grass easier to catch than a hare that's been clapped all day but is empty ???? 6 of one and half a dozen of the other maybe.
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Samba, did your friend have a white one off two BLACK Middleton terriers ???? If he did, the plot thickens. Did he win any JRT classes at any shows ? Pablo, do you smoke or take the same stuff as Stop End ??
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I would think the bitch has been having a bit on the side..........the slut. Seriously though, I know of two lines of black terriers that can produce white one. One line has Russell way back in it and the other has Sealyham way back in it. To say it comes from staffs IMO could be wrong as then the odd brindle or buckskin would crop up then, but I could be wrong. It's a throw back either way and if it's from good working parents then so what, best of luck with it.
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I could never get more than a season out of those Deerhunter Ram trousers.
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I presume Socks you wouldn't be putting such info up here if it wasn't a vet you have faith in. I was told the same by a vet nearly 30 years ago and have stuck to that advice ever since. BUT, since then I've heard just about every other bit of advice out there regarding inoculations, from either vets or chemists selling the injections. What you've been told sounds like good common sense to me and has stood to me for many years.
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I'll make a prediction. He'll try and make a few pounds on the novelty thing while replacing stock out of his own pocket and the business wont see year number two. To rub it in his face I'd call in and leave him my number for fox control.
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As a smart man once said, A pound of breeding is worth a ton of feeding.
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Best Pic Of One Of Your Lurcher
neil cooney replied to the big chief's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
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Of all the countries on mainland Europe Holland probably had the most strongdog fanciers, look where that got them !!! The problem with the strongdog in the last few years is that it attracted the idiot and his camera. IMO the strongdog in the field should be confined to the history books. The same is happening today with the idiots putting photos of foxes and lurchers up on facebook for their own false egos. They'll ruin it for everyone. Fair play to you Blaise, your photos and stories not only show proper terrier work at it's purest but also the traditions, the people and the whole way
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So Lurchers, what's giving the Red Squirrel the pox then ? The same pox that the Grey Squirrel is immune to. Statements like yours are what's ignorant and is anti fodder.
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Deer poaching has always gone on in Ireland but everybody knows it's now got out of hand. I blame the recession and the increase in the venison market. No body minded anyone taking one or two for the freezer but it's being done on a commercial scale now and it's ruining it for everyone. There's even chancers advertising "stalking" and don't even have permission where they're bringing they're clients. The last stag I butchered had shotgun pellets in it and the stag before that had .22 bullets in it. Mates of mine rang two farmers last week to tell them they'd be on the land that night afte
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I mentioned this before but it's funny anyways, Years ago a dog man near Dublin had a pet hare and took a photo of the Hare riding a lurcher pup, doggy style so to speak. He sent the photo into one of Ireland's biggest Sunday papers and they published it and had a "best caption" competition. The caption of the Hare riding the Lurcher that won was "We're inter-coursing."
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Then you know what I mean when I say that a mill can be abused Jigsaw. In the wrong hands they can be very harmful to a dog. To those that say "just walk the dog" unless you have super human powers you wont get the same results from walking or even a bike as you will with a mill used correctly. Reminds me of a lad I used to know. He used to put the dog on the mill in the shed and put a baby monitor beside it. He'd be in watching telly with the other baby monitor beside him and when he'd hear the mill slowing down he'd roar into the monitor to make the dog pick up again.
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There's one or two foot packs in the North that I'd like to see them trying to intimidate. The Sabs wouldn't be long dis-banding, LOL.
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Don't know what you mean Jigsaw. To use a treadmill correctly you must walk the dog first 'til it empty's out, otherwise you'll boil the dogs kidneys. Then after the mill work you must walk the dog to cool it down. How's that being lazy ? As someone once said about such contraptions, In the right hands they can be the best aid for a dog, in the wrong hands they can be the worst.
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Mills, wheels and turntables are all used for building wind which is something that's near impossible to do on foot or even beside a bike.
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Some child's waking up this morning to an empty hutch, LOL. I put it down to inbreeding. There's a stud I control rabbits on that has a river one side and a busy road the other side. It also has a lot of stunted rabbits that as well as normals there's melanistics, white's, blues and pie-balds.
