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  1. neil cooney
    Registered hunts wont, or shouldn't part with a hound unless it's a draft to another registered hunt. And selling one is a big NO.
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    I've never watched a soap in my life ( I thought only women and puffs watched them) but I did watch Heartbeat but not after that episode.
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    NO, it was set in the sixties when terrier work was untouched and appreciated. But yet they did a whole episode about "badger baiting" in which lads dug badgers in the middle of the night wearing balaclavas. What a load of crap. Their researchers must have been drunk or high or just couldn't be bothered doing some actual research.
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    The Irish Government a few years ago did a census on the Muntjac population in County Wicklow so as to carry out a cull and the result was that they were too established. They've also been shot in other locations around Ireland.
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    I try to forget the likes of that, same as the time they ate the slugs. I also followed his recipe for Elderflower champagne and have been making it for the last 6 or 7 years. His recipes tend to be simple, a big help, LOL.
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    Yeh, just what Ireland needs, more deer. Deer = Cowboys. Mind you, there are plenty of Muntjac in Ireland now.
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    Elephants don't exactly drop like a sack of spuds when shot with a high powered rifle either. Those lads looked IMO to be within 50 or so yards of that tusker. IMO more sporting than the 200 yards that the safety a high powered scope and a land rover gives.
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    I've had squirrel, years ago. It was cooked a bit shit but ok, maybe with my now honed culinary skills I could give it a better go... Degsy, that 'should' be a good show, to be honest, back in the day Cook On The Wild side was fantastic, Hugh's best show by far, when he really was going for it, then the first series of RC and he was a breath of fresh air... Sadly, like anything successful Hugh and his shows are a shadow of their former selves...! Except for when he cooked the Woodlice, yuk. Love him or hate him HFW has helped create a lot of townies who want to live the country life a
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    Good pics Subwoofer, is all the scrapping beside the trap from the fox or yourself ? I regularly have them try to dig under a trap, including larsens, rather than go in the door.
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    Wilf generally your allowed hunt vermin all year round ie. rabbits and foxes. Pigeons although considered vermin have a season. The duck season in Eire is September 1st to 31st January. There are some local laws regarding geese and we don't have anything like the numbers of geese you have in Britain. My advice would be to join your local gun club as you'll then be insured and will automatically have 100s if not 1000s of acres of permission to shoot over. Membership is usually 100 to 150 euro per annum. Whether your fancy is vermin, game or hunting with dogs you must have permission from
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    Calling the people on here muppets ???? IMO a muppet is someone who say's that pups are something special judging by a photograph.
  12. neil cooney
    His new album will be out soon. "The Tourettes syndrome Vol 1."
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    Those terriers of Dewi's IMO are classic examples of what used to be known as Border Lakelands. It seems some lads are confusing border crosses with the type that Bosun original asked about. The old type often had no border in it, or at least very little and shouldn't be compared to the border of today that IMO is usually kept by dreamers and messers.
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    Here in Eire we're being charged 22p for a plastic bag this few years and I've no problem with it. You come home from the shop and put the bag in a drawer etc. and next time your going to the shop you bring it with you. You don't see as many plastic bags blowing around as you used too. Mind you, McD seem to be taking the piss a bit.
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    She still alive Fireman, LOL. Always nice to have a collectors item in the book collection. I once had the chance to buy a first edition of Claphams "Foxhunting on the Lakeland Fells" for £50. I didn't buy it and bought a reprint several years later for £30. Sorry to this day I didn't buy the 1st edition.
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    An old friend of mine years ago had his own line of what he called Border Lakelands. Rough coated black and tan types. He used to provide the badgers for a large trials every year using these terriers, between 20 or 30 he told me. But yet on the day itself he'd bring his strongdogs and a couple of russells. The border lakelands stayed at home, they were too hard for the trials.
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    The RSPCA are looking for justice for the chicken.
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    Lucky you, there one of my favourite nuts. There used to be an old saying that you had to thrash a walnut tree every year to get a good harvest out of them. How you thrash a tree 30 foot high I don't know. The saying was, "A dog, a woman, a walnut tree, The more you beat them the better they'll be,"
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    A lot of the terriers 20 + years ago known as Border Lakelands had no border in them whatsoever, it was a name put on a type, same as the patterdale today.
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    100 % Jeemes.
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    I remember the name "border lakeland" being in common use and IMO it was a mans way of saying his terriers were workers. In other other words he wanted to distance himself from the show posers. Border Lakelands were nearly always red or black and tan and stocky or cobby in build with a coat like a Brillo Pad. I can remember some very, very good workers of the type.
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    It's great to see a politician using words and not his hands to talk. There's no bullshit out of him and he seems to speak the same language as the common man. If the Western World doesn't start to get the likes of Nigel Farage in to power our kids and grand kids could end up living in a very different world to the one we know now. It's very worrying. As an Irishman looking in I hope he becomes your next PM.
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    He's not a bad artist either, but can't handle his beer.
  25. neil cooney
    OR prehaps there's a hell of a lot of people about that are willing to buy second hand dogs, no questions asked.
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