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  1. neil cooney
    Good going Malt, I spent 3 hours this morning ( 5 till 8 ) after Bass in perfect conditions without a single bite. Well done.
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    neil cooney replied to wi11ow's topic in General Talk

    I had one the spit of it that was 1/2 bull 1/2 greyhound over a 1/2 wheaten 1/2 greyhound.
  3. neil cooney
    Benzyl benzoate is good, no doubt about it, but I've only ever seen it in a lotion. Is it easy to use like a shampoo ?
  4. neil cooney
    Alugan has been banned in Ireland for several years now.
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    How's he getting in ?
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    Have to agree the word "Game" is used too often and I hate the term "dead game". Most folk don't know what it means and will never see it but there was a term used a lot years ago that you don't hear to often nowadays. "Game as a pebble." It was nearly always used for a small type.
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    If he hasn't been back in a month I'd say yourself and your terrier did enough to scare him away since. I'd be looking at where or how did he get in to your coop. Traps can be expensive and often not successful and as has been said snares might catch your terrier.
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    That second last one is the dogs bollocks.
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    Years ago all you needed to describe a lurcher was H J K C and R H F D. And every lurcher for sale could do all these ,LOL, a bit like nowadays.
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    Most terriermen should be capable of taking a wild fox out of there (even a fat one like myself) but that's not a wild fox. If you had a wild fox by the scruff like that and put your hand on it's chest like he did the fox would have your hand in a second. A fox when scruffed by one hand can nearly turn 180 degrees around and can move his head up and down so IMO if he handled a wild fox like that he'd be chewed to bits. Also when he came out with the fox holding his arm it let go way to easily. A wild fox wouldn't let go like that and there would have been a lot of blood. IMO that's someones
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    They were never gone and to disturb hounds that are hunted on foot is a very easy target for them ,hence the reason for security. I've met one of the Masters of that hunt a couple of times and he's an absolute gentleman, so enjoy. A good day on the river is as good as it gets.
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    There's your answer so, good luck.
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    I see in this months Hounds magazine that anti's have been showing up at some meets and causing trouble. So someone is talking out of school so it's not a hunts fault if they're a bit suspicious of newcomers.
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    Good post.
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    And even more wary of strange men holding video cameras.. The bloke in that photo is dead apparently, its the fella who done the panarama program, Northern Ireland and some scandinavian country. Heart attack in Iraq or sommat? I thought I knew him Waz but just couldn't place him. He asked me something one time and I told him straight away I didn't trust him.
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    That's hard to believe as he's a beauty.
  17. neil cooney
    Thanks Corkonian, just spent half an hour looking through that book and it's very concise for the size of it. Wouldn't mind having it in the collection.
  18. neil cooney
    Fantastic. He mightn't ever better it.
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    He was a legend and he would be one ghost that wouldn't frighten you.
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    The chickens will get used to the ferrets and vice versa. When feeding my chickens every morning I might have 4 or 5 terriers running around and the birds don't notice them. New birds freak out for a day or two but soon get used to them.
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    I have, a lot of farmers. Anything that puts the lurcher and their owners in good light can only be positive.
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    I think in the old days some packs were used all year round. Fox in the Winter, otter in the Summer. I once read that the Rev. Russell was not unknown to kill a June fox and a November otter. I was fishing a small private lake this morning for Rudd when yer man slipped in to the water about 6 foot to my left, seen me and dived. I then had a chain of bubbles under my rod tip and he vented about 40 feet to my right. About an hour later I watched him fishing for about a half an hour. What a way to start a day. A big dog I'd say.
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    Oh, I thought it looked Welsh. I've seen that book advertised in Hounds but haven't got it. I have Rod Adairs two books, very good indeed. And I know the C.C. , great pack.
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    I hear ya, it looks like a full Welsh hound. It never dawned on me that they might have been using welsh blood back then. I thought it would be either foxhound or otter hound or a cross between the two. I know as far back as the Rev Russell there were full packs of Otterhounds made up of only foxhounds and I thought that using Welsh blood to improve hounds only came around the time of Ikey Bells. I'll be looking closer at the old pics from now on, LOL.
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    What era are we talking about ? I wouldn't be surprised if Welsh has been introduced in the last few decades but I'd presume when that photo was taken that Otterhound blood was easily got, even though then huntsmen were starting to prefare the foxhound. Interesting.
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