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    I'd go else where. Any man who's into bushing and has two litters on the ground at once is a peddler IMO. You'd probably get a better choice in your local dogs home. Should be just as good.
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    Because they hunt about 3 or 4 times a year (if they are lucky) and feel the need to be seen as dogmen. Where as in reality they couldn't give a shit about the harm it does to terrier work, but then again they've nothing to loose.
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    Promised myself I wouldn't get involved in this stupid argument but a post like that, supposedly coming from a hunter, is exactly what the antis are looking for. Your entitled to your opinion but not when your opinion could damage fieldsports. FACT. Foxes do take lambs. Lots of them. This year I've had call outs on lowland farms and the victims were single lambs up to a week old. I'm long enough at this way of life to know fox worrying from anything else. FACT. A couple of years ago the Minister of Agriculture here in Ireland said he was banning terrier work. A couple of us spoke with the
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    Inbreeding is quiet natural in a lot of species. When you see a red stag with his harem are you telling me that some of those hinds are not his daughters or even grand daughters. It's a known fact that most badgers killed on the road are killed in the Autumn and the majority of those killed are young males driven out of the sette by the dominant sow. She doesn't drive the young sows out, only the young males leaving the older males. Nature has it's own ways of ensuring new blood comes along ie. eventually the breeding stag will loose out to a new comer but inbreeding is very common in a lot
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    Lucky, where it says working cert beside the dogs name on that pedigree, is that a w/cert issued by the MFHA or one from the Plummer folk ?
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    Maybe it's just as well it's not working. I don't go on Fuckface myself but there's a lot of sensible folk complaining about the shit that some assholes are putting on there. I'm told it's like SKY News to the anti's and doing a good job on finishing dog work. All for a few assholes egos.
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    the police are dicks, we were never bothered by day but at night the kunts would follow us over the ards carriageway and shine their spotlights into the fields shouting and screaming to scare everything. And on our way home they would stop us passing the police station and give us all sorts of hassle about badger baiting at night, they had our blood boiling quite a few times. But they ended up telling us they were bored and thought by following us would pass their night in. That's dundonald police station...... And in the mid 90s when we were in high school fs. Baastards I think you'll find
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    Talking of police. Another around the same time happened to a few friends I dig with, again it was to an old russell cross. The lads were just crowning in to the dog when they heard some roaring and shouting. An English man who'd just moved into the area had come across to the lads with his teenage son and was screaming "badger baiters" and using a pitchfork held the boys back while the son went to meet the police who had been called. The boys were lucky enough to have had their terrier out and got a shovel in to block the dig. Soon enough here comes a Sergeant and an officer. He asked th
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    Thinking back on Old School Russells reminds me of a terrier born back in the late 80s. I won't give his owner any credit as he turned out to be a dog thief. But in Crumlin in Dublin in the late 80s a first cross staff / russell called "Bully" (Dublin had plenty of good , solid, staffs in those days) was put over a russell bitch called "Mini". Mini changed hands a few times as she had a hatred of children but was a good sensible russell who'd bay all day, never had a tooth put on her and never put a tooth on anything (other than any children who annoyed her.). One of these pups "Tiny" was in
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    Looking at those photos MIK I'd say you'd be wasting your money getting that lad an X-Box. Great pics, is he picking his pack in the first one, LOL.
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    Just my opinion, but let the boys decide. It will be a fun process bringing them to a show or two, read a few books, get a few magazines, learn about the various breeds / types and let them know the responsibility of owning a working dog. Don't let them hurry into it (like most dog owners). Then the decision is theirs.
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    I know. The traitor you had in power at the time had at the time taken a million from the Anti's to ban hunting and in a very anti democratic way listened to the minority instead of the majority. But here you's are years later still enjoying fieldsports in some way at least so the anti's didn't exactly win. But take a leaf out of the anti's book. They believe that if you throw enough shit at a wall at least some of it will stick. So it's up to the hunting fraternity to throw a lot more shit than the anti's regarding reform and this means talking to those who have the power to overturn t
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    Keep them at it. They'll always be healthy and happy.
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    Riley, a lot of people would say that if you don't vote then you have no opinion on politics and should say nothing on the subject.
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    Once in place it should do for years and should hide traps from thieves. Good idea.
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    JD and Neil. back then in 1979 I was 22yrs old and killed foxes for pelts,damage to a foxes skin meant less money for it,we had many terriers of all types from little yappers to killers,our proper digging was done with patts and fells but during those 12 weeks whilst the skins were thick and fully set they were worth decent money,we never killed less than 100 in that short period of winter,we hunted parks and peoples large gardens with mansions in,railway embankments and under motorway bridges, etc, we always tried for a quick easy bolt into a net then on to the next,nothing was legal or on pe
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    Maybe her eyes are open and that's what she's into ?
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    Pike at this time of the year often have other things on their mind.
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    I was thinking the same myself JD !!!!!!!!
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    Sorry Rob, I misinterpreted your post. The anti's (I know your not one) are always saying that terriers are trained to go in and attack and other such rubbish. But in truth, a terrier does what a terriers does naturally. What a novice entering a terrier needs to know is when the time is right and when enough is enough.
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    I would disagree Rob. A well bred terrier should instinctively hunt fox the same as they should go to ground instinctively. It should be as natural as a duck to water.
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    If someone had a Jack Russell type terrier could they bring them as there's no class for them ?
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    I didn't know there was a big comeback but I did read somewhere that a couple had been seen in Donegal in recent years. Rare passing migrants. Would be nice to see them flourish once again.
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    Where was the photo of the Bittern taken ?
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    But Glyn, although Smithy was a scatterbred terrier and he did sire many good ones his offspring did land in the hands of many good terriermen who then worked them hard, worked them right, bred them right and then refined the breeding. This is why IMO Smithy left a legacy. Also for the same reasons there's many a good line of terrier out there that's not "famous".
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