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Even though he probably started hunting at a time when Mr Breay was known as young Cyril and even though he probably bought his first shovel for 2 shillings and sixpence we'll still wish DillyDog a happy birthday, LOL. Have a good one D, .
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Tonight 9 pm on MORE 4. Enjoyed it last week with the Hound Trailing and tonight a dog gets rescued from a sinkhole near Wensleydale. Might be of interest to a terrierman.
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I can see the headlines, Thugs kill baby deer by sticking bars through it. LOL. Good pics though.
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So if there's going to be a gay pride march in a major city for a few hours who's going to run and host our television programmes ?
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I used to love listening to the lads who were digging long before me and they debating which was better for the youngster to see first, the badger or the fox. Obviously the same topic of conversation still goes on with our French friends. The old timers also used to talk of the respect they showed our quarry, the same as the French do but in Ireland it used to be a big NO to kill a badger. They were shifted and the sportsman would hope to meet him many more times because, as they used to say, better game made better terriers.
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Isn't it ?
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There are lads who laugh at pedigrees and those who keep them. Whether it's because they've been screwed in the past or can't work them out or more likely just jealous of those who know the breeding of their terriers the truth is that those lads who work their terriers to a high standard while keeping their lines tight ,while keeping records, are usually the lads who always have a few good ones about them. Those who scoff at pedigrees or don't care about them always seem to be the lads who spend half their life looking for workers.
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The documentary about Shackeltons whiskey was very interesting. The man who was hired to copy the blend had his nose insured for 1 million. The most interesting thing that I found in it that this expert blender added a little water to each whiskey as he said water enhanced a whiskeys flavour. Shackeltons whiskey was 100 years in the bottle and the expert tasted it.
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What's wrong with the one on the right ?
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It can easy enough to find out a dogs pedigrees (and there's a good chance the one you've been given is the truth) in this day and age and the fact that liars are usually caught out because they tend to have bad memories. So if possible talk to the breeder and ask for a bit of background and maybe talk to anyone else who has siblings or the stud dog etc. etc. Getting the truth can help a lot in any future breeding plans you might have if your pup grows up to make the grade.
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Sad news indeed. R.I.P.
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don't know what your liking the post for Cooney when you've sold dog's in the past...jiggys right dd the dog's are in the hands of men who wouldn't entertain a Messer these white dog's are all over Ireland and money can't buy them I liked his post because he's right. And you've told lies about me before and then apologized and then more lies and there you're at it again. Now Mixedgrill I probably dug to a Cork terrier before you were born and definitely know more about them than you and most of the so called experts on here. Did you know there's also Red fell in them ? That doesn't get m
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Do ye know if many of them red dogs still about? How many do you want, LOL. I haven't had a strongdog for about 10 years (still love them though) and am away from them but I would think there's plenty of dogs with Dublin Red or Diddy Coy blood in them. The man behind the Dublin Red dogs, Tony L, once told me that it was other lads who started calling them Dublin Reds whereas Tony used to register his dogs under the Diddy Coy prefix. I was always told that most dogs in Dublin were red in the 70s and 80s until Tony got Psycho up from Cork for Ricky B. As you know Psycho was mostly white
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For once Ireland must be getting the good stuff. I'd say we'll have a very early harvest and I've already heard of corn cut in Wexford..
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Good Advice From A Legend.
neil cooney replied to neil cooney's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
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Up 'till a few years ago fanciers called their dogs by the line they came from and they were quiet local. Dublin had the Dublin Reds and Cork had the Geronimo dogs etc. etc. and that how dogs were described. But less than 20 years ago a spate of books like Barkers etc. started calling them Irish Staffs and the puppy peddlers jumped on board. Some of these peddlers were around during the 80s when the trials were serious competition but these lads were no where to be seen. But a few years down the road these lads were all the rave with their game dogs. And the English bought the story of the
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I'm not 100% sure but as far as I know a fox cornered by a terrier at the end of a dig is in the eyes of the law now in your possession thus making it protected and it's your duty to make sure no suffering takes place. Hence the reason hard terriers are illegal. No doubt someone will contradict me but that what I believe.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KMU1OS5vGw But totally politically incorrect, I love it.
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Turn the volume up full and enjoy.
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As far as I know the Fureys are still going strong. They're from Traveler stock. The Lonesome Boatman is one of my favourite tunes of all time. Finbarr Furey was asked why he didn't write any words for it. He said he couldn't think of any.
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Well that's one for the books, a pike coughing up a rat. Nice one. Yes, have eaten pike when I was young, perch too. Nothing better than a nice trout or mackerel IMO and it's nice to see the pike swim away for another day.
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Brilliant.
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Nice fish. Did you put them on the barby ? LOL.
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Brilliant, and the sun splitting the stones too.
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Usually we start past one year. We start faster with this young bitch. We start on badger at the beginning, at work alone, like an older one. I never trained them, I don't want to put young dogs on fox's cubs. We don't need too hard dogs on badgers. It's my way, some can do otherway. That's interesting. A lot of the old boys here in Ireland back before the silly laws used to start their terriers on badgers too. The badger learned them to show respect but if a young terrier started on fox they often killed them and would then try and do the same to a badger. That's what some of them u