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    I was watching BBC news this morning (a good weather forecast and I have the hots for Carol) and it did a report on some beach in England where because of the severe cold thousands of shellfish, starfish and small fish were washed up on the shore. The local fishermen were going along the beach picking up all the juvenile lobsters who were still alive to bring to tanks and return to the sea. Apparently it's happened on a few beaches.
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    Oh, I'm happy with that reply because I thought the answer might include Fell or harrier, LOL. They should be useful, please God.
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    Fair play to him. A lot of lads would have shot it. Seen an old film recently of a cougar brought to bay and the hunters took it alive to release elsewhere and they made it look easy.
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    Call them a couple and a half and it sounds like you've a pack. They're lovely, what's the other blood besides the Welsh ?
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    AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH, but there straight away you answer with things that come from experience and not word on word advice. Terrierwork is 99% learned from experience and hopefully a lad has a good teacher. That's a big secret either way it's a hard school and sadly it's the terrier who often gets the blame for his masters bad work.
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    I know you's have different laws over there than we do this side of the Atlantic. And then of course different laws between Eire, the UK and the continent. But an animal in a cage is a captive animal and to put it under stress is illegal on this side. I've seen rolly cages in American magazines for hounds and couldn't believe my eyes when I seen a massive one with a Black Bear in it being bayed by hounds, and the Bear didn't looked bothered, probably used to it. If that's how ye do it ,fair play. But in your opinion do you think a terrier could learn anything from meeting something i
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    Didn't see the original post but it must of been about how to make a terrier pup and it's owner more highly strung.
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    You make it sound text book FD, if only it was that easy.
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    True, but it does help.
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    True Rob, but it's the younger generation who tend to use social media and that doesn't help in keeping things legal the way they are.
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    Yep, the RATS are crawling out of the woodwork. You're taking a page out Pat The Rats book, as are those who agree with you.
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    LOL, what legendary terriers ?
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    LOL, your first post in nearly 3 years, LOL. The phone calls are being made and it's the usual comments coming from a few individuals, all being told by Pat The Rat, LOL. What yolk will crawl out of the woodwork next ????? All I did was ask about a terriers breeding and the next thing you know the clowns are abusing me. When assholes are suddenly showing up after 3 years you'd swear that someone had something to hide. But surely not here in Ireland where so many great, legendary terriers are being sent all over the world, .
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    So have I and know what Howdeep is saying. Yep there's terriers out there like that. I have one.
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    I know their surnames but because they have no lines and never did I was just curious to know what was behind such a fine terrier ?
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    I had a little small bitch one time called Tig that Fatman bred out of his Tod and Bess, if I remember correctly ,who had a super nose. But she started marking Rabbits so I gave her to a Huntsman of a large pack. I told him not to use her for stopping but only when hounds marked and that she wouldn't let him down. I rang him a few weeks into cubbing and asked him how he was getting on with her ? He said I wasn't kidding about her nose. Hounds had marked a hole at the bottom of a tree and Tig was tried. She said no and they said Cooney's given us a bad one. Tig stood on her back legs loo
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    Very nice. What lines are in him ?
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    It was only an Ash tree and probably wouldn't have took the weight, LOL. Truth be told it's a tree I've walked by many's a time and never noticed how it branches out into four boughs and has a lot of ivy so I'll try a terrier in it some time. I've bolted many's a Fox from a tree. It saved a few days that would have been blank otherwise.
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    This your couch Dilly ?
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    Great post Jake. In the last few years I've seen some terriermen in their 20s and 30s who IMO could have showed some of the older generation how to do it. Respect for the quarry, the terrier, the earth and the sport was most important. Looking back the opposite was often the norm with some of the older generation. I know that they grew up and carried out their sport in a more carefree time where if you wrecked an earth by negligence it was no big deal because there were several more around and because farming wasn't so intensive the farmer often forgave bad backfilling etc. One tradi
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    A friend of mine used to buy a lot of birds on the continent and bring them back here to Ireland to sell. All legal with the proper paperwork. Now and again he'd be asked to bring in mammals and brought in Racoons, Dingos and Wallabees for collectors. Again all legal. When picking up these animals the sellers had Muntjac and Sun Bears too for sale. If you think the Mink's been a problem just be glad the Racoons not feral yet. Mind you, my lurcher treed a Fox the day before yesterday and me with no terrier to throw up that tree. Treeing Coons would be a hunt I'd enjoy.
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    So Rabid, at 23 lbs could you see a fox reaching "nearly" twice that weight ?
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    I started keeping working terriers around '86 and the lads who showed me the ropes had all dug Badger legally and taken part in trials. Back then they seemed to have two schools of thought regarding the entering of terriers. Some lads preferred to enter them starting at the bottom of the ladder by rats, foxes and then the almighty badger, but the man who showed me the ropes was a 100% Jack Russell fancier who told me he used to enter his terriers to badger first to show his terriers some discretion. If he entered them to fox first they might become hard, learn how to kill one and then when the
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    Bloody global warming to blame for what could be our lowest temperatures in 30 years and heaviest snowfalls. Makes me sick.
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    SNOW!

    neil cooney replied to Deker's topic in General Talk

    Been out in it for the last couple of hours and enjoyed every minute. It's great to feel alive. The local river is frozen in large areas even though it's fairly fast flowing and I seen more Teal standing on the ice than I did for the shooting season. Came back and popped into the shop and there must be 100 people in the que and the shelves are empty. f**k that ,I'm not stuck for anything. I was talking to one chap who was about to start queing just for electricity credit. He said his missus and kids used up 30 quids worth yesterday alone !!!!!!!!!!!!!! If the snow lasts for a month some w
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