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Seen a few bob tailed foxes over the years. I often wondered what caused them, such as accidents but you hear old Huntsmen talk of them as if they're born like that. But, I've never seen a bob tailed cub ?
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Mosney in County Meath was even better. On the grassy area outside the main gate there used to a "herd" of probably over a hundred hares and they just hopped to one side if you walked through them. Then Mosney was turned into an immigrant camp and the Hares disappeared.
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Unless he was bred for badgers Bryan. I'm not saying anything about Poker ,as he did leave some great breeding after him. He was out of Nuttalls Punch and Nuttalls Penny , so there's plenty of related terriers around to this day.
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Post, I mean post.
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. This thread should have stopped after the first slice.
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I agree there FD, good terriers tend to be naturals.
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I'm not sure about now but 8 or 9 years ago I think it was 76 hares that were in Dublin Airport. They cull them and always try to keep the population at around that number as that's the number that can exist without over crowding.
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Curdog, yep agree with the pigeon conditioner and some folk swear on the soaked oats. But, gamefowl need a constant source of protein IMO and not just at certain times of the year. Free range fowl probably get a lot more protein than you'd think by eating invertebrates and even mice etc. but fowl kept in pens or strings need a protein supplement. When I used to have a great supply of free minced beef I used to give each bird a small ball of mince most days and when they could smell it coming they'd nearly take fingers and all. Gamefowl love meat. There is however a train of thought on fee
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Oh OK, so we can dismiss damage caused by a bad bite or being choked by an inexperienced handler. Like some of the lads said it could be a genetic thing . Some terriers will work recklessly and run out of wind quickly. I bred a terrier a few years back who's owner used to crown through too only to find an unconscious terrier with the quarry gone. In the end the owner used to take the terrier for a 3 or 4 mile walk BEFORE going digging and it seemed to take the edge of him and he settled down a wee bit in his work. Some of the bulldog fanciers give their dogs an anaerobic steroid meant for
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His progeny must have been better so,
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have you ever came across a walnut tree over here neil I was shown a few years ago by my father Larry ,but can't remember where.
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In an ideal world I'd love to think I've learned a little bit from most men I dug with over the years. Some were mediocre ,as were their terrier, but they might have been good hunters. I first was aware of terrier work when very young because of stories of badger digging from my father from when he was young. But it got serious for me at aged 15 when I started to work terriers with a man who took it serious. He's still alive and only keeps horses and gundogs now. But when J.R. was at it he took it serious. By todays standards he'd be considered old fashioned as a strongdog or two were as i
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Bull, did you work the terrier in his first season ?
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Sounds to me RH that you had a good teacher.
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I totally disagree. I bring all my terriers, pups included ,for exercise a few times a week onto land that has plenty of rabbits. The reason I use this land is because I'm 100% certain there's no earths on it. My terriers regularly see the rabbits, maybe even chase them, and if the terriers don't hunt them in covert then my Springers are anyway and if one breaks covert then the lurcher will chase it. When out for a dig and one of my terriers goes to ground I can say with 100% confidence that it's not a rabbit it's after. In fact I'd put money on it. Also, if away from busy roads the terri
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I totally disagree. I bring all my terriers, pups included ,for exercise a few times a week onto land that has plenty of rabbits. The reason I use this land is because I'm 100% certain there's no earths on it. My terriers regularly see the rabbits, maybe even chase them, and if the terriers don't hunt them in covert then my Springers are anyway and if one breaks covert then the lurcher will chase it. When out for a dig and one of my terriers goes to ground I can say with 100% confidence that it's not a rabbit it's after. In fact I'd put money on it. Also, if away from busy roads the ter
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And for the owner.
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Personally I don't think the coursing mans hatred of hare shooting is a hatred of shooting. It's respect for the hare, which IMO is understandable. You rear a well bred pup, feed it the best, keep it healthy and when the time comes walk the legs of yourself to get it as fit as possible only to watch a small brown animal make it look foolish, LOL. But it's the truth. To a shooting man, and I'm one, the hare is a large slow (by shooting standards) target so any shooting man who thinks he's a marksman by shooting hares is fooling himself. If a job needs doing so be it but some methods deserv
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New Member To My Pack A Plummer X Patterdale
neil cooney replied to lurcherlad92's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
LMAO, been there, done that. In my defense it wasn't my terrier. Glad to see this thread says Plummer X Patterdale and not Plummerdale, LOL. Nice healthy pup. -
You showed you have balls Mik, even if they were up in your belly the minute you hit that cold water. I'm glad your write up ended the way it did and not the way I thought it was going. It was only last week we were commenting how game a tyke he is. Call me greedy, but did you get the goose ?
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I've been carrying a card this 20 years, good luck with my liver, LMAO.
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He was lucky that fat woman was walking by at the time to help him.
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Nice stag Vixen, what's the breeding ? The Yanks would have those white ears gone, LOL.