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    For all you Greyhound fans I seen one a few weeks ago called "The Gay Dog". The dog isn't a puff, the chap who owns it's name is Gay and it's an old film about a coal miner pulling a stroke with a Greyhound. It's amusing.
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    Saluki, I'm not sure if your saying by your post if it would be good for shooting to be banned but one thing here in Eire that really annoyed me when the Irish Coursing Club decided to muzzle greyhounds at OPEN meetings is that they didn't argue the point that Hares when coursed, fairly, on their own ground benefit from a natural selection that enables good healthy Hares to go forth and breed, as you have mentioned.
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    A conversation piece if ever I saw one, , and I love the way the mink's just about to have his ear pinched.
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    "A woman, a dog, a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they'll be." Not giving out advice here, LOL, it's an old rhyme. They used to say you should thrash a walnut tree for a better crop next year. If you're finding nut's on the ground then they should be ready for cracking and eating. Some folk even put them in salads. Never liked the look of the pickled ones myself.
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    They would survive perfectly well in the Irish countryside as there's a small population of Brown Hares in the North but for a club affiliated to the ICC to do it they would probably be breaking the law and it would also give ammunition to the antis.
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    That's what I've been told Jok and that's why I'd love to try them. Also seen on telly one being stuffed with game and baked in the oven, looked nice.
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    Yep, it was a show I used to enjoy until he mentioned that he was anti angling for sport. He probably thinks the Irish countryside should only be seen through his show.
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    Don't think I've ever seen wild pears ? Sounds nice. Haven't seen any sloes as good as them yet either. I'm keen to fry some Giant Puffball in a bit of butter but every time I see one I have my hands full. Seen 2 this morning and yes, had 6 dogs to exercise so hands were full again.
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    That made me smile Daniel, reminds me of all the times I got off the scaffold because of rain and when the gaffer complained I'd tell him to f**k off. If he seen me on a Sunday ,soaked and covered in mud with a smile on my face he'd have sacked me. Border Lakelands ? Years ago anything red or black and tan but heavy boned was called a border lakey and bloody hell some of them were machines. Wales always seemed to produce some great ones and they were not necessarily a cross between the two, they were just heavy boned Fell terriers.
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    I know I've said this before MIK but for such a small dog to go out and retrieve a large saturated bird against the current takes a game one. Lets face it, it's the equivalent of a bred for purpose Labrador retrieving a 50 lb Cock Turkey against a strong current. Fair play.
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    Wouldn't like to try it I'm a right lump. There's a few lads on here might agree with you.
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    DogFox if I was one of your terriers I'd pick you up and throw you into the middle of briars, LOL.
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    Yep ,you pickled them and they wont poison you so you've nothing to loose by cooking them. I'll guarantee one thing, I bet they'll be tender.
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    Welcome to the site Harry, but for fucks sake could you not have brushed his hair before the photo, LOL.
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    Those of you who say that when a terrier is loose and checking a big place by actually travelling it is wasting valuable time IMO have never seen a good finding terrier. In fact I know some have never. Regarding a terrier that flies around an earth like a headless chicken because he knows someones at home but can't find it IMO when this type of youngster settles down IMO they can often make good workers. I'd rather a youngster being over keen than too cautious.
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    Ugly f****r, good strong head on the terrier though.
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    Thanks for the kind words Haiddheliwr, I love a good dig but I also love a good debate (or arguement) but two topics that really do get my juices flowing are the entering of youngsters and getting the most out of a terrier . Breeding methods and families and lines can be spoke about 'till the cows come home but they all have one thing in common. They need a good man behind them to enter them right and make sure they have a long career. Men who can enter pups and keep them going to a good age are rare IMO.
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    I always trust a worker DogFox and if one of my workers says he's not in it then that's good enough for me. Pups are different though. I used to hear old timers say that if you can smell a fox at an earth then he's NOT in it. Rubbish IMO.
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    The type of places I mean are not your average 4 or 5 entrances handy holes but big rangey places. IMO these big places can not be checked properly from above by a quick sniff at the entrances. I'm not talking about a terrier going down and checking every nook and cranny and taking ages but I do expect a terrier to do a bit of checking underground and you'd be surprised how often the most un-used looking of places can have someone at home tucked away in the very tightest of places. This IMO is something a terrier has to learn by experience and I never egg or gee a terrier on . A terrier tha
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    Pablo, I don't understand most of your gibberish but I recognised the words "egg on" and that to me is a big secret to entering pups. Pups should never be egged on, they should do everything naturally. Some youngsters are slower than other but there's other ways of tricking them into waking up other than egging them on.
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    If you have good terriers and are letting them off to do their own thing then you're probably not missing much. Although we love to talk about the old days and the way we seen things done if most of us stuck with the old methods then we'd be stuck in the 70s and 80s and THAT would not be good for terrierwork.
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    90% of the time I'm out alone and only have one earth dog with me so she's loose with collar on from get go, on 3 different occasions last year after checking known dens, which looked active but dog was not interested, she instead found and entered previously unknown dens within a couple of hundred yards from known dens, small dens not very big or deep but without the dog they did not look active and would not have been found. If dog not free running for me I would not get half the digs I get. yes Mary, but you don't expect your dog to be in and out like a yoyo and kunt about, it should be ab
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    I never go by looks Danny and theres only one way to find out and thats collar the dog and enter it, you can have fresh looking heavily padded holes that hold nothing and yet get one in a hole full of leaves, quite often they get run to ground unseen and will hole up in the first place of refuge whether its a hole,drain or anything, WM You must be wrong mate, all the real experts on here say their terriers can tell if theres something in before they even get to the holes Cheers, D. I argued on here a while back that the only way you can tell if an earth is holding or empty is to have a t
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    Would the reason most lads check earths with their terriers still on the leads be because they can't let their terrier off unless it's 100% certain someones home ? I'm not talking about puppy earths but how can a terrierman walk away from a place saying it's empty unless it's been proven to be empty ? Quarry can lie in an earth for days without venturing out, believe it or not. Ghosting ? Some lines are known for it. Some times an overly game terrier wont take NO for an answer and will check an earth, check it again and then check it 10 more times. In my experience this sort when he sett
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    How much time would you waste in a days hunting by letting a terrier run every earth to see if they're holding ? Over a day would it be even 20 minutes ? I do agree that those who use nets would have a pain in their ass netting up every earth before letting the terrier off. But IMO in big places unless the terrier gets some soil on it's back there is NO way you can say that place is empty. Scent at an entrance doesn't always mean he's at home (he might have just pissed there) and no scent at an entrance doesn't mean it's empty. It might mean that whoever's at home mightn't have stirred for
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