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Good tip Shamo I'll try that next time. I'm not going to give up that easily though, I'm not one of these people that believes in rushing things and getting rid of an animal the first minute something goes wrong.
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Hi all, A quick question for the border enthusiasts. I have a border x fell terrier who is now rising two and a half years old. Up until now he has showed absolutely no interest in any kind of hunting (apart from trying to kill my ferrets). Last Sunday he eventually entered a fox earth after the gundogs had marked it for a few minutes. He went in, barked half heartedly for a minute and came back out again (head first, so there was obviously room to turn around). I'm not sure if he was barking at a fox or just barking from frustration, which he does. There are 3 or 4 very lik
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I must say that Wilkinson was fantastic but as said already he can't win the game on his own. He was surely a contender for "man of the match" even if he was on the losing team.
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I can't remember where I heard this, I'm probably plageurising someone off this site but here goes anyway! May there next shite be a hedgehog!
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Can't say for definite but I very much doubt it. The Glen of Imaal terrier is a short legged,long backed, heavy built dog originally bred to hunt badgers. Whereas the Wheaten is a long legged terrier, completely different to the Glen apart from colour. The Wheaten is a very popular breed in Ireland to put over a Greyhound to breed a very tough and game lurcher ideal for foxes. I couldn't imagine anyone crossing a Glen with a Greyhound. As always, I'm open to contradiction, but thats my take on it.
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Beagling is great craic! It's a real purist form of hunting, the reason we only hunt hares is we share country with the local foxhounds so we don't want to interfere with their sport and, hares tend to run in a large circle so its a lot easier to keep in touch with your hounds. The followers also tend to have far more interest in the actual hunting than a lot of the mounted followers, most of our followers will know our hounds by name and tell us "brazen went over that hill" or whatever. Whereas in my experience of mounted foxhound packs, a lot of them have no interest in hunting and
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you deserved it......best team won on the day and thats from an english man Cheers mate, your a true sportsman
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Yep, I had the 3.0 litre, pure pooh!!! But then again, doctors differ etc.
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2 or 3 would be grand to get you started, they are a pack animal really and don't work their best on their own. There are exceptions of course. The more you have the harder they will be to stop so keep that in mind. Usually they will run a fox to ground pretty quickly but if you put up a strong dog fox on the prowl a long way from home and he doesn't know where the local earths are there is always a chance that he will just take a straight line home, so be prepared for lots of running. With a registered pack, we always had public liability insurance as part of the registration proce
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Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I had one for three months and couldn't get rid of it quick enough. Hateful piece of crap, handled like a boat, cost a fortune to run and forever breaking down. Plus it wouldn't pull the skin off boiled milk compared to a Landcruiser. And it wasn't just my particular one either, my boss also had one, and my hunting buddy and I drove those too and they were exactly the same. But, saying that, if you do buy one, I wish you all the best with it and happy motoring.
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You got their before me! Pure poetry in motion
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Beagles would be ideal for that job. Most of them will mark earths once they learn the job. Another tip, get acquainted with your local pack of beagles. Whenever we have a beagle that isn't doing the job right for us i.e. hunting hares as part of a pack, we have to get rid of them and we usually give them to local guys fort hunting foxes and they find them ideal. The faults we would give them away for could be something very minor that wouldn't bother you such as hunting foxes, which is a complete no for a registered beagle pack, or they might be a little independent minded and no
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Hi Doddsy, Did you mean to say 6.5m x 7m or was it meant to be feet? If it metres that's gonna be one huge ferret court. You'll have the happiest ferrets ever. Good on you if it is metres.
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We find with the hound bitches that once one comes in, a lot more will come in at the same time. Especially if the weather is mild. At one stage last autumn, there was 13 foxhound bitches in season at the same time from the same kennel.
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Good idea, you won't find any dog with a better nose for following foxes. There is a downside however, if your guns miss a fox and he keeps running, it's very hard to get scent hounds to stop once their hot on a trail. Beagles will hunt a fox every bit as well as a foxhound, they're just not as fast and wouldn't kill a fox single handed like a foxhound would, but for general bushing work I think they are the better choice. Plus, they are easier to keep and eat far less. Gorgeous little dogs, real characters.
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Hi, I don't know of any good books, but if you want to know abouth hounds, get out with your local foot beagles. I used to be a Master of Beagles and I find that it is far more about hounds and hunting that most of the foxhound packs. If you go beagling, you go for the love of hounds and hunting, a lot of people only hunt foxes because they want to ride a horse and jump hedges. Not all of course, but a lot.
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Oh my god, did anyone look at that Neuticles website? Who the hell would want to purchase neuticles merchandise? Could you imagine wearing that baseball hat? or worse, the necklace with two neuticles on it
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Buy it ! Worth every penny, but it's not an instructional "how to" kind of book. More a kind of general chat that you'd have with someone on a high stool with a couple of creamy pints. Also, Jonathan Darcy's "Dig Deep, Throw Well Back" is another good one. It's a collection of hunting stories about digging with terriers, rather than instructional. If you're after an instructional book, I'm afraid I can't recommend one because I've never found one yet. Sean Frain is good for a laugh though
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I have a locator and always collar my ferrets but I never dig until I absolutely have to, which isn't very often. I'm not one of these people that think the old ways are the best just because they're old. With that frame of mind we may as well bring back the old days, where thousands died of TB, women didn't vote etc. etc. Technology should be embraced if it can improve upon existing methods rather than replacing it.
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Try to do a spot of fishing once in a while. I also own a set of golf rackets but don't use them that often. But may main hobby revolves around work which is horse breeding. I run the sales and marketing side of a large stud farm with 7 - 10 stallions and love talking about breeding and bloodines. As well as that I'm also a showjumping course designer and am trying to work my way up through the qualifications, so that's my Sundays sorted for most of the year. But the downside is, I have feck all time left for shooting, digging, ferreting etc.
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A teacher asks her class to use the word "contagious". Roland the teacher's pet, gets up and says, "Last year I got the measles and my mum said it was contagious." "Well done, Roland," says the teacher. "Can anyone else try?" Katie, a sweet little girl with pigtails, says, "My grandma says there's a bug going round, and it's contagious." "Well done, Katie," says theteacher "Anyone else?" Little Irish Sean jumps up and says in a broad Dublin accent, "Our next door neighbour is painting his house with a 2 inch brush, and my dad says it will take the contagious.
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Another breed ruined by the showing fraternity. I'm sure there are some exceptions, but I wouldn't have much faith in one with a jaw that weak. Surely these people have to be able to see that what they are doing is completely immoral and sick. They are purposely breeding dogs with serious faults such as fox terriers with fox terriers. Bulldogs that have heads so big that 90% have to be delivered by caesarean section. German shepherds that are riddled with serious hip problems because someone thinks its nice to see that downhill stance. A lot of these same people will criticise us f
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The Godfather Trilogy, Carlito's Way and Manhunter. I'm a big film buff and I found it really hard to do this, and I'll never be fully satisfied with my list but there you go.
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The underpants came straight off after that!
