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  1. I guess one of us will have to recite the ballad of Master McGrath!
  2. Airedale - We work 'em hard or else walk 'em home!
  3. I think you summed it up in one..... "walking round some disused earths today". If you knew they were disused.....maybe at 10 months old he did too. Give him plenty of time to mature, he is still a kid. If he worked wonders in the hard end then you could have the makings of a brilliant terrier, but let him make mistakes. The more mistakes he makes the more he will learn. Some lads don't class there dogs good until they have had 4 or 5 seasons put in and even then they still might only class their dogs as mediocre. So patience is the best thing here. Oh and the obvious.....
  4. That's a full working greyhound Cantona. My big fella Cú Dubh (KUDU) which in Irish means "Black Hound".
  5. I wrote it because I am proud and deeply protective of who we are. Glad you liked it.
  6. Hunting and man's relationship with his hunting dogs have ensured our survival to this very present day. Hunting is man's right, for some a reason to exist and is a natural law in maintaining nature's balance. The dogs which have been sculpted from different terrain, different quarry, working scent or sight or "sense" as the case for our "earth-dogs"; but all hunting breeds share one common factor, the desire to work and the desire to kill. When we look at art forms such as Ju Jitsu, a picture is formed of various disciplined schools, each being formed centuries ago in feudal Japan
  7. Slap that dog all over facebook lad! There was a lad on here earlier in the year and he had the dog back to him with in a week. It even reached my own facebook and he was from London and I am here in Ireland, just goes to show how many follows it got to reach over here. He turned his dog mega hot, although i think that could go two ways.....the other way a bit more grim.
  8. I think what blue223 is saying is his Jack Russell is more versatile than an Airedale, but we have never hunted together. As for my lines, I have a mixture of Mogollon and Redline in some bitches and dogs originating from the West of Ireland in the other. Does anyone have any good working photos of their hounds and terriers to bring life back to this thread? Large terriers such as wheatens and Irish terriers or even large leggy Lakeland photos would be great to see. To finish on a note, working Airedales can be a case of beggars can't be choosers. Basically when a pup comes to a w
  9. They all have their own raised boxes which are bedded with straw. They all have a 10m x 10m pen to run in. They are dogs. I will never trust them with lambs no matter how experienced they are in the field. Sticks and bones get chewed.......they will chew on anything that gets thrown in the pens. When did letting working dogs chew on sticks become bad stockmanship. I work them pens everyday, scrub them clean, carry buckets of fresh water across the yard, tend the dogs feet, teeth, wormers and spend a fortune on meal. Don't lecture to me about stockmanship because I can assure you
  10. Well the straw is dry and since I live in the mountains they MUST be bedded on straw because it gets so cold up here. They are on chains because it is lambing season and I don't want any young bitches getting out in my absence and finding a hefty bill of a few grand going through the letter box. The "scrap" is a pillow they tore apart between them during playfighting and the sticks are there for them to chew on so they don't get bored. And the pen itself is a walled sheep pen approx 10metres by 10metres, ample space with straw filled boxes. But hey, maybe if I put them into a galva
  11. You wouldn't dock a hounds tail.......so why would you dock an Airedales tail.....because of looks?
  12. Cracker photos! I had to do a double take on where you from because they made me feel right at home! Strong legs needed by humans and dog for that ground!
  13. Genral Lee.......ya know what.......working them and walking into the pens each day with them there is an great feeling. They get better and better every week. i would really like to see large hunt terriers make a comeback, especially the Kerry Blue (lets not get into this debate again!), large Lakelands, Fox terriers, Irish and Wheaten terriers to name but a few. They have a place in the field and between us all on this site we probably own the best native working bloodlines in the world. This is one fiery bitch below and only just over a year old. And another young b
  14. Don't be afraid of keeping the long tail on the Airedales, they still look the part and really serve a purpose when reading a dog as it works ahead of you on a scent line. The tail straightens out and the tip dangles just above the bracken, heather and brambles moving a distinctive way, a clear indication the dog has picked up scent. I would just like to share a few other photos in case anyone is really thinking about starting their own working Airedales in the field. These bitches are just over a year old and really starting to show their fire in the
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