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Paddy and me at newmarket job ,heavy land bolted like rockets ,each dig was 2/3 backed upland shallow compare with the sandy areas we did near ipswich 8 to 10 ft deep sometimes ,my early days again and i only wish i had thought of taking more pics or even doing my videos on you tube .that would have been bloody awesome .but we got a good drink of the farmer when he saw what we caught ..hapy days with some great teachers ,my pest control training was now about 5yrs in terminix ,then rentokil and 3 more big national to give me the exp of working in pest industry ...20 hard years but i was like a sponge taking it all in . doing big sites ipswich hospital with igrox pest control .and high st retailers etc food factory ,prisons horse racing studs and airports .this is what i planned for and it all came together .hard slog but worth it
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I only had mother and her pup to work and hunt for all our rabbiting trips with paddy (john)..Barleys training had paid off ,when she started working at 16 months with me lamping ,coursing ferreting and shooting two.
for she took foxes too and bambi ,she had the heart to tackle anything ,even walking the woods at night and using my air rifle to knock down long tails ,she brought them all back to hand .Like mick said once when you only have 1 or 2 dogs you spend the time out working them and they get better and better ,(having alot time is not given to each one )
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Another season on horse paddocks on our own ,big old net baskets ,but quicker to run out ,mostly 4z but it picked up all the twigs ,leaves etc .But held rabbits well.Again i brought sheet netting and set up all my own long nets with ample bag in them.Most purse nets was hemp which paddy taught me to make starting at 3;6 long ,but later we did alot of golf courses big holes to net ,and made them all 4; in length learning better ways .One day we caught 2 rabbits in one purse net ,as numbers was high then.
He had it once 3 in one net ,i had no reason not to believe him
we hunted for many many seasons ,great old poacher he was lol
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Ferreting on a large horses paddocks ,again you can see my long nets on anchor pins ,hemp and my early days in rabbit control .Them my home made quick set another few years later i trialed for my sport.
Barley was so calm and biddable a great little lurcher at 23 inch high ,her feet was cat feet " micks saying as there tight and compact ,hardly no injuries in her whole career "
My AGE no idea ,but my son chad here in pic learning the art, and his no 34 yrs old
I had met up with some great rabbit guys ,the old school teaching me so much ,we were using the rentokil van every weekend ferreting .(working for pest control national got a free van ,so we used it all the time .Happy days
Had local butchers to drop off rabbits ,paddy and me both had around 20 great farms to get round in winter time in suffolk and essex.We only netted ,mainly purse nets and average catches was 45 to 55 a day ,alot of digging too
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Barley working with my ferrets about 3 years old i guess ,bolting rabbit missed nets and soon snapped up and carried back to hand un harmed
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Barley micks norfolk ,with her swift which i breed from here and kept for working (i only breed her once to much regret and 3 pups came out fawn ,like this in photo and other looked like sire ,she had 7 bitches in total )
There first fox many many years ago
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Well what's going on nowadays , people wasting money on these so called dog dealers
Telling you can catch 3 out of 3 winter hares in the fens ..??
And when you ask these dog dealers what cross you want ,as if by a miracle its got all of them in this breeding
ha ha.
Some are easily fooled.Not able to learn and put in all the effort to train a lurcher and form the bond you need,
Want one ready made for lamping or what type of sport they do .
Mick said it simple to me.Why would you spend hours days and time in training ,and working your best lurcher and some one bids on it at a show and offers you a price ,sells it on.
Normally it got a lot of faults by being passed around to in experience owners, and the classic one is over working the poor thing..blowing internal organs ,damage joints and tendentious run after run when the door bones and body are not fully grown up
These types have no patience ,or a common sense to them its just a tool to brag about ,and when it fails on a course ,up the road it goes to another home.
You know and we all know you would never part with your best worker ,well i wouldn't ..
Trying to correct a running dog that's been run into the ground is , a very very hard task indeed .
its a job i tired once ,and never again ...
I take my time ,put the bullshit filter on ,and look for a cross with some brains, collie x speed .and Good work lines
been lucky as most pups i got from good breeders are mostly all the same in litters ,(not 6 different colours size and markings) Like a lottery .
I rather have more up top than a speed machine, which can use for lots of jobs.Made a big mistake going to Takely in essex to get a pup ,came out of a traveller greyhound coursing lines .Not much up top ,to sense to stop at barb wire
or jump and this sight hound i used made the vet very very rich .Accident after accident.
Never again.
we all like different choices ,and it s great to see what can be done when a trainer is really good at this task
David sleight with his kelpie cross , i watched and listen to him and it did make sense .well done for sharing your advice to us learners
Making videos on his training too show basic needed , I think he good for the sport . And insure there are alot i don't know has help other people in training
Always a school day and you get out the best bits of a dog if you take things slower and don't rush ,you got years of hunting ahead and why not wait it will pay off later ,my view .happy hunting .
I just only find small areas locally where the rhd2 has not been ,and no big numbers getting caught now .
but its sad to see the countryside without the humble bunny ,lots loads of contracts once it hit us in sunny suffolk
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im not sure if im doing it correctly on here with my Blogs
and can anyone put me right if its wrong
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After more years in hunting and rabbiting ,and some lurchers had been and sadly gone .
I found my training and learning much improved ,with help and advice by some local gamekeepers in hadleigh suffolk
Tim Cole he was bloody good at training gun dogs and sold part train ones to guns etc.
he passed on alot of good tips ..... but when i showed up to a gundog training class ,with all the other breeds
i got some funny looks lol.
SHE was i guess 4 months to 5 i guess and we did a few classes.
She sat in the rabbit pen ,calm and taking it all in ,plenty of praise and unlike some of the others did a good job.
My thoughts was train like a gundog ,but get her to the best obedience of all my last lurchers.
stop whistles ,hunting up ,and carrying birds and fur .Tim said get all the ground work in livestock steady ,socialising
and recall ...But THERES NO RUSH BOY,you got years ahead ,So it payed off .I could send her in and stop her chasing and all the right calm nature was in her breeding.Few moxies at 15 months old
My other dog mates thought i was mad lol
They just wanted a lurcher off a slip lead ,and spent all day trying to get them back (which meant all game was running away before we could get near them ?)
It paid off lamping one night when a rabbit bolted off towards a main road ,and my mate couldn't understand how i blew my stop whistle and she stopped and sit up.
Right before you saying her heart was not in it ,sadly she caught rabbits i never saw and hunting and quartering as good as any gundog ...We all learn from each dog we have and hear feet was like cat feet tight and her working life had hardly any injuries due to her high level of intelligence !!!
happy hunting and we all have our ways to bring up a working pot filler
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Mick was a very good with his hands ,he had kiln where he fired all his pottery he made.
He was making knives to ,and explaining about carbon steel and holding there edge.
Its was interesting to me ,as most of my knives were crap,im a young lad buying these fancy stainless steel ones
which i seem to put down and lose.
He was a wheeler dealer ,he asked if i ever seen this lovely long handle narrow blade type knife before ??
nope was his it i asked ? A gypsy dualing knife ,it and a long narrow blade which locked in different angles for fight ing with
looked very smart ,he said its for sale ... but i never had enough to bid on it .wish i had lol
He told me he helped locals at a school in craft work , special needs , which if my memory still working .
But please correct me if its a bit wrong ,but he always helped me and with hunting ,training lurchers ,just about everything
to do with field craft .sadly my memory can't recall it all . was growing up around and Mick Said one thing
He said he had travellers round ,and some where really nice people and enjoyed the banter with them
on other hand he had others intent on nick everything which was nailed down.
He put up with this type of wasters .
One think for sure that bloody cold wind off the marsh es could freeze the balls off any monkey .
Im trying to find some more pics of this amazing man . please share if you got any .Happy hunting
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Went to local car boot sale last year at Marks They ESSEX ,
Saw these lurcher prints ,the stall owner turned to to be Doug Coopers Widow mFrom CT
Chatted to her about mick and her husband who she lost ,ends up she lives at Mildenhall suffolk ?
Gave her my business card ,pest control details ,was looking forward to seeing her some great stories
and never did get in touch ... pity really
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barley breed from micks lines
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Swiftney my lurchers bitchs mum , lovely looking lurcher ,at ipswich
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The Norfolk Lurcher Breeder ,MEET MICK DOUGLAS
called the Fen Man or Hippy ...Bloody legend ,And no bullshit from him ,RIP My Friend we miss x
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My New norfolk lurcher puppy bitch from nicks lines
Had to wait 2 years for her ,worth every bit
14 weeks i guess in her new home in ipswich
So easy to train ,had all the right breeding and my pest control work on rabbits ,in local farms where the happy days.
Didn't start her until 14 months on a few easy myxie rabbits ,carry back to hand alive ,carry back feathers game too
Took his advice over the years about training and few other good gamekeeper s and it all paid off
Mick Douglas Norfolk Lurchers
in Lurchers & Running Dogs
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got a big surprise coming up to PHIL LLOYD ,WAIT and see mate ......???
a photo s about your shooting news articles ...ha ha