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[. Cheers Jazz Yea I remember getting a letter from the Lucus terrier club telling me that they had discovered the introduction of plummer blood and that my dog was no longer considered a Lucus, but is now a sporting lucus. It didn't effect me one way or another to be honest. The origional starting point of Brians project on establishing a sporting Lucas revival was to cross Polo to one of his rough coated red & white bitches called Gram. Anything and everything subsequently bred from this stock contains a degree of Plummer Terrier. The dogs Mark has bred, a
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he challaged me to run my Keera against Canaan when we said yes he upped the ante to 5k when we said yes he backed out then incidently when out for just a walk with Alan H who had Canaan I took Snipers mum she killed four and Canaan killed none ask him if you like and my bitch was an old lady by then, Incidently my affirmative response to the challange was printed on the front of ED RD I cant defend that or really comment on it anymore than Iknow that Canaan was never going to make a top class match dog. The breeding may have been good enough, but the geography and training aspects were
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.... just an afterthought regarding a lot of the stories being fictitious.... I met a lot of dog men over the years, and Iheard a lot of 'true' stories regarding their dogs, as I expect many people on here have heard. If you are totally honest with yourselves, how many of these fabulous tales do you think were 100% accurate ? The best ones ( usually heard around the beer tents ) relating to dogs their friends owned or dogs they previously owned, often rank alongside Harry Potter in factual content ! I personally dont mind a fabricated story, as long as its entertaining and th
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I knew Brian a little and he was good to me but the thing that annoys so many terriermen is that most of the stories were FICTION. The one thing that bugged me was the challenges in a certain paper offering to match Cavaliers against ANY working terriers on digging, this is clearly a joke :whistle: I'd have paid to see a cavalier work a January dog fox and keep it bottled up for 4/5 hours whilst its dug to A good point on the fiction issue, but he was a good storyteller... On the challenges using Cavaliers as digging dogs i think that was just being mischevious and toying with a ce
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this is polo ...... damn, thought id cracked the photo thing !!
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Be carefull,if you post anything positive on here about Plummer, it seems to provoke a lot of reaction ! I met him a number of times and spoke to him many,many more. His knowledge of dog breeding, training and genetics i found second to none. And although Ratting, bushing Rabbits and even pulling sledges with white German Shepherds were never branches of dog work that particularly interest me, I was always impressed by his knowledge and enthusiasm. I find it a shame that he is disregarded by so many of the 'My dogs harder than yours, and so's my Dad' gang that the working dog scene seems
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I dug with Dotty in the early 90's down here and over in Wales and Ireland. Wiliam was bred along the same lines if i remember correctly. Pippin was from the first mating we we done with Polo and i think the dam was Gram.. its great to remember those days, I hav'nt had a digging dog since my old dog Rats died a good few years ago, but i do miss those days ! Especialy on the days you wake up to a hard frost ...
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Bassethund, do yours go back through Parsons bloodlines ?
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Thats the origional cross, sealyham x norfolk. Lucas's idea was to retain the Sealyhams qualitys but reduce the size using the Norfolk's if anybody can tell me how to reduce the size of the upload and add it as an attatchment i would be grateful
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This is Polo, sire of Plummers Pip. This is Polo, sire of Plummers Pip. This is Polo, sire of Plummers Pip. This is Polo, sire of Plummers Pip. Sorry, trying to upload a picture without too much success..... the file im trying to add is too big... HELP !! Ihave some pictures somewhere of Pip aged about 3 months taken in Caithness , I'll try and dig them out and upload them... if i can work out how to, remember this is before the age of digital photography !
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The origional Lucas Terriers bred by Plummer were all sired by my dog 'Polo', who was bred by Mrs Fielder from Lucas's own Ilmer blooded line. The subsequent generations included a lot of pure Sealyham blood. What has been added over the past 10 or so years, i couldnt say. In my opinion they are handy little terriers. Not as good to ground as the lakelands i used, but the dog i owned worked below ground to various quarry with moderate success, not fantastic but better than some of the '100% guarranted' digging dogs ive seen. I think everybody has their own standards of whats good an
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interesting topic Eamon, I dont often post on here because ive been out of the game for a few years now, but i do like to keep up with the scene as it was a big part of my life for nearly 20 years. A lot of the posts on here are very good, there are 2 or 3 chaps on here who i would like to have beer with and talked terriers... Some of the posts are pointless and sometimes embarrasing ! but thats forums, everybody has an opinion. We always used to joke at the shows that if every terrier there was an honest, reliable digging dog, then the fox would be extinct ! I still consider mysel
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first post on this forum, although i watch it with interest regularly. i worked terriers seriously through the 's and early 90's, in England, Wales and Ireland. my last serious digging dog was put to rest 5 years ago aged 14. this topic has compeled me to reply.. the coment about 'old terriers' and 'bold terriers' is as close to the truth as you will get, and 'horses for courses' also covers this. i have dug to dogs that could kill foxes in unbelievably short times, without sustaining more than 2 or 3 pepper marks. these dogs could account for 30-40 foxes per season. the same dogs ha