thefensarefarbutistillgo

Didn’t know jacko had passed away, what happened there ?

Jigsaw, the best shavings I’ve found for pups are called bedmax, they come in a big yellow bale and are big flakes of shavings, you don’t want the small dusty ones, you can get them from the agriculture store chain called wynnstay stores, not sure if you get them in Ireland thow

Is that Keith Simpson in the bottom pic ?

Was that you or your dog that had the op ?

Could of been, that Darren’s brigorn was an imported pure saluki I seem to remember, I know sniper was defo out of a pure it’s the other half I’m not sure about

I think it was 96 or 97 the year he won the forley, the dog had a nice style of running, I think he was bred out of a pure saluki to a lurcher with s fair bit of deerhound in, not entirely sure thow

Class dog in his day, knew how to go up and down the gears, dont think he ever left any pups as good as him thow

Is that sniper?

Not sure what year Dennis won it but can remember him showing me the trophy when I went for the pup, that is defo him in that second pic

Can you remember a bloke called Dennis burns being there ?

The picture is not that clear when you zoom in but I’m pretty sure that bloke with the red bitch the second from the right hand side in the second picture down is Dennis burns with his bitch called gyp. He won a competition called the Cawdor coursing challenge in Scotland with that bitch and beat sankey, Harry burton etc to win. He put that bitch gyp to Caulfield’s joe and I drove up to the top of Scotland to get one of the pups about 14 years ago and still running the same bloodlines to this day

If you read things on the net some say they can heal themselves but a good vet told me they never do, they can be dangerous because the intestines could pop out of the hole and get kinked, also the lump which is just fat coming out of the hole could get ripped open in a working dog as it tries to squeeze under something when chasing it’s quarry. I’d get it done in a working dog due to the physical strains it will be under, it’s only a few stitches and costs about £150 - 200

Did you go ? Was that the competition they called the Cawdor coursing challenge

I’ve never had any problems with them being taken off and have only had problems with them being left on and know other people who have had problems with them being left on including a friend of mine who had a very good bitch that at 3 years old half way through the season when she was conditioned properly and up to full fitness and running out of her skin kept going really sore around the dew claws then not running right so had to get them taken off, which by the time they had healed properly and got the bitch fit again had missed a good part of the season. It’s a no brainer for me, they have got to come off, the pro’s outweigh the cons

They can, I think it’s just people going over the top a bit