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  1. THE GENERAL
    Great thread, good reading and nice stamp of terriers you have DD. Atb
  2. THE GENERAL
    Aye behave yourself young Toner ?
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    I owned a terrier from a pup, gone now a few seasons. He was bred by a friend, i started working him around 14mths though the penny didn't drop until he was around 20mths. He was worked most weeks of the season until he was 13 year old when I retired him. Theres plenty of lads seen the dog work up and down the country to vouch for that. He did take his fair share of punishment over the years which was clearly visible but that just depended on the circumstances, a lot of the time he was dug to and their wasn't as much as a scratch on him. The dogs sire was the exact same when he was around. Bot
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    Were a bully or was bullied, your grammer is much terrible ,LOL.You say I try to belittle people ? I don't resort to the name calling that you have towards Fireman. As for digging cubs ? You should educate yourself on the political side of fieldsports (IMO everyone should.) and you'd realise that the main reason in both Ireland and GB that terrier work is very much a legal activity is that there is no other legal and humane way to account for foxes both young and old in the breeding season (when fox problems are at a premium) other than terrier work. Simple as that. I visited a woman a fe
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    It was not just about the type of terrier but the amount of space they had when to ground I was told by an old fella that had entered terriers to otters enough time to know what he was talking about I don't doubt that old fella you know "MIK". My comment was purely sarcasm based. Nothing to do with otters though! Common sense prevails.
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    It all depends on what type of terrier is being used. Will a "bolting dog" work an otter better than a "digging dog" ? ?
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    bit like a lot of terriers that are owned by men that run foxes to ground with hounds. The majority of them will false mark. Reason being 90% of the time they are brought to a hole there's been a fox ran into it. So when they're brought to a place that's not holding, they automatically think somewhere inside there is someone at home because there always is. Seen a few great dogs in the past like this but as you said faults in the man that has ran the dog on.
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    it's still alive with them in the woodlands in Co. Fermanagh chara.
  10. THE GENERAL
    Bolted a few over the years never dug to one. There's 2 swim in the river in the middle of a town not far from me. You'll see them most mornings and evenings in the river. Great to watch and a lovely animal, that is unless you own a fishery ?
  11. THE GENERAL
    Smart pups best of luck with them.
  12. THE GENERAL
    you dont agree with me then! so are ya saying you'll dig 2metres in 40 mins and eat 2 sandwiches ?? ?
  13. THE GENERAL
    For talks sake is the words I think you've missed out on there, it's a thing called hypothetically speaking.
  14. THE GENERAL
    must have been a digging dog, definately not a bolting terrier ?.
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    You don't have to be good at maths to understand the scenario, just know what is being discussed. For talks sake any man should be able to dig 4ft in good ground to get to a terrier in an hour. So in the same soil if there was 2 men digging 8ft! Does that mean it's going to be done in 2hrs? Lol
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    Dog has to find and get settled 1st so your looking at least 20min then with a 9ft dig your goin to have to make the dig at least 5-6 ft in lenght and 3ft wide to give yourself room to work,so soft ground or not and with 2 diging its still a lot of diging. And a shit load of shovelling out. Digging deep and throwing well back lol.
  17. THE GENERAL
    It's as simple as "Terrierwork". Google It. You will find where we are now. Google "Photobucket" it's on here as well. Then use accordingly.
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    Nice one ?
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    I'd be out regularly on my own nothing OTT but within reason. Doesn't bother me at all, companies always better but some lads work different shifts and it mightn't suit them so it doesn't stop me.
  20. THE GENERAL
    That sounds like a real bad situation like you say he ended up lucky there.. yeah he's on here too hope he reads this haha
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    I had simular saturday ,but the second fox went to bolt from a different earth and then turned back in only to meet the following terrier who pushed it back out arse end first while having hold of it and as it goes my russell bitch has entered then drawn her last two foxes by their tails so a bit confused on that one as well, Sounds like a good days crack allround. No two hunts are ever the same.
  22. THE GENERAL
    An aquantence of mine did similar about 20 yrs ago( no mobiles then)his brother found him following day...too late,left wife and youngsters behind Sorry to hear that lad. Wouldn't think its a nice way to go, terrible for his family.
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    I dug a one this afternoon and the terrier more or less had it finished in the hole but he bolted one before from a big place. So is he a hard bolting terrier and a digging terrier too? Lol
  24. THE GENERAL
    I've noticed that myself at times often wondered does it stop cattle from tramping over the dig and making it sink in or the chance of them getting hurt. A few logs and they would walk around it quicker and give it that chance to tighten up. Just the same way farmers run electric fences around areas where there is holes and cattle have been known to fall into.
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    Had one jump down from a hawthorne hedge right at me when exercising the pups while they had disappeared down the ditch. I ducked, it landed beside me and went on. Got one pup, found his sister 4 fields away no collar on never dug to before and she wasn't with the fox that had jumped from the tree. Sat for nearly 2 hours until my mates close by had finished work and could get out to help me with tools to get her out. Killed them out of roofs standing with my back to the wall jumping out windows floorboards and any gaps possible. Why would they need an earth, they find homes anywhere? Hoking a
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