Bosun11

Couple of years back I got a call from a woman who runs a smallholding not far from me. She said she had a rat problem, and could I come and help. I went for a look without the dogs first. It was just a couple of fields with tatty sheds, one for stableing horses and the other that kept a few hens and one to make a brew etc. They were right next to a lovely, sand bottomed brook, that was honeycombed with rat holes. I offered to give the pace a go ( i'd be a fool not too) but the best bit was when she said 'watch this' and pulled out a bag of grain and started filling up the chicken feeders

Brian to a Cocker, planned or not, has gotta be well worth a punt. Gutted I'm not in the market....

The irony is that the three people who have told me there's Muntjac here, are usually sources to be trusted, in every other land management question there is... And yet I've seen nothing but Roe around this area. No matter how often I've been out, day and night. I even took to walking without a dog for a few nights to see if it made any difference. Though all it did was boil my piss for the cracking runs i missed...

'Officially' I hear they are now around where I live (NW), but I, nor anyone I know, have ever seen one. Though it is possible, as the Roe only decided to make an appearance 15 years ago, dispite having a quiet life for decades. Now they are getting to be a pain, with so many roads about. If Muntjac do eventually make an appearance, then right now, I run a mutt that just might do a decent job on them. But until they do 'burst from cover' it's gotta be local Roe...

What a fantastic clip of a serious animal. That's some run. Love watching that dogs gears, from a turn to the straight and even through the farm, where it knows what's underfoot, class that... Though please edit that clip to omit the cnut who ain't dressed for the weather ( whilst slipping a dog in it) and the 8 Mile bullshit soundtrack, which I know is relevant to you kids, but will date a clip, and alienate people from watching it in later years... Just saying like Some feckin dog though...

haha, will you take a cheque, all out of cash.. All good mate, still drop in on occasion, hope your good too?

Oop's... Is there a funny knock, or a rolled up trouser leg to pertrud or something...?

Dogs for jobs... Better find that cross plenty to do, they like big stuff, and don't take to rotting in kennels....

I'm a million miles away from being a twitcher, but this is a bird I'd love to see. Lad I know picked one up on Formby dunes

Will keep my ears out for that. Round here we have plenty of both Buzzards and Jay's. The buzzards are a nightmare on the leverets in the area, and need culling. The Jay's, although prolific, put down more trees than tree rats could ever do....

If you want a dog to become legendary, then ensure it only performes at it's very best. Pay no heed to challenge or bravado. Let your dog write it's own story, in the deeds that are done.... How you get to that, is your business, however you work your dog, however you test it, to become the stuff of legend, is your business, but you better be sure to keep that well under wraps...

They are lovely things mate, especially that one in the first photo... I've tried to find mine as much graft I I can, sometimes 4/5 days a week, and everything I've put her on she's smashed. Would of loved the chance at Muntjac on the lamp, but I ain't travelling to do them. Thought long and hard about breeding from her, even more since I wrote the first post on this thread, and....

Might get an apple or two this year....

Greenhouse is slow this year. Is it frosty nights, or peat free compost... Got around 60 tomatoes on the go, most from heritage varieties. Bought in a ton bag of compost at 51 quid, and put it down over cardboard to suppress weeds, so we'll see.... In the Greenhouse, Tom's small, sweetcorn shite, cucumber shite, courgette shite, peppers shite, chilli's oki'sh...

Your probably right mate, but the mix, I think, exaggerates it more... I know that I struggle with these types, and would much rather prefer a dog that doesn't crave my constant attention... It doesn't help that i've always been allergic to dogs...!! Thankfully my wife and daughter deal with the household stuff, and she switches on to work, as soon as she's shown it.