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Wiels disease seems to be bit of lottery. You read about people dying from it who have only been rowing on a river or fishing as has been sadly mentioned here, yet some of us who have been in far more contact with rats and live with ratting dogs never get it. Not yet anyway but only catch the occasional one or two these days. I occasionally need to action things on sites when lads report seeing rats and carry out tool box talks on the dangers. Always feel a bit of an hypocrite as I have done and sometimes still do break all rules and advice that I give.
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I used to ferret rats to dogs a lot. Not saying that I ever caught a lot of rats, but like to think that I didn't miss much when using that method, if that makes sense? Ferrets behave differently when hunting rats than they do with rabbits. Once they know what rats are about. An experienced ferret at an inhabited rat hole entrance will often lash its tail. Not like a happy dog but more like an angry cat. They are up for a fight. By the same token, in my experience and I may have been unlucky, eventually they will not be up for the fight and refuse to enter. The only one that I had th
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GERMAN! I didn't know she was German FFS! Now it all makes sense.
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Is it not every little girls dream to marry the handsome prince, even if it is a ginger one, and live a life with unfathomable wealth and privilege? But the woman is still winging... what chance do the rest of us have of trying to keep one happy?
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That's a very sound looking animal. He's not impressed with someone taking a photograph of him though ?
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£750 may be a lot of money for what they are and perhaps AA are putting a naughty mark up on it, but... they are very nice things to own and shoot. I treat myself to one a few years ago for a landmark birthday. I didn't need one (does anyone need an air rifle unless involved in professional pest control?) as I already had a few old springers and a more technologically advanced PCP + more powerful stuff. But going back to basics with a beautifully built and designed single shot relatively low powered rifle to stalk rabbits in beautiful surroundings reignited my love of rifle shooting. The
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Probably not a correct comment on a working dog forum but the white with symmetrical black ears is a bonny looking terrier.
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She could fight for Scottish freedom?
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Whatever the circumstances of this young lass and the events behind how she ended up in the position that she is in, is this an example of how the UK is taking back control of our own affairs?
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Thylacine 'Caught On Trail Cam' Twitter Claim
eastcoast replied to Ken's Deputy's topic in General Talk
I watched a documentary on snow leopards a few years ago where an expert from the west camped out in leopard country for I think about 12 months to try and capture these rare animals on film. He ended up with about a minute of footage. Then we get appeals on the TV asking for money to protect them form being hunted into extinction by poachers. How come the poachers can find them but the expert naturalist got practically jack shit to show for his efforts after 12 month? -
Come on sid g, you can't leave it there. Well you can of course, your prerogative. It's not a working terrier book so no exaggerated tales of super dogs that in reality may have been useless in there. Unless it in regard to the abilities of the terriers owned by John Russell himself but I doubt your that old? The authors unashamedly justify the recognition of pure or crossbred Lakelands so would not have thought that it is in regard to "purity" of breeding. I am intrigued as to what the interesting story is, genuinely... don't leave us hanging man! ?
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Seth MacFarlane being the man behind it of course. His "Ted" films are also very good. Mila Kunis being in the 1st one who also voices Meg, a bit ironic as she's such a smoking hot actress.
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Came across this when having a clear out at work today. Forgot I had it. A little past the best before date.
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I'm having a mare hitting wrong buttons tonight.
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Love it. Funny and clever. Most attempts at comedy on TV these days try too hard to be the latter and fail miserably with the former.
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Quoted wrong post.
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that book kind of sums up the future of the Plummer terrier type. Written to justify the reason for KC recognition for a type that had got along very nicely as a working terrier up until then. A lot longer than the Plummer type. They got them registered, closed the gene pool, made shit loads of money.
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walking back into the estate and through the streets to home after exercising the dog on a lovely still and calm night I was struck by the smells coming from the open steamed up windows from people's tea/dinner being cooked. Lovely smells. Garlic, herbs and exotic spices. Not many "non-indigenous" or ethnic minorities live around here. Shows how much people's tastes have changed. Friday used to be fish n chips. Not complaining, just wish somebody would invite me in for tea.
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Not my white dogs, they would have been bred around 140 years ago. Images borrowed from R B Lee's Fox Terrier, 1889. Available as a free download from IWTF site for anyone interested. At the time the drawings were done I think the breed was on the cusp in transition from a working terrier to useless show dog. According to the author these types were still being used on fox, badger and otter. Not too dissimilar to some of the Russell types that we still have.
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Didn't some prick of a judge give him 12 month custodial when in his 70s for selling dog meds?
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I remember the C W whippetxgreyhound adverts in SN. Call me cynical but people would get featured in articles extolling the virtues of the great dogs that they were breeding and a few weeks later their adds would start to appear every week in classified section. Not saying his breed was no good, never seen 1.
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I think that's a bit unkind to many Russells. I'm not knocking the Plummer, don't really have an opinion on them, but many Russells haven't had beagle, Stafford, Fox Terrier or Patterdale added. Not in living memory anyway.
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Not the strangest but one the most unpleasant things I've seen was a rabbit bolt from a small warren as I walked over it. The terriers quickly nabbed it and just as quickly left it. The entire back end was a writhing mass of maggots and give the appearance of being eaten alive. It also stunk to high heaven. I assume a ferret had had a good go at it in a stop end, made a mess but hadn't got over its back to kill it. This was the middle of summer. I encouraged the terriers to finish it off but they wouldn't touch it and I had to neck it. Horrible sight and smell.
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My grandad told me that gypsies in Rothbury Forrest would eat Smurfs if they couldn't catch any hedgehogs. They'd roll them in mud and bake in a clay oven until their little white hats came off. Supposedly taste a bit like chicken.
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Are you sure they were Smurfs and not grey squirrels turned blue with the cold?
