Jump to content

eastcoast

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    3,056

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by eastcoast

  1. eastcoast
    Not a film but I've found myself enjoying watching Bangers and Cash on Dave. The daily business of a car auction in Yorkshire. I suppose it would be classed as reality tv which I usually detest but this is ok. It is probably because of the people featured. Unlike most reality tv shows it's not full of freaks or people with probable mental health issues. A section of society is filmed that the media tend to detest, normal white working class middle aged hetrosexual men.
  2. eastcoast
    Refreshing honesty. The mating may have been accidental but how many bred are the product of terriers that have truly been tested and of 100% known breeding. Some may well be and I respect those who have the dedication to do so, but most are not and probably never were. Ratting and rabbiting and the odd trip to ground (if the dogs are lucky) being more the rule rather than the exception and always has been.
  3. eastcoast
    Hares are one of the easiest animals to catch using terriers. If you know your land and your hares. Well not easy, but not impossible to catch. Knowledge and terriers can some times be better than large fast dogs and stupid people.
  4. eastcoast
    That reminds me of the time I got arrested for masturbating. I didn't think it was against the law but apparently it is if you do it when a nurse is putting a plaster cast on your leg.
  5. eastcoast
    mistake
  6. eastcoast
    Now that could be the start of an argument.
  7. eastcoast
    A very enigmatic and curious breed.
  8. eastcoast
    " she caught me " ?
  9. eastcoast
    So typical of deluded attitudes people have regarding animals today. They class themselves as animal lovers but most could not really care less how animals live or die as long as nothing that they actually see "offends" them and their is meat in the fridge and their living and work spaces are "vermin" free. Have you considered using a magic wand? I'm sure that the school library will be full of Harry Potter books.
  10. eastcoast
    No. Not really. I would dearly love to have a type of dog that I have owned or could borrow in the past to let off the lead and try better to explain to the people with large dogs why they should keep them on a lead until we can establish that their large dogs do not want to try and kill my terriers.
  11. eastcoast
    Yes, true, but when rearing game birds became a "thing" in England and people and means were needed to stop others "stealing" them, the type of dogs that had already existed in the past were not readily available or breeding true. Hence the Bull Mastiff was produced. The only type of dog that I never quite trust, however fat and useless that they are now. That's not true as I also don't trust American Bulldogs and any spitz breed bigger than a terrier.
  12. eastcoast
    Regarding the "real gamekeepers night dog" post, that was 19th century England and the Bull Mastiff was developed to catch and kill people. It was ok back then as the people who owned the country estates made the laws and ran the world. They still do to some extent but a night dog killing a man eventually caused problems for them so stuff from Germany (farm dogs) replaced the English night dogs. At one time in English law if your dog killed a man all the owner had to do was pay the value of the dog to the family of the deceased man if he was adjudged to be the sole bread owner.
  13. eastcoast
    This is the dog that I was referring to. By a Patterdale (with small % of Bedlington) over a working ESS bitch. I have tried all afternoon to get a decent photograph of him using my phone but failed. The pics do not do him justice but he's a very well put together dog. Not mine but the owner said it would be ok to post pictures of him.
  14. eastcoast

    Sideboard ?

    eastcoast replied to micky's topic in General Talk

    He's been dead for a long time. Work is still made with his trademark.
  15. eastcoast
    Whoops, talk about preaching to the choir ? you've probably forgotten more about the pro sport than I've learned. Didn't realise.
  16. eastcoast
    Pro sport. Nicest rifle of any power source air or live firing ever made IMO.
  17. eastcoast

    Sideboard ?

    eastcoast replied to micky's topic in General Talk

    Have nothing in your house that is not beautiful or functional
  18. eastcoast

    Sideboard ?

    eastcoast replied to micky's topic in General Talk

    Looks what would be called arts and crafts style in England, late 19th early 20th century. Just a guess but nice. £150 at auction £1500 in a shop ?
  19. eastcoast
    I think it would be fair to say that 1st well known and recorded use of an out cross was by George Newcombe. I am only going on things that I have read and did not know him but apparently the reason behind the outcross was not due anything lacking in his Bedlingtons but becoming too closely bred and he did not consider unrelated Bedlingtons worthy of introducing into his own strain as a means of making the gene pool healthier.
  20. eastcoast
    I came across this today when looking through some old mags. Off topic of the thread and of historical interest only of course but maybe of interest in regard to the bull types being used in fairly recent years in a working capacity? The breed listed as Bull Terrier I assume to be EBT. Not many listed. Interesting to me are the breeds listed in the "sounder" column. Nothing described as a Patterdale. Not saying that Patterdales were not being used for proper work in the field at that time in Ireland though and the name itself was probably not in common use at that time in the UK or the Republ
  21. eastcoast
    My introduction to those parts of the Tyne was tagging along with my dad and his mate when they went digging for ragworm. It was filthy back then with turds and condoms bobbing about in the water. Somehow the ragworm thrived but it was hard graft. They could only be found below high tide level which was completely covered in lose rock. The trick was to dig quickly on the edge of the ebbing tide before they went too deep. Maybe they had evolved like that due to constant overdigging on the easy parts, a bit like trying to catch rabbits on heavily lamped land? My dad and his mate would work in ta
  22. eastcoast
    I stand corrected, my apologies. Even back in the day I did not know that anything other than rats or feral cats lived there.
  23. eastcoast
    North Shield fish quays? North Shields? When it was in rack and ruin we hunted rats and no one owned the cats. A nice place now but no animals live there apart from sea birds and rats.
  24. eastcoast
    There also used to be a lot of feral cats around in that place. All changed now though.
  25. eastcoast
    Do the people who try and keep the Bedlington type alive as a working terrier do so in the hope that they will have a strain of the perfect working terrier? I don't think so but I have never owned one and it has been a good few years since I knew someone who did, but people still seem to be trying to keep an old English breed alive as working dog. Good luck to them.
×
×
  • Create New...