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    That's what our opponents would have been hoping for in order to turn the great British public even more anti hunting, and they don't really give a shit about animal rights anyway in my experience. As long as they have cheap meat, eggs and expensive puppies how they are produced is not something that they care to think about. Even Blair allegedly said he wasn't bothered about fox hunting one way or the other.
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    The shows of strength may possibly have given the government at the time a reality check regarding what they had promised. One of the promises that new labour gave prior to wining the election was that they would ban all hunting with dogs by 2000. Yes they did serious damage but were never able to keep that promise. I believe that they were the recipients of a £2M pound donation from LACS on the strength of it.
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    Something mentioned in the original post regarding the lack of media coverage annoyed me at the time and a realisation that the masses are only allowed to see what those in control want them to see. I was on the march and found it hard to believe when I got home that not many people were aware that it had even happened and the same at work the next day. A short time after the event the 1st gay pride rally took place. It was all over the media and a story line written into Eastenders by the BBC to ensure it got the exposure that they wanted. I may be wrong but I seem to remember the count of th
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    A rare old stamp. Throw back or line or recent KC blood, none of my business just nice to see.
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    I went to a little hunt terrier show years ago in north of England and the small turn out of Jack Russells was of the best quality. All working dogs. The last class was for entered terriers and an immaculately dressed elderly lady entered the ring. She was dressed head to toe in tweed. Like a character from an Ealing comedy that would be played by Margret Rutherford. She had a black Scottish Terrier. A modern KC type. We stood and watched and made derogatory comments questioning the old lady's sanity or understanding of what an entered terrier was. Later on in the pub it was explained that the
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    There is a way of cleaning white dogs with out needing to bath them. Just give them a good rub down with your hands. All the crap comes off them and onto the hands. Keep washing the hands. You end up with a sparkling white dog.
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    That's an interesting looking dog. I would have said EBT influence and seen later post with it's breeding listed. Has the look of the mythical Old English White terrier about it. Regarding the condition of the animal I can see where others are coming from but he does not look damaged or undernourished, just a bit scruffy and feeling sorry for himself ? . Another photograph on another day would look fine I'm sure.
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    Nothing strange about that bonny lad, it would be strange if you didn't ?
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    mistake
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    Now that could be the start of an argument.
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    A very enigmatic and curious breed.
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    " she caught me " ?
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Whoops, talk about preaching to the choir ? you've probably forgotten more about the pro sport than I've learned. Didn't realise.
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    Pro sport. Nicest rifle of any power source air or live firing ever made IMO.
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    Sideboard ?

    eastcoast replied to micky's topic in General Talk

    Have nothing in your house that is not beautiful or functional
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