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    I believe this is the lurcher that you are referring to. Don't own the book but borrowed it from the library years ago. I found this postcard quite a bit later and it is only titled "Leaping lurcher by Fay Goodwin 1973", but sure that is Rebecca from the book. A nice type and great photograph given the cameras of the time, took real skill using them.
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    Could even be old Airedale type before KC registration when they were developed into a very large Welsh/Lakeland lookalike. The old Airedale would have been a useful mooching dog and a handy guard around camp.
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    This was a gift from a Czech friend. The only real use that I have for a knife these days is gutting and skinning rabbits and cleaning fish. The blade is a bit too chunky for doing rabbits and I have always thought that it was too nice to be exposed to salt water and fish guts.
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    I have question Wahchadero, a genuine question. I will firstly say that I find this an interesting thread with photographs of some fine looking dogs. Question: What is the Dogo Argentino? Not what it does or what present breeders standards are but where did it come from? The breeding behind those that exist now. My almost none existent knowledge comes only from books. The breed is banned in the UK and I have not came across them on my limited travels. "Book learning" tends to say that a Dr. Antonio Nores Martinez set out on breeding programme to create them in 1920. Variou
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    Very nice healthy, happy looking pups
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    A nice terrier and the 1st pic is a great photograph. The head portrait of that "type" against that background...some things haven't changed and let's hope they never will.
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    Thank you for replying and sharing the photograph. Bullit was the sire of my terrier in this pic. I am not trying to pretend that I was part of the "scene" at the time, more a case of on the outside looking in, but there was some great Russell men around at that time.
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    Was that JE’s Bullit, if you don’t mind me asking?
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    True. I have always had an aesthetic eye. Cars and women have came and gone (no pun intended), but quality Russells have been a constant. They never change or depreciate ?
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    Two enjoying the Sun coming up to 40 years apart. Many things have changed in the intervening years, many for the worst, but some things never change. The good things!
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    That’s one hell of a back yard! Luck man and lucky dogs?
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    The job is as good as done mate. The pup is only 12 week old, you have ferrets on site and seem to have common sense. That's all you need. I would be concerned if a terrier pup, a proper terrier pup, was not letting the devil drive him on with a ferret. It will be the 1st furry little thing he has came across in his life? Control the exposure. Let one ferret out during the exposure (assuming it knows dogs), have him on a lead. Let him sniff etc. Give a little flick on the muzzle when/if he tries to use his mouth. Use the lead, use your voice. I would not personally advise trying to s
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    I should have wrote getting confused with. JB and MD. Not the original post but some of the replies. Unless the 2 lines are the same in which case it is me is confused, my apologies.
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    Are we not confusing 2 different men here?
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    I would agree with the pointless statement, unless the point is that it is cross that someone really wants to try. There are no laws preventing a man owning the dog of his choice, apart from Dogos, Filas and APBTs. But fail to see the point of a Border x Staff. Not least because I have always thought that the Border has some sort of bull in it. Pre dating the modern Staffordshire Bull Terrier. Look at a typical Border terrier, imagine it black and smooth coated? Lots of folk would think bull influence. But why mix the Border with the Staff of today? Increase head size (and the size o
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    There is already a ratting thread with great photos of fine looking ratting dogs. Also a ‘Show is your white dogs thread’, plenty of Russells on there.
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    I've just looked for the book and it is not on my shelves. Then remembered that I lent it to someone many years ago, and it was signed. Never got it back. The reason for looking for it was to establish the date of publication but think that it was 1982. No digital photography then. Only skilled people could produce photographic images suitable for publication. Add to that, no unlimited images on memory sticks or saved files on PCs. Every exposure cost money on film and developing. Maybe the photo that ended up on the front cover was something that the author had in his archive and his publis
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    I tried not to watch it. Makes me so angry. But failed and watched the final. I was expecting the upright shoulders, short backs and straight stifles that create the "wonderful movement". But I swear to God that every animal in the final had turned out elbows and was cow hocked. Even the hound.
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    I did not see it but the Australian KC was the 1st to give recognition to a type using the title Jack Russell. I believe that the people who were striving for recognition of a type by that name in the UK used it as one of the reasons why our KC should recognise the type that they were championing, as the UK was it's country of origin and the Australians had recognised the wrong type. Hence the Parson (Jack) Russell. Nothing to do with £££s of course.
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    The term "looking a gift horse in the mouth" springs to mind. I know nothing of the breeding that was mentioned. Pay no heed to that as I have no knowledge of anyone or their dogs in 2019. But, if due diligence has been done on the reason why the keeper is passing it on, why not take it? Some of my best dogs have came to me as young adults that for various reasons the original owner wanted rid. Going from being kennelled and bored to given a job, and being part of family, whether human or canine, well they seem to acknowledge and aappreciate that and give their all. You can rear a well bred
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    Actually the bloke you’re referring to stole the show on 1 my favourite films, In Bruges. Played a total nut job to perfection ?
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    For clarity he only spoke on the topics that we had paid to hear about. And he was very good. Don’t know if he held his present options on hunting at the time. A word of warning though...he really does not like Yorkshiremen and made this known several times!
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    Seen him as guest speaker at charity do in Hilton hotel Gateshead. 1 of the most interesting/entertaining talks I’ve seen. Time before he started with the anti shite, and someone will always go down in my estimation when they start spouting that stuff. Thing is though he was an hour late turning up. He went on auto pilot driving up, drove past turn off on A1 and was well on the way to Scotland before he switched back on. Slightly embarrassing for a great explorer.
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    Immediate post ban a recently retired police officer up Hexam way turned himself in after one of his terriers killed a mouse when being exercised. His former colleagues did not want to take it any further but he insisted that they did. A crime had been committed and he had confessed. Once everyone had familiarised themselves with the new law it turned out that no crime had been committed as he was not intentionally hunting the mouse. True story. Around the same time down Hartlepool way a police patrol came across a group of lads digging/hunting rats on "waste land". The land was owned by
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