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I don't know if this exists and I can't find it on THL or if has been done before and was not popular. But the idea of this thread is for people to submit their own art, drawn or painted by the individual rather than purchased. A few days ago I saw a very nice drawing in the Lurcher section but I forgot exactly where and now cannot find it. Maybe there could be a place where our own art could be placed? Not for critique or ego, merely to share. I have know a few people who have drawn and painted yet keep it to themselves as a kind of dirty secret. Not sure why. I have always loved a
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A handsome looking dog and an interesting mix. Seems to be well thought of too by those who have seen him in the flesh. Good thread.
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I was trying to work out his breeding by studying the photo. I got the deerhound bit right ?
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I like the edge protection/guiderail on the ramp. Nice to see working type terriers getting well cared for. Sometimes the devil's in the detail. Cracking looking pups. Hope they all get well deserving homes.
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when experienced terrier lads pass away.
eastcoast replied to stonewall's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
I truly wish that the greatest threat to the continuation of terrier work, or any hunting in the UK and Ireland was individual men dying. People die, always have and always will. An irrelevance. But I do get your point, just don't regard it as a problem.. -
There was a time when a visit to the local Cat n Dog shelter could prove fruitful. I witnessed a period when the favourite type of pet dog changed from little white dogs to little red dogs. There used to be loads of good quality red Lakeland types being bred and lots ended up needing rehoming as they were not ideally suited to a sedate family pet existence. Most were well bred or only a generation or so removed from good breeding. Seen a few bought for a song from animal sanctuaries that made proper grafters. There was also a time when a football manager could shout down a pit shaft and end up
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Wise words WLF. You may not of had great formal education but seem not to have grown up a fool. I would add the lads who never made it out of their teens or twenties by drugs, "joy ridding", jail (gaol, I am educated now), or taking the Queen's shilling., etc. Suicide also. How important are a person's school days? Many factors need to be considered. Nature or nurture? Every man, woman and dog are different. It is the job of the fortunate to look out for the unfortunate, and this can take many forms. Excuse my ramblings, I just liked your post.
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Bliase, you have asked a question on THL and not had much response. I find that a shame as many of us, myself included, have asked questions of yourself and have been given prompt and considered replies. I am by no means the best person to answer your question but will give my opinion. If you were a person from the continent with no experience of the working terrier then it would be a relatively simple question to answer, but you have the real working terrier. Your thread on THL confirms this. The Continent for this purpose being the land mass of Europe not including England, Ireland (No
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"I'm not singing for the future, I'm not dreaming of the past, I'm not talking of the 1st time, I never think about the last"
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Everything is objective and we all have our own opinions but I can state 100% that the prettiest, straightest shooting and best engineered air rifle for shooting daytime rabbits in God's Own Country (Northumberland ) is an AA Pro Sport with a walnut stock in .177 calibre.
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"It is a good deed to forget a poor joke" (Brendan Behan)
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Robust healthy looking animals. Not comments that can be made on many mastiff/bull types around these days. If they have stable temperaments then you can be justifiably proud. The 1st one that I saw in the flesh was actually in Tenerife on a stag do many years ago. I left the place where I was having a liquid breakfast and crossed the road to try and have a bit of craic with the chap who was walking it. He did not, or would not speak English and was having none of it. Maybe not helped by the lads that I with, none of whom were dog men and never understood my obsession with all things cani
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I can only echo what other people have said as to how enjoyable this thread has been. There is a definite need for someone to record the knowledge that just about still exists but may soon be lost. The dreaded books, a cause for much argument and scorn as to the credentials of the person writing them and the people featured. I get that, but we still all read. The people reading this do anyway. Not a how to do this or how to train a dog to do that. More in the style of Lucas' Hunt and Working Terriers perhaps? The only terrier book that I read as a young man but have found myself returning
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It is a definite "thing". A genetic thing, obviously. Something to do with the gene that produces pigment in an animal is the same gene, or is intrinsically linked, to the gene that develops hearing. Lack of pigment could = lack of hearing. A piss poor explanation I know but not something that I have ever had the need to become more educated in. The only working bred deaf dog that I have known was a white dog born from black and tan working type Lakelands. Never came across it in Jack Russells or whippets.
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Has now been identified as Buck, a Bluetick Coonhound entered into the Kentucky man/dog hide and seek championship finals in 1978. The organisers are still trying to locate his owner to award the 1st prize.
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I think that he ghost wrote 2. at least. Depending on who your God is. Nowt wrong with a person being interested in the natural history of an animal. Nowt wrong at all.
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I blame the family. They have been filling me glass up with Jameson's for the last 4 days. No doubt in the hope that I will fall asleep and shut the f##k up. Happy "holidays".
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I think that many terries that cost a pretty penny.. sent.across the water and sold to people who should of known better...waited too late for the official stamp. Played a bad hand. Gripton's dog's are in their blood but they cannot be honest about it. The show shite. But it is in there. The real Jack Russell that he had? Do they still exist? Well there are still terriers of a white colour working that may be of his blood... but why would it matter? Where did Bert Gripton get his terriers from?
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Strange to see the obvious Fox Terrier cross being shown, but I suppose that's show BUSINESS. Regarding Drabble being a critic of terrier work I don't think he did too much damage as it had already been done by ' men' with terriers. There are different periods in history (and I can only comment on England) that were regarded as the Golden Years of terrier work. Well, the 1980's can certainly be regarded as the darkest days of terrier work. Certain people with terriers who were a gift from God to the antis. A time when unemployment and crime was rife. The police did not have the resou
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favourite type of working terrier and why?
eastcoast replied to Lenmcharristar's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
For me it is the Jack Russell terrier. I have always been of he opinion that working terriers are a rather unique type of dog. Small in size (from necessity) but never stature. Hunt like hounds but game . As unique as all working bred terriers are I find the Jack Russell the most enigmatic. What exactly are they? What defines them?. Well that's easy now, if they are not recognised by the KC as a Parson or a Jack Russell then they are just mongrels. I can live with that. The Jack Russells themselves don't really give a shit. -
A similar thing almost happened to a heating engineer that I once new. He got off on a technicality though as he was Corgi Registered.
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Fair comment. Merry Christmas Mr. Cooney, in fact to all on THL. People may disagree (which often makes for entertaining reading :-) ), but at the end of the day we are all on the same side. It's us and them and I'm glad that I'm not on of them. All the best.
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Wolf Hounds by function I would think. Not judged in a show ring on a points system using a breed standard written by the wrong people who wanted to keep a closed gene pool for the wrong reasons. Form follows function, always has and always will. Nice wolf hounds in Ted Newgent's photos. But I must add that I've never seen a wolf (or any wild canine bigger than a fox), so this is purely my personal opinion based on jack.
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The chap in the photo also appears to be wearing some sort of training shoe and I can't see a spade. Do we know for sure that he did not have a decent pair of boots back at home and some digging tools in his shed?
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That dog has some quality to it, tremendous quality if it's a bitch. A show dog or a working terrier being shown? As it was the 1980's at least there is a chance that it is the latter rather than the former.
