grompz56

a sad loss indeed,RIP dave, used to love getting the ed/rd every month a proper magazine which dave ajways did his best to get published on time, ive still got every issue from start to finish thankyou dave and may you rest easy.

beautiful looking pup you got there mate, nice height and good strong feet with strong looking bone, dont see many good examples about these days, wish i could come across something like that cross again ,make good all rounders, had some great times when i had mine, do you know what strain of bedlington was used. hope it does well for you atb.

Fred,just my opinion but i would definetly say that dogs and ferrets from a good few years were bred from proper working stock, that were bred by genuine working dog men that used the dogs on all sorts whether it was day light, lamping or coursing and wouldnt tolerate stock that couldnt do the job they wanted them to do, they bred good honest worker to worker including terriers and ferrets, and were not money orientated and pumping litter and litter out of non working stock , and charging telephone numbers for them. the genuine dog men would cull hard . and would gift there dogs to mates and

i bet it will be somebody that knows your movements knows your kennel set up, or who has come to view any dogs or pups youve had up for sale,or somebody that knows how good a workers your dogs are, cast your mind back and look close to home ,somebody somewhere will know something just bide your time mate, bstards need there hands chopped off, hope you get them back soon atb .

hope you find a good pup , with decent working bedlington in it, sadly very hard to find these days. i wuld have another tommorrrow if it was bred right, brilliant ferreting, lamping. and general mooching dogs atb in your search mate.

Dont hear much of trevor cook these days, didnt he get most of bill dohertys doxhope deerhounds when he packed up a few yrs ago, used to go under cookland deerhounds, believe he bred some good stock, any body know if he still going or just breeds the occasional litter atb.

Anastasia noble breeding good proven coursing deerhounds, sad loss when she went ardikinglass .

tats that would have been john nuttall a brother to brian nuttall holmes chapel, always had ad every week in exchange and mart he used to charge 15 pound a pup, bought one of him in the early 70s it was the enterkine strain of working deerhounds, job to find quality stuff these days, last 3 dxgs ive had came from dave platts, current one 12th generation reasonable dog 2yr old, suits me now at my age, will be my last i reckon the way lurcher work is going these days, we were lucky to have walked the walk with the dogs in better times.

Right lads im no stranger to hunting with dogs, but a mate of mine reckons he shot a hare that was showing the signs of this disease, thought it was only rabbits that caught it , because hares liveabove ground and are mainly solitary creatures, did hear one time that hares can catch something called forest eye which causes them to go blind not certain though.