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Well just because I'm paranoid does'nt mean they're not out to get me.....Heh heh
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Yes Chilli but these infiltrators need slapping down where ever they appear. If that type of nonsense goes unopposed there will be youngsters who take it as gospel and get turned over. Isn't it strange that some one with those type of opinions wants to join a bulldog forum? Or am I paranoid?
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some of you may want to contribute to this.... http://velvetsteel.**"£$%^&*(40.com/index.c...read=1134592837
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Let us know what happens Shaun. Did you ever hear anything about the tug we had off the A1 that time? You being local and all and "should f#####g know better" according to the farmer. I thought Joe got out of the dogs....could'nt deny his culture and heritage for long eh?
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Thirty five years ago a mates colly/greyhoundxwhippet bitch bit my young sister on the face narrowly missing her eye. There were no pitbulls in the country then so what do we blame, the greyhound, the colly or the whippet?
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Well yes Baldie I suppose you need to catch it to kill it... :11: .........and in those countries they've bred off the type of dog that's proved capable of the job on that terrain over many years. In the UK foxes are never coursed over much of a run, (with lurchers) just bolted from earth or cover to the closest safe haven, more cover usually. So you want a dog that'll commit itself all out cos it's not going to get a second chance. From what we read of those coyotes they'll run faster for far longer and then fight harder if they're caught. There's not so many hedgerows or copses on yonder pr
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"Fashion has a lot to do with lurchers - look at what Plummer and Hancock did with merle's and beardie crosses" Absolutely nothing on the coursing field! The first was a writer, the second a chicken farmer who switched to farming colly cross lurchers largely for the show brigade. Salukis have a head start in the coursing stakes by several thousand years and if some match men are getting rid of their dogs it's because they can no longer course on the open land without fear of having their motor confiscated, not because they've discovered another type of dog that performs better.
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AAAaaahh! now in that context I CAN see the funny side
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I musta left my sense of humour at work, just saw one pig abuse another. However I did want to ask you Hairyface if this is you...... :11: :11: :11:
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Speaking purely from a coursing point of view I would be surprised if anyone made a judgment on the saluki versus deerhound debate based upon the running of hares only on the deerhounds home turf, the heather. To make a fair comparison would require running on both heather and on that stoney desert for which the saluki has evolved. The best test of coursing ability that I've seen in these islands has been the Forley cup, run on open fenland. Nowhere in the rules did it state that any particular type of cross must be used so the comp was open to all. I think it's significant that every club c
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no licence mate fenced in yard down in Texas, no licences needed, you call up and tell them what you want to shoot and they buy one from the zoo or a private breeder and put you two in the same yard. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's not hunting, I wonder how much it would cost for a shot at that W###er with the rifle!!!
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Sorry to hear that Tony, it's a hazard with the terriers. Easier to mix gundogs with birds I'm sure. The only positive way forward is to take it as a lesson learned and mark it down to experience. Better luck next time, Davy
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Don't know about those Burnie, but I would imagine they'd be a bit slow over here. Maybe for breeding though.
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Yeh Shaun, Tony bred Turk to him before he gave her to me. He kept a big whitish dog pup called Yogi but turned out much too slow so he gave it to Oggy. (he likes them plodders ) And Jim Ford had a little white bitch off Jack too that could stay for a week but just had no boot. She ran two hares off one slip in one of the forleys and caught the second one after about 6 minutes of running, remember that one?
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Could'nt agree more Mistwalker, after attending Besties funeral on saturday we had tickets to see another genius, aussie guitar maestro, Tommy Emmanuel, who was playing in Belfasts magnificent Waterfront hall. As usual I had forgotten to bring my camera but the music was mesmerising. Having listened to Tommy for years on cd and almost worn out the dvd of his Mississipi concert, there is no comparison to seeing him live. A call would go up from the audience for a particular tune and Tommy would launch into the most intricate rendition, throwing in all sorts of improvised runs while making it lo
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Every time I hear this kind of bad news it brings back my own memories of loss. These dogs enrich our lives and we can take heart from the knowledge that we have enriched theirs by allowing them to live the hunting life that is denied to so many dogs. Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all! (apologies to Robert W Service) :friends:
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No Flynn. my mate Colly. Don't think you met him but you may remember me telling you about S not locking the trailer properly several years ago and four dogs fell out on the road somewhere in transit between Newry and the far side of Dundalk. Well it was down to Colly's hard efforts during the following week that we got them back. One of them was the saluki bitch that is the dam of S's dog and bitch and my own two bitches as well as the two brothers in the pic. J D, there were'nt any distinguishing marks on the dogs but if Myself or Colly ever lay eyes on them there will be no debate ab
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Thanks lads, my mate is gutted and so am I coz whatever low life, night crawling b*****d has them is'nt fit to shovel their s###t. Of all people for it to happen to it had to be one of the most genuine coursing men in the country.
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Thanks for that Charlie, I'll go there now. This is the only photo I have of the two brothers at about six weeks old but you can see the black dogs markings.
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And this is the fawn dog as a pup. He's a lot bigger now but he never lost the "dumbo" expression
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Here's one of the white dog,
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A very good pal of mine has had three adult lurcher dogs stolen this past weekend. They are all under 2 1/2 years old and heavy saluki bred. Two brothers, one black feathered with white feet and one smooth fawn. The fawn dog is very wary of strangers. Third dog is white and all three are big dogs. They were stolen from kennels near Newry county Down but I suppose they could end up anywhere.
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Howdy dEs. The problem would only arise if you were caught in posession I suppose. They can't stop you walking a lurcher on land you have permission to be on, but the difference is easy to spot. The brown hare has much longer ears and a different coat. The biggest hares I've caught have all been doe Irish hares and the smallest have all been white lepus timidus (blue hares in winter coat). I even caught a pure white Irish hare (lepus timidus hibernicus) in county Londonderry in the 's. While the brown hare, in my experience, averages out a bit smaller than the Irish it remains the supreme tes
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Baldie it's the Irish hare that was taken off the quarry list not the brown. I believe it comes up for review each year so whenever we get either a Conservative government in Westminster or a sympathetic Executive in Northern Ireland it can be overturned. The brown hare survives in such a small area here that hunting them is hardly worth the bother. For those who may not remember Angela Smyth was the ex league against cruel sports member put in charge of the environment in the North by B. Liar. She removed the Irish hare, lepus timidus hibernicus, from the quarry list, claiming falsely that
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The Newsletter is the oldest daily newspaper in the world Tom and some time ago when they were celebrating their 250th birthday, they put out a series of copies of some of their early editions which made very interesting reading. There were sporting reports of bear baiting and cockfights in Belfast, which was really just a collection of small villages then, and also descriptions of hare and fox hunts, one of which ran their fox to ground in a culvert under what is now a city centre street. More recent sports reports have degenerated into accounts of on pitch rioting by rival football "supporte
