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That pic of Brownlow Bob was from the 60's I imagine and this one of Peter Sinead after he was stuffed would have been taken in the late 70's
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Peter added the Sinead affix to all his wheatens Stabs, so if he called a dog Max, it would be Max Sinead for example. Peter Sinead was, as you know, the most successful trials dog of any breed. In those long discontinued trials there would be a majority of dogs that were lifted for being a bit rowdy, usually at the point of contact when a dog would snarl as he took hold. Of the dogs which were judged to have maintained contact for the whole six minutes without changing grip or giving out (noise), the judges picked out an outstanding performer to award the title of "dog of the day" to. It migh
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The Handy dog was bred to a wheaten bitch in Lurgan back in the 70's and produced the dog that the late Peter Gorman called Fred Sinead. A dog called Lance and a bitch called Mitzie from this litter stayed in the North and a dog went to Cork. I saw Handy in the flesh many times and he was well worked as a trial dog. Peter bred Fred to some of his wheaten bitches and that was, I think, the first injection of EBT blood into the wheaten. I had a bitch bred this way ( Fred X wheaten) that I bred to my old staff dog "Red" to produce the smooth fawn dog "Grip" in the above pic. Other bitches from
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Pitbul Amanda was bred to the Belfast bred Ch Badgerlea Rascal to produce Cailin of Cuileog, who in turn was bred to Thoroak Sorrel Sam to produce Tyrone of Cuileog. Does anyone know what the registered name of Socks was with the I.K.C.?
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A pal of mine's a plasterer and he's just spent the past week in Prague working. Things must be bad!
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The reason that may not appear to make sense Gary, is that when you copied and pasted the info off the private message that I had sent you, you have left out a line of text and started half way through a sentence. Good luck with the pup....( which I would expect to make 26")
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Sounds like a common or arctic tern to me..........
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Thanks for that Lennard, all I could find about the subject of hunting involved guns as you say, or scent hounds. Thanks for clearing it up. No Flynn, I could never move so far from you honey. My pal Sean asked me to find out as his lass told him the Swedes had a scheme to help Hungarian doctors settle and learn the language. As Andrea is a Hungarian doctor and speaks Russian and English already (so languages seem to come easy to her) they were toying with the idea of moving there to start a family. Sweden being one of the top rated countries for social cohesion and happiness. However it
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Anyone know if it's legal to hunt rabbits and hares with lurchers in Sweden please?
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There's nothing wrong with getting a dog out and about at a young age. Allowing a pup to watch a bit of ferretting will help get it used to the ferrets and it won't get run ragged all over the next county if it chases a bolter. But you can only progress through the stages as and when the youngster develops. At the moment your mates pup is curious enough to chase when he's in his comfort zone, i.e. in daylight when he can see around him. He's still immature enough that his survival instinct (fear of the unknown) overrides his prey drive in the dark so it's holding in check his desire to chas
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Excellent stuff Meerihunter, look forward to seeing your video
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I'm a fan of Wilbur Smiths, big, bold adventure stories for grown up boys. Mostly based in his native Africa during the early pioneering years and featuring larger than life characters making, and sometimes losing their fortunes by hard work and guile. The plots are embellished with meticulously researched history of that continent and he always gives dignity to the native peoples encountered by the European lead characters as they carve a civilisation out of the wilderness. My favourite would have to be "The Sunbird" but once you read the Sean Courtney trilogy, beginning with "The Lion Feeds
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Apparently the modern "Wolfhound" was created during the 1800's by a captain Graham who crossed Deerhounds and Great Danes to try to simulate the extinct Wolfhound, which, judging by the close history of Scottish and Irish culture was probably the same dog as the hairy highland Greyhound, ( Deerhound) that was taken across by the pioneers to form the foundation of what we now hear of as coyote or Staghounds in the U.S.
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And he makes it all look so easy...... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6lbvSBNLLoo http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TX0eTp7SoNU http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-7wAEMIAhFs
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Tommy Emmanuel, even Clapton has said he's the best he's ever seen. Tommy comes to my wee town every year and I never miss him. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hOw6gCPDEQ8 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PJlyvV7zNx0
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If you told me it was a collie x american bulldog I wouldn't argue.
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Here's another one I found of that Ruby bitch in my avatar, quite heavily saluki bred around '86 or so.
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Thanks Miles. If I remember correctly it was a white pied animal and we brought it over for him from Snatch about 5 years ago.
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I would be surprised if Paddy had bred to a greyhound though, because while I was hunting with him his saluki bred dogs had no trouble taking hares on any of the land we walked.
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See those hares in my avitar? They're Irish hares and the bitch is more than half saluki bred and knocked them over in all types of terrain over here. That picture was taken nearly 20 years ago. I know some people have tried to produce dogs from show type salukis over here and have been disappointed but having hunted all the British Isles hares, the brown hare is in a league of its own, the Irish hare is next and the blue hare is a long way short of both. I've posted this before but the biggest hares I've handled have been Irish does and they are not the same as the mainland blue hare. A recen
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I wouldn't argue after all this time but was under the impression THEN that he hadn't been. Do you know which trial and the judges concerned Neil? Go to pm with it might be the thing to do since names are involved?
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Sorry mate, I haven't been talking to Martin for 5 or 6 years but he's not afraid to spend on a dog.
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I wouldn't say Martin had a strain of dogs, he had some off Craig and Paul N over the years and had a good little bitch called Fly that was bred off the pure saluki dog Sonny. She was small but could knock them over. Good luck with your pup.
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I should have qualified that by stating that those were the dogs which hadn't been lifted at the time I stopped going G.Mac. Lance was still running at that time and any results in the past 1/4 century I know nothing about.
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Very true Neil, when a lurcher breeder crosses a saluki with a greyhound he's not trying to improve either pure breed, he's trying to create a dog suited for a particular job. So when I bred my old staff dog "Red" to my 3/4 wheaten 1/4 bull (Handy) "Dusty", there was never any intention of trying to integrate staff blood into a line of wheatens. I just thought that as both parents performed the same function well, I might get a decent draw dog. This was the result, Grip proved to be much more than just a draw dog. This is the pic of Brownlow Bob and Freecrow Hero The othe
