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Anyone read this and want to share their views?
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Same here mate. Found a sink hole in the local swamp. I'm guessing a tree would have come down years ago and created a massive hole where the roots came up. Pitch black and I'm wading through looking for a dog and a deer, and I steps in the hole.......I went straight under and this water is black and stinks of sulphur. The lamp went under and my phone went under and both died. So I found myself in the middle of a swamp, where there're plenty of snakes and spiders, in absolute darkness, soaked to the skin, with no light, no phone, no dog and no deer. Took me f*****g ages to find my way out of t
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Auchentoshan
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Yes mate, still over here. A son of the white dog, doing well on the pigs himself
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Are you being serious?
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Lads, should you feel the desire to want to match each other at whatever....do it via PM and not on here. All talk of arranging matches or calling people out will be deleted.
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More....More!
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The white dog in the left of this pic was a mixture of bull and sighthound and was a remarkable "one-out" pig hunting dog who did the whole lot - find, catch, hold, but by no means was he a "one-out" pig killing dog which is where I think some of the replies are getting confused.
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Bosun What other breeders added Bulldog? How do you know they were used as Lurchers? Have you any reference of this?? And the Bulldog they are refering to I suspect is closer to a PB its just refered to as a bulldog To be honest I have no direct references, other than what I have been told from greyhound men in the past, lad's who have ran unlicenced. Lets face it, if Lord Orford used a bulldog outcross in the 1800's with excellent results, would some others after not follow and try it for themselves? As for being used as lurchers, why not, it'd be no different than when whippet
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Written by a bloke I know from the old country I had to have a bit of a think about what people mean by the term Poacher. Poachers in the old sense of the word were people who took what they needed from wherever they could in order to feed the family and keep the proverbial wolf from the door I suppose. That’s still true in some ways, but to be honest with you, I think there are more people doing it these days just because they like it; for the sheer enjoyment of getting out with a dog in places where you are not supposed to be. Living by your wits is something so alien to a lot of p
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Great stuff Moll. Lovely to hear of your exploits again. Next time get Plod to pose for a photo with you and the bunnies!
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I used to like following her exploits back in the day mate. Sorry to hear that she's gone.
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Sorry mate, only seen this now...all good here mate. How's things with you? House is in pandemonium with Christmas and a 3 year old! Did you ever get those kennels up? Are you serious?.......him and Dillon building something...........come back to earth man! :laugh: Enjoyed that read mate, glad to see you using your talent.......I only saw your little dog in his dotage, but what a great animal he was and put up with a stupid pup without even curling a lip. The cold eyed dealer of death from above was asking on you and Clynt mate, I will be catching up with him after crimbo.....as
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Sorry mate, only seen this now...all good here mate. How's things with you? House is in pandemonium with Christmas and a 3 year old! Did you ever get those kennels up?
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I thought this months edition was a belter
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Not entirely sure about all this "to the shoulder" business with bulldogs as to me it's about weights and weights have always varied. There've been the smaller end of the scale and for those who can remember a dog called Violet Kray and her offspring, they were smaller than some terriers. And of course there were the larger dogs and some of the Reid gear was weighty, amongst others. Shit, even some of the KC Sparpit stuff ran to 40-50lb mark in the Staffords. A mate of mine had a genuine first cross, and I mean genuine off good gear, and it didn't make the size he was after for his game.
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"Work them Hard..." for me is the yardstick. Look at the current/recent crop of writers that are out there though. We're spoilt for choice, both in books and also in the magazine. I'd love to see Peter Tulip write more as I always enjoyed his articles in EDRD. Compared to when I was a kid there's a glut of authors these days, some good; some not so good and some outstanding - David Harcombe, Colin Didriksen, Phil Lloyd, Jonathon Darcy, Welsh All Black, John Glover, Dave Bezzant, Sean Frain, Paul Dooley, Patrick Burns, Daniele Piacentini (sp?), Penny Taylor, Suffolk Bill....I could go on. It's
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Not exactly a stafford, but we used to have good fun raking around banks of brambles and the hills and valleys of Kent chasing bunnies and foxes. Sometimes the bunnies were almost fit for the table Sometimes they weren't -
That one was kenneled and worked alongside a Beardie cross. Chalk and cheese
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Genuine half cross of very good breeding. Very eager bitch. Shit coat that never stood up to inclement weather and picked up every burr within a 5 mile radius. Couldn't fault her heart.
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Can't wait to see this book
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http://www.earthdog-runningdog.com/#/this-months-issue/4542070280
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http://www.kelb-tal-fenek.de/rabbithunt.htm
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The sire to this dog was a track dog and I've never had any dramas with his feet and you have you bear in mind that I run some truly atrocious land which ranges from baked hard and cracked, dusty flats to forest and swamp. His dam had good feet though and I suppose he inherited those from her. Not saying he's better than a lurcher to lurcher cross; just merely saying that he's got very good feet that withstand everything he's encountered so far. I guess a lot depends on what you start with. If you've got suspect or average feet, crossing to a greyhound ain't necessarily going