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An Táin Working Airedales - Tail Length
Stabs replied to foxhound45's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
Nice one Blue. -
Billy was bulldog x bulldog/terrier if memory serves me right. He sas condidered to be one of the foundation dogs of the Manchester although he certainly wasn't a Manchester himself
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I have ran bull breeds for a long time and I run collie crosses and have done for 11 years. For the work I do they do me fine. no stalking and no choosing their runs. The youngest one I have reminds me of a wheaten cross bitch I used to run. I struggle with them filling the freezer because I don't have a freezer big enough! I don't do pest control anymore and I hunt for shits and giggles and to feed my dogs and my family. My collie crosses are adequate for my meagre needs
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An Táin Working Airedales - Tail Length
Stabs replied to foxhound45's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
Blue....a claim like that would assume you have seen these dogs work. Is that the case? -
An Táin Working Airedales - Tail Length
Stabs replied to foxhound45's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
Foxhound are your stock from any particular lines? I really like the idea of working Airedalea and a few friends of mine work stags/lurchers with a good dose of Airedale blood and they have nothing but good things to say. Have you seen/worked any of the American lines? How do they compare to yours? Aesthetically speaking, I do prefer the ones with a jacket compared to the smoother ones I have seen. -
I was told that with Browns you've got twenty minutes. If you are more than twenty minutes away from help....you're in trouble. And don't run or you will cut that twenty in half. Nasty b*****d things. We get them regularly around here and Tigers too. It's just something you have to deal with when you hunt the swamps.
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Tandors I would love to buy you a pint one day
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I don't think I'll read a better post than that in a good while
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Can't tell you where it originated from General....but I believe it was taken to show the three predominant strains of what became the Stafford at the time of registration....The Cradley Bully, Darlaston Terrier and Walsall Whippet types.
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In no particular order.....feet, cunning, hardiness, nose, sagacity, tractability, coat, adaptability, intelligence, and plain old 'hunt'
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The likes of the Cheshire died out a long time ago if you read the breed books. I prefer to believe that like the dogs that became the 'Staffordshire', they were just a parochial strain of fighting dog that nearly every working class area possessed. Look at the Dudley; the Cheshire; the Blue Paul; The Red Smut. Did these dogs all die out because their function ceased to exist? Not likely, as their function has always lived and will always live on, however clandestine these days. Or did these types become blended and homogenised under the umbrella of the Staffordshire? There is and has always b
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Absolutely right Bosun, but how often do you hear them touted as the ideal first lurcher? My first collie lurcher had me wanting to commit murders
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Nice to read that people recognise the intelligence that some bulls possess. They don't get the credit they deserve at times
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I've spent all me money on whiskey and beer
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I asked her for credit, and she answered me "nay"
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And now I'm returning with gold in great store
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i never will play the wild rover no more!
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The best book Darcy has done in my opinion.
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Wasn't the precedent set when most western countries recognised the independence of Kosovo from Serbia? Kosovo being the birthplace of the Serbian nation. Something the Russians refused to acknowledge. Putin would seem to playing by rules that he understands the Western world to have put in place.
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Not many would eat rabbit....maybe some of Italian heritage. Absolutely no-one eats hares and you simply cannot buy them. Of course we do....but me and my Sicilian father-in-law have to eat it all ourselves. Goes nice with a drop of moonshine on a lazy Sunday afternoon with a cigar or two!
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Yeah that's the butcher. The old bitch would have cost me £2,500 to bring out. Worth every penny. She has cost me five times that at the vets since! I should change her name to Steve Austin!
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He was't born then Tomo. I bred the old bitch over here to a smashing greyhound that friends of ours owned. You are right about Kent...good memory! We have a few rabbits on the land we run but it's mostly hares. The bunnies don't stray far from the barn and the snakes keep their numbers down. Rabbits are $35kg here! Unbelievable!! He has been used on big game his entire life and he loves it! Daft sod.
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Same pair of dogs working the floods from a few years ago
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The dog on the right is as near as damn it a 3/4 grey 1/4 collie I still think of him as the pup but he's seven now and worked hard from a young age. Never caught one rabbit all his life! Not one! lol
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Mik....was in Adelaide a few weeks back when it was 46 degrees. Went for a 6km run with a mate for a bet lol. Instant sore throat because it was so dry. Had to drink my own body weight in lager to replenish lost fluids lol Will be back down for three days work at tje end of the month if you're still about?
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Great post that Dare
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My pure dog that had what I would call a good nose. He was very useful at finding and putting up foxes. He was in his dotage in this pic mind.
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I haven't read the CMW for years so I didn't know this bloke was writing for them, or the subject of his writing. Last time I picked up a copy of CMW was when I was back in England in 2011 and I had a few hours to spare in Barnard Castle. Good to hear that there's a few proper terrier articles in there though. Who is writing those?