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    As much as i respect albert... My dog will never leave my side for even a day until the day he dies... Good to hear that you are so bonded with him. If I hadn't my own what appears very special pup I might have volunteered to try him sometimes a different handler can work wonders but if you have trained for obedience you would probably know more than me about what you are doing! Hope to see 'THE dog' at Birr or perhaps even at Mourne.
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    Robert, Well done - we now have three dogs. Email me contact details to irishgamefair@btinternet.com
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    Love a challenge but I have one at the moment a 12 week old prodigy of a golden retriever - tried first week I had him ( at 8 weeks old) on a retrieve and he was brilliant - I normally don't do anything with them until they are 12-16 weeks old. Retrieved it like a veteran - now at 12 weeks he does memory retrieves, takes the back command and responds immediately to the whistle. My son videoed him retrieving 4 days after I got him at 8 weeks. He has got much better since then! My challenge is to take advantage of his willingness to learn without making mistakes. See video http://db.tt/B7e9G0c
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    Interesting isn't it. Now this isn't supposed to be a challenge but just an opportunity in the small arena to do a sort of training class demo with working lurchers to let the public see them. I thought Keith the Dog Guru or 'The Victorian Poacher' could do a sort of commentary. It is not intended to embarass anyone as sometimes dogs do not perform in crowds - that is why it is in a side arena. If it goes well I would like to see it in the main arena at Shanes next year and possibly Birr this year. Apart from some suggestions what gave me the idea was a guy with two very obedient lurchers wh
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    Carragh Gem, Now if I had had to place money on someone who had an obedient lurcher it would have been you! Still owe you a fair ticket - you should try to make Shanes this year! You sent me tickets last year albert, caine has been the hardest dog to train that ive ever owned... Never realised how much trouble a saluki blooded dog is "Handsome is as handsome does!" - good looking dog. I may be wrong but I believe any dog can be trained perhaps I have just been lucky in that my 'difficult dogs' have been trainable breeds - they have included corgis - ratting but also sit, stay and
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    Carragh Gem, Now if I had had to place money on someone who had an obedient lurcher it would have been you! Still owe you a fair ticket - you should try to make Shanes this year!
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    Delighted to say that interest in the combined Ballywalter & Shanes Castle Fairs has really continued to build towards our objective of delivering the largest Irish game fair ever. It looks as if we will have the best international competition yet for the Master McGrath and All Ireland Terrier, Whippet and Lurcher Championship racing and showing. As I said in an earlier post we will have three arenas operating : The Main Arena ; the Living History Arena at the Castle and the 'Countrysports Arena' - this new arena will be a long thin arena - long enough for any of the 'acts'/events we
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    Balmoral RUAS Show - it was always a good day out at Balmoral - and it should be interesting in its new location near LIsburn May is a month which is very crowded for events in NI . We were at the Traction Engine Rally at Shanes Castle last weekend - that really is a good day out for anyone interested in the country lifestyle. Then for the rest of May - Personally I am looking forward to visiting a number of events: 15th - 17th May : the RUAS Agricultural Show now in its new site near Lisburn; just down the road the Garden Festival at Hillsbough 17th - 19th May; had toyed with running m
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    First volunteer has emailed me - so the challenge has started. Retrieve will be dummy or ball - jump over a low net fence. As with all arena demos the objective is to let the public see dogs succeed not fail.
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    Well done to the NILRC on this result.
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    What no OBEDIENT working lurchers? We hear stacks of comments about how good people's working lurchers are - are there no obedient ones. We have been asked several times about a competition for them AND if we can get enough to do a demo on the smaller 'countrysports ring' we will put up prizes. Suggest simple : sit, stay, jump, retrieve and we could probably get Keith Mathews - the dog guru' to judge it. Alternatively we could have it a little bit informal by Keith working with a few people on a demo of lurcher skills. Come on now it would be great publicity for lurchers.
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    Interest is really building up in the Combined Ballywalter & Shanes Castle event planned for Shanes Castle, Antrim on the 29th & 30th June. We already have more stands booked in than last year with five large pavilions booked solid a great Gunmakers Row and a fantastic Fine Food Festival and are now really sifting the applications we are getting every day. We have great prizes in place for our gundogs, angling, shooting and terriers, whippets and lurchers. Interest in the Master McGrath racing and the 26th All Ireland Terrier & Lurcher Championships has been very high thou
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    LurchersIreland I had at the back of my mind that it was illegal but having been roundly and justifiably battered verbally for suggesting this I have found out about the current position : Since 2011, the Irish Hare no longer does have the Special Protection it had in NI under annual protection orders up to 2010 and now simply comes under the game laws and like the Brown Hare may be hunted during the game season from 12 August to 31 January. BUT not at night. Obviously the landowners' permission would have to be sought and I don't think many would give this because most farmers ar
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    Janet, You must have seen this happen even at Championship KC shows even if it is rarely but can happen if the stewarding is not up to scratch and there are big classes. At a Ch Show I saw a dog effectively re judged 3 times and placed differently twice. If a beaten dog later wins it could be because the judge cannot remember how he/she placed the dogs relative to each other, poor stewarding or that the dog was genuinely handled and shown better and looked differently to when it was first beaten. Better stewarding would help to aid the judges memory of how he /she placed dogs , dogs
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    Funny enough I had been saying to our PR team that I should 'cut the first sod' in the competition to wind the ICAB people up - they implied the digging competition showed the cruelty promoted by the fair - the poor old tea chests looked terribly sad being buried! Seriously I do love to dig ( at my own pace) with several projects on the way here including I have planted over 100 trees and bushes in soil similar to Mourne! My Xmas presents always include tools -picks, spades, shovels, mattocks - I have a great collection! The one I have never mastered is the long tail! But having seen and ad
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    Danny, Happy to put up £50 to each man's charity and a couple of good trophies for winner and loser. Think it would create a great deal of interest and there would be no losers! The last time we did it with the gundogs both guys got a huge round of applause. Cracking looking bitch you have - Nigel might need the handicap! AlbertJ
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    My final post on this matter : 1. I do not set myself up on a pedestal to know everything about all sports - my sports are shooting, gundogs and stalking and I have a fair and up to date grasp of the law as it relates to these sports. I am a graduate biologist and have published academic papers in the green marketing and environmental areas so I can and have debated with animal rights people on the basis of sound environmental credentials. When I was editor of the magazine I tried to keep us with all legislation concerning countrysports and keep abreast of any major threats to them. BUT we
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    i think if you check, you will see running hares is still perfectly legal in ireland, north and south. this thread and the others say a lot about these shows and the people that you have involved with them. So far removed from the working dog culture in this country, yet put yourselves on a pedestal as a champion for fieldsports. I don't set myself up as champion of anything other than running Game Fairs! But I do what I can wherever I can to support, promote and defend all legal country sports! tell us how you manage to do that when you didn't even know hunting hares is still legal
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    i think if you check, you will see running hares is still perfectly legal in ireland, north and south. this thread and the others say a lot about these shows and the people that you have involved with them. So far removed from the working dog culture in this country, yet put yourselves on a pedestal as a champion for fieldsports. I don't set myself up as champion of anything other than running Game Fairs! But I do what I can wherever I can to support, promote and defend all legal country sports! tell us how you manage to do that when you didn't even know hunting hares is still le
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    Hare coursing has been banned in Ni but I think hare hunting with dogs and shooting - ill defined may still be legal - outside of the close season. Certainly our local beagles still hunt but I don't know whether they actually catch anything! Shooters had voluntarily place a moratorium on shooting hares for some time but some are being shot for research.
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    i think if you check, you will see running hares is still perfectly legal in ireland, north and south. this thread and the others say a lot about these shows and the people that you have involved with them. So far removed from the working dog culture in this country, yet put yourselves on a pedestal as a champion for fieldsports. I don't set myself up as champion of anything other than running Game Fairs! But I do what I can wherever I can to support, promote and defend all legal country sports!
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    hare illegal ,how do work that one out ,in my gun club rules it clearly states that the coursing of hares can be provided on the land with dogs in slips ?only asking a question here cause its in the rules of the club Sorry Mr Scent I meant illegal in NI - where hares are protected.
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    Mr Scent, I think if you check what Ian said he was stating that there is a difference between a dog used on hare and rabbit and one used on foxes. At Birr he is judging dogs on conformation NOT working ability or speed . As i said although I have had my differences with Ian over the years I consider him to be a man of integrity who will judge fairly. That is all you can ask of any judge. Albert
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    Well put
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    Now so far the response to me by pm, email, telephone and posted here is overwhelmingly in favour of the 15kg bag of meal as the first prize for each class at Shanes Castle. So unless anyone else has any strong views on class prizes it looks as if for Shanes Castle and the 26th Annual All ireland Championships on Sunday 30th June - the class prizes will be 15kg bags of meal.
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