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    The bitch had a locator collar on so we knew she was. I think the collar when flat after the first day so we just kept going on a bit of guess work and hard listening. I was laid in the bottom listening the end of the second day I could hear the bitch under where I was laid but couldn’t see her anywhere. We all decided it wasn’t safe to carry on as it had gone dark and the rain was washing the sides in so we lifted a big flat rock back in to cap it of over night. The next day we spent most the day cleaning out what had fallen in and making the sides safe for the men in the bottom. When we got
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    Not really got any pics of them terriers. They’re my mates he’s an old chap been breading them nearly 60 year nothing special just always bred of dogs that worked how they wanted them to. You’d struggle to pick a digging dog out of the lot of em. The black an tan in the picture isn’t amounting to much to be honest
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    That’s exactly what my old mate says to me “ no good we them digging dogs tha wants a wanker like them of mine”
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    3 days digging with a 25 ton machine and took 2 days to back fill. Lifted some rock out the same size as a truck
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    Don’t think any of the pics actually do that hole justice ratface
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    The lads that work these place will think as much of there dogs as you do but they have to know there places and know there dogs some lads up in the fell country have terriers that will never see a normal earth. I know a bloke who’s worked some places for 60 year and never had a problem in them and he was shown them by a bloke who had worked them for 60 year before him. If you work on 3 fox a year from them places over 120 year it’s a lot of fox without a terrier even having a night out. I’ve also driven past places he’s told me to never ever put a dog in and told me the tales of caving men go
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    Lots of different types of rock places. Some can be only 10ft deep and next to impossible to help the dog if anything goes wrong
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    No Morton she is definitely out of the same litter as your the lad that has her gave you a Lurcher pup that died in your kennels. I was also there the first time your bitch was dug she didn’t put a foot wrong to be honest was an ideal easy place to start a pup
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    The Black and Tan bitch that was only going for about half hour at at time and then wouldn’t go at all was bred by Morton or his lad. The lad that owns it is only really a Lurcher lad and he’d sooner handle a rattlesnake than a shovel so he isn’t over bothered but it’s definitely not breeding stock.
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    Not good at all especially when the bitch we got it with is next to useless
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    Has that young bitch of yours done much in the ground. I know the black an tan bitch hasn’t done much an last time she was in did about an hour an half but showed twice and kept going back to the same spot. We got it with a different bitch in the end
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    Is it your bitch out of that litter you thinking of breeding from
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    Is it the bitch that your son bred that your thinking of breed. Is that the same litter as the black an tan bitch
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    Bonny pup that Is that a straight GWP or a cross
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    What cross is the dog in the bottom pic
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    I always thought drahtaar was German for wirehaire but I don’t speak German so I could be talking ?. Did he use the dog for finding fox
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    I’m picking a pup up in 2 week I’ve been looking for the right litter for a while now. I’ve know a few keepers that have them for picking up and a couple of lads that use them with hawks and they all say they like fox when they’ve come across them. I haven’t heard of 1 that hasn’t had the bottle single handed yet. 1 lad My mate was telling me about had 1 for hawks and ended giving it to a foxing man because it was going on fox and staying marking instead of doing his job. It’s had some cracking Lurchers bred out of it since
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    You’ll know yourself a good hill Lurcher doesn’t catch everything it runs then sometimes you’ll put 1 up and think it’s in a bad spot for the dog yet it gets caught easy. I’ve seen them catch them but I’m not saying they’re catching them regularly away. There was alway 2 running together and sometimes the odd Lurcher as well. The old 2 he had did have a knack off catching bolted foxes but mainly through being clever and waiting in the right place and letting them have much of a run. If you held them back and gave it a run you probably wouldn’t see it again until he was holed again
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    A mate of mine bought 2 just before the ban came in. They came out of a bitch that was just a pet he got them because he’s been a hound man all his life and wasn’t sure how the hound job would be after the ban. They found fox on the hills as good as any animal I’ve seen. They marked a spot on his hill once he walked home for a terrier and was an hour before he got back to them and they hadn’t moved. They would point a fox sat tight in a rush bed and sometimes pull them out of there seat. They had no problem dealing with 1 single handed. I’ve seen them put them up run them and catch them and I’
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    You big girl if you don’t ask you don’t get
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    Think it was common to work more than 1 terrier in rocks years ago. A lot off old boys talk about it like it’s perfectly normal. I’ve heard tales of 5 or 6 being used. Wouldn’t fancy it my self tho be bad enough losing 1 good dog never mind a yard full
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