Bosun11
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Eddie is almost idolised in the US, but not so much here. The bloke on FB by the name of Terrierman, can't gush enough about him. I dug to a couple of his dogs in the 80's and they were decent enough. I last seen him at my only visit to Crufts about 17 years ago. Back in the 80's a mate put a dog off Eddie over a working Border bitch and they also were good. Eddie seen a white bitch off this litter at a show and bought it off the lad, knowing how it was bred. He then put one of his dogs over that and sold the lot as his line. And though I'll bet those pups were no worse for tha
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Read this earlier. Sensationalism at it's best, reading absolute anti bullshit about a perfectly legal and normal activity. The only things he did wrong was trespass with no permo.
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Zamberlan (the heavier models) can be a bugger to break in, but mine are still top notch 4 years in, and as comfortable as slippers.
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Yes, he did, at the very begining.
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Yeah, but remember, he had a number of different stud dogs, of different types of collie, and collie hybrids too. I would think in the early days he experimented on those different studs, and the various lines of greyhound, with the best intentions. He had a reputation to earn for this venture to be a business. But Plummer's fixation with the merle coloured dogs, and subsequent book promotions, took him to think not of working ability, just sales... His book, My Life with Lurchers gives some insight as to the various types he was producing. That said, I believe those dogs
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I judged a wolfhound/greyhound the other week in Conwy. Bloke brought that, and a trailer full of different crosses over from Northern Ireland. He was tiny, and the dog as big as him..! To be honest, the beast looked like it had a gallop in it. And I asked what it was like on foxes. He replied that he'd never tried it on them. It was just a deer dog, at which it did very well, and running it on foxes may spoil that..!! All I know is that, neither dog nor owner looked like they could deal with a deer in the field, and I wouldn't like to shovel up after it...
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It was one hell of an experience mate. To follow a professional stalker trying to hit his cull quota was tough. I really wasn't sure what to expect, so kept an open mind. Donnie is in his late 60's, but he can move up the steepest glen like the very beasts we were stalking. Driving the bottom roads, pausing to gaze up, and as soon as deer were spotted we were going up, vertical, direct, no paths, no routes, just direct. On a couple of stalks, Donnie would say " this isn't going to be fun", and boy was he right..! Gralloched where they fell, it fed the foxes on the hill. Some of the poorer
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Great & positive story for working terriers and the F&MWTC... Well done Gordon Bottomley Great photo too
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I was invited to go stalking up near Alberfeldy last November. I seen a total contrast to everything you have just posted. To have it right, ALL upland areas in the British Isles used to be densely forested, but were stripped bare for grazing, hundreds of years before the gun was ever invented.
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My post has feck all to do with the dog mate. He's in the fecking way..! And yeah, he's a line bred half cross
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If you know, you know...
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An owners ego is the heaviest burden a dog can carry...
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Haha no mate, it was a scene from this film. With John Wayne sat up front, about to nab a giraffe with that noose on a pole...
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You should get one of these...
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Defender...
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You have no idea mate, no idea at all... I'd give the subject of driving fields a wide berth.
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Crazy nights... Was always funny seeing lads out lamping on foot, and tearing up to them, lights off, foot to the floor, then slam on... The looks we'd get... Priceless!!
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Those were the days, or nights..!!
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Done it both ways... but I'd always do it all off my own steam. I love going off grid there. Head down the Keys for fantastic boat experiences. I'd also head over to Everglades City and get on the airboats in the reeds and/or mangroves. Some great people down there...
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Spot on...
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So very true, and like him, or loath him, he's a bloody good dog man, and would prove that to anyone questioning it...
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A couple of my mates have had Lab/Greyhounds. John, who used to write in the early EDRD mag, under the name Greylab. His dog was a decent animal on the lamp, but excelled around an earth, as John done more digging than anything else. His dog loved foxes. My other mate Andy has had a couple, he's a lamper and his dogs are ran on anything he finds in the beam. Again, they have both been spot on fox dogs, as he loves running them on that quarry.
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I know plenty that have been out with Mark, and not one came back and said a word against his dogs. His dogs all perform at the highest level. He puts the effort in to ensure they do.