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Ever considered applying for Mastermind and asking for terrier work as your specialist subject? That would put the fox among the chickens ☺
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Is it not just a matter of common sense ? Times have changed, or so it would seem, surely no one would keep an unfit dog and them expect it to perform straight out of it's kennel if and when the mood takes or opportunity arises ? Reading the stuff on here I would hope that people are more enlightened now. Some interesting analogies have been made. I knew a lad who was got knocked back from the Royal Marines because of fitness. Not failing training but not getting past selection. This kid held a title at the time. I forget what it was but something like Mr. UK. A body builder. He would not
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A KC Greyhound. Shares many of the correct show points with the KC Fox Terrier. Would you put money on it ?
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Mad4, take a look at Blaise's thread in Write Up section. They're using them in France. I've seen a couple of Fox Terrier x working terrier years ago and they did a job but never seen a full modern KC working. The simple fact is that the type of dog that I think you're referring to is purely a product of the show ring. They were developed from a working terrier stamp originally by crazy people who mis-interpreted the breed standard and once they started they couldn't stop and ended up with a caricature of a terrier. I'm not saying that they're incapable of work just that they were not develope
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I did watch little bit of it and the one thing that they all seem to have in common is that they like to live their own life away from the herd and don't give a damn what others think. So why do they have a film crew out there who seem to record them 24/7 ?
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The first book that I enjoyed reading was Of Pedigree Unknown. Not the first book that I read but the first that I enjoyed reading. I came across it in the local library when I was meant to be looking for something else that I'd been told to read by a teacher from school. I was totally enthralled by that world that was so different to the one I lived in. I was blissfully unaware that most of that world had already gone even then. All that we have left of it now are the Whippets and a form of terrier work that is hanging on by the skin of it's teeth. I was given the opportunity to buy a copy a
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Has Ashley stopped taking his medication again though ? Give Palace what they want for Townsend, as long as it's not more than the £13 mil we sold him for, and Rafa will get him playing properly again. Then back in the Premier League guaranteed and maybe FA cup.
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Great paintings Trenchfoot. The thing with the eyes, Landseer said that the trick to successful animal painting is to give them human eyes. It isn't a trick, it's a talent, and your misses certainly has it. The collie cur ones I find the most interesting. The 1st one is very commercial. You can see that as a limited edition print in a trendy boutique or as a birthday card. The second one I find superb. Not just perfectly capturing a hound at rest but the colour and texture of the cushion, not easy and again good technique. Thanks for sharing them.
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Any chagrin caused to the men across the water was not intentional. I'm always careful to avoid that sort of thing but should know better. Ignorance is no defence. My own foundation stock came from Ballinamore Co. Leitrim. That's were I reckon my charm, good looks and ability to hold my drink comes from. But perhaps that's offensive stereotyping ? :-) Back to terriers. I can not see anything that a Jagd has to offer that is not already present in OUR native dogs. Other than commanding a higher price per pup unless you breed KC Parsons or Borders. But obviously anyone selling pups from tho
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How about the Atlantic Archipelago?
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I used the title British Isles, taking care not to write GB or UK, because it is a geographical not political definition . Ireland north and south are part of the British Isles, geographically . Or it used to be. If it that has changed also then my mistake.
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Maybe no so much as the range of quarry available to hunt but more to do with the opportunity to do so ? Similar to the development of the HPR breeds on the continent where as in the British Isles we developed specialist spaniels, setters/pointers and retrievers. Well " we " didn't develop them, men in the employ of the a certain class developed and trained them. Only a select few could shoot and they had no need to restrict themselves to a dog that could find, flush and retrieve. The common man in the British Isles had no use for a gundog of any type until relatively recently, not so in the r
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Modern society will always agree that becoming T total is good thing. Certainly shouldn't do you any harm. But apart from the folk that have let it become a problem then I wouldn't automatically agree. We need to look after the soul as well as the body. I have always enjoyed a drink and a smoke ( the old fashioned type of smoking, just tabs ) and it has never had an adverse effect on my personal or professional life or health. Quite the opposite I would say. Having a drink is one the many things that make life an enjoyable and fulfilling experience . Admittedly these days it's more a case of o
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I've worked in many places in Scotland. Everywhere we went there was always anti-English bollocks type stuff at first. Only to be expected really, a bunch of strangers turn up in town and the locals expect the worst. The fact that we were English just added to the mistrust. Never lasted long. People are people and we always settled in for the duration of the job and got accepted. Quickly becomes good craic. We don't like the English but you Geordies are just Jocks with your brains f####d type of thing. During that time a few of the lads got more than they had bargained for though and met their
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While separation anxiety is obviously a thing I think sometimes predictable and natural behaviour in dogs, and people, gets confused with more complex mental problems these days. You don't say old the bitch is but even if she isn't that young I would say her behaviour is to be expected. She has been removed from the environment, people and dogs that have been all that she knows in her life. I would say that the stress she is experiencing comes from these changes rather than her separation from yourself when you leave her. At the moment. If the plan was for her to sleep in the kitchen overnight
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Most of this thread seems to stem from people needing to know the accuracy and honesty of the blood behind the dogs that you have now. So the are you all keeping accurate written records of your own dogs ?
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brilliant blaise, good to see breeds that's been ruined and on the dole here in the uk doing a bit abroad. It would be a good place to get the start of working lines to put back into uk stock. I also applaud the men in France working their Fox Terriers but would add that dogs of that physical type were never worked in the UK or Ireland. Of course dogs called Fox Terriers were worked at one time but they were not of the type seen in the photographs on this thread. This type is a product of the show ring and was developed by KC breeders long after dogs being called Fox Terriers were to be fou
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brilliant blaise, good to see breeds that's been ruined and on the dole here in the uk doing a bit abroad. It would be a good place to get the start of working lines to put back into uk stock. I also applaud the men in France working their Fox Terriers but would add that dogs of that physical type were never worked in the UK or Ireland. Of course dogs called Fox Terriers were worked at one time but they were not of the type seen in the photographs on this thread. This type is a product of the show ring and was developed by KC breeders long after dogs being called Fox Terriers were to be fou
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brilliant blaise, good to see breeds that's been ruined and on the dole here in the uk doing a bit abroad. It would be a good place to get the start of working lines to put back into uk stock. I also applaud the men in France working their Fox Terriers but would add that dogs of that physical type were never worked in the UK or Ireland. Of course dogs called Fox Terriers were worked at one time but they were not of the type seen in the photographs on this thread. This type is a product of the show ring and was developed by KC breeders long after dogs being called Fox Terriers were to be fou
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Peace and goodwill to all men, most of them anyways ?
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Off the original topic but in line with recent replies...the Patterdale Terrier. Is it the correct name ? It's looking like it is. The Bedlington Terrier ? Was it a dog that did not exist anywhere else other than in a tiny pit village until the name was written ? The Dandie Dinmont. Did they exist before Sir Walter Scott wrote a book ? The Sealyham . Did that type exist before a landed gentleman retired to his estate and indulged his passion ? I would say yes. These names became given to working terriers only when a name was a necessity , to register with the Kennel Club. Then they became a "
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I don't think that anyone has mentioned it on this thread but the quarry has changed. At least when it comes to the white/Russell dogs. They were bred to dig badger not fox. Hence the baying part. Lots of men gave up when it became impossible to test a baying dog. Does it bay because it is a coward or because it has brains ? Can it hold it's ground ? Lakeland types were always fox dogs.
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Best Spring Powered Air Rifle
eastcoast replied to Richard Collett's topic in General Airgun Discussion
Richard, earlier this year I asked THL members for their opinions on the Pro Sport. I think it may be a recurring theme but people were generous with their replies. All were positive. I purchased a PS in .177 with the walnut stock and have no regrets. I should quickly add that the last air rifle I bought prior to this was a Daystate Huntsman PH6 in the mid 90's and the one before that a Webley Omega in I think 1986 so I'm in no position to comment on the PS's contemporaries. However I really can't fault it. Straight " out of the box " I was surprised at the groupings I achieved when zeroin -
I really like the dog in third pic down. Looks so much like a lurcher I had the use of once. The sire was a large collie type of unknown breeding. A street cur of the type that were common on council estates at the time. Not that I'm suggesting that the dog in trenchfoot's photo is in anyway a cur, it's a cracking looking animal, and the dog I'm remembering was an outstanding hunting dog. One day he " accidently " mated a racing bitch owned by a friend's dad. There was hell to pay when the truth came out but the pups were kept and one of them ended up with a neighbour. I used to take him out.
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I did misinterpret the question and have no valid recent input to give. I would say though that lots of the well known Russell blood went overseas and/or became KC registered as Parson Russells. But once again I've gone off on an irrelevant tangent .
