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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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    Edingburgh

    eastcoast replied to a topic in General Talk

    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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    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
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    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 .
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    Is the " big names " thing not, to an extent, a legacy of Plummer ? There were always men who kept kennels/lines/strains of working terriers but weren't necessarily known outside their own locality until the popularity of books on terriers produced in the 1980's. Apart from Lucas ( self publicist ) and Gripton ( made famous by Drabble ) who were the other " big names " before Plummer's books ? I'm obviously referring to the Fell Terrier book in particular but this is not an attempt to have a pop at anyone, even Plummer. I don't personally know any of the men who are featured ( apart from
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    My Aston Martin DB 11 was beset with electrical problems when I first took delivery. Believe it or not the heated seats would not function on the highest setting and sod's law this was during the cold spell we had earlier. All sorted now and I must admit that the nice people at Aston have an excellent after sales support team. However once bitten twice shy and I would be reluctant to purchase another. Thinking of going back to a Transit.
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    I think it does pay every now and again to take a step back and be thankful for what we have these days. I despise a lot about the country I live in, or rather the people who have mis-managed it for a long time. I'm mixed race in a way from a family of English coal miners and Irish immigrants. The pitmen had a hard life but the Irish side had an even harder one. Of the first who came to the mainland that carried my family name things didn't go well. The mother ended her days in a poor house in Glasgow and was buried in a pauper's grave. Fast forward a relatively few generations and a nephew of
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    Toon Army

    eastcoast replied to longnob's topic in General Talk

    Mike Ashley thought he could reinvent the wheel when he bought NUFC by buying raw talent on the cheap, seeing them do a job, then selling at a profit and repeating the process . Didn't work. Of Course. Fair play to the man that he realised that he was wrong and now is trying to do it the hard/right way by paying a man who actually knows what he is doing in order to get the club he bought where he wants it. But who knows what he really wants ? I met a man who told me that he went to school with Ashley who swears he used to run about in a Toon too when he was a kid. !??!?
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    An example of the only thing we can be 100% be sure of when it comes to the behaviour of dogs is that they are unpredictable . No matter how well we breed them. no matter how well we rear and train them, no matter how many years we observe their behaviour. Never take anything for granted in any new situation that can be as relatively simple as meeting a strange dog. How often have we heard " well he/she has never done that before" ? Always try and be in full control of the situation before letting the dog decide on how it will proceed.
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    I don't care if it is in Irish. You can stick it ! We have Countryfile that caters for the true interests of the countryman. Things like organic uni-cycle racing in the Peak District or a couple of retired ( at the age of 23 ) advertising executives from London producing alcohol free ( please drink responsibly ) mead and selling a thimble sized bottle at £ a pop. Hunting, shooting and fishing is just nasty and no one in the British countryside has any interest in it anymore. Not the ones who travel in on a weekend or buy up property anyway, and there the ones who count.
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    Just look at her properly and keep the picture of a full grown dog in mind. Then you can tell.
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    5 guineas would of been a lot of money in 1958. But it was about the time that the working man had a little bit of disposable income if he wanted to improve/take a chance on what would of always been around locally .
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    Trump

    eastcoast replied to a topic in General Talk

    I clicked on this because of the title. Thought it was going to be a thread about the Parson John Russell's 1st terrier Trump. The size and weight of an adult vixen etc. etc. A bit disappointed to find out that it's a about some American bloke, even if he does appear to have a big ginger ferret on his heed. Ah well, going back into my own little world now...I don't like it out here.
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    I was going to like your post Neil but felt as though a " like " was inappropriate given the subject. I'm reminded of people that I've came across in the working dog world who, to coin a phrase, changed their dogs more often than they changed their socks. Lamenting the passing of a worker that was also been fortunate enough to have been cared for in her retirement I find highly commendable . A very nice stamp of terrier she seemed to be too. R.I.P. Dixie.
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    How small are these fields ? Are they large enough for a dog to run a hare on ? If so then breed, size or cross is irrelevant as long it has the quality.
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    Maybe any old cur would do Mary but why not try and encourage some one who is showing an interest in working terriers ?
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