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Fair comment. Merry Christmas Mr. Cooney, in fact to all on THL. People may disagree (which often makes for entertaining reading :-) ), but at the end of the day we are all on the same side. It's us and them and I'm glad that I'm not on of them. All the best.
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Wolf Hounds by function I would think. Not judged in a show ring on a points system using a breed standard written by the wrong people who wanted to keep a closed gene pool for the wrong reasons. Form follows function, always has and always will. Nice wolf hounds in Ted Newgent's photos. But I must add that I've never seen a wolf (or any wild canine bigger than a fox), so this is purely my personal opinion based on jack.
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The chap in the photo also appears to be wearing some sort of training shoe and I can't see a spade. Do we know for sure that he did not have a decent pair of boots back at home and some digging tools in his shed?
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That dog has some quality to it, tremendous quality if it's a bitch. A show dog or a working terrier being shown? As it was the 1980's at least there is a chance that it is the latter rather than the former.
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Difficult to tell on me phone but could be gorse bushes?
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I used to take the occasional rabbit with this years ago. It was a very task specific tool though . Only used at a particular location that was semi-derelict industrial land. In parts heavily overgrown with thick gorse and bramble but with a very healthy rabbit population. An ideal place to let the dogs run off a bit steam.. All the planets had to be in alignment when a rabbit hoped out of cover. Most importantly I needed to be 100% sure of the location of the dogs so that there was no danger of them running in. Usually the rabbit that showed would not be the one that the dogs were huntin
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The very fact that this discussion is going on proves what a unique animal the working terrier is. Would the price of a working (and potential breeding) lurcher or coursing hound, or a gun dog, cause so much discussion or disagreement ? I don't think so. If a person has a line of terriers and a close knit group of like minded people who keep them going, well that is working terrier Nirvana. Would those line of terriers exist if money had not changed hands at some point over the years ? No. The best of men and the worst of men have bought and sold dogs, the worst tend to do it more of
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A Bedlington Whippet cross would be a better dog for him in my opinion. A Bedlington, as most terriers, can make a very useful ferreting dog. But they are not quick enough to catch rabbits. I'm just thinking ahead that if the lad brings a terrier on as a rabbit dog then realises that it is lacking physically, then it may install the swap and change mentality or disillusion him.. A Beddy x Whippet or pure (does not have to be KC), would be a great dog for a young lad with an inclination to get out and about after rabbits.
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FTCh Russ Le-Poseur
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Pure bred as we are led to believe. As you probably are aware of lots of previously rare Bull types became available during the 1980's 90's. Fair play to the man who bred him though, he was in it for the money, but wanted us to have this one and gave it free of charge. Did not live to a great age though. Not a healthy breed.
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Dropped a bollock, had intended to share these pics, not the 1st one 3 times
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This chap was by no means a purpose bred or trained modern Ninja/SAS type ultimate fool safe answer. He was a much loved member of the family .However, it would of taken a very brave/stupid or determined man to take that which he chose to protect. Luckily he was never found himself in the situation to prove himself...as far as I'm aware.
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Even thought trimming a dog's nails is a simple procedure, providing that the animal is calm and accommodating, extreme care should still be taken. Most particularly with dark pigmentation when the quick may not be easily determined. A simple procedure done the wrong way would cause serious pain and injury. Err on the side of caution if you're not 100% sure how far to take them back. The need to trim could well be a result of a badly constructed foot rather than lack of exercise or the terrain that it walked on. A splayed "hare" foot. Used to be common in the old ugly Queen Anne legged Rus
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I'm not into tattoos myself but have to say that's skillful work. I struggle to do stuff of that quality on paper these days and would imagine it's even more difficult on the human body. Whatever people's personal thoughts there can be no denying that they're nice works of art.
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My "new" terrier. About 12 month old in the picture, will be 8 years old next month. FFS...Time and tide really does not wait ! :-)
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It may be that the Border as a working terrier is going the way of the Dodo but I'm sure that there are people still quietly going about their business keeping them going. I would say though that the Border has had more of an influence on the modern working types that many people are aware of or would like to admit. I think it is wrong to generalise when it comes to terriers as to how they work. If you have a good Border then he is too hard etc. It depends on the family of dogs, not really the "breed" that dictates how they work. What the Border has always brought to the table are good coats a
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The Tommy Dobson photo is a famous one Pablo. The terriers have always been described as Lakeland/Patterdale types and allegedly Dobson introduced Bedlington blood into his dogs. Who knows for sure?
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A few more classified pages from the recent (?) past. I have always found the dogs at public stud thing fascinating. How much influence have certain dogs had on breeds/types by being available to anyone with the price of the stud fee? Not that I've ever had anything that would warrant being put at public stud but even if I had it's my worst nightmare. Strangers/idiots/time wasters, not to mention those with hidden agendas being invited onto your property. Is it still a thing?
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That exact same TYPE is still kept in Ireland to this day 2017.. same size looks and coat. John Gaunt, or as he was also known John Weldon, the saw mills rat catcher was said to keep a fox terrier type. Would the terrier in your pic be a fox terrier type ? Not sure if you are referring to the old pic I posted Neil or something that Stop end has posted? If it is the old photo then I don't know exactly when it was taken, looks late 19th/early 20th century? At that time the KC Fox Terrier had not travelled too far down the path of exaggeration and misinterpreted written breed standar
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A neighbour got themselves a Kerry Blue and I have seen it almost daily since it was a pup. About 14 month now. Physically it's not a bad sort but obviously massive. My God though it's a strange one temperament wise. Never makes a sound, never wags it's tail, never makes eye contact with me. Just totally focussed on my terrier. Good job they keep it on a lead. And it's a bitch.
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A few more old classified ads. I know that the quality of the scans are crap but despite the fact that these are from old almost forgotten about mags I can't bring myself to vandalise them by taking the staples out and scanning them on a more suitable machine. The one the I find most interesting is in At Stud. "IMPORTED Kerry Blue, the gamest dog on Merseyside. Will protect if needed. Now at stud..." A strange one. It was from 1985.
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"John Gaunt of Derby, rat-catcher to the Midland Railway Company, whose tame foxes assisted him in his duties." They have been called many things throughout the years, hunt terriers, Fox Terriers, Jack Russells, Parson Russells or just plain old white dogs. I'm not suggesting that they are all of an ancient lineage with nothing added over time (despite what the deluded owners of £600 KC Parson's are led to believe) but the "type" endures.
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Out today in the local and got bored with watching the shite that was passing for football on the tele and got into a conversion/discussion/argument with a travelling lad who was passing through. I have seen an advert for the dog we were talking about being at public stud at one time. Went home to find the advert and got distracted. I have tried to scan some old classified ads from the Shooting News. Early to mid 1980's. I found them interesting but don't know if the scans are readable or interesting to anyone else. The mixes of types (they did not walk off the Ark), the Bull sorts that w
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"I'm only an old working terrier, who over the years has got slow. But in days gone by I ran with hounds, and was once even best in show." Not mine, unashamedly borrowed from a picture caption in Eddie Chapman's The Real Jack Russell. Not really a poem and maybe loses a bit without the accompanying photograph in the book. But I have always liked it.
