otter v terrier

[Guest pip]

As most Irish fellas who fish or spend a lot of time on waterways hunting mink etc or just walking the otter is doing really well here.I have seen more otter about me than i have fox.

[Neil Cooney. 1]

Neil - it was the hunts in Ireland that lobbied for the otter to only be hunted under license. Hunting the otter with hounds has never been banned here. In theory there's nothing at all stopping a pack of mink hounds applying to the minister for a license to switch to otters again.

The otter hound packs back in the early 90's stopped applying for the license - they were never taken off them.

 

Here the latest NPWS commissioned survey on how the otter population is doing - if anyone is interested

Direct .pdf link

 

 

Peter Sinead was a well known terrier but not because of that picture but because he was a good one.

Otter hunting was outlawed because the Otter was under threat from pollution and habitat destruction and as far as I know the hunt's agreed to stop.

Here in Ireland when the liscence's were took off of the Otter hunts at the time the highest population of Otters was in the area where hunting still took place. Hence hunting had no influence on Otter numbers. This was also found in England too.

Badger digging was outlawed in Britain only four years after Otter hunting but unlike Otter hunting Badger digging was made illegal because of the cowboys that keep terriers.

 

Thanks Corkonian, a friend tells me that the OPW did an Otter census in the last year or two, have you heard anything about that?

Edited July 17, 2008 by Neil Cooney.

[shotup 9]

old tommy harrison had some decent terriers for otter when and after he was kendal and disrict otter hound huntsman.

[Corkonian 44]

Edited June 9, 2009 by Corkonian

[wood smoke 0]

old tommy harrison had some decent terriers for otter when and after he was kendal and disrict otter hound huntsman.

 

 

 

shotup please tell more about mr harrison and his terriers. what type did he keep speciffically for otters

hard or bayers ??? "dogs n natives " tells of borders being used did mr harrison use the same ?

[Guest ooty]

old tommy harrison had some decent terriers for otter when and after he was kendal and disrict otter hound huntsman.

 

 

 

shotup please tell more about mr harrison and his terriers. what type did he keep speciffically for otters

hard or bayers ??? "dogs n natives " tells of borders being used did mr harrison use the same ?

think they use 12 bores round here on the big sindicate waters loads here since they closed the otter trust and freed them all into the river,fu*k all decente fish left along the stretch.my mate thought he had a huge pike on till his bung went up through the reeds and across the other bank Edited July 18, 2008 by ooty

[Guest pip]

I ve watched them regular from i was old enough to cross the road to the river myself and any time i seen them feeding it was eels.

[shotup 9]

tommy harrison used to be at the rydal hound show showing otter hounds many years ago and they sometimes had a terrier show up at his place at dallam towers at the river kent estuary , the terriers i saw him with looked if i remember like fell stuff with a drop of bedlington running through thier viens nowt to look at but he never kept them to look at..