rushy lad
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Yes y.p. both terriers go to ground well and stay too! "Tarka" is a bit too hard and will never give ground, but "Tarn" my Fell terrier is a really smart and clever Bitch and will stand off a bit giving tounge and never gets bitten. She fences with vermin and will always find in the deepest of places. Ground work is under too much pressure so I tend to do a lot of ratting with them nowadays.
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After a lot of p*****g about by myself, My pictures(some) have kindly been posted by the big red fox under sporting pictures... :*)
Thanks for your patience and help.
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I mean thank you "the big red fox"! :*)
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I will send you some shots of my Terriers in Work and Show.
Thank you Dead eye.
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Cracking Idea, Putting it into place might take some time though, Their will be an art to it no doubt?
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Took some cracking pictures of the Terriers in work and show but still cannot send them, All the E-Mail addresses I have sent them to have just bounced straight back. :unsure:
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My Lakeland Terrier "Tarka" won Champion of Champions Working Terrier show
at the 132nd Broughton and Millom Agricultural show Yesterday and I was chuffed to bits! Nice trophy and Rosettes, It really made the day.
On the down-side there was no Ferret show because there is a lack of Judges to do it and the Terrier show wasn,t that well attended. Some nice Borders and Russells but not the same numbers as usual. Kids were gutted about the Ferrets and sulked for an hour afterwards :blink:
Lets hope this isn,t a sign of the times :unsure:
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I think you will find that there are many like-minded people all over the country, I am one myself! I have two great polecats that I work in the winter and the kids show in the summer. They get better looked after than me! :<
If you are struggling to get rid of stock it is always worth putting in an advert to the country mans weekly, but word of mouth is a better way of selling a quality working stock. Keep up the good work
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Thanks Mate, I will!
Anyone out there living in Cumbria that uses longnets? -
Thanks for all the responses, I forgot to say it is also 40 yards away(yes 40 yards!) from the local police station and it is one way in, one way out of the grounds so my guess longnetting would be quite difficult. As I have never used one could anyone give me any idea of books,dvd,s etc to get on longnetting?
I do a lot of ferreting with purse nets and a lot of ground work and ratting with my Dogs but I have never used a long net.
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Hi, I Have a slight dilemma, I have permission on a large amatuer football ground, and because of its rural setting it is teeming with rabbits!
The problem is though they are just so hard to get at!! They are lamp-shy due to people trying to nail them in the past(without success) There are no warrens to ferret only really dense cover. I can,t use my terriers because the land backs on to the railway and the dogs would be on the line in no time. Can,t use a lurcher or gun on the lamp because they are off in seconds and the pitches are surrounded by metal fencing which a lurcher would neck itself on.
Anyone any ideas?
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Hey Nick, I tried sending you the pictures but they just keep on bouncing back!!?
Thanks for the help though mate.
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A few landowners/farmers will state that they are overun with rats and they are as big as dogs etc when actually there are only one or two knocking about the place.
I was asked by a couple of young lasses once to bring my old terrier(sadly dead now) to their stables to wipe out a huge infetation of rats. I was typically looking forward to some frantic sport but was soon deflated when i arrived to find two large stable blocks with one small mouse in the corner of one! How people blow things out of all proportions.
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What about a rat?
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Cheers Nick!
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The pictures are saved on my p.c. but i am usure on how to send them as an attachment.
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Not!! I am stuck!!! anyone any idea on how to attach the bloody thing? :*)
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Could,nt have put it better myself mate.
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Its a pity you can,t persuade the farmer to save himself a little bit of money by not using poison.
Tell him you will rid his farm of these pests free of charge! Selfish I know but good ratting pitches are quite hard to come by.
Young, Baby rats do look very much like mice and are often mistaken for them, But you can sometimes on occasions see Mice and Rats together in the same areas.
The rats in my area are on the increase again in and around the farm buildings, They move into the fields in the spring and venture back by Autumn, unless they are undisturbed and have plenty of food to keep them occupied.
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Yes pete that could be a possibility. I suppose if there is a lot of waste food lying around then the rats might not be too bothered about the mice. Shooting little mice will certainly test your shooting skills!
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Could be really young rats(baby,s) but rats will always drive away other rodents.
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Thats right. If I wipe an area out of rats(sadly for the farmer never completley) the mice will move in, but as you probably know ,where there is food lying around rats are never too far away, and it only takes a few weeks for a new colony to fill a void.
Dogs are public enemy number one for rats and if you work an area regulary then the scent of the dogs in and around barns etc will make the rats shy for a while so it is a good idea to rat on a patch only two or three times a month.
The downside is it can only take a very short period of time for the rats to breed and destroy.
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I have been working a local farm now for a good few years and it has always held a good population of rats for my terriers to chew-on, But every so often Mice will appear which is a good sign that the rats have vacated. Rats will not tolerate any other rodents near or on their patch and will kill or drive away Mice within a matter of Days. A good sign for people to look out for when ratting on Farms.
Brian Plummer also mentions this in one of his books(Tales of a ratcatcher) which is quite a good read.
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Not a giant of a man is he? and works patterdales?