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Had mine for ages (got them from the USA). Top piece of kit. You can wash them in a washing machine but ONLY if you stuff them into an old sock/pillowcase/whatever that encloses them fully and then tie the end. You dont want that thing loose as it will wrap its string around the workings of the machine.

Who would have thought there would be two liverymen here? I'm a Cutler. CA National Trust UCSW CAN Slim Jim's

Until yesterday in Parliament Square you would have had to look a long way to have found somebody more pro-police, pro law and order than me. That is now changed for ever. Yesterday’s demonstration was composed of angry and vocal but composed people, about twenty thousand of them. The square was full but by no means packed. The police were restricting access to the square so that there were several thousand more in the streets around who were unable to get into the square except through the north west corner. The crowd got dense in that area squashed up against a barrier and a waist high wall. As those at the front got more squashed the police told them to move back…but of course they could not due to the weight of people from behind. Suddenly…mayhem! Fifty policemen start battoning the front rows over the head, and doing so with no regard to who they were hitting and what damage they were doing. Obviously the situation got worse, fear and panic by most people, retaliation by a very few. I saw many people with nasty head wounds, both male and females alike. AT 6pm the demo ended and the crowd dispersed, to be met by literally hundreds of black clad, shield holding, helmeted and balaclavered police. Very intimidating and clearly itching for a fight. I saw elderly women being pushed about as they tried to leave the square. I have never been so disgusted at the behaviour of the Police. I cannot stress too much that at no time had the crowd threatened the police or been anywhere else but behind the barriers. What were the police thinking of? Who gave them their orders? I guess the truth is that these are the consequences of have a police force that operates in its own climate of fear, one that has been imposed on them by a combination of external forces (terrorism and the debacle at Buckingham Palace) and their masters, the labour party politicians who fear their own electorate (and back benchers). The police have clearly lost their ability to differentiate between real threats and merely vocal demonstrations against the symbols of authority and the politicians who occupy them. Friends, we have a duty to fight this ban. If you don’t hunt though you must be under no illusions, this is still your fight. They will come for shooting next, and then fishing.

The French give all Foreign Legionnaires citizenship when the complete their service. 'nuff said?

Rosa is 7 months. She is very good on sit, stay, heel, come back, stop whistle. She points well, and held some wild pheasants beautifully under her point last weekend (not scripted, we were just out for a walk in the countryside). All training is praise and reward based. I just started her on dummy work this weekend. Previously she has enjoyed bringing all sorts of things to me, and whatever they are (even really stinky old rabbit bits) I praise her and she releases to hand. Last evening, on a grassy footpath, I threw the dummy and told her to Fetch It....she ran straight to it and put her mouth on it, at the same moment I blew the whistle to call her back....AND AT THE EXACT SAME MOMENT she stepped on a hidden nail on the footpath (I found it afterwards). It obviously hurt her a LOT! She jumped back in pain and yelped loud. After that she was terrified at the idea of picking up the dummy, and very reluctant to return to my whistle. I tried a couple more times in a different spot after this, but stopped and came home as it was just getting worse. She obviously associates Dummy-Whistle-Pain. So what do I do next? How do I get her back to liking retrieve training. I am worried. There are some real experts here.....guys, I would appreciate your advice.