The meet was at a remote spot on the mountain at a farm tucked away between the hills and sheltered just a little from the worst of the weather. Which was just as well for the forecast was heavy rain turning to sleet and snow and driven by strong winds. Sounds like blizzard conditions to…
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Off to the Island
In August 2015 I buried my eldest bitch, she was close to 15 and as I left the patch I buried her in with her daughter trotting along at my side I could only smile when I looked back at all the sport we had together. She was nothing to look at, a sort of…
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Storm Caroline
Well, for once, they were spot on the old weather forecasters; here we we are on a Thursday night in December and ‘Storm Caroline’ has arrived in her infancy stages but still strong enough to swirl the leaves around as though they were in a mini tornado. We have had plenty of rain before hand…
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Jess, she’s not just a lurcher… she’s mine!
As I woke on the morning of 26th August, 2014, I couldn’t help but smile at the thought of the Countryman’s Weekly coming through the letterbox. It duly arrived at approximately 9.30a.m. Sitting down with a cup of tea, I was straight into the back pages in the hope of finding a pup for sale….
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Hunting Fit
I usually spend much of the summer months walking the dogs, two or three at a time but this year, for various reasons, I didn’t do so much. I like to walk the dogs, it’s not only a nice break from the kennel for them, it also helps to keep me reasonably fit, or for…
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