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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Working Jack Russells in South Africa
(Obituary of Eddie Chapman written by Dave Harcombe at the end of this article) A couple of years ago, I was offered the chance, while in South Africa, to spend a week or so with one of their well known terrier men, who exclusively used Jack Russells. Not being one to miss an opportunity to…
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