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TERRIER TROUBLE

I thought your readers would appreciate a snap of Badger ‘The Hooligan’, our four-monthold, rough-coated Jack Russell [below], as he takes his rightful spot at the head of the family.

Daniel T. Bennett

Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire

For more on British terrier breeds, turn to page 36

TERRIFIC TECKEL

How lovely to receive Rigby’s [below, right] rosette, certificate and dummy. Thank you so much. It was a surprise to be chosen in the ‘2020 Best Gundog That is Not a Gundog Breed’ category and we’ve not stopped smiling since.

COVID-19 has stemmed the season but we did get out for eight days’ shooting and two days’ tracking. Rigby did so well with 33 pheasants flushed, retrieving 17 along with two teal, three snipe and, his speciality, flushing seven woodcock, one safely falling to my gun and thereafter smoked to share at the Christmas table. For a call-out client, he tracked four ‘dropped’ deer and found one that had run

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