David brian plummer biography samples
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Plummer Terrier facts for kids
Plummer Terrier | |
| Origin | United Kingdom |
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| Breed status | Not recognized as a standardized breed by any major kennel club. |
| Notes | PTCGB breed standard |
| Domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) | |
The Plummer Terrier is a working terrier.
It was originally bred bygd Dr. David Brian Plummer to hunt vermin, especially rats. The breed, while unrecognized by any kennel club, is known for its rugged determination and hardiness.
Origins and history
In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, Brian Plummer worked as a somewhat reluctant teacher of several schools throughout southern Yorkshire and the Midlands. He was already well-known in his local neighborhood for going around with a pack of terriers to catch rats, when he decided to create his own terrier breed in the 1970s. Well-versed in breeding, he strove to produce a unique strain of terrier bygd mixing the Jack Russell Terrier with the Beagle, Fell Terrier, and Bull Terrier.
These terriers
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Plummer Terrier
Absolutely right. The following bygd Ian McGrother from the Terrier World website is a fuller version and (I think) interesting for the degree of thought and care that has gone into the breeds we take for granted today:
"Sir Jocelyn Lucas had always had a passion for game, sporting terriers. So on his return to England in 1919 after spending some time as a prisoner of war in Holland he set about building up a suitable pack. This he achieved by purchasing from the then Master of the Pembrokeshire Fox Hounds, Captain Jack Howell, a dozen small Sealyham terriers and some time later he purchased a number of similar Sealyhams from Mr Gladdish Hulke who had used them to hunt stoats. These terriers went on to form Sir Jocelyn's famous Ilmer strain of Sealyhams.
Sir Jocelyn wanted terriers that would not only go to ground in pursuit of their quarry but would hunt as a pack pushing game from cover towards waiting guns. These Sealyhams proved ideal being non-aggre
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Alas, we cannot all have the opportunity to bag innumerable elephants, pandas, platypodes, blue whales, etc – though I am sure we have all read all Teddy Roosevelt’s hunting books, etc but, here is an interesting book about a chap who satisfied his venality with the pursuit of rats, ‘Tales of a Rat-Hunting Man’ by Brian Plummer (He wrote many other fascinating books too, and was, like me a devotee of the Jack Russell terrier. Well done, Brian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Plummer)
PS: ‘platypodes’ really is the plural of ‘platypus’.
This fascinating adventure story contains many riveting accounts of his pursuit of the wily rodent through the maggot factories and rubbish tips of England. Why he even (once) pursued his prey through the decomposing body of a circus elephant, which recalls my own adventures hunting foxes out of the carcass of a large beached whale on Anderson’s Inlet many years ago!
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