Sentences with phrase «for gamekeepers»

In England, bullmastiffs worked for gamekeepers, assisting them in keeping estates free of poachers.

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) and Calor have joined forces to provide gas safety training for gamekeepers.

This combination was perfect for the gamekeeper's needs, quiet, they were capable of tracking a man, chasing the culprit and pinning them to ground until apprehension without biting.

For the gamekeeper's cottage there is a cottage in «the village or hamlet of Wirsall... in Shropshire».

Not exact matches

The UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), will once again host the gamekeepers» classes at Crufts 2018

Influential demands for a separate Scottish six o'clock news today marked the latest step in John Nicolson's successful journey from poacher to gamekeeper — or should that be the other way round?

Calor Gas, the UK's leading supplier of cylinder gas to the game rearing field, has agreed to sponsor BASC's Gamekeepers» Fair at Catton Park for 2009.

BASC representatives spoke to children and teachers at a farm run by the charity Farms for City Children about wildlife management and the role of the gamekeeper.

BASC North regional officer Gareth Dockerty said: «The film shows how upland gamekeepers and those involved in the provision of land for shooting engage with their communities to manage sensitive habitats in a sustainable way for wildlife and people.»

«BASC welcomes this judgment and I pay credit to the National Gamekeepers» Organisation for having supported the case.

BASC Scotland submitted the open letter to the Minister on behalf of Scottish Gamekeepers Association, Scottish Association for Country Sports, Scottish Countryside Alliance, Association of Deer Management Groups and Scottish Land & Estates.

The group is made up of: VisitScotland, Scottish Enterprise, Highlands & Islands Enterprise, Association of Deer Management Groups, Association of Salmon Fishery Boards, British Association for Shooting and Conservation, Scottish Countryside Alliance, Scottish Estates Business Group, Scottish Gamekeepers Association and the Scottish Rural Property and Business Association.

BASC training officer, Nick Lane, said: «The demand for the courses has diminished over the last two years as the majority of gamekeepers and shoot managers have now been trained.

The gamekeeper classes provide a great opportunity for them to showcase their gundogs.»

A Staffordshire gamekeeper has been appointed as the British Association for Shooting and Conservation's new regional director for the Midlands.

Gamekeepers from the south west will be competing for a place in the final of a national clay shooting competition.

Gamekeepers, shoot managers and shoot captains in the South East of England will have a chance to learn about health and safety at an event run by the UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC).

Yet Johnson, a former union leader himself, has curiously decided that now is the time to rake over the coals of Labour's recent leadership contest and called for union influence over the party to be further reduced, thus proving the old adage that former poachers make worse gamekeepers.

A Romanian gamekeeper provides Carpathian brown bears for rich hunters to kill — a job that «combines the services of a nanny, a zoo attendant, a field naturalist, a sniper's spotter, and a pimp.»

At the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, director Malcolm Brenner, a geneticist, says he has turned «AdV from poacher into gamekeeper.»

While the Games themselves — and by extension, President Snow (Donald Sutherland) and his gamekeeper, Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman)-- are a study in deception and manipulation the same can also be said for those forced to play the game.

Gamekeepers are not only responsible for management of the countryside, but also bringing us the tastiest of ingredients for our plates.

If Snowy was here in these few acres behind the line it was just a matter of walking quietly, crisscrossing it like a gamekeeper looking for a poacher.

a current shotgun or firearm certificate issued to the owner of the dog, or to the agent or employee of the owner most likely to be using the dog for work in connection with the lawful shooting of animals OR a letter from a gamekeeper, a land occupier (or his agent), a person with shooting rights, a shoot organiser, a club official, a person representing the National Working Terrier Federation, or a person engaged in lawful pest control, stating that the breeder of the dog whose tail is to be docked is known to him and that dogs bred by that breeder have been used (as the case may be) on his land, or in his shoot, or for pest control.

The breed was developed in England by gamekeepers for protection against poachers.

It is a gundog and still used in gundog trials and by some gamekeepers, however the rise of the labrador retriever meant that the breed decreased in popularity as a gundog in the 20th century.The tight curly coat is waterproof and shakes dry quite satisfactorily - it was purposely developed for retrieving game from water.

Also called the «gamekeeper's dog,» this breed was originally used to help flush game for falcons and hunters.

The English Springer Spaniel, also known as the Springer Spaniel, the Springer, the Wood Spaniel, the Norfolk Spaniel, the Springing Spaniel or the «gamekeeper's dog,» was originally used to flush game for hunters and falcons centuries ago.

Outdoor hazards are obvious such as: volume of traffic, incidence of disease, a cat's ability to protect itself (deaf, partially sighted, frail), its danger to other cats (if it has a transmissible disease), predation upon vulnerable wildlife, any danger to humans (a British cat, Gizmo the postman hater, had to be confined for the safety of postmen and other delivery men), danger from humans (e.g. gamekeepers), spilt car antifreeze and garden chemicals.

For a very long time, gamekeepers used to wantonly shoot peregrine falcons and other raptors that prey on grouse and the like in the UK.