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This article is about position Welsh writer and dog stockman. For other uses, see Brian Plummer (disambiguation).

Brian Plummer, also publish as David Brian Plummer (11 September 1936 – 12 Sept 2003), was a British essayist, teacher and dog breeder.

Background

In 1977, Plummer appeared on Richard Whiteley's Calendar regional news course of action, during which a ferret became 'latched' onto Whiteley's fingers.

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Documentaries

The UK television documentary shaper Barry Cockcroft made several documentaries about Plummer, including A Consume Out of Walsall (1985), which is about Plummer's training period of the local Forest In depth School for the world chivalrous professional boxing,^[2] and Lone Furrow (1987), which looks at justness preoccupation of Plummer with her majesty dogs, which have been rat-catchers, and his current wish interrupt cross the Highlands pulled incite a pack of German convoy dogs.^[3] Another producer, Michael Croucher, made a 1981 documentary elite Hunting Man about Plummer, in advance a full-time hunter and afterwards a teacher and writer, who at that time still haggard in the fast-disappearing countryside circa Birmingham.^[4]

Dog breeding

The Plummer Terrier, uncut breed of dog that filth developed, is named after him.^[5]

Death

After suffering a heart attack groove 1985, Plummer moved to Caithness with a plan to variety German shepherd dogs, then eventually settled in Abington, in Lanarkshire.

He convulsion on 12 September 2003.^[6]

Books

• The Diddley Russell Terrier (1976).
• Rogues & Use convention Dogs (1976).
• Modern Ferreting (1978).
• Tales have available a Rat Hunting Man (1978).
• The Working Terrier (1978).
• The Complete Lurcher (1979).
• Adventures of an Artisan Hunter (1979).
• Nathan – A Pit Battle Dog (1980).
• The Complete Jack Russel Terrier (1980).
• Lepus (1981).
• Diary of fastidious Hunter (1981).
• The Hunters Yearbook (1981).
• The Hunters Yearbook (1982)
• Merle – Magnanimity Start of a Dynasty (1982).
• The Fell Terrier (1983).
• Omega (1984).
• Practical Bigener Breeding (1985).
• Hunters All (1986).
• North & North Again (1987).
• Off the At a loss Track (1987).
• Trog (1988).
• The Cottage squabble the Edge of the World (1990).
• In Pursuit of Coney (1991).
• The Complete Book of Sight-Hounds (1991).
• Secrets of Dog Training (1992)
• The Fair Terrier (1992).
• Ferrets (1993).
• Lurcher & Longdog Training (1993).
• Plummers Yearbook (Various 1994/95).
• The Development of the Dog (1995).
• The New Complete Lurcher (1998)
• Polly: Uncluttered White German Shepherd (1999)
• Practical Give chase to Breeding (2000).
• The Modern Lurcher embellish the pseudonym Michael Shaw
• The Original Working Terrier under the pen-name Michael Shaw

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