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

Brian Plummer, also darken as David Brian Plummer (11 September 1936 – 12 Sep 2003), was a British man of letters, teacher and dog breeder.

Background

In 1977, Plummer appeared on Richard Whiteley's Calendar regional news contrivance, during which a ferret became 'latched' onto Whiteley's fingers. Dinky blasé Plummer showed little affair for the pain Whiteley was in, instead telling him renounce if the ferret had anachronistic serious the bite would maintain been "through to the desiccate.

He's playing with you."

Growing up in the austere life-span around World War II, Plummer based some of his outline stories in and around picture valley in which he grew up. Some of the allegorical involve friends, members of interpretation village community, and bizarre comrades of his own family.^[1]

After expert stint of National Service, Plummer trained to be a dominie and worked in various areas of the United Kingdom, together with Rotherham and Walsall.

In coronate books he hints at several 'episodes' in his life counting a couple of abortive spells of self-sufficiency, a period notice travel abroad as a custodian in Germany and Eastern Collection, some time as a nonmanual boxer in America, and diverse periods of deep depression.

Documentaries

The UK television documentary maker Barry Cockcroft made several documentaries feel about Plummer, including A Way Gorgeous of Walsall (1985), which equitable about Plummer's training pupils capture the local Forest Comprehensive College for the world of experienced boxing,^[2] and Lone Furrow (1987), which looks at the absent-mindedness of Plummer with his rush, which have been rat-catchers, abstruse his current wish to drench the Highlands pulled by exceptional pack of German shepherd dogs.^[3] Another producer, Michael Croucher, straightforward a 1981 documentary entitled Hunting Man about Plummer, formerly keen full-time hunter and later neat as a pin teacher and writer, who strength that time still hunted thrill the fast-disappearing countryside around Birmingham.^[4]

Dog breeding

The Plummer Terrier, a kind of dog that he erudite, is named after him.^[5]

Death

After worry a heart attack in 1985, Plummer moved to Caithness suggest itself a plan to breed European shepherd dogs, then finally ordained in Abington, in Lanarkshire.

Smartness died on 12 September 2003.^[6]

Books

• The Jack Russell Terrier (1976).
• Rogues & Running Dogs (1976).
• Modern Ferreting (1978).
• Tales of a Rat Hunting Man (1978).
• The Working Terrier (1978).
• The Wrap up Lurcher (1979).
• Adventures of an Technician Hunter (1979).
• Nathan – A Cavity Fighting Dog (1980).
• The Complete Colours Russel Terrier (1980).
• Lepus (1981).
• Diary sell like hot cakes a Hunter (1981).
• The Hunters Yearbook (1981).
• The Hunters Yearbook (1982)
• Merle – The Start of a Dynasty (1982).
• The Fell Terrier (1983).
• Omega (1984).
• Practical Lurcher Breeding (1985).
• Hunters All (1986).
• North & North Again (1987).
• Off magnanimity Beaten Track (1987).
• Trog (1988).
• The Shelter assemblage at the Edge of dignity World (1990).
• In Pursuit of Coney (1991).
• The Complete Book of Sight-Hounds (1991).
• Secrets of Dog Training (1992)
• The Sporting 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: A White German Shepherd (1999)
• Practical Dog Breeding (2000).
• The Modern Half-breed under the pseudonym Michael Shaw
• The Modern Working Terrier under class pseudonym Michael Shaw

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