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Lines, if inbred or linebred, have their special characteristics. You might be looking for some of those. However; how sure can you be a dog is bred like it is bred if you only have the word or a hand written piece of paper? No more than when it has an "official" pedigree; prior to DNA testing there was as much fake in those as anywhere else. You could easily fill in another stud as the sire of your litter on the paper. On the other hand, some of those who only just work their dogs and got one off me, never really asked for even a hand written pedigree. Some know that all my dogs just hunt

Are you sure she just massaged? Or did she have a warning grip, and would she castrate without anesthaesia if he was naughty in his apparent urge to kill? It is just another way of control????? Works better than a choke chain, and as good as an E- collar.

Small and good. She looks strong and well proportioned. Such dogs are the only ones to be able to get to small vixens, and cubs. I always have 1 or 2 small ones too and couldn't do without them. They work the boars as good as the bigger ones by the way, as long as they are decently high on the legs.

I only used Fluwijn once a season to just kill a fox if there was no other way it would bolt. The year before, I used her to kill a fox in the (undiggable) earth which didn't bolt after 3 terriers and after the guns had waited for half an hour in between each terrier for it to bolt. Over here, they MUST have the fox. It is considered a pest. Before the last time Fluwijn could kill the fox quickly like her sire Bikkel. This time, I thought Fluwijn would go straight to business with the fox and then it might still bolt after having freed itself from the dog. Also, I thought that the dog if woun

Ah, that's how the show Lakeland got such a luxuriant coat....

Well written, good pics, good dog work and good grafting.

Wow! I know coons never bolt and are difficult. Be proud of yourselves and your dogs.

This was not in England but in another country on the continent, and as for me I would have had the fox shot instantly, anyway it got shot a few moments later when it was shown to another young terrier there present, and it became clear that the young Jagd terrier, didn't understand the game yet. Nor do I need the tongs to extract a fox but they wanted the fox and I gave the tongs to them, they got Fluwijn instead with the thing and I told them to go away and took the fox out myself with my hands. The whole thing only lasted like 2 minutes before the fox was shot so not what some of you thi

It is not so easy as to say every dog is allright and the owner is to be faulted. I have my line of crossed Jagd/ Fells now. Not Patterdales, but out of two (fell?) (working Lakelands?) imported into Belgium and Holland over the last decade. One of them looked like a Bedlington, including soft long curly coat and topknot, but game tot the end. And I myself had a little white one dead game (died dead game at 11 years) who accidentally broke out when his girlfriend the Jagd came in heat, and I kept a pup. Only recently I heard that the sire told to me, wasn't the sire of that white dog, which

If you never come near, or handle a live fox, you will not get bitten. Most people here only shoot them. They are afraid of them and stay at a distance. Because of the dangerous fox tapeworm most people here don't even pick up a dead fox without gloves. I know many fox diggers who don't know how to handle live foxes and will avoid it, or use tongs or any other tool to stay separated from the quarry. I think if you work to and with foxes, (or badgers) you must be able to handle them, too. And so it goes for wild boar. When you dig, sometimes you must handle a live fox, for exemple, to separa

It is curious that you over there, who have invented the terrier and still use it, need to import terriers from the continent now. You must have good ones at home, specially fit for your purpose. Try and take a decent one then, a small one for digging, most are too big and most are used for the wild pigs in Germany. Many are too hard for their own good but some are not hard enough. They also tend to be a bit agressive to people and other dogs, but not always. Some of them are inobedient by nature and hunt far and independently and don't come back on command. Many rather bolt a fox than stay w

Yesterday we were out fox hunting. First we drove a 10 km. and only 100 m. wide wooded parcel. There are usually foxes there but not this time. Only in the middle, a badger which we left there since he was protected. I was a bitdisappointed having found no foxes. There was a small, long stroke of bush further on amidst empty fields. I was never there before. On one side, a shallow ditch. This thing was full of earths. Young beginner Maus found a fox in one, I tied Semtex up. In 10 minutes Maus bolted the fox nicely for the guns. But they touched it slightly and it ran off, to go to ground fur

So, someone buys a terrier and then when it starts to do the job it was bred for a 1000 years it's not meant to....get yourself an Airedale if you really want a terrier for bushing, they can't go to ground.... I know other such stories from people who buy a Russell and they are totally against hunting...they say they will put the dog under strict discipline and will never allow it to hunt, for they don't have the dog for that... Who is happy then? The owner, the dog, both? In Germany they cross German hunt terriers with Airedales to create a breed of terrier too big to go to ground, but the

Another one I had called Acid. She started way too careful for my idea. To boar, she always hung around me and the first years, never parted with the others, let alone by herself. But she was useful in finding those that had stayed. Even if at first she only bayed at them or even just pointed them to me. Het brother Adolf was good from the beginning, her mother Dixie was a jewel to both boar and fox and her sire was a top stud dog from Germany. But after 4 years, suddenly Acid went to hunt behind the boars. One year later, I came across her and found her when I trailed a wounded boar with ano

I was asked to judge (working terrier) shows many times before and I never did and thought I never would. But this one is surely so informal and innocent that no one will care for the result. Being a judge is a very ungrateful job anyway because no one ever agrees with you except for the winner. And what's the fuss about it? Working terrier people should not find a show important because no dog there is proving anything. I don't want to actively take part in the downfall of the working terrier by judging shows and having to let the most beautiful (perfect looking) specimens win so people a