Otter And Mink Hounds Info For The U.s

[DIDO.1 20,875]

If you can't dig it once to ground what would you want to run it to ground for? Mink might go in to big tangled root masses under water, you might not have a 'den' with one entrance you could trap. If you just want a dog to indicate quarry scent and highlight good areas for trapping then I'd still say a large terrier type

[DIDO.1 20,875]

....or get some scent hounds and realise the wonderful sport you could have with an otter pack

[kyboy44 11]

I was thinking that otter and mink would den up in the day time and would make it easier for traping the only thing with hounds would be I found out most of the time the hounds would run them until they run them down and kill and we go ofter them for the furs

[stones 23]

Tarka the otter on YouTube... shows how it was done.... still try to convince myself Tarka got away at the end :-))

[Haiddheliwr 1,911]

I had a chicken tarka the other night, same as a chicken tikka but a little ottter!!

[kyboy44 11]

Not hounds, but there was a superb book called 'Jack' by Frank Walker. It tells of a Belgian Shepherd dog (Groenendael, not Malinois, back in the days when they were really used as working dogs) and his upbringing and work on a big estate. Part of his work was to find otters. I won't spoil it for those who might want to read it, but it is very well written, not sentimental, but written by someone who truly understood how a dog's mind works and nature and countryside matters.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jack-Frank-Walker/dp/0718114167

did it tell how he was trained