Aussie Whip
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Sounds like the cattle dog you used had latent dingo blood and by your description would be considered a very good type over here.
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I can't find any info online about this but I was told by a lady who kept dingoes the main difference between them and domestic dogs is that the dingo has a wider head than chest, no domestic breed has this. I think it was how she knew the difference between pure dingo and feral dog crosses.
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I've seen some ferrets get fussy for certain foods, like some cats do. Try them on some beef mince then mix with the dry if that's what you want to feed them. I wouldn't leave flesh in with them for three days, ferrets need fresh unspoilt meat.
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Over here where I lived before in Western NSW, not a rabbit for km's but the same, heaps of hares and feral fallow. Place used to be a rabbit mecca.
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I suppose some terrier blokes have dedicated their life to the breeding and working of their lines and I don't have the experience or knowledge to argue a point on this subject. I only know what I've done with the dogs which maybe very different to the UK. I do enjoy reading about them and appreciate a good hunting dog in the pics.
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I see what you are saying and I think you could get some even forgotten terrier breeds doing work with some serious breeding and working them but it would take years. The diff between working and show type russells is like chalk and cheese.
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I've had diff terriers the last 45 years and never seen any except these trying to get to ground at this age. They may not have known what was down there but the instinct to go to ground was born into these dogs from gens of denning terriers.
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Very true, I had denning Russells which would try to get into any type of hole in the ground from 5 weeks old so I was constantly looking for the the little cnts on the 2 acres around the house. The Parson I have has no interest in this but is a far more useful dog at all round hunting and needed no training for what he does. I managed to get this pick of the denning pups at 4weeks before the instinct kicked in, lol
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Don't really know what hill sheep are but I think some dogs know the difference between feral and domestic stock. I had a little pit bitch I used to catch feral goats for dog food but she'd sit with domestic goats of the neighbor. Pig dogs that killed a pack of feral dogs but were not aggressive to pet dogs. Terriers that ignored pet cats but killed feral ones. The hill sheep may smell feral to dogs.
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Is there a way to get rid of ticks from ferrets
Aussie Whip replied to Ethan gunn's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
Your lucky you don't get paralysis ticks like we do here on the coastal areas. -
Is there a way to get rid of ticks from ferrets
Aussie Whip replied to Ethan gunn's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
That's some horrible poisonous stuff but I found a ferret years ago with bad footrot and soaked it with that and painted it's feet with tea tree oil for about a week and it recovered perfect. I nearly lost a couple of fingers dipping the animal in the wash, lol. -
Maybe most terriers shouldn't even be called terriers because they don't work in the earth but some were never bred for the job. All the terriers I've seen do have an instinct to hunt and kill vermin, even generations bred for show but it's sad seeing these tough little breeds go down the gurgler and end up as fashion accessories.
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I have a mate who likes hunting pigs with terriers, he has Parsons now, he said they track better than the jagd terriers he had and are silent doing it as is mine. Can't have trail barkers hunting over here on pigs. They are starting to use them more on Sambar here too.
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I'd like to own one, I've only ever seen one over here that was claimed to be a Plummer but looked nothing like the ones I've seen on here.
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He was only about 9 months there, about 4 now but you can't really see many scars unless you look close. He' look a lot a lot more convincing if I shaved him, lol.
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They are a far cry from a patt or digging type Russell but they are game in a smart way usually, lol. Mine has had 2 run ins with my pit/Am bulldog and had the bulldogs canine tooth in his jaw for 5 or 6 weeks. I wondered why the wound wasn't healing and then found the tooth in the terriers bed. Was healed two days later. They are great at tracking, ratting, ferreting and bushing and good watch dog but not human aggressive, I really like mine.
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They'd make good dogs for over here for bushing out anything from rabbits to pigs if they are anything like my Parson Russell. He's pretty game but very skillful and intelligent, they have to be to kill over 30 brown snakes and still be alive where the denning Russells were just too game and just bore straight in on snakes or pigs which is suicide in most cases for them.
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Your mrs is one lucky lady ?
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That's true, everyone has their own opinion and uses ferrets differently. Because I only hunt in the cooler months due to the snakes about with the dogs, the jills breeding in Summer doesn't bother me as I'm not ferreting then. Also the two BEWS I've had were nasty with the dogs (probably just unlucky with them) so I prefer albinos and polecats. I prefer to work the fast jills and enter a big hob if there's stubborn rabbits after the jills have come out. I like your idea of getting the hobs cut, apart from the fighting they don't seem to be focused when in season.
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Even if we were lucky enough to import some top digging type terriers there just isn't the work for them here with most places in NSW being undiggable and the strain would end up mediocre I think. It's like importing top working cattle dogs to the UK, you just couldn't give them the type of rough work we have in the wilder places here. I think extreme breeds are to be admired in their own country because they will lose what they have without their original purpose.
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I was thinking of just crossing once but I suppose by the time you got back after 4 or 5 gens you would have lost what you put in anyway. There aren't many terrier people in NSW, it's hard to find a non related working type. There are a lot more running dogs and terriers in Victoria but nothing like the UK for quality. It's like we only got second rate pitbulls and the yanks got second rate Oz cattle dogs.
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Didn't know that, I've never had much to do with them. I was thinking they would pack better.
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Sort of like the brindle color in cairns from old bull blood.
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Could be a throwback color from a breeding years ago ?
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I was going to ask if that had beagle blood. I was thinking of puting beagle into my Russells years ago to make them less dog aggressive, you couldn't even go ratting with more than one dog.
