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Years ago I swapped some staffords for a brace of Glens coming from Scandinavia. The male was latently people mean and I did away with him very quickly. I kept the female. She was grey, couldn't move for her short crooked legs and mass, had no nose and orientation and no hunting instinct. I took her to the forest for long walks together with the working terriers I had then but she just clung unto me and had no inclination to do anything, not even chased a sighted rabbit. She had some huge tools in her mouth. I had had pitbulls before that but never saw such a formidable set. She was deceivin
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I am happy to say that where I live it is up to us to use hard or not hard terriers. When I just started into this I loved the hard dog: why couldn't we breed a dog that just won over a fox easily? Well, if it was easy, every terrier would win over the fox in quick time. But the fox is well able to give a good account. And often he is in either big places where he can run and stay ahead, or in tight places where he has other advantages. Our only restriction in sport is that we work for the Guns, that is: they want foxes bolted as quick as possible, often from among rabbits and badgers and ev
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We were at an island in the IJsselmeer polder, searching the whole place over. They had a lot of problems with foxes and a special licence to destroy them. It was a peninsula with I don't know how long a dyke through the big lake (former sea) as a connection to the island, surrounded with dykes. Of course the water level over there was just 50 cm. into the ground so they could make no earths. They had been digging into the dike previously, taking out big basalt blocks weighing heavier than a fox, and disturbing all the nests of the different, partially rare duck breeds nesting there. But si
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As for inheritence, would you believe that I read somewhere on the Internet that ALL terrier breeds must come from 1 single ancestor. Why? Because there is a change in genes which is only prevalent in terrier breeds. This goes for all the messed up show breeds as well as the workers. In the time of the Romans (before the year 0) the terrier was already mentioned as a special British breed, existing then for underground work, being described as small and utterly courageous (willing to tackle anything.) So the whole terrier phenomenon is in fact genetically, one breed, having developed after
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We do everything: sand (where I live) clay, bushes and rocks, including bunkers blown up after WW2. Patt collegues refuse to do the bunkers, they are undiggable. The bunkers look scarey, since they have small cracks going straight down, and the rusty iron wires are sticking out everywhere and in every shape. Some I didn't want to do in the beginning but confidence grew with using Semtex 3 successive years and she bolted all that was in there with a red coat. Sometimes we had 7 foxes in one day in the bunkers. Semtex is my best dog, she is clever, she always starts baying and moving and then pu
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I used to have a diary in which I also wrote down the breeding of my dogs, but now it's in my head, at least of the dogs I still have. Strangely, people who get my pups are not all that interested in their family or bloodlines, if they are I will write it down for them. When I get a pup or dog from someone else, or breed to someone else's dog I want to know as much about it and its ancestors as possible. Best of all to see them work. Second best to hear from reliable sources how they work. But also their character outside work. I don't want a manbiter, or dog that fights other dogs, or runs aw
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common loss of fur on the patterdale?
tearem replied to c.kirky's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
Could be demodex, APBT, Staffords and related dogs can be prone to that. In severe cases the treatment doesn't help, I knew many pits and staffs with the problem, and years ago I had bought a Fell/Border pup with very severe demodex, had to put her down. The tendency for it is hereditary, there were more pups in that litter affected with it. It is not contagious though, for dogs which are, as they mostly are, immune. -
Nothing wrong with your dog, he works doesn't he? Is that the lads who have left the earths open who say your dog is no good?
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Why would you? I never do it it's not necessary, never had a terrier hurt its tail as it was whole. In Belgium where I live it is forbidden but I already didn't do it before it was. And why a teckel and border terrier not and other terriers yes? Do they dock foxterriers or do they have their natural tail? I don't really know. It's just a fashion thing and in some cases taking some off it, can hide the curl at the end of the tail (many russells, where was the pomeranian cross?) I know you all do it and they do it in Germany with their working terriers but nah man. Why????
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I can never work with this photobucket thing either, so can't send no pics. I start my pups very young with the pack, to big game above ground, from 5 months onward, they can choose whether they just want to take a nice walk through the woods with me, or follow the older dogs. Never had one which didn't hunt the pigs at the end of its first season say 7 to 8 moths old. Then they must also be talking to warm scent. While they hunt the pigs they come across earths and setts too and somewhere during the process they self enter and then too they can make out for themselves how far or deep they w
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It is always so exciting to have a young one coming on well, after you hoped and expected for long. How old is your pup when he got started? I hope he will continue well for you.
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vosey that dog in your atavar is exactly like Chili. I have her son Wasabi and her granddaughter Tabasco. Her mother is Semtex my grand old lady and father was shot by a hunter while flushing a pig out of the maize a few years ago so I cannot repeat the combination.
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I'll re- introduce myself, for I believe most don't know me, and they can't imagine who I am. I am a woman, I live in Belgium (not in Kerkdriel but let's say in the wood where life is good, and I have 10 (since today, 9) terriers as a pack, to hunt at sweep hunts to wild boar, (you need a pack of dogs because the boar lie up together with as many as 30 when you find them) to fox, badger, raccoon and raccoon- dog in France, Belgian Ardennes and Germany, wherever hunters need our dogs. We sort of rent ourselves to hunts per day against overhead expenses, so on a non profit base. I breed my ow
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I think I met the Belgian fox terrier breeder who also works his dogs. The problem is if the breed standard tells you they need to be of a shape that is unable to enter, you have a problem. Let alone the character because looks come first always with these guys. I have no doubts that in East Europe they have some working lines of show bred terriers. I hear that more often. Their lines are bred differently for 60 + years from ours, (when exchange between the countries was difficult or impossible) perhaps enough to maintain some working ability. My solution to the problem of idiots who tell y
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Mates, just lost my favorite terrier. Like a nightmare. In fact I had many nightmares about this same scenario. But it never happened yet. After having survived 4 hunting seasons to wild boar, badger and fox, I take her and her kennel partner out for a walk in a big terrain with rabbit warrens. She disappears somewhere as she always does: she hunts independantly. She got a compliment about that last weekend at the last drive hunt to red deer and wild boar. She always hunted alone. She often didn't even join in when the others had caught a boar. Instead, she flushed a number of them herse
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Bit off topic maybe but Foxfan, the no woman near a working terrier thing you mention: I'm a (fat, old) woman and I do 50 or more hunting days a year with my terriers to wild boar, red deer, fox and badger, I dig and handle the game myself. This includes boar with the knife. Not many women into the real thing, but I'm not into making money with my terriers either, threw the official papers out the window some years ago, so now my dogs are worth f**k all to those I don't want them with anyway. I only breed for myself and have even culled healthy pups because I had not enough working homes for
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Wow, amazing animal. We came across a silvery one without any red or brown once, in Germany, (definitely a fox, not a badger) the dog bolted it from a big place and they shot, don't know if they hit it but it went in again further on, and after a while the hunters got impatient and wanted to move on, believing it wouldn't bolt a second time, and asked me to call the dog off so we didn't get that one. Never seen such a black fox, not sure what I'd do if I find one, sure, I'd be stunned. It's true that if you don't catch it, someone else will, but would be nice if such a fox would reproduce fi
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In France they use pedigree foxterriers both to ground and to wild boar. I've seen a pack of thtem work to boar in Belgium once, sorry to say, they were the stupidest dogs of the whole lot there present that day. They are indeed too big and of too deep a chest to fit in an average fox earth. But maybe when yours comes from a French line with workers somewhere close up it might become useful. A foxterrier of 35 cm. has already a very deep chest though. Like the German Jagd whose chest span must be 10 cm. more than its hight at the withers. Who thought that up? Every German terrier but the
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Doesn't any of you keep cats along with your terriers? I do. Most (not all) terriers accept the cats, after being raised together, but while hunting they hunt strange cats, including wildcats, as happily as any other quarry. And I'd love to have a tame brock someday, but can't: it is not allowed here. I had several foxes in the past and an Enok (raccoon dog) which we caught in the wild and I more or less tamed. Why couldn't you train a hand raised brock to bolt foxes? I don't know how it is with you over there but here, the foxes are scared of mr. B and in mixed earths, sometimes I use the
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Loved to read about your day out and your dogs look really good. We're in about the same business over here now at fox: bolting and digging. Old Semtex of 8 years (she looks like one of yours: a working Fell or Lakeland, but is a mix of that and German terrier) does % of the job here because she is experienced and the most reliable. Keep up the works!
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suggestions for a first terrier
tearem replied to joe perthigwynion's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
I think the breed doesn't matter as long as it does the job, could be a mix of 4 terrier breeds as well. Maybe for a first terrier try and find a reasonable entered one, although it will be difficult to come by a good one. In your first season, the terrier has to teach you. I go 15 seasons now and sometimes the terrier is still teaching me.... -
Is the barryvox the same as the ortovox you mention? I have an ortovox but I'm not so satisfied about the short distance reading: 1 meter around when I'm almost there, I have sometimes dug next to the dog instead of on top of it, so for the precision I use a Deben. The ortovox is better on further distance than the deben. Bellman I've heard of and everyone sais they're the best, where can I buy one and what price, and what do they look like? And for which reasons are they the best according to you all?
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I'd say there is a difference between going or trying to go to ground to defenseless game like rabbits. Or fox, badger, raccoon etc. I don't know if woodchuck are defenseless, I've heard they are small but can bite. Funny that Beagles try to dig themselves in, though. They must be the real sort. The problem with teckels, dachshund or whatever you want to call them (and yes, they are a FCI or kennel club registered breed in 3 different sizes and coat shapes) is that they are admired, and bought, by non hunting public and so bred by most breeders that they will hunt only on paper, and their sha
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Very interesting. Never knew it. Will try it for that purpose next time out, when it appears to be safe to treat cuts. You've helped me out friends.
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I have heard there is some sort of wound glue in existence, didn't know one could use superglue, I thought it could be poisonous. In the field, I use a special stapler for cuts. The dogs can't remove the staples so well as stitches from thread.
