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This is very very familiar to me. I have a terrier pack of 10 terriers and we do exactly the same sort of hunting in the Belgian Ardennes and German Eiffel. The terriers must have a good nose and talk to the line even if they don't see the game. And they must not be agressive to other dogs as they work in different packs together with hounds. When the boar season lasting from august to february is over we do a month of earth work to fox and in the autumn we dig to badger. All these forms of hunting are allowed here in the seasons when the game is open. We have at least 50 days out a year. In
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I had pitbulls, one Amstaff, several SBT and my friend had a pedigree bullterrier. The latter was utterly stupid. When I just started into working terriers I couldn't find any good one yet and I bred a nervous, tiny Russell to the Amstaff. The Amstaff was intelligent, steady and hard. Eventually I sold that lot since I got a German hunt terrier and a good Lakey/Russell then. Don't know what became of the Staff crosses. They grew way too big for earth work anyway. I didn't like the Staffordshire bullterriers I had either, because they were really cowards. Someone here in Belgium breeds SBT to
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Do the borders always give voice on warm lines? We use short hunting German terriers over here for bushing, and they must speak to the warm line, of small and big game. They also make many miles through every terrain and thick cover. For bushing I too would not prefer a brown or brownish greyish dog but a black or white one. We always do this with the Guns. We do a lot of maize fields in the after summer, mostly to wild boar and fox, but also rabbit, hare, pheasant and other small game.
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Working with terriers in France is great! The people are fantastic, so is the food (I never ate better in my life!) and digging is legal at least part of the year. The people are into hunting in a normal way as part of life, at least in rural areas. They are not ashamed of it and don't need to hide it; there are numerous hunting magazines for sale in the book shops. I have very good experience having hunted in France. 5 days digging in stone soil and 20 quarry. 7 locals helped me digging while my terriers worked. They had a predation problem around the duck farms there and our actions at leas
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KawValley, (The dog in your atavar is SO good looking) It's just a flaw of mine. But as long as you breed merle heterozygous it is reasonably ok. Although mine is mainly white (was not meant to, but both parents seemed to have carried a hidden white gene, only one parent has the merle gene though) he can hear and see fine, is athletic, (you can fold him double) can do many miles of distance, has a thick coat so that until now, he never yet got soaked through to the skin, although being days outside in snow and rain, and he works well, too. He works the spectrum at a young age and gives voic
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Deadlyshot, I really like that white leg on your dog. I have one like that, with white markings. She is called Coffee because she is not black but very dark brown, and she hunts very well. I can't seem to post any pictures here, it doesn't work. If anyone wants to see a picture of a certain dog of mine send me a pb with your E mail adress and I'll send you one. Of the dog when it is outside the hunting season.
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The best hunting teckels are those bred without official papers. I know someone from Belgium who has teckels a bit higher on the legs, (more the sort you see in the previous French picture) at least one of them bolted over 100 foxes in 2 or 3 seasons. This must be without any doubt, a good worker. But the FCI teckel breeders in Holland and Belgium, if they don't only breed for SHOW, do nothing but artificial tests in all the countries of Europe, to collect "trophies" (test wins) on their pedigrees, and then sell their pups for incredible prices. I invited one of them, whom you will meet in ev
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A dog doesn't even HAVE to be scarred to be a good worker. With "ugly" I mean mostly they are just normal looking, of quiet disposition, and in no way striking or exaggerated, so not of interest to show people. Some of the best avoid contact and are still useful. A friend of mine, an Englishman living in Holland has Russells, mostly from Chapman, and goes to ground predators a lot, but his dogs are hardly touched. Mine are a bit, having 50+ hunting days a year to big ground predators and mainly boar. But compared to packs of purebred German hunt terriers, mine look formidably whole! And they
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A dog is proven dead game when he is dead. I lost Duvel years ago, he was a white Fell or Lakey and when the Russell club came into existence he was a pup and got Russell papers as he was white and the stud book was open. When he was 11 years old, we wanted to give him an easy fox. I often protected him against himself then. We had dug several foxes there before in very shallow humus ground. So, we entered him, but this time the fox (or earlier on, a badger which wasn't present then) had dug 2 meters deep through 3 rock hard layers of stoney lime. We dug and it got dark and we got ourselves
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They are being worked in Germany on a regular basis and some are good to ground but they are very extremely built: not athletic, but with too long backs and too short, often crooked legs, and a ridiculously deep and wide chest. They can't work in stone or earths with steep tubes or in bunkers; when they fall down a chimney or over a steep edge they can't jump or climb out again. Those from working lines have good nose and flushing capacities, and open up on warm line so you hear them hunt. This is because they are meant to be used in thick cover where you can't see dog nor quarry untill they
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Where does the red nose come from? Pitbull?
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Thanks for letting me see some of your fine terriers. They all look fit and able! Here's one of mine, the picture is not so good quality, he won't stand still. This is Lucifer, so named because he is white with a colored head. He is the first Merle colored working terrier to exist, I think, know no others. He is brindle merle. His mother was a young starter and so is he. Seems I can't put the picture on. Sorry.
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Purebred means they share mental and physical characteristics and breed more or less true to type.In that way, Patterdales are a breed because you can easily recognise them by type, both in appearance as in performance. We can be lucky to have such diverse strains of terriers left, so that we don't need to inbreed. Closed studbooks etc. are always going toward every generation more inbreeding and finally a dead end. Almost all "official" "pedigree" breeds are plagued with hereditary ailments and inbreeding depression to the extent of being infertile or hardly viable. To make such caricatur
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I have a set of tongs like all other tools. It is not forbidden here. But I would use them more to put logs in the fire, if I had a fireplace. They are at hand ready for use, they may come in if the quarry is just out of reach under a boulder or so, I use the tongs maybe once a year. Mostly, I either tail the quarry and lift it out and take it from the sett to be shot, (in sand, they otherwise dig themselves in right away instead of presenting) I try to make him bolt for the Guns, or after we have opened and removed the terrier, a Gun shoots it, as in Germany this sort of digging is control,
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I'm only SO glad I don't live in England. Here on the continent I can work my terriers without having to feel a criminal. The original home of something so beautiful and admirable as the working terrier is outlawing all that is courageous and which should be the pride of the nation. The terrier lives and works on in other countries. I thought by the way, freedom of opinion is a basic right. You cannot even post things of the past, for historical interests? Things have gone way out of hand over there. Now when you guys are on this forum, it's already enough for the anti's to know you hav
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I breed my own. They are half German hunt terrier and half Fell/ Working Lakeland. They are versatile and they do the job here in the continent: we hunt in the Belgian Ardennes, German Eiffel region, and Holland, to wild boar, track the wounded ones, and we hunt the fox and the grey (in Germany legal), also we have Raccoons in Germany and Enok (raccoon- dog) which are alien invaders and open to hunt with terriers all year. My best dog is Semtex, a black rough coated female of 8 years: she can do it all. Half of my terrier pack are her descendants. Just for the crack, I begin to breed Merle
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Lucky you! Easy digging and so many foxes around! And yes, good pics!
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Still have the old Deben or forgot to put in a new battery? I have the new Deben recently and I like it, much better than the old. My old ones always gave out at the critical moment, or just simply always.
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I used to show my dogs too but good decent hard workers always get marked and loose teeth and break jaws and get parts of their ears missing, and their nose gets pierced by some red fellow and their lower jaw gets chewed off by somebody else, and then they don't look like they used to except for me they look fine as the memories of all their work adds up. By the way, show is just nonsense anyway, especially FCI shows. Those people haven't a clue what a working terrier is, and we have no working terrier shows over here because there are very few working terriers and those who really work them d
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Last week one of the bolted and shot vixens was heavy in cub. I don't cut them open but she would have been due soon.
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I am a woman. And it doesn't cost, you get paid to get rid of the striped armoured cars! I rent myself and my terriers out per day to hunting combinations to drive boar or do earth work!
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In this part of the continent, the badger is open to hunt, I must begin to say. In some states of Germany it has a season, in others it is open all year, and also in France. In this particular hunt, I and my terriers have been guest for over 10 years. Wars have been fought here, battles decided. History made. The hunt contains at least 4 main setts and several less big ones, most of which immeasurably deep in stone and sticky clay. I have lost a precious, good little terrier here, Dixie, after 8 years of hunting with her. Little Duvel the Fell/Russell, got himself a new record here by staying
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I try to send a picture, this is my dog Poltergeist my wounded animal tracker, stopping a boar by the ear so I can stab.
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Sure I am having a ball, just came home after 3 days of boar hunting, the weather was fantastic; every hunt had boars and my dogs worked hard and real well in getting them out and before the guns. I also have a dog or two to track the gunshot injured game and I crawled on hands and knees after a blood track of a boar for more than an hour in the brambles, after three days of tracking. The dog indicated me drops of blood, pulled the leash and was right all the way. But we never got near the boar. I could see from the blood and the place where it fell that it was hit somewhere underneath and not
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For as far as I read your new laws, sport is out of it now. Poor British terrier people. Game over. Flush the game...What if mr. Reynard just sits in his arm chair while the Russell is chatting to him: would you please be so kind as to leave your house and do those guns up there a favour. What if the vulpine stays?????? My God, am I lucky! Over here in continental Europe, we can dig and flush, within the season, fox and in Germany, badger as well. And we do!!!!! I am learning right now how to bolt badgers for the Guns, my dogs slowly progress at it, but the shape and size of the sett also acco
