True Neil , I've heard it all now about them being no harder than a fox . My lasses granddad used to hunt them before they were banned and he lost some good terriers to them
“An otter is a sufficiently formidable beast of chase, and the terrier that has to tackle him must be a hardy and high-couraged one; no creature, in fact, knows better how to use its teeth than an otter, and the unaccustomed spectator will do well not to try to “tail” or otherwise meddle with one of these animals in the course of the hunt, if he values his fingers. “Tailing” an otter~that is, seizing the beast by hi