The last two litters we bred we kept 3 out off five from the 1st litter and gave the other two away to local digging lads so we could see how they ended up and the 2nd litter we gave away all 3 pups again to local lads so we could see if they made the grade. This is just an observation of mine but you dont see to many irish lads on selling terrier pups from 100 % parents and you will never see any on selling working dogs and i have my own views as to why this is.
Chilli alot of the places we have been digging this past few years even the smallest of dogs have a hard time getting up to the foxes, a 17" dog will never get into a cleared out rabbit hole, horses for courses.
Its a miss understanding I have had dealings with both these people and fell terrier is a straight man and as said before 30 quid to him deff wouldnt be worth any hassle and dealings i have had with donn have been same.
Nobody can say that there dogs will kill a fox every time of course there are some occasions when a terrier gets a good hold and chokes a fox or when a fox is squeazed up tight and cant get turned and a terrier will eat the back out of it and this more often than not will kill a fox but if you get a big dog fox sitting up on a ledge eating the top muzzle of a dog he will 9 times out of ten sit back a bit a mark well a smart one would anyway.
You are right there we would of still been there only for Dev and P and we well repay the favour sometime. Dog was in grips for about an hr or so and we could hear the battle goin on from the mouth of the hole and then silence so we waited for bout 3 hrs and no noise and he hadnt moved an inch on the locator so we had a fair idea that we be digging to a dead dog so rather start last nite we got gathered up and started at 8 this morning we owed him that much couldnt of left him not knowing for sure what happened.
Not much to say about the wee dog was no world beater but was game enough for his size had two good seasons with him and he took alot of punishment should of been retired after getting top muzzle smashed end of last season but he wouldnt of wanted an easy life and was a pleasure to have in the yard. That him after 2 hrs with 2 in the pot.
Thats right if you havnt bought the box from them you cant buy a collar on its own but you could get somebody who has bought the box to buy an extra collar.