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    Nuttal and Booth are the options the kids got. Sellers send more dogs to America than other dog men so that's what is available to Joe Normal. I've got a few dogs but it takes years to build up a yard of dogs that when you breed a litter you can count on the majority of pups turning out. It sounds like clancy is at the beginning of his search and doesn't have a mentor like many lucky men on the other side of the pond. We over here often have to start from scratch or whatever is available. Hell I've worked just about every cross under the sun. Including my buddies grandma's weiner dog chihuaha
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    I've heard good things. I've also heard of some getting culled. if it's the same JP I've been hearing about. I am curious to know about his dogs. Some good dog men have gotten dogs off him as far as I know.
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    I'd go with nuttal. But I've heard good things about crossing the lines.
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    My dog pulled out a fox all that was left was dry skin and white skull. The den had been in use the day before as the farmer had seen the foxes go in and out. I wondered why the foxes would live in with the dead.
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    I have been really curious about size these days too. I plan to get some pups off a couple dogs I went to see half a year back. My first impression was "Holy Smokes! Those dogs are huge!" They looked two times the size of my dogs. They were tall, huge boned, long headed and muscled dogs but wiry. I went ahead and spanned the tallest one... He was spannable. I spanned the thickest most muscled dog, she was spannable. I went home and thought for a good while about those dogs. They looked to be much more powerful than my smaller dogs considering their structure. But my dogs chests are bigger. Wha
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    I see both sides. I've had good dogs to ground spannable and good dogs to ground with huge chests. Drive has alot to do with it. However, my buddies bitch with more drive than most good terriers pushed and pushed to get to a fox a while back. We pulled her off and put a smaller bitch in which made it. The next couple of days the bigger bitches side kept swelling bigger and bigger. Took her to the vet and she had dislocated two ribs trying to get to that fox in a hole too small for her. That big bitch usually makes it to her game but she also gets alot more punishment from jabs from the game sh
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    Saho, that may be true but my big brother could beat the shit out of a wheeler dog
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    Dee Mac I understand that some people over there work their dogs as hard as they can be worked. We Americans wouldn't still be looking for dogs from ya'll if you didn't. Some of those countries where jagds are commonly used have better hunting than anywhere else even America and nil for laws restricting the work dogs can do. The UK doesn't have a monopoly on earth work. I agree that jagds are not needed in ireland or england or scotland or wherever else just ground work is being done. You all have specialized your dogs for the job but I'm gonna stand up for the jagds when I hear the ignorant b
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    Why would someone think that jagds might be better suited for american quarry than UK dogs, even though they originate from dogs in the UK? Because they are bred by different people who have alot more freedom to work and test there dogs. Freedom you all had but have lost. Pretty simple really... If two dogmen of equal ability start with the same stock ... one of the men gets to hunt whatever he wants and test his dogs however he wants and keep as many dogs as he wants and earns his living hunting... the other man only gets to hunt fox and that in a limited fashion and can only keep a certain a
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    I have a friend whose jagd was to ground for 27 hours, he had to rent a backhoe to get it out. He got the dog out which had not yet reached it's game. gave it some water and thought the dog was done. The dog ran straight back in to get after the game. That's drive if you ask me. I borrowed that same dog and the dog caught five coon the first day i hunted it solo. He wasn't hard but was smart and wouldn't let game move. Sadly the dog died from what the veterinarian assumed was salmon poisoning while I had him. He was a mighty good dog. Hard headed though dang!
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    Gould is definately the best looking in my opinion. I think that is a loaded question though. Everybody thinks they've got the best terriers... that's why they keep them. I've seen a very few good patterdales. The ones I've seen were somehow related to gould. That being said, the majority of americans use nuttal. My buddy has had some very tough nuttal dogs. I personally have only had mutts that look like nuttal dogs but no pure stock so I don't have a strong opinion on them.
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    Clancy it depends what you want a terrier for. Jagds are a great all around dog but not very good for a begginer as far as handling goes. They take alot more work that the other terriers I've had. They generally have excellent noses compared to the rest of the terrier world. Hardness depends on what the dogs are bred for. Jagds are mostly bred by people who do above ground work and thus many lack underground. But find the right ones and you may be on the money. I'm trying to get some good ones myself right now. A good one can be very very good. A bad one will be the biggest pain in the rear yo
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    Young Man, are you a boy or do you just like to yank peoples' chains? I notice you don't exactly have a fan base willing to tender the answers to your questions.
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    Best lookin beddy I've seen. I've never worked one. I would love to see them.
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    If the topknot does depict the bedlington, then I've had two fell jagd crosses with very obvious linty topknots. I pluck the stuff off. The Jagdterriers have this occasionally as well. I'm not sure it would point back to beddy necessarily. But it could. I've had a fox terrier cross that was long linty coated with a smooth face but a fluffy topknot.
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    Does anyone know what happened to this fellow? If you know feel free to pm me. Thank you
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    That's pretty cool Jawn. I gave a fell to one of my hound buddies and she made it to countless cat and lion trees. One day the lion jumped tree and ran to another. When my friend looked to see it go up he noticed a big ball of something connected to the lion. He thought maybe the lion was carrying game it had caught and that's why it went up so fast. He saw the thing fall and make a splash so he hurried to the tree to see his fell swimming back to shore. She had latched onto that lion and went up the tree with it. The cat must have been thinking he'd never seen ticks so big.
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    Jawn, I think it is very hard for the folks across the pond to grasp the different types of hunting in America. I have beat the dead horse with a few guys trying to explain our hunting but it only registers with their own experiences and they cannot seem to imagine a different way of doing things. Something different about our hunting is that we don't have a choice where the terrier goes. We let them loose and they find. We do our best to get them out but fact is many spots are undiggable. Like you said, it's not that you don't care when you lose a dog. It's that you realize it's going to happ
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    Hell Yeah Liam
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    Part III Today was the last day of coon season and it had to go out with a bang! Tanner gave his boss the what for and took the day off work. He showed up at my place around 7:30 a.m. and it was pissing rain outside. I was eating pancakes and ready to be lazy watching sitcoms with my blanky and lady friend. Hell no! I've got cabin fever and as much as I love my girl I was out of there. I threw on my dirty grubs, full of microscopic blackberry thorns that give me no peace, some wool socks not worth calling socks anymore and some Romeos that can't keep the elements out for the $75 dollars
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    Part II Next evening Tanner calls. He tells me that the weather was so windy and the snow was threatening, therefore, no work for Tanner in the morning. I thought, “Hell, I'm sleeping in with weather like that.” Tanner showed up and made me get my ass out of bed. I grabbed my two pups getting close to a year and Magua (The King as Tanner calls him). Tanner brought his two, Tipper and Booby MacGee. A fox has been Killing my dad's chickens and we have a bit of lust after fox anyhow. Our dogs, especially Magua, have never been really keen on fox. Magua up until this week won't ta
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    Part I Been hunting a few days this week and have had some good success. This was a spectacular week to be honest. On Sunday a buddy of mine who I haven't seen for several years gave a call and wanted to meet up. Tanner and I were already loading dogs to see if we couldn't run some fox to the shotguns. We told my buddy where to meet us and we waited till he arrived and went off to hunt the briars along the river (as usual). We walked a good half mile and the dogs weren't even acting interested. Darkness spent ten to fifteen minutes in a fresh dug sette but nothing was home. Shite
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    My best two dogs I could call out. One I still have the other is dead now. I think it is not down to drive but down to the dog knowing it must obey and respecting the alpha at all times. I have had some very shite dogs that would stay to ground forever. But they wouldn't push to the game either. Just stay where the going got tough and bay til I dug a stupid hole to nothing. I've only seen one good dog in fact that couldn't be called off. If a dog's drive can be controlled to not kill chickens, sheep, house cats then it should be able to be called off game. I'm not as seasoned as most who hav
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    Bluecollar, tan and I are still on the search for a place for you and yours. Problem is we're stinking Mountain billies and don't know enough people. Is it official, ya'll are coming out? I'm heading back to school and will be going to the college with Elisha if that is the case.
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    Erik, we get the odd fancy critter like an otter. But nothing like the consistent digging you get to do. Though in a day we can get quite a few shallow digs on nutria.
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