Experience with border terriers

[obi2 241]

Are there many of you's on here that have had much digging experience with border terriers. are they classed as a baying breed or the hardened kind that go in an aren't afraid to mix it up. Just would like to know what there general working abilities are like from the guys who work them or have worked them in the past. No talk about show dogs allowed just workers!

[obi2 241]

Surely there are some people on here that have worked them?

[hunt 30]

I had an excellent border he died last year very hard never heard him bay and he was as laid back around the yard with every dog and the kids even pups could take food from him he was Levi oaks lines but I'd say they would be hard to find a good one these days we were lucky with ours what I will add was that they had excellent skin the late ray walker kept them also they were meant to be good dogs maybe there is some of that stuff about

[obi2 241]

I have a couple but due to work commitments they haven't been getting as much graft as I'd like. Dug a few foxes out with them. One is untried as of yet and the other is a bayer but due to only having been down at half a dozen or so it is hard to really say what she is like. Iv heard some stories that they are a very hardy breed and sometimes to hard.

[diggory 130]

only ever saw one work..it was owned by a huntsman of a northern foxhound pack...dogs name was Brue and it did really well in a long drain .back in the 80s.

[fat man 4,741]

Any ive had or any that i have seen work tend to be on the hard side,lost a very good border dog 3 year ago after a very hard dig,dog died 2 days later.I found them a very good terrier to find in big places,great nose on them and stay forever.

[obi2 241]

I thought there would b alot more said about them, I wonder what percentage of the terriermen use them compared to other breeds and what makes the other breeds better then?

[desertdog 149]

there are one or two border woekers on here, myself being one, they can be very hard to ground, my dog is now 7yrs and up to now has shown no sign or giving any quarter at work,there have been some good border threads on here,but half of them end up in a slanging match.

[obi2 241]

there are one or two border woekers on here, myself being one, they can be very hard to ground, my dog is now 7yrs and up to now has shown no sign or giving any quarter at work,there have been some good border threads on here,but half of them end up in a slanging match.

[obi2 241]

Why's that?

[The Breeder 156]

I had an excellent border he died last year very hard never heard him bay and he was as laid back around the yard with every dog and the kids even pups could take food from him he was Levi oaks lines but I'd say they would be hard to find a good one these days we were lucky with ours what I will add was that they had excellent skin the late ray walker kept them also they were meant to be good dogs maybe there is some of that stuff about

 

This is a well bred Border dog, that we bred from Raymond and Levi's lines. He will be worked hard this season.

 

[obi2 241]

Nice looking dog mate what age is he? How many do you work?

[The Breeder 156]

Nice looking dog mate what age is he? How many do you work?

He is 18 months old we have about 10 workers and a few pups between us all from the same line

Edited June 29, 2011 by The Breeder