** Urgent ** Patterdale Terrier - Rehoming/Advice

[reddawn 2,173]

shoot em both an buy a hamster

[sikastag_1 689]

If the lab is 13 and instigating the fight surely that should be the one to go? and the dog roaming all over is bad crack.

 

Also you said she's had 2 litters yet say you've only 2 dogs??? Was she just pupped to make money then?

 

Like a lads already said take her round the lady that gives her steak, sounds like she'd be better off.

 

 

[christian71 3,187]

[Tallyho 181]

What are you doing letting her roam about in the first place ? You dont leave dogs just to roam about as they want .

[CorkyJohn 808]

get them both pts & don't keep dogs ever again, pretty clueless especially having dogs all those years

[BOLSTER 808]

1, Ambush the walker with a ''Dead fox'' while dressed as a Patterdale.

 

2, Walk the 13 year old Flabrador to the biggest hill & roll it down,if its still alive at the bottom then keep it.

 

3,If none of them work pts the both & dress up like your patterdale & get a ''Free steak'' every day off the old woman down the rd.

[vixen 528]

Hello

 

I've just joined on here in the vein attempt for someone to be able to help me with my Patterdale Terrier. I have a beautiful terrier called Betty, she is about 8 years old now having had two litters of puppies in her lifetime. Most have gone on to be excellent working dogs with game keepers etc and a few have become household pets.

 

Anyway due to recent events I now have to look for a new home for Betty.

 

Issue no 1. : I have another entire 13yo labrador bitch and she is intent on trying to kill Betty. 90% of the time they get on but more recently they fight all the time, particularly around when they are in season. Now Betty isn't the instigator of this but as you all know terriers often fight till the death and Betty certainly falls into that category. Just two weeks ago they had two massive fights and have ended up in the vets. I now have to keep them seperate all the time as we just can't risk them hurting each ohter any more, as well as it being a very traumatic experience.

 

Issue no 2: Betty is very well trained when in close quarters but if she's left to her own devices or picks up a scent she's off. If Betty isn't tied down or in her kennel she will run off too. Now where we live this hasn't been an issue, most people in the village knw Betty and are quite used to her tootling about. One lady feeds her steak on her bed (this probably is the reason she runs off to be honest) and she's quite a favourite at "teas on the green". Anyway to cut a long story short a walker was walking passed my house one day and Betty was coming back from her travels. This walker shooed Betty away from her and then proceeded to hit her with her walking stick very hard ( I saw this event outside the front of my house so I know exactly how it happened). Now Betty never fought back on this first occasion, I think she was rather taken a back by it and ran home. But ever since then if this walker comes passed our house with her stick (which she does on a dialy occurrence) and Betty is loose she will go for this woman. Last week she bit this woman on the leg and drew blood. I dont believe it was a prolonged or particularly aggressive attack but none the less she still bit her. This woman said she was going to report the event to the police/dog warden. Now my argument is that Betty would never have done it if she hadn't beaten seven bells out of her in the first place but she was loose and by all means not under control so I didn't argue the point when it first happened.

 

After many discussions we have decided that it is in Betty's interests to remove her from this situation and look at re-homing her. She is our beloved pet and we couldn't ask for a friendlier more loving animal and this is why it is particularly difficult to stomach, however if such an incident happens again here I do fear she will have to be euthanased if the police get involved. She would make an excellent working dog as has all the natural instinct for hunting. She would suit a household on her own or one with other larger dogs which are no longer entire.

 

Anyway if anyone has any ideas as to what I could do with her it would be much appreciated as I do understand that terriers take a particular type of owner who understand their nature.

 

Look forward to hearing some suggestions

 

I'm guessing betty was absolutely fine and so was the other dog when betty was producing puppies?? You are to blame for the dog biting the woman as your dog was completely out of control, not the woman for hitting it when it was on its own first time round!! You also want the dog rehomed when it is clearly a difficult dog for yourself to control? you expect someone else to take the poor dog with all its bad habits which are not the dogs fault, then you say it would make a good working dog?????????? it's 8yrs old for godsakes,,,,,poor bloody dog is all i can say!!!!!!!!!!!!!