Popular Post wirral countryman 2,110 Posted January 28, 2013 Popular Post Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 There have been a few threads about big digs and lost terriers lately that have been a little far fetched or inprobable,owning a working terrier comes with certain unsaid responsibilities,if you either enter your dog or lose it to ground then you should be there for the duration untill you either have a live terrier or a dead one,I've been party to both outcomes unfortunately in the past.Knowledge comes with age and we can all be clever after the event but local knowledge of earths or drains that are death traps used to be passed on from terrierman to terrierman and avoided like the plague,but every now and then a terrier will find itself in trouble below ground either with or without a collar in need of help,you cannot shirk your responsibilities even if it was under the police station itself,you must take it on the chin and help your terrier "END OF" there's no use making excuses about where it is you must get on with it,now before you all go off on one I've been in those situations many times and made the national press because of it,I hunted fox on railways,parks,peoples gardens,under motorway bridges,house foundations,scout huts,youth centres,bowling clubs,barns,pigeon sheds in fact anywhere a fox could live and have had many situations that most would wonder about the outcome but have just got on with it,most lads started out that way round here in the north west so its nothing unusual for many my age,if you feel you cannot give your dog this kind of committment then terrierwork is not for you,sell your dogs or keep them in as pets,when that dog needs help you better be there to help or just keep lurchers,rant over,WM 64 Link to post
whippet 99 2,613 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 you shouldnt have no worries mate with plummers ..................... 5 Link to post
hard grafter 277 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Boom!!! All in a nut shell.. Good rant.. 2 Link to post
fagaen 282 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 YOU put the dog in YOU get the dog out no ifs no buts regardless of situation you leave the dog your breaking the law I'd rather break the law and know I did everything for my little warrior and when you hit a problem there's plenty of genuine men who will help as I recently found out on an 11 foot dig in the dark atb 7 Link to post
Millet 4,497 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Cracking post it's almost the same as the one i PM'd you earlier.. 1 Link to post
Dozza#lurcherterrier 5 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 I agree wc well said 1 Link to post
foxtails 272 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 well said, absolutly true,!!! 1 Link to post
Cleanspade 3,322 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 you shouldnt have no worries mate with plummers ..................... no one likes a smart arse 3 Link to post
steve66 3,078 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 Some of the stuff ive read lately , makes you wonder where the terrier games going To some they seem just disposable livestock .... oh well thats the way it goes , well get another And this is what i dont get you take time and effort to bring a dog on feed it right excetra You'd think people would value there dogs more 7 Link to post
wirral countryman 2,110 Posted January 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 YOU put the dog in YOU get the dog out no ifs no buts regardless of situation you leave the dog your breaking the law I'd rather break the law and know I did everything for my little warrior and when you hit a problem there's plenty of genuine men who will help as I recently found out on an 11 foot dig in the dark atb Fagaen,there were a few main terriermen round this way and none of us have ever really got along as best mates or anything but those same lads have been there like a shot when I've had terriers in bad places and I've always done the same for them,its not about us,its about the terriers, its an unwritten terrier law,WM 16 Link to post
Rake aboot 4,929 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 I could not imagine leaving a dog down. f**k, that would haunt yeh. I don`t work them anymore but have had few hard digs, at night, all night if need be. 2 Link to post
treecreeper 1,136 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 a good dog is loyal to the end, the owner should be the same. 7 Link to post
TUFFTY 1,476 Posted January 28, 2013 Report Share Posted January 28, 2013 YOU put the dog in YOU get the dog out no ifs no buts regardless of situation you leave the dog your breaking the law I'd rather break the law and know I did everything for my little warrior and when you hit a problem there's plenty of genuine men who will help as I recently found out on an 11 foot dig in the dark atb Fagaen,there were a few main terriermen round this way and none of us have ever really got along as best mates or anything but those same lads have been there like a shot when I've had terriers in bad places and I've always done the same for them,its not about us,its about the terriers, its an unwritten terrier law,WM Well said WC 1 Link to post
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