1920S Film

[Lenmcharristar 9,172]

Good reading in this thread

[bushranger 19]

Terriers - Their Training, Work & Management
by Various Authors, Originally published in 1932

 

This Is Irish Dog History.............................LOOK AT WHO IS WRITTING!!!!!

[bushranger 19]

Terriers - Their Training, Work & Management
by Various Authors, Originally published in 1932

[bushranger 19]

Dogs depend on the people that breed them and make them ready. Of the Irish breeds of terrier I prefer The Torum Tunde kerry Blue Terrier line or a working wheaten, they must be like Kerry Blues from what I here say or better....I would not go for show line Soft Coated Wheatens....to off as a Terrier for me.

[neil cooney 10,415]

Nice find Bushranger and I see it was followed by an article by Richard Clapham who wrote one of the best hunting books ever IMO, but, even back then I see that there was as much written about appearance as performance.

What has the colour of a dogs eyes or toenails got to do with gameness ???

Like I said before it was only when the proper dogmen took over the trials in the 70s that the wheat was sorted from the chaff and the curs went to one side.

[neil cooney 10,415]

Dogs depend on the people that breed them and make them ready. Of the Irish breeds of terrier I prefer The Torum Tunde kerry Blue Terrier line or a working wheaten, they must be like Kerry Blues from what I here say or better....I would not go for show line Soft Coated Wheatens....to off as a Terrier for me.

Working wheatens are indeed like Kerry Blues in that they have 4 legs, a head and a tail.

That's where the similarities end.

[bushranger 19]

But I have To say it Clear....The Sporting Irish are into American Pit Bulls now....They have sorted out the Chaff....and ther native breeds fell.

Edited August 8, 2016 by bushranger

[bushranger 19]

I was very much into staffords and Pit bulls before....but These Irish Breeds and The Kerry BLue was a surprise for me....how can a puff ball...perform the way they do...HAHA I have a likeing for them. THESE IRISH PUFF BALLS

Edited August 8, 2016 by bushranger