kyboy44 11 Posted May 17, 2017 Report Share Posted May 17, 2017 One night I find a story of a kind of Collie was using for hunting thought it was interesting so I was guffing around on line to see if I could find any more about it and came up on one called a bearded Collie and it being used in scatland to track fox back to it den was a interesting story was wondering if anyone has ever seen one used like that and if so would it be nomall for the breed Quote Link to post
rick12345 180 Posted May 17, 2017 Report Share Posted May 17, 2017 Wouldn't be 'normal', as they are a pastoral breed. But very versatile, and regularly used for tracking people in emergency situations, so I don't see why they couldn't track a fox..... Quote Link to post
forest of dean redneck 11,387 Posted May 17, 2017 Report Share Posted May 17, 2017 Years ago when the firearms were becoming more readily available the Beardie was supposed to been used to aid the deerstalker on tracking wounded red deer either pure or crossed with the deerhound, But most of these breeds of dogs you been posting about are either old working breeds with little of the characistics now that they once had or rare breeds, I think you either need to ask on a American forum For people that use dogs for similar purposes and can help you source one or bite the bullet an get a dog an train it yourself there is plenty of fiests/squirrel dogs/hounds an laikas over there that you can get easier an cheaper or a decent gwp. Quote Link to post
kyboy44 11 Posted May 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2017 Cool was just wondering Quote Link to post
Squirrel_Basher 17,100 Posted May 18, 2017 Report Share Posted May 18, 2017 Any dog with an ounce of hunting about it can be taught to trail. The hardest part being the human doing the training .Any of coon hounds could trail whatever you wed them too and more Mate. 1 Quote Link to post
Phil Lloyd 10,737 Posted May 18, 2017 Report Share Posted May 18, 2017 My cur dogs track b*****d foxes, and poxy fecking deer on a daily basis,...I'm fecking sick of it..... 4 Quote Link to post
kyboy44 11 Posted May 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2017 Cool it was just neat to hear about a different way in the place my people came from Quote Link to post
ands 529 Posted May 19, 2017 Report Share Posted May 19, 2017 Plenty of farmers out there cursing their collies for wandering off the job . Hunting wise who wouldn't want a compulsive hunter? lol Quote Link to post
3175darren 1,098 Posted May 19, 2017 Report Share Posted May 19, 2017 The old man hunted with a collie dog, for years and swore by it, back then no one had hundreds of pounds to spend on imaginary world beating dogs, so they worked with whatever they had, he did a lot of terrier work also, and in his eyes they are all good dogs if they get the job done, nothing wrong with collie dogs, good dogs if brought on right, And as foxdropper says, any dog can be taught to follow up on blood, this I know from experience, Quote Link to post
Shovel shy 4,032 Posted May 19, 2017 Report Share Posted May 19, 2017 Your right there. Any dog with clear nostrils will trail on. Quote Link to post
3175darren 1,098 Posted May 19, 2017 Report Share Posted May 19, 2017 (edited) Got about a ltr and half of blood saved up from the doe season, this fella will start learning with it shortly Can't be any further bred away from pointers and I will put money on he will do it Edited May 19, 2017 by 3175darren 2 Quote Link to post
Squirrel_Basher 17,100 Posted May 19, 2017 Report Share Posted May 19, 2017 We used to freeze blood in ice cube trays mate and use them to drop for a trail .Wait a few minutes for them to thaw and away you go ,saves all that mess and stink from old blood . Finish off with a slice of liver for reward .Best of luck with your trailing .In my experience terriers are very fast on a trail and even more so when they get the hang of it ,faster than purpose dogs like hpr and labs . 1 Quote Link to post
3175darren 1,098 Posted May 19, 2017 Report Share Posted May 19, 2017 We used to freeze blood in ice cube trays mate and use them to drop for a trail .Wait a few minutes for them to thaw and away you go ,saves all that mess and stink from old blood . Finish off with a slice of liver for reward .Best of luck with your trailing .In my experience terriers are very fast on a trail and even more so when they get the hang of it ,faster than purpose dogs like hpr and labs . i have trained a few before, but had to put the teckle down last yr, and the lab's getting old now, so the young dog will have to pick up the slack, trouble is he bolted his first fox a couple of months ago, so weary of him diving to ground somewhere, 1 Quote Link to post
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