TonyT 1,700 Posted 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago On 03/09/2025 at 17:45, Bosun11 said: Eddie is almost idolised in the US, but not so much here. The bloke on FB by the name of Terrierman, can't gush enough about him. I dug to a couple of his dogs in the 80's and they were decent enough. I last seen him at my only visit to Crufts about 17 years ago. Back in the 80's a mate put a dog off Eddie over a working Border bitch and they also were good. Eddie seen a white bitch off this litter at a show and bought it off the lad, knowing how it was bred. He then put one of his dogs over that and sold the lot as his line. And though I'll bet those pups were no worse for that quarter Border blood, Eddie's far from the only terrier 'legend' to do such a thing... 100%…… and sold alot of books Quote Link to post
eastcoast 4,564 Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago On 03/09/2025 at 20:59, fireman said: EC didn't have a line of his own as such and was in fact banned from keeping dogs and it was his misses who bred the KC ones.His book with him stood holding two muddy russells ,they are or were East Essex bred by Donny C (rip)...Eddie just bred from what he had bought in or was gifted from others who had some good old lines of russells.. No good can ever come from a "type" becoming a "breed" when registered with the Kennel Club. Some gundog breeds, OK, but their jobs are not that demanding. I do not know of anyone winning money betting on a KC reg Greyhound. Digging dogs being all shapes and sizes? Shapes I would disagree with but conforming to Russell type with variation of size is OK. KC dogs must conform to the written breed standard, so only ideal showing size terriers should exist? Even the bitches would be too big in some places. Adding/buying terriers from another terrierman? It's called development. Not possible once the gene pool has been closed and the all important KC papers become sacred. We only have these types because of men working and developing them, they had no need to close the gene pool at any time, and breed "type" is in the eye, not a written standard. 1 Quote Link to post
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