hard terriers

[Guest grubygrafter]

what makes a hard terrier hard... is it a lack of brains or a low pain threshhold.

or ????

[Guest diesel]

i dout welll ever know.,.....

[logman 0]

Breeding.

Nature beats nurture every time.

Terriers, lurchers, hounds there all the same, its all in the genes.

[socks 32,253]

if the dog has bull in its line somwhere then taht will help ... bull breeds have a much higher pain threshold than other dogs ... it is t do with the nurons in the brain ... the bulls brain releases happy drugs into the brain when it feels pain ... it is the same type of releases that you get when you eat chocolate ............

[logman 0]

if the dog has bull in its line somwhere then taht will help ... bull breeds have a much higher pain threshold than other dogs ... it is t do with the nurons in the brain ... the bulls brain releases happy drugs into the brain when it feels pain ... it is the same type of releases that you get when you eat chocolate ............

Or take hallucenigenic love drugs

[F.R. 2]

High aggression and high pain thresholds.....

[Kane 2]

Theyve been bred that way........for where control was more important than sport.......or by men who appreciated gameness,something some will never understand.

[Guest Stevie D]

Kane, if control was more important than sport, we'd all have a lamp & rifle.

You're right on the other point though. Men have bred dogs for gameness and nothing else, completely forgetting why the terrier is there in the first place.

Stevie

[Kane 2]

Kane, if control was more important than sport, we'd all have a lamp & rifle.

You're right on the other point though. Men have bred dogs for gameness and nothing else, completely forgetting why the terrier is there in the first place.

Stevie

 

Terriers have been around a long time in these isles probably longer than gun powder and definatly longer than the sport of lamping.Without gameness there would be nothing to work but that wouldnt worry rossette hunters.

[pickaxe 23]

hard terriers, why?,,,,,,because without them there soon be no working terriers

[DIGGIT 6]

HI ALL what makes a hard terrier hard... ?

 

i dout welll ever know, but i know 1 thing the littel git's don't know when to give up

[Guest Stevie D]

Back to the "game " or "hard" arguement.

[Guest grubygrafter]

this was just a balance post to mirror the bayer post. after reading both i am of the opinion of breeding being the biggest single factor. with clever or poor rearing and entering i personaly have seen linebred terriers bred for generations and throwing dogs that not only look similar but also work similar. then when different blood enters the line it inveriably changes the work style. even if they still look similar

[J Darcy 5,871]

I tell you what i have noticed about "hard " dogs...everyone wants them to meet their comeuppance.... work them in the right places, sensibly, and they are ok.....a hard dog requires a sensible owner

[Guest oneredtrim]

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Edited January 20, 2008 by oneredtrim