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Lines, if inbred or linebred, have their special characteristics. You might be looking for some of those. However; how sure can you be a dog is bred like it is bred if you only have the word or a hand written piece of paper? No more than when it has an "official" pedigree; prior to DNA testing there was as much fake in those as anywhere else. You could easily fill in another stud as the sire of your litter on the paper. On the other hand, some of those who only just work their dogs and got one off me, never really asked for even a hand written pedigree. Some know that all my dogs just hunt
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Are you sure she just massaged? Or did she have a warning grip, and would she castrate without anesthaesia if he was naughty in his apparent urge to kill? It is just another way of control????? Works better than a choke chain, and as good as an E- collar.
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Small and good. She looks strong and well proportioned. Such dogs are the only ones to be able to get to small vixens, and cubs. I always have 1 or 2 small ones too and couldn't do without them. They work the boars as good as the bigger ones by the way, as long as they are decently high on the legs.
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I only used Fluwijn once a season to just kill a fox if there was no other way it would bolt. The year before, I used her to kill a fox in the (undiggable) earth which didn't bolt after 3 terriers and after the guns had waited for half an hour in between each terrier for it to bolt. Over here, they MUST have the fox. It is considered a pest. Before the last time Fluwijn could kill the fox quickly like her sire Bikkel. This time, I thought Fluwijn would go straight to business with the fox and then it might still bolt after having freed itself from the dog. Also, I thought that the dog if woun
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Ah, that's how the show Lakeland got such a luxuriant coat....
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Well written, good pics, good dog work and good grafting.
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Wow! I know coons never bolt and are difficult. Be proud of yourselves and your dogs.
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This was not in England but in another country on the continent, and as for me I would have had the fox shot instantly, anyway it got shot a few moments later when it was shown to another young terrier there present, and it became clear that the young Jagd terrier, didn't understand the game yet. Nor do I need the tongs to extract a fox but they wanted the fox and I gave the tongs to them, they got Fluwijn instead with the thing and I told them to go away and took the fox out myself with my hands. The whole thing only lasted like 2 minutes before the fox was shot so not what some of you thi
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It is not so easy as to say every dog is allright and the owner is to be faulted. I have my line of crossed Jagd/ Fells now. Not Patterdales, but out of two (fell?) (working Lakelands?) imported into Belgium and Holland over the last decade. One of them looked like a Bedlington, including soft long curly coat and topknot, but game tot the end. And I myself had a little white one dead game (died dead game at 11 years) who accidentally broke out when his girlfriend the Jagd came in heat, and I kept a pup. Only recently I heard that the sire told to me, wasn't the sire of that white dog, which
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If you never come near, or handle a live fox, you will not get bitten. Most people here only shoot them. They are afraid of them and stay at a distance. Because of the dangerous fox tapeworm most people here don't even pick up a dead fox without gloves. I know many fox diggers who don't know how to handle live foxes and will avoid it, or use tongs or any other tool to stay separated from the quarry. I think if you work to and with foxes, (or badgers) you must be able to handle them, too. And so it goes for wild boar. When you dig, sometimes you must handle a live fox, for exemple, to separa
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It is curious that you over there, who have invented the terrier and still use it, need to import terriers from the continent now. You must have good ones at home, specially fit for your purpose. Try and take a decent one then, a small one for digging, most are too big and most are used for the wild pigs in Germany. Many are too hard for their own good but some are not hard enough. They also tend to be a bit agressive to people and other dogs, but not always. Some of them are inobedient by nature and hunt far and independently and don't come back on command. Many rather bolt a fox than stay w
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Yesterday we were out fox hunting. First we drove a 10 km. and only 100 m. wide wooded parcel. There are usually foxes there but not this time. Only in the middle, a badger which we left there since he was protected. I was a bitdisappointed having found no foxes. There was a small, long stroke of bush further on amidst empty fields. I was never there before. On one side, a shallow ditch. This thing was full of earths. Young beginner Maus found a fox in one, I tied Semtex up. In 10 minutes Maus bolted the fox nicely for the guns. But they touched it slightly and it ran off, to go to ground fur
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So, someone buys a terrier and then when it starts to do the job it was bred for a 1000 years it's not meant to....get yourself an Airedale if you really want a terrier for bushing, they can't go to ground.... I know other such stories from people who buy a Russell and they are totally against hunting...they say they will put the dog under strict discipline and will never allow it to hunt, for they don't have the dog for that... Who is happy then? The owner, the dog, both? In Germany they cross German hunt terriers with Airedales to create a breed of terrier too big to go to ground, but the
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Another one I had called Acid. She started way too careful for my idea. To boar, she always hung around me and the first years, never parted with the others, let alone by herself. But she was useful in finding those that had stayed. Even if at first she only bayed at them or even just pointed them to me. Het brother Adolf was good from the beginning, her mother Dixie was a jewel to both boar and fox and her sire was a top stud dog from Germany. But after 4 years, suddenly Acid went to hunt behind the boars. One year later, I came across her and found her when I trailed a wounded boar with ano
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I was asked to judge (working terrier) shows many times before and I never did and thought I never would. But this one is surely so informal and innocent that no one will care for the result. Being a judge is a very ungrateful job anyway because no one ever agrees with you except for the winner. And what's the fuss about it? Working terrier people should not find a show important because no dog there is proving anything. I don't want to actively take part in the downfall of the working terrier by judging shows and having to let the most beautiful (perfect looking) specimens win so people a
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This is one problem with adding bull blood. You must select. Select out the fighters. No matter if they're from the same litter or not. A working terrier must not fight other dogs, just quarry. It has something to do with being stupid, with no brains, another problem of the bull blood addition. A pure terrier saves its energy for quarry. It is no more, no less. What if you have a dog fight and the one takes out a fang of the other, would you be pleased afterwards, while the wounded dog is young and only starting a career to fox and needs its tools?
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As to free drinks, I wouldn't do it for less.... But we always get paid expenses for coming with a dog pack to wild boar, mainly because the boars can grow big, 150 kilo or more, and can kill one or more dogs instantly. Also, this place was 3 1/2 hours drive for me and petrol is not so cheap nowadays. One day 2 years ago in high snow I lost 2 very experienced terriers on one old big male. You get nothing if your dog is killed. Unless you have it insured. But in Belgium there is no dog insurance willing to help if they know you hunt wild pigs. They are big, numerous, and quite dangerous. They
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I must admit that both pics of Bull x Russell mix have beautiful strong heads.
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If I resize them they still come out big size, doesn't work.
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I can't put any pictures on this forum, sorry, otherwise I would now and then. I tried but the *#$ image shack doesn't work, the pictures are page filling, way to big, and can't send them over.
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When I first saw her I thought you had imported a German hunt terrier. It's exactly alike. I have one pure German terrier could be her inbred sister. A yeah, they all come from the same lines of workers, you can see. Hope she does her best for you.
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It is well possible to have good working terriers which don't fight, are quiet outside the job, and behave well towards people. I work my terriers in packs to the pigs. If one starts fighting I will try to break it of the habit with all means. If he still continues to fight, whether over food, a shot quarry, space, jealousy, or whatever, I can't tolerate it in my pack. It has to go. And so, I end up with 9 terriers now which can usually live and work together without fighting. There is the odd scrap for exemple when they come in heat, but I have my mthods and really, never, tolerate fightin
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Yesterday we were in Germany for hunting the vinyards along the Mosel river. There was much pig damage. It was hard on us trackers: steep slopes, rock and clay and loose slate, and especially all the thorn bushes of Europe entangled together. There were 3 people with a pack of long haired German pointers....so the terriers (I had 6) had to do the job. The pointers never got out one pig. The terriers took a cat, a few foxes, and they found the pigs quickly and rushed them out. They caught 3 pigs for themselves which we had to finish with the knife. End of day: 21 wild boar shot, and 5 foxes,
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In Rotterdam (Holland) a few years ago the rats were also visible in broad daylight. I was sitting in the tram and thought, now we have more work for the terriers within the cities than outside, also with all the urban foxes. Time Weils' disease spread a bit, or the plague....then they scream for terriers, and with these superhumans it's all a matter of time, while the last vulnerable species disappear because people are claiming the last space on earth, someone's going to protect the CITY RAT. Do so....someone's got to die of something, especially since all germs are resistant against antibi
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As soon as they come up with papers, they come up with BLABLA. Papers are sure to be the opposite of working lines/quality. Hope you've learned your lesson in more than one way. This is why I stick to my own breeding, and breeding mine only to what I've seen working and what is so good somehow it can add something for the future to the lot I have. Good luck with your pup, hope she will still work for you. Being a Border give her all the time, and patience...
