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I must admit none of the 3 times the fox had me, I squealed, although I am a woman. 2 times I was alone catching it for myself and with only the dogs and there was no use in making noise. The last time was on a pig drive hunt, I had my mate out there, who pointed the fox in the first place with his dog on top, I had stabbed the fox through the heart in a wood pile since my dog had retrieved it into my reach; 2 dogs were on it then, and I thought it was dead, still it bit me, and I said, auch, would you break the fox off me, (because the dead fox was still attached to my hand and 2 or 3 dogs we
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Papers: when there are some letters on them, read them Don't take the letters for granted but think, and form your own opinion. After that, or when no letters to be read; use them to wipe your arse. Otherwise, they may lay in a cupboard for years and take up space, and/or get moulded.....
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Oh yeah. Before their first or second season, I take a stance picture of them, to remember them as a whole. They have a nice strong lower jaw then, afterwards...nay mate. No lips no lower jaw parts. We do those too and even if it was not meant to, at pig hunts, they come across one in the maize or below....after 3 seasons none of mine has a perfect "under line".
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My best ones still don't look showy in the summer. Teeth out, ears in rags, nose in rags....lot of work.
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3 times through the years, by fox not yet badger. With badgers I'm a bit more careful. I handle a lot of foxes above and in the ground and badgers too. Before I got bitten I handled a lot, in between more, and after, another 50. Part of the game. All three times I was bitten full in the hand,the fangs going in entirely, and 2 times he wouldn't let go and a break stick was necessary. If I could chose, I'd rather not go to the dentist...
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I agree. Hasn't the ruination of the show breeds, especially terriers,"shown" us what show leads us to? The terrier as such will only exist when in the hands of you guys over here who work them honestly and don't go to shows, best of all not even "working terrier" shows. Showing a working terrier is a contradiction anyway. My best ones surely don't look showy....
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If they're from the right stamp the more work they get, the better they get, and they keep learning, or the smart ones do...some just train their owner, I once knew a terrier man who put his dog into a dangerous deep difficult earth I had warned him for before, I don't know what he wanted to prove. He told us all to walk away, that was the way his dog would come out, there was badger in instead of fox, and indeed the dog came out after a while and I thought he was good enough for having his master trained so well, later that day the same dog worked well and long enough to badger in another ina
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Yes, we here hardly ever work for ourselves but as exceptions, usually we and the terriers are invited for the day by the guns of a certain hunt, and we do all the earths there present that day for as far as we get, and bolt as many for them as possible. But if they miss or even worse, hit but he is away, I always need a special trained terrier at hand to track after it. That and the boars, is why our terriers need noses like hounds....
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Bit of recreational grafting relieves you from a day's working stress doesn't it? All those unnatural things we do all day like machines only to get our wages, it is the modern day slavery and you can be glad, sit on your knees and pray if you have a job anyway.... But then out there with your dog you forget all the trouble. It's between yous so to say. Plain and no nonsense, and trust the terrier for the results.
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If you can dig at all. Imagine your joy when a terrier retrieves the dead fox from a deep one eye, or rock or boulder earth. (Peyote, one of mine, does that, she also retrieves the foxes killed by other terriers as a proof that they are dead.) It's fantastic to have a terrier which kills the fox, but more fantastic when, if at all possible, he retrieves it on command. But then if you scruff them they will give up on this useful habit soon!
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You have a real good, "down to earth" sense of humour, boys. I never scruff pups, because it makes them hand shy, I always only encourage them, but when they're in battle or in sight of the quarry they don't feel anything and it doesn't matter how you take them off them, whether by a foot or the scruff, they won't feel it then. But afterwards, praise them. Another thing is when a terrier comes out of an earth retrieving a fox. Then, never, ever scruff it, but praise and reward it highly! This is a thing to be encouraged with all means, and when the retrieved fox is already dead, you discour
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Good job! Don't you use nets when there are no guns or when it is a dangerous place like close to a busy street? Then, you could have had the 3 of them.
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How much of a problem are rabbits with you who want your dogs to mark to fox? What do you do about it, how do you make them rabbit steady? Do you keep them off them at all times? How many of you have the all purpose terrier you can go bushing with to all that's in there and the next day to fox earths and will mark unfailingly? Or does such a thing not exist? I'd like to hear the opinion of the international terrier field here on this forum, to maybe learn or get valid new ideas from. Harcombe, and local teriermen from here, always admitted rabbits were the everlasting problem, and they are
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J R Jipp, is 50 to 60 full days a year to wildboar, stag, fox and badger (and others) like I and my terriers do, enough hunting for you to consider a dog tested or, as I should say, surviving and learning? As for which breed gives the hardest dogs: terriers come in individuals, and are living, developing beings, and so many things, especially fate and people can work with or against them. Mine are cross working lakeland x German hunt terrier from 5 different lines and give everything from the one which is lacking to the too hard tu use animals. Selection, every individual and every generati
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Nice looking dog that, believe he's clever. Dogs can be too hard, or too hard and game, like Taffy and Fluwijn. You dig them out and they lost their head (literally, sort of) and wag their tail like: that was great craic! But after a few times of using them they cannot be used any longer. Fluwijn has without going into detail, irrepairable damage and much missing down under, from just 2 badgers, and she would happily plunge into the next. It's not like such dogs are necessarily stupid, they simply are too game for their own good, they are fighting stoned when they are with the game and feel
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Terriers are quick, sure and humane....
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Isn't that nice, another woman. Where do you live then and what dogs do you have? Maybe we can hunt together sometime, or meet.
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Walk your dog. Leashed. All over the place. He will find some. Follow the game runs, earths are often not far from them. Keep your eyes open and your nostrils....And ask people who know the area. That's how it works over here. We can also ask the person who has hunted there before.
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They look great, and well cared for too. I like the head of the dam, am unfamiliar with these lines, (I live in Belgium) is that Lakeland or Patterdale or I guess just "worker" (mix, own lines?). Would you have a pic of the sire too for my interest? Do you still have the pups?
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I can imagine that if anyone out there has any working stuff of this sort they keep themselves to themselves. The show Glen became popular in Holland for a very short time because they were Boomer- like and attractive to certain people. I sold one to the owners of an Irish pub but when he grew up he loved nothing better than fighting other dogs too. Other newbie owners got the same problems and not knowing about breaking sticks etc.... the rage was soon over. I guess the Glen has a lot of Staff blood somewhere along the line. I believe you could rebuild (or adapt) the Glen as a worker by cr
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Really interesting topic this, since you all have your own opinion and working style, according to the situation. I know terriers which were hard BUT obedient and can be called out, they don't come out if not called, I' dlove one like that. When you had the terrierman working for the field, he too had to bolt quickly. Even if the fox driven in was not planning to bolt for the first 12 hours or so. Those were both hard and clever dogs knowing many tricks, and in their own way as admirable as the hard one dealing out and taking, because they were so intelligent, adaptable and learnt new things
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In Holland and Germany where I dig, the season stops 1- st of march and we take all untill then. Last weekend we had a very full vixen. No cubs yet. 1 -st of August the badger is open again in Germany but so are the maize pigs...then we will do both as they come.
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Once, somewhere, Harcombe said: you don't want the hard terrier? Give him to me! He has a point there, I always remembered it. You need at least one finisher in your team, for you don't want to lose from a fox and some of them can be really difficult, especially the big boys full of hormones (when you hear the war you believe it's a stripe) and the vixens pregnant or with cubs too. They are often courageous till the end for whatever reason, they had better give up and make another family next year, but well that's instinct. But, I wouldn't have "just" one Bikkel, if I could only have one ter
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The only terrier I don't like is the one which goes in, avoids contact to all cost, and if it takes longer than say 15 minutes, comes out and pretends there was no fox, or the terrier which marks false, that is, bays, but when you dig, there is no fox, or it is miles away. Yes, where I live, many (most) jack russells (show bred) suffer from that. In Limburg (Holland) it is very crowded with people, and foxes, and the foxes are used to dogs running loose everywhere and it is quite hard to bolt them there. When we worked there it was good weather and everyone was out walking numerous dogs. Do
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Don't hurry on it. Let her be a pup and play as long as she can, and work up her condition and reflexes in the process; it's only such a short part of their lives. Best of all take her with an easy going experienced old dog and let the old one give the exemple on hunting rats, maybe when she is 4 to 6 months. Years ago when I had not much work for my terriers yet, I bought me a so called tame rat and let it go in the woods, and the dog had to find it. I had an older dog at hand to either give the exemple or catch the rat if the young one wouldn't. After being bayed, or bitten once, these tame
