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One left to go...
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Is there a specifc reason for such a question?
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Put 'em in together, less chance of whining all night long.
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That will be the test mate...she might well bay when she finds a big old dog in a stop end...keep us posted... :thumbs-up:
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Interesting Rob; she doesn't bay but bolts them or is that two bolts out of several different occasions?. What kind of earth is she working? Around here only mixers/bayers tend to force bolts, although hard dogs do but much depends on the earth itself. Generally, if my dog finds, we dig. With the bitch, bolts are more frequent.
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Thank you Stabs; I'm not sure, never given it much thought. What I do know is that my bitch is a bayer and my dog mute, totally...yet litters bred from them have all been mixers - not afraid to bet stuck in, not by a long chalk, but with discretion. So perhaps they are exactly the mid ground 'twixt the two. I have noticed that - bitches tend to be higher strung and that nervier disposition makes them bayers before mixers and dogs, vice-versa, but they would all fit into the 'mid-range' pigeonhole. Tuffty has a bitch I bred who's now about 14 months...perhaps he could enlighten us even more.
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My Mentor, perhaps known here as Smudger/Blondie whipped in to the Eastern Counties ottehounds...I met him through a different hunt... He used to refer to his dogs as 'pipe cleaners', which they were. However, they were Hunt Terriers used in Essex, so could bolt Charlie when they had to...nice.but ugly...
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Nelson, Jack, I believe that certain traits are inherent within breeds, but working ability varies from one dog to another, irrespective of breed. I'm just waiting to be criticised now...
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She is excepetionally small... She takes little stick...being a bayer...refer to my earlier post...
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She's about 9'' at the shoulder...The pic below is recycled as I gave up hunting to respect the law :whistle: and therefore take no photographic evidence. The above MAY illustrate...
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Hello Rob...nice to see someone who goes back to the original days of the old 'smoochers' getting on here. Anyway, my bitch who weighs only eight pounds - yes really - is an out and out bayer, thankfully, but she is a quite nervy bitch and I believe character, as opposed to breed has much to do with the dog's working technique, irrespective of parent characteristics. I have never bred a really hard Border, yet have owned a few; having said that, I've seen some really hard black dogs and never bred those either. I believe that working technique , ability etc differs across a litter as
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Mine have all varied...but most self-entered and have been hard.
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100%
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No
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A couple of points... 1. Are people talking about Borders being late starters through experience or hearsay (Plummer being the biggest culprit) or experience? 2. WillHunt, was your terrier more Border or Lakey looking; ie. did it have a short muzzle like a Border, which can be prone to eye bites? Also, does a Fell terrier that works at seven months, becomes rock hard if not ruined, have the same working longevitey of a Border that starts a year later...? Pound for pound, is their working life shorter, longer or roughly the same...?
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We need a good frost or two to knock that cover down...
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We don't take many as we don't have permission; the problem is that can lead to once place becoming ruined...especially when other terriermen work it too...
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Molly, forgive my ignorance...but why does a bushing terrier need a voice? Is that if working longdogs or guns or something else?
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Spaniel/Patterdale/Dachshund..Spatterdasch
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Is that dog's tail docked too short?
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A bit like the 'Foxfinn' Border that's constantly advertised in there.
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That must be one small staffy bully...
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The old boy's seven and showing signs of age..he's been chewed up plenty of times and is still keen to go...but i can see the difference in him...it'll be the earliest I've retired a dog but if he hadn't been such a mental case then he may have got a few more years. He was a pup when you promised me a day out Dill... I'm pissing off to Oz soon...one legal day out - for the first time ever - would be great...