OHIO STEVE

may be bollocks ( as you guys say lol) but i have been told that a stub tail ( NOT a bobbed tail like a mt cur sometimes has) but an actual stumpy little nub is a form of spina bifida in dogs.. It is genetic and the same type of thing that causes cleft palates. I had a litter once with a stub tailed pup AND a cleft palate pup.

As a young cockfighter years ago, an old timer told me this bit of advice...." THE BEST MEDICINE ON A ROOSTER MANS YARD IS A HATCHET" A sickly weak pup that you have to battle to keep alive has something wrong with it. Better for the individual pup and the breed as a whole to just humanely put it down.

wow.. wtf is the world coming to?

My brother bred a bitch ( terrier) that ATE her entire litter of pups. we thought OK maybe something wrong with the pups or they died and she ate the dead ones to clean up whatever.....a few years later ( excellent working bitch) She was bred again by me. Started eating her pups again..perectly healthy 2-3 week old pups! She is dead now.

MANY moons ago I was hunting in an old sheep barn that hadn't been cleaned in YEARS. The holes were literally down in dried up layers of manure. Anyway I lost a dog and could NOT find him anywhere. It got later and later until it was nearing midnight. FINALLY he came out and I grabbed him and threw him in the box and headed home. When I unloaded him at home his collar was still on him but the transmitter had been bitten off. ( I know sounds like B.S but there were tooth marks on the part that was left.) Anyway I heade back to the barn to find my transmitter and I got a locate on it and started

Looks like he may get some work soon. I will let you know how it goes either way.

I have only ever been out with one...so so dog at best IMO

To be 100% honest her getting in..getting bit and coming out would bother me more than looks or anything else. BUT as has been said, she is your dog, you feed her so if YOU like her what else matters?

of course. He will be given ample opportunity to show himself one way or the other.

nothing at all yet Judge. I have had him a couple of weeks and I am not REAL confident that he wouldn't grab a terrier. So far he has been good with my American bulldog pup, but I get the feeling that if a male stood up to him it would get ugly fast. I will say that he has some of the biggest teeth I have ever seen on a dog... he really wants to chase anything that moves. BUT you never know until you know. He may be a gem but he may be a pure crapper lol.

Isn't that the way of things? Had you been looking for a dog, you'd have had all bitches. Bred my old American bulldog because I wanted a pup before he died.The bitch had 3 pups. I promised one to a 6 year old boy. One died.. one was stone deaf... So I gave the last one to the boy as promised and I got nothing.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v459/OHIOSTEVE/?action=view&current=VIDEO0002.mp4

I just read a thread about using draw dogs. Has anyone here ever used a bull terrier in any fashion either as a draw dog or a cross for lurchers? I read on an australian hog hunting board about some crosses and some of the pics were definitely bull terrier crosses. I ask because I just got a 15 month old male. Just a house dog but pretty high prey drive it seems and really likes the spring pole.