McKay69

Who's the artist of this one?

In the UK and France they have been digging terriers for centuries. There are plenty of diggers and knowledge to be handed down. Here in the States it is extremely rare to actually know someone that works terriers, let alone work them in the ground. Most worn them in barns and brush piles. We have a very large country and there is often great distances between people that work terriers. It is even more rare to find someone that has dug badger, let alone to dig them with any regular basis. We do not have many people to show us how to get on with it. Most people, terriermen/women, that actually

Good stuff. I like the two little ones on the gate with the rabbits. Couldn't find the pics with them and the terriers so this will have to do.

Solid handsome dog there.

If I invite someone out with their dogs it is only fair to offer them the first dig to their dog. They traveled out on my invitation. If they opt out or the dog messes about then my dog's turn. You are only going to find out what is in it and how bigt he place is if someone puts a dog in, be it theirs or mine.

Focken little sh!t. Had a few named that!

If you were to have a fight with someone with the lights off ...it wouldnt take you long to figure out how big he was Very true, if you are standing toe to toe. If you duck and weave while jabbing and poking. Then you come in every so often with a stinger, your opponent might not be so eager to try and walk over you. I'm just saying a bit of tactic and attitude can go a long way.

If it's pitch black dark in the tunnel, how the hell is the quarry going to know the size of the dog? Can you tell what a person looks like on the other end of the phone? If a dog that is 10" thinks that it is 14", what does he care if the quarry gives him attitude. He'll just give it right back. I think it's more in the dog's attitude than the size. Where I hunt you need smaller dogs or else they don't fit, period. If they don't fit then you have to go barn hunting. This is just from my perspective of where I hunt. I don't have earths that a 30lb. creature can scurry down.

Send them my way. I'll use them. That's the size that works best for me.

how do youse get it out the den once yous have dug down or out of the net without it having a go at you scruff it back of the neck they go like a limp cock when ye got them right, me thinks ye aint handled to much quarry fella il put my hads up and say i have never handled a live fox or even attempted to and dont plan on! i think my dog would b pretty pissed if i pulled out a fox he had been working underground for whatever time then let it run off! A dog is a dog and the digger should be the ONE with the brain to reason, once you break through whether, it is a nuisance call

That about sums it up for me.

Any advice on setting and using nets. Thanks Shawn

I have to repectfully disagree with you on a couple of points , goundhogs , woodchucks call them what you want are not any kind of a challenge for a terrier , you'd be better off with a ferret !!!! pissing around with an animal thats running away and trying to suffacate your terrier in the bargain, been there done that, got the Tshirt , i'd rather not go out than piss around on groundhogs "Any dog that is up over 14" and 20lbs is only getting into coyote and bear dens around here for proper earth work and good luck to them." Maybe where you are , but there's plenty of places around here t

I have to repectfully disagree with you on a couple of points , goundhogs , woodchucks call them what you want are not any kind of a challenge for a terrier , you'd be better off with a ferret !!!! pissing around with an animal thats running away and trying to suffacate your terrier in the bargain, been there done that, got the Tshirt , i'd rather not go out than piss around on groundhogs "Any dog that is up over 14" and 20lbs is only getting into coyote and bear dens around here for proper earth work and good luck to them." Maybe where you are , but there's plenty of places around here t

I am in the north east US and it does get pretty cold around here. Our ground freezes up but if its covered with a nice blanket of snow and it stays like that for a while, then the ground tends to be frozen for only a couple inches. I dig most of the winter and find it is usually easy going unless we get exposed surface and frigid temperatures for several days. As for quarry, I have found that most of the time the quarry reacts to what the dog does. Fox will bolt or fight back if a terrier pushes it. If the dog holds its position and bays, then you dig. Coons in the ground act the same w