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    even big (8kg) foxes have very slim chests and will fit anywhere that their head goes thru- i skin my foxes (winterfox in the alps) do that and you´ll see- big hard dogs get a lot of damage - not because their so brave but because they can not move to and fro in a tight place- like klitschko in a toilet in china facing a slim shaolin-if there s no place for his strenght to get applied, he will have to take a lot of hits!
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    Hello , i ve allready posted my question regarding working Borders and their type-i described the type i would be looking for in this thread http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/258271-border-terrier-red-fell and would be happy to read an answer-obviously The Breeder and others have more knowledge in this respect and i hope there are some infos to be gathered. Here in the alps there are no shows for working terriers and hence i have no interest in exaggerated type for types sake.i just want a hardy dog with a good pelt thats game and sane! Weidmannsheil
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    I know from reading a few threads that some people here actually breed and work terriers, and also the type i am looking for-i have also gathered that good pups are mainly given to friends so how would i get in contact with someone breeding red fells/borders of the type seen on the link www.lakelandhuntingmemories.com/TerriersBorrans or borderterriers with good working abilities: strong jaw, good nose, good voice when baying, but the will to bolt and if necessary mix it, and a correct size. And maybe the "Working"breeders can explain why borders seem to grow ever leggier and more pugfaced? m
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    Actually all deviations color, hair or behavior from the type of a wild canid.ie coyote/wolf or primitive dog like a dingo/laika are caused by defective genes which are usually recessive, of course not all make the dog sick, but virtually all would reduce their chances of survival in the wild. recessive Genes can resurface after many generations, a process greatly furtherd by inbreeding and the reason most lines wither away after some generations of inbreeding/linebreeding since lethal genetic disorders are also recessive and therefor you can say inbred dogs are generally less healthy!!!!: re
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    Above treeline, we shoot them actually with a hornet or a 222rem, if they make it back into the burrow we use the teckel to draw them-they are not dug to, but in this area foxes use marmot burrows, an they are tight! below 1200m altitude fox dens are often badgerdens, european badger often weigh up to 40pounds, so there You can use a bigger dog, but foxes often take to rockcrags-so i am looking for a slim agile dog- a friend used to have a bitch jagdterrier/teckel cross- she was very agile and slim, not so good in deep earths, but hell in rockdens, and if the fox didn´t bolt she would kill and
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    Anyways my question was: are there breeders among you that breed for a border(type) terrier with the good wirecoat with undewool ( it´s really cold here when we do most of the hunting) slim chest ( under 42cm!!!), strong teeth and a good jaw like in the pictures on that page? i have heard that borders could be kenneled with hounds-which is not easy with jagdterriers....i am not looking for pedigrees or rosettes...agile and game but not stupid! i reasoned a gamekeeper would need and therefor breed terriers that get it´s job done regularly without getting mauled every time!
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    yes-that is what i saw- they look racey enough, you know teckels and jagdterriers are nowadays used a lot for gamedrives on wild boars and less and less people hunt to ground, that changes the type i guess, and most jagds are to bloody big , a fox has maybe 35cm chest circumfence- i have the impression most people like a big terrier to brag, but i want an earthdog to hunt, my teckel is allright, on the hard side though and to big and his short legs make crags a no-go.....so i am looking around!
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    Hello terriermen and diggers! i hunt and dig in the austrian alps, using wirehaired styrian hounds above ground and a teckel / the jagdterriers of a friend when we have to bolt/dig. Both have rather big chests of about 45-47cm and in tight earths, especially rocky ones this is a big handicap, at and above treeline there are marmots and foxes will use their burrows, also they like to use crags in rock, this is dangerous and hard/impossible to dig.As the red fell and the borderterrier stem from landscapes that have this feature i would like to know which kind and size of terrier gamekeepers the
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