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Hickory

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  1. I've got a pretty hot shit Russell. If a close friend wants a breeding for a working litter, free. For anybody else, I'll have him cover approved bitches with a negative brucellosis test in hand for $1,000 US. If that's too much, go to your second choice. I honestly think that helps to assure the litter is valued more by the owner of the bitch and also the future owners. I'll not have his name on shit all over the countryside that way nor have his name on dogs that wind up in shelters.
  2. First season failure: Won't enter and stay where there's game that they can find and get to. It happens and there's no shame in it unless you won't admit what you see with your own eyes.
  3. Pardon me for asking but what difference does a line make? There've been so many bred from those so called lines I doubt the differences are recognizable. Isn't what's important the dog that's in front of you? Gould, Nuttall, Booth, or Captain Kangaroo wouldn't make a rat's ass to me if the dog was what I want, fine. If not, then the Pope could have bred the dog and I still wouldn't have it.
  4. What do you think fox kits do when they get the opportunity to chew on a bone?
  5. What a joke. The best dogs come from the best men who have good dogs to start with and then have the best eye for the best dogs and know how to use a sire to add to what a dam may be a little light on, and vice versa. Geography has zip to do with it. Most people don't know jack shit about how to breed terriers, they throw a couple of good workers together and think that's a planned breeding. There's more to it than that.
  6. Interesting question. And with what has to be a subjective answer. My first thought was when you choose the dam and the sire, that's your line. A short line to be sure but a line nonetheless. And if you did reasonably well, and carry on with what you've started then that really was the start of your line. To have a line that you know a little something about though, that's something different. I'd say three generations in is minimum for having an actual line and even then that's not a lot.
  7. As the man ^^ said, nothing ventured, nothing gained. I've been out with five year old dogs that had never seen a hole and took to it like a duck to water. Good luck. The dog does have the look.
  8. I'm no fan of Borders but admit to limited experience with them. But from what I've seen they're slow to mature, working lines are hard to find, the one I carried back to the States as a favor to a friend literally destroyed everything that he could get a tooth on and they run large for earthwork in the states. They tend to be as hard as the hubs of hell and if you get the bad luck of having one that's a fighter look out for the rest of the dogs in your kennel. Lastly, they're ugly as homemade sin to my eyes. That said I've got a couple of friends who like them and have a couple of de
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