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    As some others have said, it's hopefully not the young dog's fault but maybe something that you are doing ? Is he expecting a shot or another bigger dog that he is not familiar or comfortable with taking over when you break through ? Or even that you're expecting too much from him early into his career ? If he is finding and sticking you would be silly to give up at this stage. Sometimes intelligence in terriers is confused with other things, if you want to sell him....?
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    I don't think that bulldogs were selectively bred to be undershot, more likely used an excuse when the fancy started to inbreed to and produce freakish animals long after bull baiting had passed. No need to breed from a working terrier these days with an undershot mouth. Not a reason not to work him though .
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    It must of been the animal that we dare not speaketh it's name ? Whippets to ground on badgers, great to know it still happens :-) now and again if not intentional, whippets will do what whippets will do. They can't read.
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    Plummer in a rat hunting man? I think it was Theodore Roosevelt in reference to his relationship with the Grizzly Bear...but maybe I did first read it in a Plummer book. I used to enjoy his books. Whatever else the man may or may not of been he wrote some entertaining and, dare I say it, educational stuff.
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    The secret of a " specialist rabbit dog " is rabbits. I used to hunt land with very few and hard found coneys and the bags were small. Taking any those dogs at the time, even a terrier to an " easy " country and even the little dog would catch then left right and centre both in cover and slow to react rabbits flushed. Any type of dog will catch rabbits. In some places the hardest task is to find them, but a good rabbit dog is the one that finds that rabbit, catching it is relatively simple. On land where rabbits are plentiful and not hard to find any rescue centre Whippet or Whippet cross, o
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    I used to study him in order to hunt him, now I hunt him in order to study him. Not my original words. Some one else said it but I forget who.
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    Are Phyco lines now regarded as old lines ? The first time that I came across the term Irish Staff regarding a type of dog it meant a very small pit type suitable for introducing into working a terrier line without producing animals too big for underground work. The Irish dogs themselves being of terrier size and not because they had short legs. There used to be one advertised at stud mid 1980's in Shooting times that was 11" at the shoulder. They weren't from Ireland and the term Irish just seemed to come into use to describe an animal that was a different type from K.C. registered Staffords
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    Go for it K. Our Celtic cousins may not be too happy with the idea of Brits heading over the water again the with intension of settling as we do have bad form regarding this sort of thing ( not just English but the Scots dabbled as well ), however I was met with nothing but friendship and good hospitality. If by chance any Irishman reads this sorry if that sounds patronising, not intended to be and it did feel like going home. And of course that's a cliché as well as patronising :-). Already planning my return visit though.
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    Good point but that wasn't what I meant. The people who admired the little dog weren't terrier men just folk in a rural area who knew about cattle, sheep and horses ( even donkeys ), but were impressed by a fairly standard stamp of working terrier. When the answer to the question " what type of dog is he ? " was given as a Jack Russell the reaction was that they had not seen a Russell like that before. The ones about that I saw in the area being small toyish types. Not to say that proper sorts don't exist there and I just didn't see them or was not lucky enough to meet their owners. Only spent
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    Just to update and conclude. The trip from England to the Republic with a dog presented no problems. Ferry staff paid no interest in the dog other than the usual amusement at a terrier sticking his head out of the window and enjoying the attension. In both directions. Crossing the boarder on land was only noticable by road sign change from MPH to KPH, exactly as had been writen by kind respondants to this topic. As this is a terrier forum I would like to comment on something that surprised me. My destination was various locations in County Leitrim. The purpose of the visit was a family ma
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    Thank you to everyone who posted. After looking into the subject there seems to be a few grey areas and confusion. I have come to the conclusion that obtaining a Pet Passport is the best way to avoid breaking any laws for simplicity. However my understanding of the present rules are : From Mainland Britain to N.I, no passport required. From N.I. to R.O.I no passport required. E.U. ruling says that a PP is required as the animal is moving from one E.U. state to another but apparently common sense has prevailed and N.I and R.O.I agreed not to enforce this. I don't know for sure. F
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    I thought I was doing the right thing. Travelling over for family reasons. Everyone else is flying but I wont leave the dog so thought I'd just drive over and meet them there. Nowt's easy these days is it ? My fault, should of done my research earlier. Thanks for everyone's input. Cheers.
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    That's a worry. The dog's chipped but not had booster jab for a couple of years due to a silly little lass in a white coat ( the people who pass as vets these days ), sticking a thermometer up his arse without any warning the last time he was there. Now he wont allow a vet to near him. The only thing on the planet that he's scared of. If it had not been for that I would just get the passport. Thanks for everyone's input. I've got over a week left and will try and sort something.
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    Thanks harvey
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    Hello THL members. I have a question and would appreciate the input of anyone with experience on the matter. I will be travelling from UK to Republic of Ireland by car via Stranraer ferry soon and taking a terrier with me. I have just gone ahead and booked everything without giving a second thought about restrictions regarding crossing EU borders. However I was just checking my route online and came across the issue of a Pet passport. Delved a bit more into it and the general opinion seems to be that 1 in required technically but no checks are carried out. I am more concerned about the actual
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    Thanks for sharing the link to " Almost..." p3d. I found my way to this Irish working terrier club once via JRTCB web site and discovered Rawden Lees' Fox Terrier free to download. Both volumes. Books I had dreamed of owning when a kid and never got around to buying when they were reprinted. I particularly liked the stamp on one of the 1st pages, " this is the property of the New York Library " or something similar. I imagine a story on it's own to tell ? The write up on the Sealyham on your shared link is really interesting. The most fascinating being that one of the most influential or a
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    Thanks for sharing the link to " Almost..." p3d. I found my way to this Irish working terrier club once via JRTCB web site and discovered Rawden Lees' Fox Terrier free to download. Both volumes. Books I had dreamed of owning when a kid and never got around to buying when they were reprinted. I particularly liked the stamp on one of the 1st pages, " this is the property of the New York Library " or something similar. I imagine a story on it's own to tell ? The write up on the Sealyham on your shared link is really interesting. The most fascinating being that one of the most influential or a
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    You obviously have a computer Big Bill so why ask advice on this breed of terrier here rather than look up the massive amount of data that already exists ? I think we all know about the German Hunt Terrier. Product of the insane thinking in Germany in 1930's to claim everything that is strong and good as German and that the working terrier as an ancient Germanic type of dog rather than a relatively modern English type of dog. So they imported terriers white Fox terriers from England and with the use of an unlimited budget isolated the black and tan gene that the Fox Terrier still carried (
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    Shoulder too upright ? Hocks too low, stifle too straight or thighs too long ? Could he hunt ? What about his nose ? Can not judge from a photograph. I reckon he never got the opportunity to use it but I think he would have loved to be let loose on a scent. But I get your point. They must hunt or they are no longer what their old breed names define them as.
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    You obviously have a computer Big Bill so why ask advice on this breed of terrier here rather than look up the massive amount of data that already exists ? I think we all know about the German Hunt Terrier. Product of the insane thinking in Germany in 1930's to claim everything that is strong and good as German and that the working terrier as an ancient Germanic type of dog rather than a relatively modern English type of dog. So they imported terriers white Fox terriers from England and with the use of an unlimited budget isolated the black and tan gene that the Fox Terrier still carried (
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    You obviously have a computer Big Bill so why ask advice on this breed of terrier here rather than look up the massive amount of data that already exists ? I think we all know about the German Hunt Terrier. Product of the insane thinking in Germany in 1930's to claim everything that is strong and good as German and that the working terrier as an ancient Germanic type of dog rather than a relatively modern English type of dog. So they imported terriers white Fox terriers from England and with the use of an unlimited budget isolated the black and tan gene that the Fox Terrier still carried (
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    There used to be a slaughter house just to right of approach to Tyne Bridge Gateshead side. Sheep heads and green tripe there for the taking, just used to give the lads who worked there a couple of quid each week and take as much as you needed. Take it back to the yard, boil it, and the dogs had top quality feed and something to go at re pulling it to bits and crunching bones. The sheep heads were cut in half with a hack saw after boiling. Long gone now so a bit pointless me posting this I suppose but....happy days !
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    Unless it is closely bred to Smithy or the Reverend John Russell's Trump a terrier will not go to ground.
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    Smashing looking terriers andy26, thank you for going the trouble of posting the pics. There were dogs of this type around when I was younger. Not that long ago, well late 1970's early 80's which is a long time ago I suppose, but not as far back as people may think regarding the Sealyham type as a working terrier. They were not very popular though even when I first started getting interested in hunting dogs and Border/Lakeland types and Russells were the norm. But the Sealyham type was still around. Short legged heavy built dogs are more suited to working a particular kind of undergrou
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