Born to the job

[scent 509]

my father used to shoot and i used to spend my summer holidays on my grand parents farm ,hunting rats etc so thats where i got my love for the countryside and hunting

[john boy 5]

my grandad used to do a fair bit of terrier work thats where i learnt, but my old man has no interest in it, so skipped a generation to.

[dog fox 16]

same here my grandad used to keep a lurcher or 2 ,simply to put food on the table ,he lived in the isle of man and i used to go and spend my summer hols over there . it seems most people it missed a generation .

[desertdog 149]

my gran rode to hounds, and me uncle ron was a farmer in hereford, and he take me on fox drives,other than that im self taught, got a dog when i were a young un , and upset all the local keepers, like ya do.

[donnyc 1,203]

Seems it jumps a generation ?? Do you think its because it was pushed to hard into the first generation and it sickened some away from it?.Second generation pick it up again..Like the dogs breed very tight usually its the next generation come better??

[desertdog 149]

yep don ithink yer right, my little girl is mad for it, any chance she gets, shes out with me, me wife comes along now and then too, i was,nt so luckey with my mum and dad, they never even wanted me to av a dog or go the way i did, dad wanted me to get a good education an go to college, stuff that i went into kennels, dad asked me why?, my answer"huntings a source it,ll change your life".

[Waz 4,266]

Only person I know of in my family who done a bit was my mum's dad (me grandad). I think he only got into rabbiting in the second half of his life. My brother was the only other person in my family who done any kinda of field sports, and to be honest it was always more 'urban' than field LOL. Its fallen to the wayside with him now.

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

Similar to a lot of you here, mine and bftb's grandad was an avid terrierman and lurcherman.... my father is a keen shooter and countryman but the dogs seem to have skipped the generation.... i definately got my love of working dogs from my grandad.

[the_stig 6,614]

the old man always had a few bandy legged russells around .. mainly to keep the cats off the yard -

[dehoffmeister 2]

no one in my family were into hunting i got into it when i was 7. the local harrier pack hunted through our farm i followed and ended up two hours later seeing the hounds marking to ground and the terriers doing their job. HOOKED FOR LIFE. i got an awful hiding when i got home for going missing off the father

[dannyboy3 0]

me grandfother was hunting dose that count

[moggs 18]

my grand father and father got me into terrier work at an early age. My grand father was sadly too ill to take me out digging when i was a kid but every saturday he'd get the old album out with photos of dogs, digs and some other stuff. Always a different story on every dog, i thought they were made up untill all the local digging boys backed them up. My dad was hunt terrier man and thats when my love for digging took off with first hand action and there was a lot of it. So i'd say its in my blood but i didnt have much choice, luckily.haha.

[JonnyGitts 10]

My dad started taking me an my brother when we where young digging an with the hounds when it was a good place to watch mother is a anti an would go mental an still does lol still digging tho

[JonnyGitts 10]

My dad started taking me an my brother when we where young digging an with the hounds when it was a good place to watch mother is a anti an would go mental an still does lol still digging tho