PROVEN DOGS?

[tigerdog2 8]

GOOD COMMENTS BY CLEANSPADE ,PROVEN WELL LETS SAY THIS IF THE TERRIER HAS DONE HIS GIVEN JOB FOR 5 SEASONS AND DONE IT WELL A WOULD SAY HES PROVED A LOT ,AFTER ALL FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF TERRIER WORK HOW LONG DOES THE DOG GO ON ??? SOME FOLK TRY TO GO WE LET THE DOG RETIRE FIRST WHEN HES 7 OR 8 AND THEN HES PROVEN ,BUT 5 GOOD SEASONS IS ENUFF FOR ME LIKE !!

[darrell jnr 16]

with dee mac 100% mate...atb...darrell.

[lancer 13]

it is very hard to keep a good strain of good terriers for earth work,with people breeding for proffit,and people thinking there terriers good when it isnt you have to be very carefull what you end up with,wilf isnt wrong in what he said.

[lancer 13]

at what age would you call your terrier proven.

[mbrydenuk 14]

age goes for nothing somedogs will see more in there first season .than most will in five

[digaman 0]

at what age would you call your terrier proven.

It is not question of age. How many times do you use?

Maybe an old dog hasn't seen as many game as the other young one.

[johnny boy68 11,726]

Age has nothing to do with being proven...some dogs just dont get the work others do,a terrier used by a hunt will probably be a proven dog way before a weekend warriors dog

[stevolad 26]

None of your dogs are proven until Moo says so.....he's the Simon Cowel of working dogs

 

Priceless

[tigerdog2 8]

looking back over the years when a was a bit younger ,i have been invited out with lads with working terriers and when the days been over i have sadly realized that there talked about proven terriers arnt realy working ,and when a showed them my old dog working they realized like it or not that there dogs wernt working at all ,proven is a easy word to throw around but a think a lot who lets say think there dogs working are best put kidding them selves,but be fair unless they see a true worker doing is job they might never no there terriers arnt proven !!

[liamdelaney 2,586]

Age has nothing to do with being proven...some dogs just dont get the work others do,a terrier used by a hunt will probably be a proven dog way before a weekend warriors dog

Personally i have never found hunt terriers game(In Ireland)They like yappy dogs that will bolt not kill.I once gave them a pup on the understanding he came back if not suited.A year later he was back to hard not suited.We used him for years after.

[stevolad 26]

Over the last year or 2 I have realised an awful lot of the local lads that have terriers and i thought were the bee's knees and there dogs were the mutts nuts don't actually do as much as all the lads ive had the pleasure of going out with on here....standards are so different it's unbelievable. The dogs local that have a dozen digs a season are legends, more than proven in the owners and friends eyes. These dogs are being bred off and the offspring are being bred off, alot of the serious lads wouldnt even entertain the dogs.

 

As someone said, a dog out with a good pack of hounds will see a hell of a lot more than the weekend warriors dogs. Standards are going to be so much different between a weekend warriors 'proven' dog and a man who has thousands upon thousands of acres of good digging permission who has the good fortune to be out 2 or 3 times a week working his dog. To both men, if their dog does the business each time they are entered, consistently for 2 or 3 seasons then they will say they are 'proven working dogs'. Numbers could and will be vastly different though but it's not a numbers game in my eyes, it's how the dog works in different situations / earths / terrain ona regular basis which would say to me whether it was proven or not.

 

Its a big world and those that say less are more often than not the ones that do a hell of a lot more

Edited October 25, 2009 by stevolad

[johnny boy68 11,726]

Over the last year or 2 I have realised an awful lot of the local lads that have terriers and i thought were the bee's knees and there dogs were the mutts nuts don't actually do as much as all the lads ive had the pleasure of going out with on here....standards are so different it's unbelievable. The dogs local that have a dozen digs a season are legends, more than proven in the owners and friends eyes. These dogs are being bred off and the offspring are being bred off, alot of the serious lads wouldnt even entertain the dogs.

 

As someone said, a dog out with a good pack of hounds will see a hell of a lot more than the weekend warriors dogs.

 

Its a big world and those that say less are more often than not the ones that do a hell of a lot more

[tigerdog2 8]

Age has nothing to do with being proven...some dogs just dont get the work others do,a terrier used by a hunt will probably be a proven dog way before a weekend warriors dog

Personally i have never found hunt terriers game(In Ireland)They like yappy dogs that will bolt not kill.I once gave them a pup on the understanding he came back if not suited.A year later he was back to hard not suited.We used him for years after.

i am with liam on this nombers dont impress me ,bolting type terriers we massive nombers dont mean you have a great proven dog on your hands,special proven dogs are about but its not the nombers game that makes a proven dog,a lot of these bolt type terriers can be shouted out ,a would say you would be a long time triyin shout a proper dog out from his work ,quality far beats nombers !!

[Aaron Proffitt 142]

I don't know how to describe a dog being proven... but I know it when I see it.

[Attack Fell Terrier 864]

A proven dog to me, is when you know you can rely on the dog to do its job properly, when you have full faith in it.

 

IMO anyway.