Entered pup

[Attack Fell Terrier 864]

Fair play mate, best of luck with the dog!

[richc12 84]

cracking post buster....listening and learning....

[darrell jnr 16]

well done busterdog,only way to bring on a pup imho..atb for the future with him mate...darrell.

[goldfinch2007 2,336]

you should post more often buster.good posts like this are few and far between.hope it turns out a good un

[mattyg 1,862]

cheers busterdog, i stand corrected! every days a school day!

[mongoose 39]

Real interesting post busterdog, the best post for quite a while....

[higgins 75]

Good post Busterdog,

Higgins

[shovel 160]

Good post.He looks like he will make a handy dog.

[patterdaleblackuns 0]

Some time ago i replied to a question about entering young dogs, if i remember someone wanted a worker to enter a pup ? My reply was that you don't need a working dog if you know what you're doing and the pup in question is bred right. As they say the proof is in the pudding so i will put up a picture of this years pup and tell you a little about his entry. His first day i walked him through the wood behind my house and let him wind around a few earths big and small, he was interested but not that bothered, he was never let of the lead. The next day out his curiosity got the better of him and he marked to ground four times and it was a very strong mark "well chuft". In MHO he still wasn't ready so i left him a month or two before he whent around any more earths but he still got the odd dead fox to look at "he will not worry dead foxes". The next day out was with my local pack and we found a nice little earth which was well traded so he was given a chance to mark and he was jumping out of his skin to get in, a possitive mark . This earth looked like it could go to six or seven foot but lady luck has been kind to me for a long time so a gave him a go, within seconds you could hear him mixing and baying "happy day's", he was given plenty of time to settle and we got a mark at four foot out in the feild. Now this dog is bred right so there was no panic to rush away with the shovel, he didn't have a watch on or know how deep it was . In my experience it's better to let the youngster get into his hot blood and work it for a while, before you go and ruin his fun and take his new toy of him. After ten or twenty minutes he moved into the side of the bank and the new mark was only 0.7 on the b&h, a couple of minutes digging and his first fox in the bag, a lovely dog fox, sorry no pictures, i hadn't got phone or camera.

 

His next day out was another month down the line and thanks to the weather it couldn't have been easier, a trip around a local estate and plenty of trade on every earth we came to, but as usual the fox was in the last earth we came to, nothing special about the dig, he was straight in and straight on and at the grand depth of 0.9 his second fox was soon in the bag.

 

I'll get to the pics, sorry to the mods about the jam sandwich pic but the truth of the matter is most dogs get bitten before they learn a little sense. Poor pics they are off the phone.

 

Pup in the summer

 

Fox pads

 

breaking through the wrong side of the dog

 

Slowly drawing back the fox while digging underneath them both

 

Pulling him out after the fox was shot with a .22 pistol

 

Hope you enjoy, another learning his trade.

[chezney 44]

good post busterdog

 

i was lucky enough to get a well bred bitch given to me off smelly dog back 16 months ago thers not alot of quarry other than rabbits local so she was always kept on lead i decided to take her out at 10 months around some earths that was holding and she gave a posotive mark screaming to get in dropped older dog and earth was dug and she was aloud to have a rag which she did with no holding back i left her in till she was 12 months and she was always markin earths after her first trip out. at the age of 14 months old i decided it was time to enter her and the perfect chance came when a mate said he had one in a artificial earth she flew in and worked the way i was expecting her to a month went past and now i wanted to get her dug we had a mark in a one hole place a young dog was tried but came out by now my young bitch was screaming and climbing fence i put the locator on her and she was in and working straight away i was happy with the result ive dug her another twice since due to her style last one being a 1.2 meter dig nothing special but dont liek to over work youngsters ... ive never had a doubt in her working shes bred well been entred right hopefully she will become a good worker.... most young terriers are easy to enter and much easier to spoil

 

 

[Guest busterdog]

good post busterdog

 

i was lucky enough to get a well bred bitch given to me off smelly dog back 16 months ago thers not alot of quarry other than rabbits local so she was always kept on lead i decided to take her out at 10 months around some earths that was holding and she gave a posotive mark screaming to get in dropped older dog and earth was dug and she was aloud to have a rag which she did with no holding back i left her in till she was 12 months and she was always markin earths after her first trip out. at the age of 14 months old i decided it was time to enter her and the perfect chance came when a mate said he had one in a artificial earth she flew in and worked the way i was expecting her to a month went past and now i wanted to get her dug we had a mark in a one hole place a young dog was tried but came out by now my young bitch was screaming and climbing fence i put the locator on her and she was in and working straight away i was happy with the result ive dug her another twice since due to her style last one being a 1.2 meter dig nothing special but dont liek to over work youngsters ... ive never had a doubt in her working shes bred well been entred right hopefully she will become a good worker.... most young terriers are easy to enter and much easier to spoil

 

 

 

Well done chezney, I'm sure smellydog will be very pleased. You only get out what you put in and if you've done you're bit and let them grow mentaly as well as physically then all you should have to do is put the stuff in front of them, then its in the hands of them and god.

 

PS I know the breeding of you're bitch and yes she is very well bred, best of luck for the future and send some blood back this way when she's ready.

[richc12 84]

great thread this.... atb with the pup chezney....

[smelly dog 16]

Busterdog nice to see you are teaching by example, just hope the students are listening. They dont usualy lol

[Toka 10]

great post there!!!!

[dfee 1]

nice one pal and the only way to enter a terrier properly imo,no need for all this hole ending crack that people get upto.