border terriers

[FightTheBan 1,147]

I know a lad who keeps a few and are good grafters. A bit on the silly hard, as opposed to sensible hard to account for a respectable number each season.

 

If you get the right stuff, of which there is some still about, and not get blinded by these big names that get put about, you can get a decent worker.

Although to be fair, that goes for most types.

 

FTB

Edited July 11, 2010 by FightTheBan

[hedz31 1,308]

ive seen a couple of steady little workers,there not my type of terrier because there very hit and miss they were a doomed breed when the general public became interested in them the same as the bedlington they were bred for shows etc,we have to remember the terriers of today owe alot of there making up from borders in the days of cyril breay and before the likes of joe bowman etc all used them ,i think its a shame that not enough genuine terrier men dont try and get the breed back to what it was and good luck and all the best to them that are trying with them and are succeding ,it does not matter what breed or colour its fur is a worker is a worker and if more folk would realise that instead of taking the piss or snubbing other folk the current working terrier gene pool out there would be far better

regards hedz

[Alaunt 4]

i have always wanted a border just dosent seem to be many good workers out there amd people charging silly money for pups.

Buy one then

[Hepher 86]

did you get it to ground

hard enough finding them to ground in the season nowadays let alone this weather

donny i know what you are thinking i am old enough to know better but just get piss of sorry atuddy i have 5 borders all from working lines

 

BREEDER I SEE YOU POST REGULAR, BUT NEVER ABOUT HOW YA SEASON WENT OR WHAT WORK YA DOGS HAVE DONE. I'M NOT HAVING A GO AT YA BUT HAVING DOGS FROM "WORKING LINES" DOES NOT CONSTITUTE WORKING DOGS. THE PAST SEASON MYSELF AND MY WORK/DIGGING PARTNER TOOK A PERSON UNDER OUR WING THAT HAS ACCESS TO MANY BORDERS "OUT OF WORKING LINES" AND ANY THAT WE TRIED SPEWED, EVEN WHEN THEY SEEN THE QUARRY THEY DID'NT WANT TO KNOW. THIS BREED IS ALMOST OBSOLETE AS FAR AS WORK GOES, THERE IS A FEW LADS OUT THERE HAS SOME THAT WORK TRUE, BUT AS A DIGGING BREED THEY ARE DONE AND DUSTED. CAN I ASK DO YOU BREED THEM????

[darren67 9]

i have them , iv said this before, there is a good thread on here somewhere, but as always you try to have a sensible article and some knob comes on and fekss it up, they are biddable and pretty hardy, they can be slow to start but when they do come on, its no half measure, i dont want a dog that you take out and its smashed and cant work for 2months later, they are what i want for terrier, i started with borders, because there were no decent lakies about at the time i wanted one, did,nt want a russel, and the only black dog i ever owed was a bitch i bred from two red lakies, i sent her out on loan, she came on well, but the dick who had her shot her when he gave up,a young bitch who had plenty minerals, but thats another tale,i got my border bitch from mick reagan(digmoor) and bred my dog, i now have a litter here by him, and a will run one or two on, the bitch came rom a friend of mine in county wexford, and has plenty of voice, and niggles her quarry into bolting, they are not everyones cup of tea, but i like em.

great post as usual desertdog this is a man that now his borders imo anyone can enter a stone mad black terrier but it takes a better terrierman to work borders great little terrier

[dave mac 58]

i work my blue&tan dog to ground he has found afew earths over the last 2 seasons.he dont bay alot just gets hold,you get good and bad in all breeds of working terriers, just once i thought for a moment he had thrown the towel in but i was wrong, me and the lad went to a 5 holer that was well kicked out the terrier was keen and in he went, the fox showed but went back so i knew we would get a dig to him, bunpin and thumpin going on, after 5mins or so out came the dog i said to the lad he,s bumped into a big fella, the dog sat on my coat for afew mins got up pissed on it went back to ground and me and my lad dug him out fast to the fox,about 3ft down, you cant dig to every border but the one,s you do, are as good as any other terrier.

[terrier s 123]

i have always wanted a border just dosent seem to be many good workers out there amd people charging silly money for pups.

Buy one then

 

if i find the right one i will buy one not into shows so i wont pay silly money for shit

[The Breeder 156]

did you get it to ground

hard enough finding them to ground in the season nowadays let alone this weather

donny i know what you are thinking i am old enough to know better but just get piss of sorry atuddy i have 5 borders all from working lines

 

BREEDER I SEE YOU POST REGULAR, BUT NEVER ABOUT HOW YA SEASON WENT OR WHAT WORK YA DOGS HAVE DONE. I'M NOT HAVING A GO AT YA BUT HAVING DOGS FROM "WORKING LINES" DOES NOT CONSTITUTE WORKING DOGS. THE PAST SEASON MYSELF AND MY WORK/DIGGING PARTNER TOOK A PERSON UNDER OUR WING THAT HAS ACCESS TO MANY BORDERS "OUT OF WORKING LINES" AND ANY THAT WE TRIED SPEWED, EVEN WHEN THEY SEEN THE QUARRY THEY DID'NT WANT TO KNOW. THIS BREED IS ALMOST OBSOLETE AS FAR AS WORK GOES, THERE IS A FEW LADS OUT THERE HAS SOME THAT WORK TRUE, BUT AS A DIGGING BREED THEY ARE DONE AND DUSTED. CAN I ASK DO YOU BREED THEM????

3 of us are breeding and WORKING this line of border Markp is one on this forum he put a few pics up last year but thay were took off he lost a good dog last season called monty but got a few pups from him 7 months now just worker to worker

Edited September 18, 2010 by The Breeder

[desertdog 149]

from past litters i have bred, i always hoped for a blue tan dog, in this litter i have two, one is goin to my mate in sussex and the other i will run on with a litter sister, i took a pup from a litter two years previous to an earth at the end of last season and the fella who owns her didntthink she,d show, so we put in at the end of the dig, after pulling her mum off and that was all she needed, a little encouragement,job done, not long and we,ll be out again.

[Alaunt 4]

from past litters i have bred, i always hoped for a blue tan dog, in this litter i have two, one is goin to my mate in sussex and the other i will run on with a litter sister, i took a pup from a litter two years previous to an earth at the end of last season and the fella who owns her didntthink she,d show, so we put in at the end of the dig, after pulling her mum off and that was all she needed, a little encouragement,job done, not long and we,ll be out again.

Good luck with the new pup

[desertdog 149]

from past litters i have bred, i always hoped for a blue tan dog, in this litter i have two, one is goin to my mate in sussex and the other i will run on with a litter sister, i took a pup from a litter two years previous to an earth at the end of last season and the fella who owns her didntthink she,d show, so we put in at the end of the dig, after pulling her mum off and that was all she needed, a little encouragement,job done, not long and we,ll be out again.

Good luck with the new pup

cheers mate, their bred from 100 percent workers, so all ican do is point them in the right directions, watch this space.

[noblebostons 1]

Here's a website I found:

http://wartraceborders.com/index.html

[desertdog 149]

Here's a website I found:

http://wartraceborders.com/index.html

nice website, but somehow i dont think thats where we,re goin, the kennel club states, "the border is essentialy a working terrier,"how many kennel club memebers think like that, not many ill bet, my dog and his mum are registered, because at the time thats what i wanted, but my pups are,nt and i will not do it either, stuff the k,c,, i m breeding worker to worker everytime, and will strive to put the border back with the workers, but that just my opinion.,

[donnyc 1,203]

Prices put many off ..Im sure L.J. stuff is now £550 bitches £450 dogs

[The Breeder 156]

Here's a website I found:

http://wartraceborders.com/index.html

nice website, but somehow i dont think thats where we,re goin, the kennel club states, "the border is essentialy a working terrier,"how many kennel club memebers think like that, not many ill bet, my dog and his mum are registered, because at the time thats what i wanted, but my pups are,nt and i will not do it either, stuff the k,c,, i m breeding worker to worker everytime, and will strive to put the border back with the workers, but that just my opinion.,

why not it does not stop them from working if they are KC registered sold a good few pups to working home for the price of a pat with pedigrees

Edited July 15, 2010 by The Breeder