ferreting!

[Hepher 86]

TERRIER= Any of several typically small, active breeds of hunting dog originally developed for driving game from burrows.

[Middle English, from Old French (chien) terrier, ground (dog), terrier, from Medieval Latin terrrius, of the earth, from Latin terra

[Keeps 403]

We use ours sometimes to do the bits we can't do easily with lurchers - there are some steep wooded areas on our land, that hold a fair few rabbits, but even standing up on some of them is hard, its difficult to net up and totally unsuitable (dangerous) for running dogs.

 

 

 

 

 

Retrieving too

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[runforyourlife 361]

some great pictures there mate...

[Malt 379]

TERRIER= Any of several typically small, active breeds of hunting dog originally developed for driving game from burrows.

[Middle English, from Old French (chien) terrier, ground (dog), terrier, from Medieval Latin terrrius, of the earth, from Latin terra

 

Don't rabbits live in burrows then...?

[sounder79 80]

I take my terrier out with me on all ferreting trips she is jack plummer with a dash of whippet in her the best ever terrier I have owned smart and fast and loves the rats and mr ginger above ground so she come every where with me one top dog she is broken to ferrets at 12 weeks old and will walk over a netted bury without disturbing one net.

ATB Steve

 

 

So is this dog a terrier? put it like this, my dog is a beddlington, with a bit of whippet... this means it is a beddywhippet, which comes under the lurcher class...Surely once a dog has sight hound in it, it is classed a lurcher...

 

I f a bull terrier is crossed with a whippet or greyhound, it becomes a bullx lurcher..

 

Is this why she acts and walks like a lurcher on the sets, and why she is smart and fast, because she is a lurcher?

 

I know it is confusing, this is why i am asking, cant work it out, what do you lot think?

id call it a mongrel, but then again all lurchers are mongrels? looks more like a terrier than a lurcher to me though.

[liam mc 18]

Some great looking dogs and great set of pics mate

[christian71 3,187]

We use ours sometimes to do the bits we can't do easily with lurchers - there are some steep wooded areas on our land, that hold a fair few rabbits, but even standing up on some of them is hard, its difficult to net up and totally unsuitable (dangerous) for running dogs.

 

 

 

 

 

Retrieving too

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[wirral countryman 2,110]

Keeps,great pics,as usual,some really nice shots,thanks for sharing,wirralman

[poppy1 0]

Terrier Lurcher yes to both but to be honest mate and don't take this the wrong way she is Poppy and is my best mate and best hunting partner I have ever had and I hope she lives to a very old age.

Great photo's mate thanks for sharing

ATB Steve

[foxdigger13 114]

its only a whirrier if its a terrier x whippet, which would technically mean that bull whippets and bedlington whippets were whirriers wouldent it ?