Why Working Terrier should not be pet

[ReggieCuz 18]

The obvious thing to do is to match the owner to the dog. If you sell a game, hard biting dog to a lady who wants to walk her dog once a week.... you say NO!!

If you see a family who'll take your dog out, who'll discipline yer dog, who'll make sure your dog obeys the pack (the human family), you say YES

[grafter-man 43]

I would have to disagree a little, and I stress "little". My best grafter spends as much time in the house next to me as she does in her kennel. (maybe more). I will admit that in the beginning I wasnt as close to her as I am now because if she didnt work I would have back-filled with her in a second. But with every dig she proved herself more and more and after I saw time and time again her proving herself, I found myself becoming attached. After all it was her working ability that I was drawn to and the fact that she wouldn't leave quarry or a sett once she entered and engaged even though she was getting her arse handed to her. She does her part for me so I see nothing wrong with her being allowed in the house and getting a little extra. just my take.

[Mooching Celt 659]

If ya dogs are that highly strung and need to be worked all the time to keep them from going stir crazy.........how do you cope in the summer months i.e. out of season?

[vduben 55]

my dogs a pet/worker, yes he gets board some times but so do humans, he gets walked on the push bike every day, and i go for a mooch at least once a week, as i type this hes curled up on the sofa fast asleep, i can tell you now if i snook out side and he heard the spades clinking he would be whining and jumping up my leg, i think its important for a working dog to have that 'switch'

[liamdelaney 2,587]

If a terrier gets worked he will be calm fine for the rest of the week but you keep them housed all the time they go apeshit. Simple, doesn't matter what kind of working dog. if my hounds were worked 2-3 times a week they were quiet and content. If I didnt hunt my hounds for a week they would not shut up and pulled up their stakes. If my Kelpie didn't work sheep regularly we had to keep him in an acre run where he ran figure eights all day non-stop. He ate 3 times what any pet twice his size would eat. Working dogs need a job. Ceasar Milan the dog whisperer will tell you the same. Dogs need a job. They can't just be played with and left in the house.

 

I would not pay to much heed to Caesar Milan Mosby look at the f*****g idiots with spoilt dogs and talking about them as if they were human.What Caesar Milan bullshits about for hours one good kick in the hole would tell the dog who is boss.That program is a better laugh than the Simpsons.

[Mosby 355]

If ya dogs are that highly strung and need to be worked all the time to keep them from going stir crazy.........how do you cope in the summer months i.e. out of season?

No off season in Oregon.

[gravel 63]

my dogs a pet/worker, yes he gets board some times but so do humans, he gets walked on the push bike every day, and i go for a mooch at least once a week, as i type this hes curled up on the sofa fast asleep, i can tell you now if i snook out side and he heard the spades clinking he would be whining and jumping up my leg, i think its important for a working dog to have that 'switch'

Enjoyed that.

[sweeper 156]

some proper men on here aint there some a these replys

[Karpman 44]

Shame working ain't bread into people to many lazy c**ts round here from working homes.......

 

Do have to agree with terrier but irresponsible selling of pups goes on a lot all a about pound signs.

 

Karpman