FOX TERRIERS

[dark-polecat-lad 0]

FOX TERRIERS WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THEM

[scent 509]

think that lad needs to shave his chin

[forest of dean redneck 11,686]

do a search some worked abroad.

[pernod 466]

stick a pole up its arse, it would make a good broom.

 

 

Pernod

[rob190364 2,594]

could you have found a shitter pic?????

[cúagusgiorraí 57]

From what I have seen in mainland Europe and Russia, the working fox terriers look more like the old smooth fox terriers/Parson Russell types. They seem happy with them and the way they work.

A big deep chested fashion model like that pictured would be fairly useless. Fox terriers usually are pretty nasty with other dogs. Neurotic irrational aggression. I think it is a mental illness brought on from inbreeding for show looks only.

[STUNTMAN 552]

My buddies pup and what we call a fox terrier. Most working stuff is located in the mid-west of this country.

[asanley 1,009]

Whats in a name ? the real working Fox terrier is the Russell , the show version hasn,t got the temperment . physique or jaw to be of any use .

The picture you put up looks like the technoviking.

[stevemac 442]

I had them for 12 years went through about 10 of the the first bitch and here daughter were crackers very dog and people tolerent some of the male were pains in the arse . all to big for den work but great bushing dogs would taken on anything.

[p3d 879]

FOX TERRIERS WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THEM

 

IMO it is sad to see a breed destroyed by the Show people.

Below are a few of the original "Fox terriers".

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"OLD TIP"

 

The first wire fox terrier which is authentically recorded was OLD TIP.

 

He was bred by the Master of the Sinnington Hounds in Yorkshire around 1866. The dog was never shown but was bred and used solely for work. Although his actual pedigree is unknown Old Tip is the source from which all our present-day wires emanate.

Old Tip sired three champion sons from dams of unknown breeding - one of these, PINCHER, born 1869, (below), was destined to fame in the history of wires.

 

He was mated to his own daughter and this union produced OLD JESTER in 1875 who was shown but did not appear on the bench until he was 5 years old.

 

Old Jester in turn produced many winners but we have cause only to remember YOUNG JESTER born 1880.

 

When Young Jester sired KNAVESMIRE JEST in 1886 the wire, as a breed, was beginning to show improvement, heads were lengthening, ears and conformation improving.

 

Knavesmire Jest sired the great stud dog, MEERSBROOK BRISTLES in 1892

 

who was the first famous sire to show the hound markings which are so beloved to this day.

Bristles sired many winners and was eventually sold to a Mr. Keyes of Boston, USA for £500 - an enormous sum of money at that time.

Bristles' greatest son was MEERSBROOK BEN, born 1894,

 

who was the grandsire of CACKLER OF NOTTS b. 1898

 

and he sired more than 100 winners. It is doubtful that there is a wire fox terrier living today whose parentage does not trace back to this dog.

The suffix "of Notts" will for ever have its place in fox terrier history belonging as it did to

probably the most famous breeder ever of wires and smooths, Kathleen, Duchess of Newcastle. CAESER OF NOTTS, sired by CACKLER OF NOTTS, was the favourite and constant companion of King Edward VII and did much to popularise the wire fox terrier at the beginning of the 20th century.

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I think this type of working dog today would be called a Russell.

ATB

p3d

[dark-polecat-lad 0]

im planning a trip to ireland they still use fox terriers from these old lines

[Bryan 1,362]

Breeds are never destroyed by the kennel club.

 

The K.C. and showmen just run away with a few dogs and make their own line of shite.

 

Workers just keep working dogs that remain unchanged. The kennel club might keep the name of the breed, but workers remain.

 

 

[Mosby 355]

Agree with you Bryan. Shows don't ruin the dogs. Dogs are ruined when hunters stop breeding them and giving them to other hunters.

[Irishmac 5]

Had a show bred smooth black and white dog.

Lethal of moggies, rats, rabbits but yes, would have scrapped with his shadow.

[Waz 4,266]

Re: the 1st photo posted (show cut), have dug to a dog and a bitch that looked just like that. Have dug to fox terriers working all quarry,