how did you get into terrier work?

[scottish carper ingram 40]

as above, how did you get into terrier work? was it passed down the family so to speak or did u just get a terrier and get out there and learn, always been interested in it but dont know much about it, ingram

[panther82 4]

Got my first ferret off a guy and had a dog when I was younger and since then ive always had a dog.

[.terrier man. 193]

my old mans always kept lurchers and terriers used to go ratting when i was younger then when i was about 15 went on my first digg, after that was hooked its f*****g great

[marshman 7,757]

My first dig was on a railway embankment with my father and our jrt. On a Sunday my father would get up and take his terrier out and check the local earths. We had a shallow dig to a dog fox. Then after he would always go to the pub and then home for he's Sunday roast. After that day I was hooked, oh I was ten years old at the time!

[BLACKHEART 61]

Dad kept terriers/lurchers-would nag and cry to go with him-was less grief too take me than deal with the oldgirl got a bedlington/lakeland when i was 7 called him Rambo-thought he was the best thing since sliced bread-Dad breed litter of patts when i was 15 had my first proper digging dog-then my eyes where truly opened-breed from my dog and i am still using pups breed down from him-the best days of my life have been spent digging/mooching about with terriers/lurchers-hope my son is the same way(hes 2 got his own ferrett and loves my dogs)the ban will never stop the true dogmen nomatter [bANNED TEXT] this f****d up goverment do to stop us-f**k THE BAN-KEEP ON HUNTING!!! ATB BOB

[taz2010 1,297]

grew up with terriers and lurchers in my family brothers have them old man had them

[jigsaw 11,865]

im the opposite,my father was totally opposed to hunting,never wanted me to be involved.He was an animal lover of sorts,only when it suited him.Well at 14 had my first dig to a terrier with a hunting man of old.and no going back to my fathers dismay.I ended up with a few ferrets,a terrier and a lurcher.It drove the poor man mental ,lol.Found out years later my grandfather whom I never knew as he died when I was very young was an avid hunter.Must be in the blood.

[fellman 116]

it all started when i got a job at the RSPCA and my boss asked me to infiltrate the terrier game .the rest is history ............. lol

seriously tho my dad was a fieldsportsman and i just got intrested having said that my brother thinks i am lots of shades of idiot lol

[NBW Terrier 16]

14years ago I borrowed a book from my mate about the terriersport.

The only hunter in the family was grandad but died when I was born, so must be something in what Jigsaw said, it's in the blood.

[tinytiger 831]

an old man from co. tipp gave me a terrier when i was around nine,a fawn prick eared fell type-around a year or so later she ran to ground-after about half an hour or so of trying to get her out by calling her i went home and got a shovel and went back to dig to her and a very dead fox-i was still digging to that bitch the odd time when i was 21.The favourite dog ive ever had-shed jumped in for me when i was in a scrap with my neighbour 1 day,she was dancing around the fight,then she locked onto his groin and started shaking,it turned the fight lol..tiny was her name,tiger was a son out of her i had .I started going out hunting with a terrier man local to me with her then.

[jonesy 111]

Got into lurchers first,a friend took me out when id left school and was hooked,then i discovered proper terriers and the rest is history,funny thing is both my older and younger brother where lamping and ferreting long before me,my older brother didnt last long in the game and my younger brother dosnt bother now because of him having MS