Just wondering

[Jack.308 40]

Hi i was just wondering how a patterdale was created, what does it contain to make such a good working dog?

[S.T.B.O.T 5]

2 good working parents

[Jack.308 40]

What breeds

[rob284 1,682]

Thats the big question. Nobody really knows but you can have a good guess of fell, border staff lakeland...

[downsouth 7,278]

6 posts????? I dont think you need to know yet.

6 posts doesnt make him worthy of knowing? just because he doesnt sit on a pc talking the talk, doesnt mean he doesnt do any less hunting than you.

Talking shit is more like it.Maybe if you asked a few more questions GrCh instead of being an expert on everything you might learn something.

[Jack.308 40]

Thanks all

[reddawn 2,173]

Thanks all

 

 

buy the fell terrier book by plummer mate, thatll gee you as good an idea as youll ever get, frain has also got a patterdale terrier book, never read it tho, so cant comment

[Tsayad 88]

Hi i was just wondering how a patterdale was created, what does it contain to make such a good working dog?

 

Probably goes back to the days when there was no such thing as recognised "breeds".

 

There were terriers all over Britain, which varied from one locality to the next. Mostly, people bred from dogs that worked and used or culled the results, but the average bloke would get his dogs locally and would not think of travelling far to get something different, so localk differences often stayed fairly distinct.

 

So most breeds are not a "cross", because they have existed for as long or longer than the breeds that some people credit as being their ancestors.

 

One example is the myth that the modern terriers were the result of an incrossing of EBT to make them "hard". Problem is that there is evidence of terriers doing exactly what they do now, going back to the Roman era. So either terriers did not need an infusion of any other breed in order to be game, or we are expected that the blokes back then kept house-pets that weren't hard enough to go down a den, even tho the records supposedly say that they did just that.

 

<shrug>..... Peter

[Cleanspade 3,322]

laeland / bull/ russell/ bedlington/ border. ..for lakeland substitute fell if you prefare that name. there are also other suspects. that are interesting . includeing spaniel. ....well nobody else had a shot at giving a proper answer

[Jack.308 40]

Haha thanks bud