What Are Border Terriers Capable Of.

[jsennitt 2]

Hi everyone, I've put up a few posts on the lurcher and bushing forum as I am intending on getting a terrier and a lurcher. I have done a lot of reading up and asking my friends opinions but they all work large lurchers and spaniels. I am interested in a border terrier but wonder what they're capable of doing. Are they a bit soft? Thanks.

Joe.

[The Breeder 156]

Hi everyone, I've put up a few posts on the lurcher and bushing forum as I am intending on getting a terrier and a lurcher. I have done a lot of reading up and asking my friends opinions but they all work large lurchers and spaniels. I am interested in a border terrier but wonder what they're capable of doing. Are they a bit soft? Thanks.

Joe.

What will the border work ??

[jsennitt 2]

Will be mainly used for bushing to running dogs and ratting but there's a lot of Charlie in my area so it's very possible it could self enter a fox earth after bumping the fox from cover and I'd have to get it out sonehow. Just wanna know if it would be able to hold its own against a fox and not come off injured. it won't be a hardcore digging dog or anything.

Edited October 31, 2013 by jsennitt

[rob284 1,682]

Get a spaniel terrier cross. No need to get an earthdog for bushing as it will only lead to it entering unprepared. And its not the breed its the breeding. A good beddy might do the job.

[Dubba 72]

There more than capable of doing anything you want them to. It's true that some can be soft but that's more down to the breeding.

A lot of people don't have the patience to use them for earth work as they tend to be late starters but they will excell at it given the chance.

 

I work all legal quarry with mine, they also come stalking with me and will mark Deer and follow blood trails. Very versatile and biddable terriers.

 

In the past with previous dogs I've hunted badger, Coypu and Otter in France and they've done well at it.

[The Breeder 156]

Will be mainly used for bushing to running dogs and ratting but there's a lot of Charlie in my area so it's very possible it could self enter a fox earth after bumping the fox from cover and I'd have to get it out sonehow. Just wanna know if it would be able to hold its own against a fox and not come off injured. it won't be a hardcore digging dog or anything.

I would keep to the Lurchers mate

[kerryb 101]

I had a bitch a few years back and she seemed game and hard enough for me

[Moorman 1 1,344]

If people worked them as much as they talked about them on here then there would be some decent one's around.....!

Edited November 1, 2013 by Moorman 1

[obi2 239]

If people worked them as much as they talked about them on here then there would be some decent one's around.....!

It's a forum for discussing terriers, what's your point??

[jeemes 4,459]

 

If people worked them as much as they talked about them on here then there would be some decent one's around.....!

It's a forum for discussing terriers, what's your point??

 

well said. By the way did you breed your bitch and how is she bred. If you dont mind discussing the breeding?

[Moorman 1 1,344]

 

If people worked them as much as they talked about them on here then there would be some decent one's around.....!

It's a forum for discussing terriers, what's your point??

 

My point is that there is a lot of talk on here about working Borders but not that many decent working Borders around.

[Dead Eyes 681]

What are they good for?

 

Putting my nan in hospital with an ulcer on her leg from her daft pup.

 

I keep trying to get her to gift it to me. He's coming up to a year and has been catching rats for a good 6 months and more recently cats. Farm bred, left to their own devices to keep pests down

 

Wouldn't mind seeing what he could do in a field

[jeemes 4,459]

 

 

If people worked them as much as they talked about them on here then there would be some decent one's around.....!

It's a forum for discussing terriers, what's your point??

 

My point is that there is a lot of talk on here about working Borders but not that many decent working Borders around.

 

You cant really know that mate if you think about it. You can only really know there are a lot of none workers,but that can be said of lots of breeds from Patterdales to Cocker spaniels.

[Moorman 1 1,344]

 

 

 

If people worked them as much as they talked about them on here then there would be some decent one's around.....!

It's a forum for discussing terriers, what's your point??

 

My point is that there is a lot of talk on here about working Borders but not that many decent working Borders around.

 

You cant really know that mate if you think about it. You can only really know there are a lot of none workers,but that can be said of lots of breeds from Patterdales to Cocker spaniels.

 

Its a known fact thats why certain people were trying to revive the working border.As a worker its a dying breed.I know a good few people that breed them and they will tell you.There are some very good working borders around but a lot can't pass on their qualities.Its a great shame as they are a cracking type of terrier.

[jeemes 4,459]

 

 

 

 

If people worked them as much as they talked about them on here then there would be some decent one's around.....!

It's a forum for discussing terriers, what's your point??

 

My point is that there is a lot of talk on here about working Borders but not that many decent working Borders around.

 

You cant really know that mate if you think about it. You can only really know there are a lot of none workers,but that can be said of lots of breeds from Patterdales to Cocker spaniels.

 

Its a known fact thats why certain people were trying to revive the working border.As a worker its a dying breed.I know a good few people that breed them and they will tell you.There are some very good working borders around but a lot can't pass on their qualities.Its a great shame as they are a cracking type of terrier.

 

Its a shame but working people dont breed enough and the pet/show people do. Also people still thinking that they need to put no more effort into breeding than worker to worker even though it proves time and again to be wrong with lots of wastage. Having said that since I took interest in Borders Ive been suprised at how many workers there are up and down the country. True they are not common,but they are certainly not extinct like some would have us believe.