How Many Digs Makes A Dog

[the_stig 6,614]

The last dig you had to a dog is all you can ever judge it by is often quoted but once a dog is in the swing of it and dosnt get sickened then its usually on the road to a good career.Dosnt answer you question but thats my take on it .

 

 

So none of you have a dog you could take anywhere and be 100% confident in .IM TALKING EARTH WORK NOT ROCKS BALES OR TREES before anyone pipes up .Sad state of affairs that .Some terriers dont inspire confidence but others dont deserve the doubt admitted on here .Sort your kennels out for the new year and bury the shite .

100% confident or 100 % guaranteed ....

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Whats the difference .Im struggling with this thread that no one has bomb proof terriers on here.The more i read the less i want to write on here ffs

[smasher 1,055]

The amount of time spent under the ground far out weighs the number of digs a terrier has,a good 4-5 hour dig beats 4 or 5, 1 hour digs for me any day of the week,,

[the_stig 6,614]

Whats the difference .Im struggling with this thread that no one has bomb proof terriers on here.The more i read the less i want to write on here ffs

i`m the same mate i`m about done with the terrier section and fook knows i`ve been one to try and keep it going over the years ,,,, i`d be confident in a seasoned terrier going out and doing the job but i`ve been around the terrier game long enough to know nothings guaranteed ..... whether it be a hard terrier a soft bolting type one you can call off, one that does earth work, bales, rocks ,or trees,

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

I hour or 6 hours ,still no reason to doubt a dog to not put in another performance of the same.

[block end 242]

Whats the difference .Im struggling with this thread that no one has bomb proof terriers on here.The more i read the less i want to write on here ffs

Fd I'm confident to drop a terrier in any ones company the question is guaranteed is that a silly statement that's all

[dillydog 8,463]

Never work with animals or kids and nothing in life is guaranteed except for death and taxes :-)

[gonetoearth 5,144]

Bomb proof That would be in the past tence in my book i am afraid. Nothing but nothing is gaurenteed were talking about animals , were did all this shite 100 % and gaurenteed. Come from , terriers evolve into what they are by encounters during there working life , terriers in differsnt parts of the country have differant circumstances , you have just stated earth , From one end of a valley to the other you could encounter soil ,claye , shale , rock, scree , Need i go on. A terrier that had worked every type of earth was lost last week in a undigable drain SHE WAS BOMB PROOF TILL THAT DAY !!!!!!

Edited January 2, 2014 by gonetoearth

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

So none of you have a dog you could take anywhere and be 100% confident in .IM TALKING EARTH WORK NOT ROCKS BALES OR TREES before anyone pipes up .Sad state of affairs that .Some terriers dont inspire confidence but others dont deserve the doubt admitted on here .Sort your kennels out for the new year and bury the shite .

asked me that 18 month ago and i would have said yes! 110% in my wee dog........i had/have a dog that a few on hear have seen she worked rock and earth and worked and bolted fox/mink and a few other things over her 6 years of working and she was used a lot for what i wanted her for, she bayed non stop for hours if needed and VERY rarely got a mark on her she had a few bad ones but she tryed her little heart out..and being small i would often get a call from other keepers to put her in where theirs couldent/wouldent fit,,, and if working watery earths she would be neck deep in water baying like feck......then for no reason last spring at a cubbing job she said no i had seen cubs drop in as we went to the earth ,i had shot the vixen that morning and she refused to enter and has done ever since and if she dose enter she will go down turn around and sit just out of sight in the hole doing f**k all......the only reason i havent shot it is she has worked her whole life and worked well...

[hunt crazy 38]

He's a working dog till he dies or walks out,cause if he's doin the job he's working dog or if he's not doin his job he's not a worker

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Losing a life or getting lost as you put it is a far cry from spewing . You talk of dogs in the past tence .Tell me mate ,honestly have things changed so much in your kennels that you cant trust a dog to put in a 100% guaranteed performance .

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

 

So none of you have a dog you could take anywhere and be 100% confident in .IM TALKING EARTH WORK NOT ROCKS BALES OR TREES before anyone pipes up .Sad state of affairs that .Some terriers dont inspire confidence but others dont deserve the doubt admitted on here .Sort your kennels out for the new year and bury the shite .

asked me that 18 month ago and i would have said yes! 110% in my wee dog........i had/have a dog that a few on hear have seen she worked rock and earth and worked and bolted fox/mink and a few other things over her 6 years of working and she was used a lot for what i wanted her for, she bayed non stop for hours if needed and VERY rarely got a mark on her she had a few bad ones but she tryed her little heart out..and being small i would often get a call from other keepers to put her in where theirs couldent/wouldent fit,,, and if working watery earths she would be neck deep in water baying like feck......then for no reason last spring at a cubbing job she said no i had seen cubs drop in as we went to the earth ,i had shot the vixen that morning and she refused to enter and has done ever since and if she dose enter she will go down turn around and sit just out of sight in the hole doing f**k all......the only reason i havent shot it is she has worked her whole life and worked well...

 

 

 

 

Very honest mate but there are dogs i would stake my house on .

[smasher 1,055]

I wouldn't be making do with them 100% dogs sure theres lads in the for sale section selling dogs that are 110%

[hunt crazy 38]

No dogs are guaranteed I've seen dogs do about 40 digs in a few seasons then just jack it in,I would of guaranteed him myself till that faithful he walked only 3 years wat would you call him if you owned him would you breed him or even keep him

[the_stig 6,614]

some of us old school might have differant standards some of the dogs around now we would`nt of tolerated back in the 70/80s even what i`ve got on my yard now ,,,,, some of us have been fortunate enough to see the best years of the terrier game all i can say to any one in it now is forget your 100% ,forget your books and internet , get out and enjoy your terriers because time flys and it soon all passes you by,,,