border terriers

[crazy_hunter 0]

can anyone help me? i've just bought 2 border pups (8months old) and finding it hard to get them to enter earth's, they are both out of god working stuff, I've never had borders before! need help!!!!!!!!!! cheer's lad's n lass's

[Simoman 110]

At 8 months do you mean empty earths?

[crazy_hunter 0]

At 8 months do you mean empty earths?

i sure do, don't wont to spoil them. should have made that clear sorry!!

[loftmonkey 2]

give em chance mate at least 6 months

[jak n meg 4]

make an artificial earth and get a fox brush on a peice of string, use a ferret to get the string through then tease the pup with the brush and slowly pull it through letting the pup follow works for me

[Guest SHOT]

the best way i think would be to just get them out with other dogs let them hear/watch whats going on

have them around top why your breaking through, let them have a look .

ive let pups follow a trusted dog on occassion in places i know to be empty.

ive never worked a border but im inclined to beleive its a myth borders being slow to start as this traits in all types maybe more a line thing than breed. edited spelling..

Edited October 8, 2007 by SHOT

[crazy_hunter 0]

make an artificial earth and get a fox brush on a peice of string, use a ferret to get the string through then tease the pup with the brush and slowly pull it through letting the pup follow works for me

good idea mate think i'll use it!!

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[crazy_hunter 0]

the best way i think would be to just get them out with other dogs let them hear/watch whats going on

have them around top why your breaking through, let them have a look .

ive let pups follow a trusted dog on occassion in places i know to be empty.

ive never worked a border but im inclined to beleive its a myth borders being slow to start as this traits in all types maybe more a line thing than breed. edited spelling..

i have been hearing that borders are slow starters from a few people now! i need an old experenced dog to go out with to let them watch and learn from to do this but cheer's any way pal more advice welcome

[nelson 0]

I wouldn't encourage them too much to go to ground if there's nowt there myself, their natural instincts will lead them there when they want to go any way.

 

In the meantime, have them killing rats or other useful work and be patient, lets be right about it here, if they're 8 months old now your not really going to be digging to them this year.So another 12 months mouching around is going to do more harm than good.

 

Just my opinion mind, although in my house, my word is law, (when the wifes out )

[crazy_hunter 0]

cheer's pal not a bad bit of info will take it on board, cracking comment that (when the wife's out)

[skycat 6,173]

So another 12 months mouching around is going to do more harm than good.

Don't you mean more good than harm?

 

If you've just got the pups at 8 months old: what sort of an upbringing did they have before you got them? If they've not been out of the kennel much, or at all, then expect them to be slower to get going than if they'd been out in the fields from little pups.

[wink hound 0]

make an artificial earth and get a fox brush on a peice of string, use a ferret to get the string through then tease the pup with the brush and slowly pull it through letting the pup follow works for me

good idea mate think i'll use it!!

 

ummmmmm yeah that'll do it for sure....... i do the same with a bit of string and a can of pedegriee chum bite size, just make sure you make then sit and stay, and watch the demo on how to use a can operner in tight spaces.

 

just let the pups be pups, if they have it and you give them oppertunity it will come. no more magic to it than that.

Edited October 8, 2007 by wink hound

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ummmmmm yeah that'll do it for sure....... i do the same with a bit of string and a can of pedegriee chum bite size, just make sure you make then sit and stay, and watch the demo on how to use a can operner in tight spaces.

[nelson 0]

So another 12 months mouching around is going to do more harm than good.

Don't you mean more good than harm?

 

Of coarse, i wondered how long it would be before someone spotted my deliberate mistake