Loaning Terriers...

[Griz 89]

Dan Edwards, The queer country boy who rates his dogs by how nice an asshole they have!.....A shame....Good waste of dogs.

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

ive only ever borrowed one dog....and i would be very very hard pushed to do it again....

my black dog and mikes 2 were laid up for all kinds of reasons one of his bitch was in heat, my bitch had a rip in her bellie from barbed wire and his best dog was in the hospital bad after a tough days diggin...

so we asked his dad and my then head keeper to use taffy..his sealyham..about the only proper sealyham terrier ive seen in the flesh it come from powis in wales and was a hell of a lal dog

any how we had a few spots to look over and we marked into the side of a old livestock bridge on a stream side a spot we have had very quick bolts from before.. so ready with the gun a collar on we put taffy in...yap yap yap yap right away a flash of red and he was out up my bank and heading for the field thru about 10m of headland but he was right on my feet. so i waited that bit longer till he was out of cover and rolled him over at about 15m with a single shot from my 8 shot semi...

 

but the dog was still in baying so i stood still waiting for number 2...then their was a muffled kinda splashing mixing contact sound from deep in the hole that faded out as the dog went deeper......nothing for about 10 mins so we got the belman out to have a look... then from about 5 m up stream from a hole in the water line bolted the biggest dog otter ive ever seen! i was like a strainer post ...but fast and furry i was stood on this stream side watching this monster run and splash right past me like a bloody labrador! it was f***ing huge! them mike shouted "the dog!!!!" i looked and taffy just simply drifted out of this hole dead as good friday...we tried every thing like to bring it back but it wasnt happening....
a simply honest mistake,and it cost us the life of a good dog,if it had been one of ours it would have been bad but it was his dads and my head keepers...that was a very hard phonecall to make as he was back home in wales at the time too.......

[neil cooney 10,416]

Yep, Murphy's law dictates that something will happen to something you take a loan of. I know of a lad borrowing a Jack Russell that was just a pure baying type, never getting hurt.

It lost an eye.

 

I've known of the most honest of men called a dog thief after getting their wires crossed over the loan of a terrier. Whether a mistake was genuinely made or not I don't know.

If you deal with the type of messers who frequent the terrier game then loaning a dog can often be a great way of not seeing your terrier again and the end of a friendship.

 

JMHO but a lot of dogs wont work for a new handler the way they do for their owner and this can often be the reason a good reliable worker can be called a cur. Especially if the dog is borrowed on a Saturday night and tried on a Sunday morning.

Or in one case I know of the terrier was "tried" within an hour of getting of the ferry.

 

If your terriers need a rest then rest them and if you need a job done get on the phone and give a mate a day out.

Much easier to keep life simple IMO.

[whippet 99 2,613]

if you loan a dog , you have too exspect the consequences , hasn't happened yet too me but one day some one wil be digging too a dead loaned dog and if the person who loans the dog cant except that it maybe the last time you see your dog , then don't bother . I think loaning dogs is part of the parcel too close mates who you know will look after it and graft it , and are honest with performance with you. that's terriers ........

[Dabhand 887]

who ever gets loaned it will allways be on pins,

who ever loans it out will allways wandering if its safe

sound and well fed ect

[ratkilla 35]

Griz ive heard enough about you from valid boys and your terriers to know what a sproof you are

[rob84 112]

most of my dogs are loaned to me, most of them life time loans, others just to get started, and others for a week or two just to keep me ticking over. Trust is a massive part of this arragement.

[Griz 89]

ratkilla, your so full of crap , go crawl back in your hole and mind your own business....I have never had a thing to do with you and never will, so blow to somebody who cares......You obviously have a long nose to go with your fat gut!

[ratkilla 35]

Good description of your self penguin man

[marshman 7,757]

Lol Griz and ratkilla are you 12 ? If you're gonna insult each other at least do it properly like men ffs ! I mean long nose and penguin man how shit is that ?

Edited May 14, 2014 by marshman

[STRANGER 948]

[Accip74 7,112]

Lol

[STRANGER 948]

Yo momma so fat...

[ratkilla 35]

Having a english sence of humor, helps the day go quicker cranking up old men...who litrally is the double of "Penguin Man"

[dixiefried 269]

Yep, Murphy's law dictates that something will happen to something you take a loan of. I know of a lad borrowing a Jack Russell that was just a pure baying type, never getting hurt.

It lost an eye.

 

I've known of the most honest of men called a dog thief after getting their wires crossed over the loan of a terrier. Whether a mistake was genuinely made or not I don't know.

If you deal with the type of messers who frequent the terrier game then loaning a dog can often be a great way of not seeing your terrier again and the end of a friendship.

 

JMHO but a lot of dogs wont work for a new handler the way they do for their owner and this can often be the reason a good reliable worker can be called a cur. Especially if the dog is borrowed on a Saturday night and tried on a Sunday morning.

Or in one case I know of the terrier was "tried" within an hour of getting of the ferry.

 

If your terriers need a rest then rest them and if you need a job done get on the phone and give a mate a day out.

Much easier to keep life simple IMO.

Agree with ,much of what you have said,instead of loaning a dog,give a day out .Alltough that has its' pitfalls also..

If a dog of mine was going anywhere ,I would be alongside it ..Learning !the Good and Bad