Definition Of A Terriers Job?

[morton 5,368]

From a personal viewpoint I would,nt own a digging terrier now,i expect my terriers to bush and ratch about to a decent standard,i also expect them to shift a fox from cover and his underground haunts,the majority of places I work you would not let a digging dog enter.Thus I get to work places digging lads avoid.A terrier on a leash walks past an awful lot of missed opportunity,s that its bushing cousin gains exercise from.Digging terriers are for the more resolute soul,at times,i don,t have their resolve or ambition.

Edited September 13, 2014 by morton

[Ggib 370]

Just shows 1 mans dirt is another mans gold, good hunting

[Cleanspade 3,322]

i started off working rats and rabbits. i then graduated to fox below. this took hold of me for a long spell. driving and walking many miles at a fast pace. going from hole to hole. bragging rights came into this. having a good earthdog and plenty of work for it was so important that every waking hour was spent breeding training and entering the terriers hunting days were planned ahead. in military style. and plenty of work was put in front of the dogs. it was an interesting time. but as time went on it started to get a little same old same old. and my interests in other types of countrysports started to creep back in, ferreting bushing and a more relaxing style of terrier hunting was the order of the day. so i now keep ALL ROUND TERRIERS. multi taskers for a bit of everything'. shooting ferreting rats and rabbits mooching about etc. these terriers are not a lot different than the ones i kept years ago. the main difference is ive changed. however i wont breed off a dog that cant do a job below. and never really take to them the same

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

The other side of the coin is that maybe a terrier was never meant to be an all rounder !We have breeds far more suited to this if you discount earth work .Rabbits for me are a nuisance but rats are work on a large scale .Earth work is the reason I own terriers with fringe benefits,lol

[fireman 10,884]

.Earth work is the reason I own terriers with fringe benefits,lol

That's why i have the russells i have but it's the other way round with my plummer, a allrounder i can have a dig with as well

[pablo esc 1,598]

What suites your self, the type of work, terrain, and quarry available. Not how much money, and braggs, available

[wirral countryman 2,110]

The other side of the coin is that maybe a terrier was never meant to be an all rounder !We have breeds far more suited to this if you discount earth work .Rabbits for me are a nuisance but rats are work on a large scale .Earth work is the reason I own terriers with fringe benefits,lol

Plummers were bred to be an "all rounder", it was a deliberate blending of many breeds in order to achieve them, they were to be called "the Modern Terrier" until he got egotistical about them, you have to consider that some lads just want or can only keep 1 dog and if it is good at many things then it is a no brainer, there will always be room for specialist dogs if that is needed for one task but on a mouch about a multi-tasker makes for good company, WM

[morton 5,368]

I doubt there as ever been a terrier created that was not initially bred to be more than a one trick pony,how the individual owner worked and bred their mutts may have opened up the avenues we tread now.

[Tracy Priestnall 83]

 

all historic records say the terriers job is to bolt or contain under -ground quarry, this means a bolting dog is as valid as a digging dog. i think bolting dogs should be judged against other bolt-

-ing dogs.not seen as lesser to the harder terriers.

 

as for bushing and ratting etc, we have art work, drawings, paintings etc going back hundreds of

years showing terriers rabbiting and ratting, its a bit late now to say that terriers should only do earth -work.

 

when is the last time you saw an advert for ratting terriers, some people keep terriers mainly for ratting, others want to buy them, but who sells ratting dogs?

 

if they are not being advertised as ratting dogs what are they being sold as?

 

if i had rabbiting terriers for sale i would advertise them as rabbit dogs, if i had stay all day

diggers i would advertise them as such.

 

kev-medlock crew

[dillydog 8,463]

Tracy, a digging dog that stays till the job is done doesn't have to be hard.

[Mosby 355]

As DD said, Nor a bolter a quitter...