Smithy?

[Glyn..... 5,208]

he's still being talked about because he was a great dog that produced great dogs, just out of interest foxbolter , what terriers do you keep , what blood line ?

[Rabbit Hunter 6,613]

Well said glyn, that's what these forums are for.

[fat man 4,741]

hi snizle 68 no mate it did not matter how big or small or shallow or deep the dog was entered the only ground that was not liked was ash pits as you could jump on the top and hear it give way father down and smother your dog john

Would it not be tempting fate to put a mute terrier in an earth you dont have an idea of its depth pre-locater days,like if the earth went 3-4 metres in depth you were not going to hear a bump no matter how good the hearing was,hard enough to find a sounding type then let alone the silent ones.

[fat man 4,741]

Bottom line why are we talking about this dog he wasn't the only terrier about back then was he

Because the thread is based on Smithy,?

[foxbolter 447]

well said glyn ha ha

[foxbolter 447]

Glyn I got two black dogs blood line has been worker to worker for years and would it matter if I didn't know the line because nobody knows how smithy was bred and they abit unsure of the dogs name also

[Glyn..... 5,208]

thats Fair enough , who knows they could even have smithy blood

[snizle06 202]

That's what I was thinking fatman.

Tripodcrest one could hazard a guess if a place looked deep or shallow granted you will be wrong from time to time also local knowledge if the earths had been worked before. I have seen mute dogs work and even with a locator it can be hard to know if they are on sometimes.

[redquil 219]

Sure theirs a pic of Gould with Smithy in Ed Reid's ' Canine Gladiators'

[kirstysdad 827]

Here's a spanner in the works I think the popularity of the mute terrier has deminised some of the working ability of terriers in general you now get a lot of terriers with poor voice having been breed down from mute dogs I personally would prefer to sit on a bank listening to a good strong bay rather than crawl around with my head to the floor trying to hear a bump or grunt no doubt some very good dogs have come from this dog have a bitch here now that does everything I want from her has one fault weak bay but with the collars and locators of today not such a issue just hope the battery's don't pack in but still like to hear a good bay maybe I am getting to old lol

[Zerky 133]

Lets rap this up, I would go as far to say that 99% of black dogs will have in there peds smithy blood in some way! Most people cant trace that far back so will say in all honesty they don't know. At the end of the day the dog threw workers at a high percentage to the amount of bitches he went to. End of story.

Edited March 12, 2015 by Zerky

[AXUM 255]

Was Smith a quarter staff x

[tinytiger 840]

never heard he was Axum.he was bred to some though

[pablo esc 1,598]

Lets rap this up, I would go as far to say that 99% of black dogs will have in there peds smithy blood in some way! Most people cant trace that far back so will say in all honesty they don't know. At the end of the day the dog threw workers at a high percentage to the amount of bitches he went to. End of story.

99 per cent Smithy blood, blacks. And you dont know how the bred?

[AXUM 255]

 

Lets rap this up, I would go as far to say that 99% of black dogs will have in there peds smithy blood in some way! Most people cant trace that far back so will say in all honesty they don't know. At the end of the day the dog threw workers at a high percentage to the amount of bitches he went to. End of story.

99 per cent Smithy blood, blacks. And you dont know how the bred?

Why does it matter, he worked, and produced and was a patterdale, many pit bulls don't have right pedigree also people can't trAce some imported dog to America, just sAys unknown behind its name.