Dog Could Be A "jaffa"

[dillydog 8,466]

I've spent all day looking for a clever genetic come back and in truth I'm none the wiser. I've always bred to the bitch and always will do, it's my opinion and I'll stick with it.

There's some top dogs out there and I've owned a few but they only give as much as a bitch. As for Nick, I always thought the same, he maybe left things a little to late or a few mating didn't turn out the way he thought.

I'm still digging a few bitches from his baying dogs though and everything here comes through them.

That bitch is 11 years old and she's still as giddy as a pup, just try and tell her she can't go.

A dig to another bitch that's just turning 11, a flat out bayer that never takes stick but she'll always get the job done. Sorry no pictures of her on my tablet.

[Zilverhaze 1,627]

Nice dig that and a lovely bitch

[dillydog 8,466]

The dig was to my old black bitch mate, they've both done a ton of graft and both are as steady as rocks. The RSPCA had the chocolate bitch for ten weeks a couple of years ago, I felt like I'd had my guts taken out.

I think both arguments hold water, it's just a personal thing. The way I see it is a bitch is physically weaker than a dog 90% of the time in much the same way men and women are. So if you go forward with bitches that hold their own or work harder (not hard) then your on to a winner.

I don't have all the answers, I've only had the one lifetime.

If it goes right, "crow from the rooftop" if it goes wrong keep your mouth shut and hope no one asks

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

We may be singing from the same sheet D ,just different angle on it .I like a bitch to be on it too but I also know how she got to be that way .

scenario for you

 

If you were given a mediocre bitch and asked to improve her would you stick a strong type dog over it in anticipation !

If you were given a mediocre dog and asked to improve ,would you put it over a bitch that was erring the same way as a strong dog .Most wouldn't nor would i.That dog is a cull .To see that mating through wouldn't fill you with same confidence would it ?

You have been accredited with improving NS stuff mate ,what did you do .

[dillydog 8,466]

I wouldn't breed out of a half hearted bitch full stop, if I had no options I still wouldn't. I'd ask around and go and get a pup that's off similar stuff that's still got the work ethic.

In the same token I wouldn't use a mediocre dog over anything, I'm long in the tooth (literally) and would ask like minded people for a stud or pup.

I don't breed enough pups to have had any impact on any breeding, I'm just ticking along mate, I'm after no medals.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

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[dillydog 8,466]

I'd pack up and keep ferrets

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

What I'm getting at is somewhere along the line someone has taken it upon themselves to improve certain lines and that scenario would have faced them even if it was subconscious .

[dillydog 8,466]

I think people like me and yourself (blowing smoke up my own arse) take it all to serious, I've beat myself up for years and lost a lifetime of sleep over "nothing".

If I had no choice I'd use the best dog I had, I don't look for spite for want of a better word, I look for drive. Hardness is something to be admired but I'd sooner admire it from a far lol. I want a dog that will give his or her all, a dog that will push harder and stay longer even if it means his or her end, I'd also like them to do all that while having a brain in their head and to be calm cool and collected.

Granted it's a tall order but I've come close many times and I'm happy with what I've got. I'm getting to old and I'm sick of all the hassle, I'll be a few months behind your mate FD and I'll call it a day very soon.

[dillydog 8,466]

I'd like to add that the chocolate bitch was bred by Paul Reece, he was asked to use a certain dog of DF's and bred the litter accordingly I'm sure Paul lost his bitch out of the litter and I've no idea where any of the others went, NS didn't like you to know to much.

That little bitch was piss poor in it's first season, she'd of been PTS by many a good terrier man but at the time I had nothing to prove as I'd packed up and come away from it all. She was given all the Chances in the world because I was just taking her every now and again for curiosity, on her second season she started to put it all together and she's never looked back. She's been one of the best I've seen and she's been a pleasure to own, she's produced her like a few times too.

[fat man 4,741]

f**k me ye lads would make a man feel old with yer whinging,lol ye are only in early 50s so snap out of it,i know men that are years ahead of ye and still out doing what they love,Hunting,and not a word about giving up or calling it a day,D you know 1 of them men,you dug with him while over here,P.K. and he is in his early 80s,still out with lurchers and follows hounds +deer stalking and from march on fishing,enjoy it as long as you can lads as there may come a day when it will no longer be.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

D- I hope your legacy ,for thats what it is ,is in good hands with those who know the score .If not ,nows the time to sort that .Sounds condescending but just my honest take on it .

[Walt - Jabsco 95]

The dig was to my old black bitch mate, they've both done a ton of graft and both are as steady as rocks. The RSPCA had the chocolate bitch for ten weeks a couple of years ago, I felt like I'd had my guts taken out.

I think both arguments hold water, it's just a personal thing. The way I see it is a bitch is physically weaker than a dog 90% of the time in much the same way men and women are. So if you go forward with bitches that hold their own or work harder (not hard) then your on to a winner.

I don't have all the answers, I've only had the one lifetime.

If it goes right, "crow from the rooftop" if it goes wrong keep your mouth shut and hope no one asks

( not hard ) would you not breed of a bitch that was hard dilly ,, just wondering .

[dillydog 8,466]

I've bred off iron hard, I still get iron hard mute loons but I don't want them.

I admire the raw courage but I don't like to see my terriers getting hurt, plenty of lads walk around with heavily scared dogs but I cringe when I see them and I certainly don't like having them in my yard.

I used to take the piss out of old Nicolas but as I've got older I'm getting just the same, I used to call him Beatrix.

People seem to have lost the concept of terriers WORKING their quarry instead of going balls out for the kill.

[stop.end 4,082]

a working terrier dosent know its a dog or bitch.... both dog and bitch should work with the same enthusiasm and drive everytime... your trying to forward a line not make it stagnant...if theres a fox at home both sexes should get the job done at a breeze if there terriers with many working days under there belt, but if its a pup this is where knowledge of the ground your hunting on and many other factors can come into play...as I see it a dog or bitch are never as folk term hard...there only defending themselves against a predator who kills other animals regularly sometimes for food most of the time for fun.. the bully of the wildlife world with very big teeth.... now he has met his nemesis on his own home ground and in complete darkness... how many times are you going to let some one punch you in the face before you retaliate ..... terriers wether dogs or bitches should have only one thing in mind and that is too dominate the quarry straight away and if the fox dosent want to bolt and thinks he is safe running to a stop and declaring him or herself a bully again... it should be all over pretty soon....its a terrier been bred for working in very confined spaces and the fox is the master of mayhem... so if that means the terrier has at times to take some very sharp teeth to keep the predator under control that is not in my book classed as being hard, the terrier is only doing what he has been wired to do and that is survive just like the fox!