Unconventional Ferreting Dogs

[tsteve9999 456]

Yes mate, according to it's owner it's a pedigree, though I didn't know they came in that colour.

She's had a different upbringing to most poodles I should think, she's been wandering the riding stables all her life and catches the odd rabbit on her own, though she's not as quick as I thought she was, even my half cross is a good bit faster. As soon as she hears my motor she's at my side and doesn't leave me and the dog till we go home.

[forest of dean redneck 11,622]

Looks like a standard poodle ,I think it's a parti coloured one?

[Blackdog92 2,047]

 

Rotweiller x springer

 

She's never going to catch a bolting rabbit but she's a sound marker and 9 times out of 10 she will know witch hole its coming out of. If i could have a lurcher with her brains i think i would be onto a winner.

[forest of dean redneck 11,622]

Rotweiller x springer

She's never going to catch a bolting rabbit but she's a sound marker and 9 times out of 10 she will know witch hole its coming out of. If i could have a lurcher with her brains i think i would be onto a winner.

Rotty are smart dogs,I haven't ruled out having another one when kids are older,we had ours for 7years.

[Blackdog92 2,047]

 

Rotweiller x springer

She's never going to catch a bolting rabbit but she's a sound marker and 9 times out of 10 she will know witch hole its coming out of. If i could have a lurcher with her brains i think i would be onto a winner.

Rotty are smart dogs,I haven't ruled out having another one when kids are older,we had ours for 7years.

Ive never owned a pure myself but from what ive seen of them there as trainable as any other dog.

 

The sire to my bitch was the rotty and he would pick up birds, i got her from a gamekeeper i know. I was told the sire would do his bit around a hole, never seen it personally but it doesnt matter to me either way.

[forest of dean redneck 11,622]

I like them,and reckon they look better undocked.

[krawnden 1,036]

Looks like a standard poodle ,I think it's a parti coloured one?

 

Yes - parti-colour standard. A lot of people slate poodles based, probably, on the lion haircuts and bows on the head you see in the show ring. But don't underestimate them - intelligent and versatile dogs. I used to have a first cross standard poodle x greyhound I was very pleased with.

[forest of dean redneck 11,622]

 

Looks like a standard poodle ,I think it's a parti coloured one?

 

Yes - parti-colour standard. A lot of people slate poodles based, probably, on the lion haircuts and bows on the head you see in the show ring. But don't underestimate them - intelligent and versatile dogs. I used to have a first cross standard poodle x greyhound I was very pleased with.

I got a 3/4 miniature 1/4 lab hope to turn it into a mooching busher just me an the dog.

[HedgeCrawler 224]

Probably not the most unconventional but my springer collie is getting to be a decent ferreting dog,getting the hang of marking and running bolters.

[krawnden 1,036]

 

 

Looks like a standard poodle ,I think it's a parti coloured one?

Yes - parti-colour standard. A lot of people slate poodles based, probably, on the lion haircuts and bows on the head you see in the show ring. But don't underestimate them - intelligent and versatile dogs. I used to have a first cross standard poodle x greyhound I was very pleased with.

I got a 3/4 miniature 1/4 lab hope to turn it into a mooching busher just me an the dog.

 

Any pics?

[forest of dean redneck 11,622]

 

 

 

Looks like a standard poodle ,I think it's a parti coloured one?

 

Yes - parti-colour standard. A lot of people slate poodles based, probably, on the lion haircuts and bows on the head you see in the show ring. But don't underestimate them - intelligent and versatile dogs. I used to have a first cross standard poodle x greyhound I was very pleased with.

I got a 3/4 miniature 1/4 lab hope to turn it into a mooching busher just me an the dog.

Any pics?

http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/349891-just-call-me-mr-cuban-lol/

Just took one and updated thread.

[comanche 3,032]

My granddad's poodles-Noddy,Bobo and Lulu(I kid you not !)-were sh*t-hot ratters. Just as well really because he was the first to buy a bungalow on a new estate while building was still in progress and he moved in while work demolishing the old farm next door was going on.

Bearing in mind that poodles have a good coat,were originally used as water-fowling dogs and are scored as the most intelligent of all breeds I've often wondered if -assuming their feet are up to it- they might make a better choice of lurcher cross than the ubiquitous Bedlington.

Edited April 22, 2016 by comanche

[Bosun11 537]

Reading this thred it just goes to show that some of the most unconvesional dogs can make great ferreting dogs BUT it takes a sound, keen, dedicated dog man that makes them so....

Well played people...

[leethedog 3,071]

Occasionally a pal of mine will bring along his American bulldog x rotti he will mark well is to slow for bolted a but has had a couple of sitters in marsh grass

[Arry 21,973]

When I was a youngster my father brought home a little poodle cross sky terrier, he had taken it off a bloke who was beating it in the pub. To say I was gutted was a massive under statement as I had been pleading to have a Jack Russell. All my mates had Jack Russell's or Fox Terriers, my father told me just him take him out and try it. Well I did take him out hoping none of my mates would see me, got to say the little fella took to it like a duck to water soon started marking in and flushing rabbits. After tilling up I could sit him one side of hedge I would sand on top of the hedge, he was good as gold at holding them. He would flush foxes yet he was small like a drowned rat when wet. I did feel sorry for him some times when working brambles and hedges as his fur used to get caught up and you would hear little yelps between barks at the rabbit. In the end my mates would come and borrow him he earned there respect, big relief for me. Pasted on a long time ago now, did get my Jack Russell's when I left home and kept having them for nearly forty years. But the little cross poodle was a great dog.

 

Cheers Arry