The plummer terrier

[Aussie Whip 4,097]

2 hours ago, fireman said:

The thing about a proper bull is it's pure and you can sort of know what your going to get by adding it bone and body wise and it being pure as such you can breed it back out,ok you will get throw backs etc but you know what traits the offspring will keep as a bull x has been done a few times with a few things and the bone stays as we all know and that's why the bull was added to give head and jaw size and strength to it.There was some over there and i think in NZ as well but if they carried anything on with them i have no idea..

I didn't know there were any here. I understand the concept of adding bull but once it's watered down to less than 1/4 or maybe 1/8 the attributes you are trying to put in wouldn't be noticeable. The only benefit maybe adding some new blood if you breed into a corner with your line. I wouldn't bother adding any other blood in any breed if it doesn't stay around 1/4, I can't see much point. Not an expert on genetics so correct me if I'm wrong.

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12 hours ago, sid g said:

michael shaw wrote a couple , 

michael shaw was Plummer

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On 19/02/2021 at 08:55, downsouth said:

Had pretty much all of the terrier and lurcher books written up untill about 10years back along with every edrd going back to the first one but flogged or gave away pretty much all of them after meeting or spending days out with a fair few authors/article writers and realising most of them are full of complete shit.

I didn't read many of the modern day terrier books.I was more interested in the older terrier books such as Lucas book,diary of an otter hunter,Otters and otter hunting. Several years ago I received a phone call that an elderly British author and terrier man was visiting 4 hour drive from my house.This man was telling glorious tales of the otterchase.Me being the Confederate gentleman I am I jumped in my pickup truck and drove 4 hours to shake this man's hand and invite him on a trip in my boat.Upon meeting this man he informed me that otter was too much for a terrier and basically proceeded to call me a fool for attempting such things.I politely agreed as I was taught to respect my elders.I went and got in my pickup and drove 4 hours back home.

You can pick your heroes,You can also pick your nose, But it's harder to wipe your heroes on your britches leg.

 

Sorry to derail topic.

 

[talt 878]

I like the look of plummers, especially the early smaller type but i can't help thinking to myself why re-invent the wheel when Russells have filled the role?

Edited February 20, 2021 by talt

[tinytiger 828]

2 minutes ago, talt said:

I like the look of plummers, especially the early smaller type but i can't help thinking to myself why re-invent the wheel when Russells have filled the role?

I think the jack Russell club ( or whatever it was called)- de- registered his dogs. So he went and called them after himself.

[Gypsydog94 4,571]

23 minutes ago, baker boy said:

Chapman maybe ?

Wouldn’t have thought it was chapman. He used to follow hounds all summer along the river? 

[fireman 10,884]

23 hours ago, foxdropper said:

You actually said 

 

 

 

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“The thing about a proper bull is it's pure and you can sort of know what your going to get by adding it bone and body wise and it being pure as such you can breed it back out”

Just wondering how you arrived at that statement Steve ,no trick question .

I just quoted what has been/was said as to why the bull was ever added to the plummer terriers make up,no trick answer Timmy..

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Where did you quote it from Steve and why was it added in your opinion .

[fireman 10,884]

46 minutes ago, foxdropper said:

Where did you quote it from Steve and why was it added in your opinion .

It's general knowledge in the plummer world as such on the make up of the plummer terrier  like i said it makes no odds to me and i have no opinion about it being added,what i will say is if a terrier needs bone adding to it as such then get a big boned dog of the same type and go down that route..

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Something saturated with blood of the type you look to improve your own type with is whats needed  .

 

 

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On 19/02/2021 at 21:13, fireman said:

Legion/plummer bred from a pet bull and it wasn't the first choice bull he used,the first choice dog was a real deal and plummer was told to do one when he asked to use it..

Rockey lee wasn't it.? Some cracking  looking patterdales bred down from same dog.

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On 19/02/2021 at 21:03, sid g said:

not read it fully had a flick through interesting story about a dog in that book but i cant be assed ..

Come on sid g, you can't leave it there. Well you can of course, your prerogative.

It's not a working terrier book so no exaggerated tales of super dogs that in reality may have been useless in there. Unless it in regard to the abilities of the terriers owned by John Russell himself but I doubt your that old?

The authors unashamedly justify the recognition of pure or crossbred Lakelands so would not have thought that it is in regard to "purity" of breeding.

I am intrigued as to what the interesting story is, genuinely... don't leave us hanging man!

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On 20/02/2021 at 18:06, talt said:

I like the look of plummers, especially the early smaller type but i can't help thinking to myself why re-invent the wheel when Russells have filled the role?

Spot on, they (Plummers) are simply the 'creation' of an egotistical maniac to have his name 'live on' in a new type of terrier.

And it was far EASIER to sell this type as specialising at rats, than it would be to breed a new type of earth dog.

Prove me wrong...?

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10 hours ago, Bosun11 said:

Spot on, they (Plummers) are simply the 'creation' of an egotistical maniac to have his name 'live on' in a new type of terrier.

And it was far EASIER to sell this type as specialising at rats, than it would be to breed a new type of earth dog.

Prove me wrong...?

They can't,  they won't and

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I like these.Any in the USA?