Cleanspade 3,324 Posted April 22, 2006 Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 Ive heard wheaten terriers are a good dog,does anyone have any comments?What about border terriers ive heard they have one of the best noses,but take a while to start working. i have a wheaten x and it has a good nose. ive seen borders with good noses and bad noses ive seen plummers with exeptional noses. the best scenting terriers ive seen have seen barring the plummer have been russells. but most good working terriers have decent noses whatever the breed imo. Quote Link to post
lucky 578 Posted April 22, 2006 Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 i have a little russel dog and he's got an exellent nose on him, when he's on the lead i can tell theres a fox to ground well before i get near the earth Quote Link to post
pockets 0 Posted April 22, 2006 Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 I wanna cry Patterdales are the only ones for you boy theyll eat em up an spit em out quicker than youll say ! Quote Link to post
steamingutpiles 117 Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 They are ALL good. Dogs rely on their sense of smell as much as we rely on our eyesight. Certain idividuals within breeds have better noses than others - some are methodical and slow and others go flat knacker and miss what others find. This applies to breeds renown for thier scent trailing ability such as hounds, spaniels, pointers etc. JMHO Quote Link to post
Guest buster Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 To all the viewers out there This is abit of a story about my old terrier bitch,she is 8 years old today,she was born on saint georges day. She is a saint to me for all the joy and pleasure she has gave me over the years,she may not be the best looking dog in the world,or a show winner but it isnt all about showing, its about the working and the ability of the hunting for me. I have bred some good stock out of her. I have got a young bitch out of her,she is a good looker,i am concentrating on her, i have done abit of ferreting with her she isnt has good has her mother yet,but she will be when i have done with her, she is only 2 years old but i like taking my time with them by doing one thing at a time. I like my terriers to age will, some people smash them up striaght away but i cant see the point in that when your are trying to breed your own lines. Some people have terriers for 3 years and after that they are good for nothing I have had dogs like that so i know. I once had one he was to hard for me he was a proper nut case :realmad: I gave him away to a gamekeeper i think he is dead now Any way back to the story about my old faithfull bitch, she has got a few scars when getting smashed, i can remember once when she had a belly full of pups, she was 5 week pregnant it was auturn/winter time she looked bored so i took her for walk on the field on the back of my house i thought it was going to be a ten min walk i walked around the field and i saw her pick up a sense i knew i was a fox because she acts different on different senses, i shouted her but she went deaf like terriers do, before i could catch her she was in the earth i could hear her baying like mad i ran back home to get my digging equipment and one of my dogs, i got my other dog to mark whereabouts where she was because she didnt have a locating coller on i dont know if anyone else uses this method. If you have got another working dog the dog will listen, and mark the ground where the other dog is baying,and then you start digging where the other dog is digging, in the mean time my other dog was tied up it took me quite a while because she was about 4 foot down, i could hear her more the pain was getting louder i could hear fighting and grinding of jaws together,when i finally got there she was face to face both of them latched onto each of there mouths there was blood and snot everywhere, when i got her off she was smashed up :whistle: but she went striaght back on and finished it off, i was going to let the other dog have a go but there wasnt anything left it was dead, i dug it back in,told the farmer and he was pleased for what i had done i took her home, cleaned her up got my mate to jab her up with penacilin, i used tcp to clean her up my mate is a vet anyway.The next day she was like a american pitbull in her face for how big it was. In the years i have had her she has had concustion, kicked by cows,smashed up a quite afew times, she now lives in the house because i have semi retired her for how keen she is, i walk her quite abit but road walking because i use my dog and there daughter alot because it makes them alot better and keener because they dont have to rely on my old bitch, but i will get her 100% fit when it is better weather. I do alot of ratting and rabbiting with my other two, i have quite abit of permission i do that because of the stupid f***ing law of the labour party, but my dog wil do other things. Thanks for all your opinions of my topic keep them coming,all dogs will work if you give them the opportunity to use there nose,all the terrier breeds are has good as each other just need time to get them right, in my opinion i think patterdales are very hard,sometimes they are to hard for the good of thereselves. I have got onto the photobucket with my pics but i dont know how to get them on to this web site could someone tell me please GOOD HUNTING FOR NOW Quote Link to post
Guest buster Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 What about sealiman terrier? has anyone got any comments? Quote Link to post
Kye 77 Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 When my Lakeland was 12 weeks old, she marked a rat in some compact old cow and chicken shit...the entrance to the hole was about 12 feet away...she was digging at the muck, and i helped her out...we got down about 10" and there was three rats in a stop end...she killed all of them...she has a good nose imo...the best noses i have seen (rat dog wise) have been Plummers...great nose on them dogs!.. My wife has some old type russells and they have much better than average noses...they will find lizards in the summer, on plain solid rock, in 115F...there 'aint much scent in them condistions!,..lol...its old Jones stuff. Kye,. Quote Link to post
Squirrel_Basher 17,100 Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 When my Lakeland was 12 weeks old, she marked a rat in some compact old cow and chicken shit...the entrance to the hole was about 12 feet away...she was digging at the muck, and i helped her out...we got down about 10" and there was three rats in a stop end...she killed all of them...she has a good nose imo...the best noses i have seen (rat dog wise) have been Plummers...great nose on them dogs!.. My wife has some old type russells and they have much better than average noses...they will find lizards in the summer, on plain solid rock, in 115F...there 'aint much scent in them condistions!,..lol...its old Jones stuff. Kye,. How long does the average lizard hunt last Kye. I had a russel that pointed frogs in the grass and ate the bloody things .Froth ,guts and slime and then a good old throw up.Cant beat it . Quote Link to post
Simoman 110 Posted April 24, 2006 Report Share Posted April 24, 2006 Had a Plummer bitch that had a nose like a hound, she could mark holes from distance and hunted hares like a Beagle. When we are ratting my Patterdale has marked rats under 18" of disturbed soil. Quote Link to post
Kye 77 Posted April 25, 2006 Report Share Posted April 25, 2006 lol@ FD!.. :laugh: Yeah, them desert lizards can be tough critters...always chase them to ground!..lol...i can always find summat to hunt!.. Kye,.. Quote Link to post
Stabs 3 Posted April 25, 2006 Report Share Posted April 25, 2006 This is Kye with one of his single handed lizard coursing dogs Quote Link to post
Kye 77 Posted April 25, 2006 Report Share Posted April 25, 2006 f**k me, if i was THAT ugly the dogs would have terrible re-call!..lol...plus i dont wear gay T-Shirts!... Man, how small is Blister there!?...who would have thought he would turn out just under 30"... That Lizard was fast, but it couldnt out pace your rock throwing skills!... Kye,.. Quote Link to post
Stabs 3 Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 f**k me, if i was THAT ugly the dogs would have terrible re-call!..lol...plus i dont wear gay T-Shirts!... Man, how small is Blister there!?...who would have thought he would turn out just under 30"... That Lizard was fast, but it couldnt out pace your rock throwing skills!... Kye,.. He is 30" there....I'm just really tall How old was the dog there mate? I remember you was having real bother with him back then. You should have seen Rocky's face when those Polaks started talking to us in the Canyon Quote Link to post
Guest buster Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 f**k me, if i was THAT ugly the dogs would have terrible re-call!..lol...plus i dont wear gay T-Shirts!... Man, how small is Blister there!?...who would have thought he would turn out just under 30"... That Lizard was fast, but it couldnt out pace your rock throwing skills!... Kye,.. He is 30" there....I'm just really tall How old was the dog there mate? I remember you was having real bother with him back then. You should have seen Rocky's face when those Polaks started talking to us in the Canyon We are not talkin about lurchers,we are talkin about terriers Quote Link to post
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