MIXERS NEED BETTER DIGGERS

[Bosun11 537]

I'm with Dev on this one as I would expect a dog to stay, that would be priority.

Don't confuse hard/game with 'gassy' and 'reckless', wanting the job done to quickly then spewing when it didn't get its own way.

Sure, if you know your dog and its style of working quarry then you know when its settled and get down to it sharpish.

If I owned a dog that everytime had me 'on pins' to get down to it before it came off, i'd be looking for a different worker!

[player1 2]

i think the speed in which a dog id bought on doesnt apply here ,as all dogs mature at different rates , and its down to the owner to watch there dog and act accordingly my dog from a pup had a rough time from older terriers and allways seemed to want to join in when out working, [ straining on the lead ] and picked up ratting straight away, we helped along the way catching charlie in traps etc ,but when he started working all digs were kept shallow and manageable for the first few digs and allways got too him A.S.A.P . IVE HEARD COMMENTS OF LETTING THE DOG WORK ITS QUARRY OR LET HIM SETTLE TOO HIS WORK, but with a young dog that thinks hes indestructable youve to be got be a bit quicker than with a bayer .

[Guest whitser]

there's a difference between getting your dog out asap and getting him out before he walks. i wouldnt keep a dog that wouldnt stay to a fox til dug, no matter how long it took,but saying that i dont leave him in any longer then necessary.

[player1 2]

FOX ?? and if you dig em quick they dont get chance to walk

[Guest whitser]

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[player1 2]

enough said

[Guest mudhole]

ive been interested in terriers for a few years now , after getting invited to go out and dig out a mates dog , he owned a lot of dogs both terriers and lurchers but never seemed to have a days graft in him , over a couple of seasons i dug out several differant dogs and the lad who,s dogs they were was fetching good money for the pups , eventually we parted ways and i got invited to go out with other lads to dig there dogs, one of the lads had a dog given him by someone and within a year it was working well, he offered me a pup and i excepted wich turned out to be a cracker , in time i started hearing stories of the other chap i used to go digging with , that his dogs were coming off , [jacking in ] wich i found hard to believe , as his dogs were some of the gamest dogs ive seen at the time , which brings me to my point , i think that hard dogs need to be dug to quicker especially when there young , i dont think that the dogs were to blame , after all they were battling there hearts out , i think it was the idle terrier man with all knoledge and no interest in what working terriers is all about . MIXERS NEED BETTER DIGGERS

 

if your man cant/wont dig and he hasnt replaced you,then he would rather sit and encourage the dog to come out all day long, rather than dig all day IMO.

 

he dosent deserve a good digging dog nor will he ever have one, unless he gets a mate that dosent mind a go on the banjo.....factomondo.... kev

[gazbull 4]

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FOX ?? and if you dig em quick they dont get chance to walk

GOOD POST

[x38 179]

there's a difference between getting your dog out asap and getting him out before he walks. i wouldnt keep a dog that wouldnt stay to a fox til dug, no matter how long it took,but saying that i dont leave him in any longer then necessary.

Ive seen the dog its not a walker will draw fox and you will have to pull it of "YOUR SELF"

[swag 54]

FOX ?? and if you dig em quick they dont get chance to walk

well what happens if ya drop him into a spot and find out its sheet slate, having to use a bar to work every inch of the dig, a 1.0 dig can take a long time, i have found alot like this in wales , the quarry choses to sit under these sheets for dryness or simply becuse there sets have had to follow the contours of earth working thorugh the slate, i may be wrong but you can never know how long a dig is going to take, a 0.6 in slate can take as long as a 1.5 in an ash bank or sand, dont know any one who doesnt dig as quickly as they can but its the dig itself what determins the speed not the dog or the man!!!

[gazbull 4]

when the grounds tough going , just keep digging , and the rest is down to the terrier and thats where good entering and quality breeding comes into its own at the end of the day if you put the dog in . then its up to you to get it out .

[x38 179]

when the grounds tough going , just keep digging , and the rest is down to the terrier and thats where good entering and quality breeding comes into its own at the end of the day if you put the dog in . then its up to you to get it out .

[player1 2]

MY PUP

[bignoel 14]

dig quick before he walks ? leave him walking i say . a good game dog will stay with his game till you dig to him and i have had some long awkward digs but dog stayed doing his job .you got to know your dog as your dog has to know you trust .