Pipe Cleaners

[PBurns 9]

"Surely it will get up to it?"

 

Uh ... no. A dog cannot trench 20 feet down a pipe or blast rock or gnaw through very thick root. Desire has nothing to do with it. Desire will get a dog through a few narrow obstructions, but if the dog is fundamentally too big in the chest it cannot follow a fox in a tight earth. Not all earths are tight, but enough are tight that a very large dog has limiting uses. A small dog, on the other hand, can get anywhere -- and can get out too if needed. The big dog is the wrench that can fit only one time of nut -- the small dog can generally fit many.

 

P.

[Kane 2]

 

A decent Border dog (now gone) was a bit big for those realy tight earths, but one of my favourites.

[phil wright 2]

all i can say is my first plummer was 12 inches and would bolt foxes out of small earths but it would take a while with a lot of waffling/baying.i used to put this down to tight tubes.however when i got my next plummer which was 14 inch,from a different breeder, she would have them bolting in seconds from the same earths. but then she wasnt scared of getting bit.

[Guest BORDERFOX]

Im a lurcher lad mate so I dont know but surely its a case of finding the right tool for the job?

[Hybred 3]

PBurns i don't know any terrier that can trench 20 ft down through a pipe no they can't blast rock and they don't carry a chain saw , well mine don't who said they could but a small dog in the counrty i hunt would get knocked to bits then would'nt work for a week because it has to rest up , not much use if you get another lambing call i said a big dog what i call a big dog will be different from you or wireviz .Suppose it come back to the usual on the internet

 

what's a big dog , what is working , etc

 

Hybred

[Printer 34]

For me the bigger dog, within reason, as long as it’s flexible and agile, qualities that are derived from a good length of back, but above all it must be narrow, these are some of the easily seen physical qualities I like………

 

……………..But more importantly are the less easily seen qualities that are required by big or small working terrier, a natural instinct to hunt, nose, courage, determination and a great deal of common sense.

 

Printer

[Kane 2]

[Kane 2]

 

Both from the same lines the bitch is bred tighter causing I think her to have been thrown smaller,just intrested in others experiances of digging to small terriers.She is 6months old 11inch at shoulder and 13 pounds.

[Royston2 0]

She`s grown mate

She`s still got that same f**k of look though aint she...I cant see you having any problems mate

[PBurns 9]

 

11 inch dog on Sunday. Dog entered another hole but came out this one, as did the quarry. Solid roots all the way around and could not even get a digging bar in anywhere else -- no other holes were possible into this rock-root den and we had to cut three roots just to make this hole. Each to his own, but I want a dog that can get up to it -- and can get out of it too. We would have needed a chainsaw for a bigger dog. We have some tight pipes over here in the states, but most are bigger than this, thank God.

 

Patrick