what was your first dog

[blaev 1]

My first dog was a german shepherd, then got into rough shooting and got an old lab bitch that had been used by a gundog breeder as a brood bitch but she knew more about shooting than me and we had some great outings on the small permission i had at the time. Her hips got really bad but god you should have seen her light up when i went to the gun cabinet and got the o/u out. Then another lab, still got him but he's 15 now, and a brindle boxer who wants to beat everything up he meets. Then one day i went to the local terrier races and was bowled over by these little black terriers that were so incredibly game. The way they all bayed and went crazy when the terriers were put into the traps made me fall about laughing, it was like being at a football match but with the dogs going mad rather than the people. So i found out about the black dogs and they turned out to be patterdales. Promised myself i'd get one but it took another 3 years before i eventually did. She's shaping up to be a really cracking dog.

[sounder79 80]

well my first dog was a weimaraner (just a pet dumb as fxxk) after that i got a lakieXjack for working and thats me hooked on the terriers .a was just wondering how other people got in to them them and what dogs thay started off with.

(al try put some pics of them up later)

quater bull russell,lemon and white,lost him early

[herdwick 52]

First dog was a collie. Worked cattle and self entered to foxes. Hit a fence running his 1st and hated them with a passion after that. Hardly a fox on the place until he was killed!

1st terrier was a hard red lakeland, about as much good as a chocolate teapot. Killed anything and everything before he was despatched.

Had borders for 20 years but dont like what they have become so now have JR's. All round vermin dogs, take them shooting (without collars or leads) and 2 will retrieve to hand.

[Brightlite 0]

My first dog was a collie . . my first experience of terriers and digging was with the man next door and his mate, 2 smooth JR types.

[dehoffmeister 2]

my first dog was a little jack russel bitch she accounted for many foxs she never got bitten!!!!

[meinnotts 1]

my first dog was a JRT bitch called susie after my brandads JRT bitch

 

both were the most anti social dogs ever ................ susie 2 never really worked apart from the odd bit of feretting and ratting

 

 

both were truly great pets, fiercely loyal, and lived to 17 and 18 yr old

 

 

they are what made me love terriers, i have not had one since, i have a cocker at the moment, but when the time is right i will definatlely be getting one ............... could o with one for the rats at the moment !!!!

[diggerman 0]

My 1st dog was a patterdale dog. He worked well and did everthing ever asked of him, always found and never walked away from his game. Killed at 12 years old whilst working by a fooking lurcher dog who picked him up and ran off shaking him.

[the_stig 6,614]

a little russell dog called mole when i was 12 or 13 spent a whole summer holiday digging him out of rabbit holes we dug down to him and shit ourselfs one day when thr was a fox in thr my next dog was a fawn whippit brandy swopped her for a air rifle what a bonus when she had a suprise litter of pups in my bed when i was at school my mum went nuts ..

[shinyspade 2]

a little black n tan. everyone called em border/lakies then but she was bred from old nuttal/buckbrey lines. or so i was told. never really used her to her potential done the opposite to most on here and went to russells later

 

she was bred by a well known terrier breeder in preston in the early eighties

Edited March 28, 2009 by shinyspade

[sp.w 42]

My first dog was a jrt dog pup paid 25 quid for him in 85..weren't the best but he was ok for me then.thats what got me into the dog big time!!

[dai dogs 1,560]

first dog jrt bow legged type had him for my 12th birthday a very long time ago. bit mental towards other dogs worked up untill he was about 10 years old then he became my mothers lapdog. one day he tried it on with the wrong type of dog, the dog killed him. next day my mother died.

[jordanmb 0]

patterdale terrier 7 years ago