Terriers

[melted welly]

He looks really well

He’s doing great Dave, a big (well, pretty small actually) softy round kids, very sociable, canny beast.

Has acquired the odd dead rat/pigeon from the cat, even a fish head () and is a different beast then, all teeth and attitude. Promising start

 

[Veryfruity]

My father had a part time chap who came back to his mini van to find his dog with the bloodied sleeve of a man’s shirt. His jack russell had foiled the theft !

 

[Mydexta]

Poppy on the left, Finn on the right

Poppy is approaching 1 yr old and is as mad as a bag of frogs

Finn is near 3 and I’m unsure if he’s a Patterdale/Jack Russell as we were told or a cat. He’ll quite happily curl up on your knee in a ball and watch tele

he was the moy gamefairs terrier racing champion in 2022, but the new pup seems to give him a run for his money so this summer could be interesting

 

[Dry Rot]

OK, own up! Whose dear lttle pet damaged my friend's ear? "Shot" at 7.30am today with a trail cam. Ear probably trimmed by one of the local foxers. He turns up at very odd times, not your standard dawn and dusk visitor and not every day. Snapped one of his cubs recently but haven't seen him since, so there's a den somewhere local.

 

[MJT]

Can’t beat a terrier on the farm, best we have had came from a gypsy camp, unsure of exactly what breed she was meant to be but equally happy underground or above ground terrorising anything furry, or sat in the tractor or on quad for the day.

 

[Wilksy]

OK, own up! Whose dear lttle pet damaged my friend's ear? "Shot" at 7.30am today with a trail cam. Ear probably trimmed by one of the local foxers. He turns up at very odd times, not your standard dawn and dusk visitor and not every day. Snapped one of his cubs recently but haven't seen him since, so there's a den somewhere local.

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Apart from his ear he’s in good nick!

 

[Wood field]

Talking off foxes , mrs just pulled a dead fox from our pond
There are two Canada geese and a brood of chicks on there .. no guns and no dogs involved.
Any guesses

 

[ollie989898]

Talking off foxes , mrs just pulled a dead fox from our pond
There are two Canada geese and a brood of chicks on there .. no guns and no dogs involved.
Any guesses

Geese killed the fox? How?

 

[Wood field]

Geese killed the fox? How?

That’s what I wondered? Perhaps the fox went for the goslings and drowned when the geese set about it
All I know is it was a dog fox , mrs has pulled it from pond

 

[steveR]

I know a few of you have terriers, do they work or are they pets / companion’s?
Mrs L has two patterdales, I pretend to hate them but don’t really.
We have Boo and Wilf , both are absolutely incredible ratters , I was just clearing the area to start my sheep handling yard when they dug a bloody big hole and fetched this one out , miles better than poison around the place View attachment 1117444View attachment 1117446

Which is the hairy one? Dead ringer for Maddy!!

 

[Wood field]

Which is the hairy one? Dead ringer for Maddy!!

That’s Wilf , he has the same farther as your pups

 

[steveR]

Your pup “spud” has a habit of catching little birds at the moment

Sounds like a sibling problem!! Same here

Enjoys digging, although excavating might be more the case.....

 

[steveR]

Did / do you treat the rat bites with anything?
Ours in the pic on op has been nipped on her ear

Purple spray..... C'mon Dave, you are a sheep farmer!!!

 

[steveR]

Uncle used to breed some of the best patterdales in the country and internationally. Bred down from the original Nuttall dogs. Gave me my first pup. He was a proper dog. Babies could crawl all over him, pull him round by his ears tail or balls and he wouldn't even curl a lip. But he was a full blown murderous barsteward. He'd dig through a concrete floor to get a rat, he had one in some breeze blocks one day that bit him on the eye lid, he went from excited to full on murderous rage and shredded that rat into confetti.
I dug some seriously deep holes to retrieve him! Best dog I ever had.

Neighbour has a chocolate one like that. Superb dog that has sired many pups.... If Herself ever tootles off and the pup we had off @Wood field is in heat, who lnows what might happen!!

 

[DieselRob]

Sounds like a sibling problem!! Same here

Enjoys digging, although excavating might be more the case.....

Oh yes he’s a bird catching, hole digging, slipper stealing terrorist but he fits in grand round here

 

[Wood field]

Purple spray..... C'mon Dave, you are a sheep farmer!!!

I used blue

 

[steveR]

I had a jack like that, he started retrieving all by himself, we never even discussed it, he just copied the other shoot dogs. He’d even get teal from the river. He held them tight though!
I always think the presence of a terrier on a shoot makes them fly better, somehow the birds sense the terriers very real commitment.

Used to be a guy who came on our shoot. Happy go lucky scruffy terrier, chuck him in the bottom of teh wood , and 2-3 mins later he would pop out the top end then double back and spend the drive working for 30mins

 

[steveR]

Oh yes he’s a bird catching, hole digging, slipper stealing terrorist but he fits in grand round here

Haha, sounds identical!

Spends most of the day playing with the young JRT. From no terriers to two!! Madness personified!

 

[steveR]

I used blue

oooh does it work as well??

 

[Wood field]

@steveR @DieselRob if it’s any help, boo dog your pups mum didn’t seem to have any interest in ratting until she hit 18 months, then she became a real champion
Wilf is a destructive little bugger but a good ratter , he started when he hit 12 months