Why you should get an undocked terrier.....

[Oldashthearab]

..............So when he has been ignoring your recall for 15 mins whilst having a great time sniffing and digging for rabbits in the hedge you can drag him out by it when he makes fatal mistake of letting it stick out of the hedge!!!!

 

[Mogg]

mine has been an absolute b****** today, if he wasnt already castrated id have ripped em off out of sheer frustration and anger (not the best emotions to feel when dealing with an animal but he has pushed my patience waaaay past its limits today)

 

[Oldashthearab]

The worse thing was i was on phone to boyf saying how good he was being, just as i put phone down he went into hedge and that was it!! Being nice to him when he does come back is hard when you have spent 10 mins calling him!!!
The other day he caught his 1st rabbit, could i get near the bug*%r? Nope, had to stand waiting for 10 mins whilst he played with poor thing (didnt kill it), then when he was bored he dropped it and ran up to me all excited wondering what fun things i was going to let him do next!!! Grrrrr!

 

[Tinkerbee]

*sniggers*
Story of my life! All ours have handy grabbing length tails...

 

[Jake10]

Ahh the joys of terrier ownership mine has after 3 years of selective deafness and adventures lost the priviledge (sp?) of running free and is now confined to an extender lead (she ran through 4 supposedly secure fields and onto one of the A1 slip roads Never again!)

 

[GinaB]

Lol!

I thought terriers were traditionally docked to a hands width to be grasped for exactly this purpose? (Ie when taken rabbiting )

 

[Ranyhyn]

I believe thats correct.

Both of my terriers have tails, not that they disapear into anything really - they have 0 prey drive when it comes to rabbit holes!

 

[Rowreach]

Lol!

I thought terriers were traditionally docked to a hands width to be grasped for exactly this purpose? (Ie when taken rabbiting )

Yup I've given up on terriers. I now appear to have a hound instead. He doesn't have a tail, he has a stern, about the only part of him you can see in the long grass when he has his nose to the floor lol

 

[Oldashthearab]

Ahh the joys of terrier ownership mine has after 3 years of selective deafness and adventures lost the priviledge (sp?) of running free and is now confined to an extender lead (she ran through 4 supposedly secure fields and onto one of the A1 slip roads Never again!)

Scary stuff!!! Luckily Bob doesnt go too far and we have plenty of safe places for him to ignore me! He comes out with me on the horse regularly (on lead to cross roads) and he is an angel *crosses fingers that i havent jinxed it*. Maybe its because he has to keep moving to keep up with Ash so doesnt get to get too distracted my smelly things!!!

 

[EAST KENT]

Lol!

I thought terriers were traditionally docked to a hands width to be grasped for exactly this purpose? (Ie when taken rabbiting )

Exactly right,as an adult about 6-7" is just right for hawling out of "situations"