treeingratterrier
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« on: June 06, 2011, 03:24:00 pm » |
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Its not the size of the dog its the amount of game in the dog, rat terriers, fiests, are dead game. Where do you think pit bull terriers got there gameness??? From the terrier not the deadheaded ol english bulldog for sure. I used to hunt 20 of time at a time on javelina and hogs in the 70's, they will strike and bay just like any other hot nosed type cur breed. They are way smart and very easy to handle as a rule, lots of times if you hunt one as a single dog the hog will chase the dog especially if its a sow with lil piglets, several of the ranches down here used the rat terriers for hogs when they first started getting really thick. When you hunt them in a large pack some will bay and some will catch after the first dog gets there, pretty kewl to see 20 terriers lock up a big boar like ticks behind each leg. Bad thing is when they get hurt it is usually the end, i have a few 35 pound terriers still but they are on climbing game. I will shoot at hogs running off from the cattle pens or the self feeders and dump them in after them but not hunting them off the mule yet, leg is still not healed all of the way up. Back in the day bobcats were the thing to run and catch foxhound style for the race and the money, cat hides and coon hides brought top dollar, I used to dump my terriers into the foxhound race to cut it short and go on to the next bobcat, the terrriers will cut the line and catch vs running the line like a hound, plus if in a whitebrush or cactus patch 6 foot tall they will get to a bobcat faster than a larger hound, nuther thing for them is they will tree and stay vs most foxhounds that wont stay very long around a cat up. I like that red fiest you got in the trailer, worm em up and feed em and hunt his awrse off, they will strike off of a rig f trained as well. Good luck, what did you ever do with those dogs, did they hunt or what???
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