Such Compassion
I also was out yesterday 2 digs of around 4 or 5ft, 1 dog fox and 1 vixen very heavily in cub, we let her go and hopefully we will have more for next year.
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Reality of Terrier Work
They reckon the most dangerous are the dogs that attack the rear legs of another dog or animal bringing it down to throat at their leisure…makes sense if you think about it…as for digging, a lot of foxes killed have their lower jaw smashed or broken, effectively stopping them defending themselves, then get throated.
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Baying?
We got a earth which is an old badger sett the terrier could be heard baying at the fox but seems to be having some trouble, we started digging and got down to about 12ft and broke through I could see the terrier had locked onto the fox and made a grab for it I had a good hold on it and hauled it and the terrier out.
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Terriermen Compare Sizes
The deepest my mates and myself have had to dig is about 11ft and still registering before we got the dogs out but fox was left in that’s what you call a dig.
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Terriermen: Even Dumber Than They Look
I’ve been speaking to a lot of people about this today and we have come to the decision that every one involved in hunting who hasn’t got a shot gun licence should apply for one, and every morning go out into the fields and start firing early every morning, whether it be anything or just in the air.
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Severe Damage To Foxes
How many times have we seen a situation where we have dug down to a terrier to find that the fox has, the whole time, been brush on to the dog, with his head facing away, the terrier having his freedom to inflict severe damage.
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Humane Pest Control?
From inside the borran you could hear the sound of a terrier fighting a fox. It went on for an hour, a terrible screaming, mixed with silence and barks followed by complete silence. Eight feet down the terriers began to chew at the warm corpse in front of them, they wouldn’t come out until they finished and were full.
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Fox-Baiting
From above the ground we could hear the terrible fighting below us. The screaming of dog and fox was only partly muffled by layers of earth and rock that separated us from it.
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Why Terrier Work Must Be Banned Outright
I watch my dogs play fighting most days out in the back yard going for the throat all the time…as the Jake I’ve seen him locked on to a fox jaw to jaw, then spin it over then a bite to the throat and shake all over and I can hear the bones in its neck crunching, lovely sound too.
