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Have you hunted with Terrier ??

I have been told that they are good hunting dogs. I also heard that they mixed them with other breeds . Let's hear what ya'll know about these dogs.

Hog hunting with pit bull terriers and Cross breed variations. That not my thing but hey, to each their own. They DON'T quit that's for sure and if they do on a big hog they don't live too long that hog will Gutem. I kinda like my dogs...that's not my type of hunting. I hunted with a rat terrier on squirrels. That dang dog liked chasing my cows about as much as it did Treeing squirrels. I had to get rid of it.

Hunting With Terriers

I have owned & raised Terriers for many years. There are many different Terrier breeds within both AKC and UKC. I have owned several different Terrier breeds over the years, but I have NEVER mixed them.

These are pure-bred 'PR' dogs that I have, & I don't even mix them with other similar Terrier breeds. Most of the other people who raise Terriers also keep them purebred.

Why mix them ? There are different Terrier breeds for very specific purposes. It is easier just to figure out what you want your Terrier to be able to do, then buy the Terrier breed that does what you want / need it to do.

Most of the smaller Terrier breeds are for 'go-to-ground' work; they go into tunnels to 'bolt' the quarry, or game. There are Terriers that will work foxes, woodchucks, badgers, rats, mice, squirrels, and some will even hunt & tree coons.

Terriers can be excellent hunting dogs & they are definitely VERY game. They are also highly intelligent, & tend to be sensitive dogs. All of the Terriers that I have owned over the years have been house dogs. Their loyalty makes them outstanding pets.

I love bringing my Patterdale Terrier along with the hounds. If the coon goes in a dozer pile or a hole the Patterdale takes over. He loves opossums too.
It turns something that is usually frustrating into another hunt.

Hunted with a couple of guys two years ago that had patterdales and jack-russells. It was a different form of hunting, but it sure was fun. We hit brush piles and abandoned buildings. It gets pretty western watching a terrier take on a coon bigger than it.

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I have hunted with field jack russells and jagd terriers

both are great fun

tuff little SOB's

if you socialize them well and kennel them indoors with the family they can easily be good pets even the ones with really strong prey drive

if you kennel outdoors you have a completely different dog, which is different from hounds and upland dogs

the JR's are probably the best for family duty and hunting, the jagd are possessed hunting dogs

When i was 8 I got a smooth fox terrier, beagle, spaniel mix puppy. I picked the puppy because it was colored like a black & tan. He ended up looking like a small doberman, and favored his fox terrier dad. He was a nice silent squirrel dog, and he wasn't half bad on wood chucks either.

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I had a jack russell that ran the heck out of rabbits and tagged along coon hunting. That little bugger would be the first one to grab a hold of any coon no matter the size. Brush piles were no longer a safe haven for a coon if he was along. He was smart and had a great personality, wanted to go everywhere with you even if it was riding on the lawnmower mowing the lawn. (Got some strange looks if someone drove by and seen). And I bear hunted with a guy that had a jack russell/plott cross. The dog didn't have a nose but if you got caught up to one and hear the dogs he would pack in good. When he got there stuff would happen and he would stay no matter what, but he also made a lot of bear climb that didn't really want to. We joked that it was a lot of work to clean all the hair/fur out of his teeth after you got back to the trucks. That little dog changed my definition of what gritty is. He wasn't much good unless you were up on the game, but he was a lot of fun to hunt with and watch when you were.

2 years ago I had a jagdterrier x JRT/Rat Terrier. She was everything I wanted in a terrier. My hounds didn't hardly get a scratch all fall because that little terrier would do all the dirty work once a coon was on the ground. She got off by herself and treed a few coon as well. I never put one single ounce of effort into training her to be a hunter, I just let her tag along when I hunted or when I worked young dogs. All natural. Unfortunately I run her over in the yard one day and my family has missed her ever since.
I'm looking for another to replace her.

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