Six Days of Hell for Terrier
On Sunday October 4th, I entered my Russell dog 'Sam' in a two holed spot on a disused railway banking at Ryehill. It is a well known spot for foxes and over the years many have been bolted from it. After 'Sam' had been in for 30 minutes a fox bolted.
After waiting a while and no sign of 'Sam' coming out I went to listen and could hear him strongly baying at a second fox. After waiting all day and no sign of the dog or the fox coming out I decided to enter my bitch 'Bella'.
Both terriers could be heard getting to grips with the fox. I waited till 11pm when I blocked both holes and went home. I returned at 6.30am the next morning with Tony Bannister. We could hear both terriers and we both thought they were fast so we started digging. It soon became obvious that we needed some help because after a couple of feet we came across a lot of large rocks. I went home and rounded up some more Fell and Moorland Working Terrier Club lads. I returned with four more plus a Tirfor. After digging until 7.30pm it was obvious that we had a long way to go as the terriers could be heard right down in the bottom of the bank under a lot of large rocks.
On Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday digging continued all day long. By mid morning Saturday the terriers could be heard getting nearer all the time. At 2pm we were very close and by moving some small rocks the bitch squeezed out, followed by the dog.
After SIX DAYS to ground both terriers were saved due to the tremendous effort by the club. After backfilling celebrations were held at the nearby pub.
Digging Out: Apart from the obvious cruelty to the dogs just image what the foxes had to endure!
Terrierman's Sick Entertainment
A couple of months of ago my son chickens got taken by a fox so we set the trap, caught nowt and forgot about it, went onto the back field today to check on the sheep (ya i shag them) and next door farmer tells me I got some think in the trap, so upon looking I see its a cub no older then 12 weeks as it had all its young teeth, I was in to minds to let it go but the farmer who has over the years lost birds to foxes made me see sense! by saying this in a year could be taken the rest! So of I go and get my terrier Igot from trev (tested) lmfao.. along with a 9 month old first bull x, so I lifted the door to the trap and the terrier flew in and nailed the little cub until this little fellow bit him back, the terrier was in shock lol, and the cub was on the terriers back hissing at him and trying with its little teeth to bite him...
Well I tried to get the terrier out but the cub was by the door so no way would the terrier go past it. lmfao...so i went to get my 5 year old bitch who has been in two digs lasting 2 and 3 hours to rescue my big bad Tyson dog..lol. The bitch went mad as soon as she seen the cub and Tyson was hiding in the corner lol, so in goes the bitch the cubs leaps on her and she to ends up in the corner ...now I am pissing myself along with the next door farmer, the bitch was more interested in eating the bait.... So I decided to let the cub go hoping deep down my bullx would nail him! Well I let the cub go it first went for me and the farmer fell over pissing himself, then the cub ran off with the bullx in pursuit ya!!! no the bull x was playing with it....3 big bad dogs cured to a 12 week old cub!!!! I haven’t laughed so much in years! seeing was believing...the farmer honestly pissed himself!!!! after it tried to get me..lol....the rest is history....LMFOA....I wish i could say this was made up to save face for my dogs but that was one f##k or of a cub..lol....those sharp teeth were awesome...
Digging Out: Sorry for the spelling and grammar but it was written by a terrierman after all!
