In keeping with our breeding goals, I wanted to include some pictures of our dogs at work...on farms, around the house & out in the woods.
Rat Terriers (if bred true to instinct) have a tendency to chase & kill vermin and small game. Mice, Rats, Moles, Squirrels, Woodchucks, Rabbits and sometimes Coons are hunted with this breed.
I need to get more photos of our dogs hunting in the woods & hopefully some more squirrel hunting pictures/tailgates as we get more involved in the sport.
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11 Honey, Ginger, Cookie & Flutter hunting 12/28/09 next few pictures...
12 Honey kept falling through the crust on the snow (she's heavy) so she tried creeping up on it lol!
13 Girls sniffing deer tracks. Flutter's got her nose to the ground on one of them. The little ones think they'll find a deer if they dig enough. LOL
14 Honey sniffing deer tracks
15 Tracks in the snow, Radar followed these little tracks all over looking for that red squirrel he barked at from the window.
16 Radar in the snow
17 Squirrel from window
18 Radar following the fresh squirrel tracks...he went all over the place, then under the shed for several minutes and popped out again!
19 More pics of girls hunting
20 Sunday 11/29, I took Dora & Britches out back for a walk before Church. We were just walking along the tractor trail, then Dora took off ahead of me, sniffing at the ground and zig zagging, then she stopped on one spot and started rolling. then got up, looked around and as Britches and I caught up to her, 6 partridges took off, Dora dashed after them adn I scrambled for my pocket camera...
21 Dora looking to see if there's anymore birds
22 Girls on their way to the spot where the birds were, they decided to take the easy way lol
23 Dora & Britches on the way back to the house, they found a mouse/ rat nest or moles or somethnig, they kept digging & shaking stuff and going back in. Must be a nest!
24 Dora burying herself in her work
25 I had to call the girls back in to go up to the house. A few more dogs to walk before Church!
26 Do we have to??!
27 My friend Debi @ Foggy Meadow Farm. We were walking w/ the dogs up to see her newborn foal, and they decided to do a little hunting on the way!
28 This is what Minnie looks like when she's not hunting...a proper lady.
29 Minnie nose first in a nest...There was a whole family of field mice in there, she found em, and her buddies Widget and Shadow came to help her kill them off.
30 Minnie and Widget dig for more, see all the fluff from the nest?
31 Shadow giving the shake down while Minnie goes in for more! (2006)
32 Ginger @ 7 months (2009)
33 Ginger 7 mo.
34 Ginger, Cookie & Flutterbye
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36 Flutterbye & Honey
37 Britches, Dora, Ginger & Honey
38 Radar mole hunting
39 Radar
40 There was a mouse heading under the freezer and he caught it JUST in time! :)
41 Mmm this is pretty good...
42 Anytime you make a slight "psst" sound Radar comes running and will scan the area for mice.
43 You know Radar made the kill here, cause Flutter would have eaten the little buggar!
44 Radar hunting in the brush pile...
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46 Brutus's Mole (2008)
47 Brutus
48 Brutus & his mom Flutterbye
I promise, Flutter is NOT demon possessed, she's just telling Brutus to back off from HER prime mole hunting patch LOL!
49 Remmy a Radar baby, starting out right @ the Boer Goat Farm! (2007)