fox hunting withe terriers

KYBoy · Post by **KYBoy** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:06 pm

hi everone i got a ? have any of you all evere heard of fox hunting withe just terriers. i have heard some say it can be done. i know in the old days they were used to dive on out of a dean but has anyone used them for a run. i would thinke a fox would be to fast for one. the reason i was asking fox numbers are gone up around home and the olde kind of big fox hounds are kind of hared to find about the only thing here are coon dogs and samll game dogs but thinks for the hlep everone

STUNTMAN · Post by **STUNTMAN** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:26 am

Terriers no on the run except if they den. If you cant find an outside fox hound in KY then something must have happened since I moved west. Try this site- good people there."Vargy's"
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KYBoy · Post by **KYBoy** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 12:33 pm

thinks man that what i was thinking but i wanted to find out. the outside fox hounds kind of whent out in the late 70 earl 80 when the fox numbers want dowen becuse of the ecalls that came out. just wounden you frome ky what parte i am from clay downe in the se

artrodex · Post by **artrodex** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:09 pm

jagdterrier is the solution.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV5F88xa7og

nhunter84 · Post by **nhunter84** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:25 am

Ive caught plenty of foxes with terriers. Look for one with some leg. Not them short little suckers most people have

KYBoy · Post by **KYBoy** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 1:55 pm

i mit be wrong but dont all terriers have short legs i thout that was the way they were bread for working undere gound. just wordern what kind do you use

nhunter84 · Post by **nhunter84** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 3:02 pm

I've got some lanky, skinny Jagds. You can see one of them on the Jagds and Bobcats post. Biggest deal is dont feed them til there fat, and keep them exercised. They should be plenty quick to catch a fox

Dan McDonough · Post by **Dan McDonough** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:56 am

I had a pair of Jagds tht caught their first fox at 5 months and 1 week old. It was a young fox but it was old enough to run good. The female of that pair is dead now but I still have the male. He has a double susspension gate like a sighthound and can really cover some ground. I've run him on fox from the start and he'll keep a good adult fox going all night if it won't hole up. He's nearly 13 years old now and I just put him on a female but it was a miss as to be expected. Maybe one of these times I'll get lucky and he'll have 1 or 2 live ones still in the bag. I got those two dogs out of parents bred by the Jones'. I've killed a fair number of fox with those dogs. Mostly I hunted coon with them, squirrels a lot with the female and a little bit of everything else when the time was right. Most of the Jagds I've seen are a bit on the short side. Having a longer leg never hurt them underground and a longer legged terrier is much more versital. I would be really tempted to cross a whippet and a jagd for the right combonation or a running breed with a jagd. What couldn't you catch with something like that??

outlaw13 · Post by **outlaw13** » Sun Aug 05, 2012 1:15 pm

funny you say that about the whippet. I have a buddy that has a jack russell/whippet and that sucker is leggy and can really move.

stevemac · Post by **stevemac** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 6:02 am

use your terriers to flush the foxes from cover or den. and get a stag or lurcher to do the catching works a treat for me.

henpeck · Post by **henpeck** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 3:42 pm

I would look up George Hill there in Ky he raises walker fox hounds and I believe terriers. It would be hard to find a better hound to run in that terrain then his.

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KYBoy · Post by **KYBoy** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 4:27 pm

thinks everone you have real helpd me i think i know what i need to look for is jags but one more ? has anyone heard of useing a sight hound as a catch dog fro fox huntin if so how would you say that the skin off of a fox would be next to one that was take the olde way withe a shotgun

Dan McDonough · Post by **Dan McDonough** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:06 am

For sight hounds I would have a stag or a properly bred lurcher. I don't know if the stags all have noses on them but the one I have does. Pretty tough to beat in a foot race for any animal.

KYBoy · Post by **KYBoy** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:25 pm

that is what i have heard that a stag would be a good one. know on the lurcher from what i understeand they are a cross betwwen a sight hounds and othere kinds of dogs what would you call a proprerly bred one

Cooch · Post by **Cooch** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 2:20 am

A "staghound" is generally a hybrid of Greyhound and one of the rough-coated longdogs such as wolfhound or deerhound. Does not have to be a first-cross.

A "Lurcher" is generally a hybrid of Greyhound and working dog, although many now call GHxTerrier or any long-dogxTerrier a Lurcher. The idea is a dog with speed, but more trainable and robust than a straight GH or Whippet.

Here is a shot of my pack.

The larger yellow bitch is a smooth-coated staghound. Approximate breeding is 1/2GH, 3/8 deerhound and 1/8 whippet. Note the size difference between her and the whippet bitch.

Whippets can catch foxes, but few of them can kill one on their own. They work well in a mixed pack, able to bail a fox until the rest catch up. The terriers do the underground work and flushing from heavy cover. They work well together...

Mostly. <LOL>