Patterdale "Hunting"
A while back Shigeru posted a video of I believe a Kishu hunting a boar in a very direct-aggresive style. The video reminded me of some photos I saw of Patterdale Terries hunting raccoons.
Anyway, a Dutchie Breeder I spoke to a few months back had some problems with a bunch of raccoons going into his barns & being a huge problem. So he got his hands on a few working patterdales & showed a video of them doing their thing. Thought it was pretty crazy & interesting.
[ waring: This video can be considered "Graphic" by some ] ~
Anyway, a Dutchie Breeder I spoke to a few months back had some problems with a bunch of raccoons going into his barns & being a huge problem. So he got his hands on a few working patterdales & showed a video of them doing their thing. Thought it was pretty crazy & interesting.
[ waring: This video can be considered "Graphic" by some ] ~
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Did he shoot the Raccoons or did the dogs kill them? What was the end result?
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Brad - Dogs kill the raccoons. Says he doesn't want to ruin the fun for the dogs lol ~
TBH tho, & this is just based on my own 1 Dutchie [ mine is not from this breeder ] he really has no desire to hunt / kill or even really chase, any animals. Cats walk by, I have 11 birds in the house & 1 snake...all of which are nearby constantly.
The most he does is play-bow & wag his tail at them [ he gives the same reaction as if they were a dog ] When we took him over to meet Dad's cat, he did the exact same play-bowing. When we were on a walk & passed by 2 stray cats within 7 feet of us...he gave them a glance, & found chewing on a rock more interesting, even when the cats took off.
The breeder I did get Wraith from says the breed doesn't really show aggression / predatory instinct to smaller animals. [ probably why they're pretty off-leash reliable...the most Wraith chases are butterflies, & even then it's only for about 15 seconds. ]
My guess is the guy needed a job done, & brought in the appropriate dogs to do it. [ he takes regular contracts for military / police / etc. & recently got a contact for terriers, in his hunt he found these patterdales & thought they were perfect for getting rid of the raccoons eating up all the feed in the barn. He has another breed of terrier too, but can't remember which one. ~
One guy I know uses a saluki to chase down the coyotes and 3 Patterdales jump in and kill the coyote. I'm gonna have to find a video on that, its pretty cool but at the same time you start to fear those little buggers. If a GSD or other Police dogs were not available, I would choose a Patterdal as a K-9 unit especially as a close quarter attack dog.
I can see using dogs to track coyotes, I guess, but I'd think it would be much more humane all around if the coyote was then shot, rather than let dogs rip it to pieces (and maybe get hurt in the process too). I don't know....that just didn't sit well with me.
Sorry I didn't mean to make it sound like a cool thing for dogs to tear apart another animal. There are quite abit of people who hunt coyotes with grey hounds, saluki's, and other sight hounds as a means to revive old traditions and to revive the original use of these dogs. I think dog fighting is quite abit different then hunting. I have been around a few dog fighting investigations and dog fighting is a criminal act because of the activities involved and mistreatment of animals.
I can see how one may see that hunting coyotes with dogs maybe similar in act because there are animals fighting but imho I think comparing dog fighting to coyotes hunting with dogs is comparing apples to oranges. Here's a list of things that are associated with illegal dog fighting events on top of animal cruelty acts:
Narcotic activity (use,sales, maneufacture)
Prostitution
Human smuggling
Illegal gambling
Money laundering
Murder
Assault/Battery
Organized crime
Gang activity
Pollution
Illegal dumping (trash and animals)
Child endangerment
Illegal weapons sales
Domestic violence
....and the list can go on and on.
Sorry to thread jack Osy but just wanted to put my two cents in on this topic. So this is just my opinion and not intended to offend any one.
When I was watching the raccoon video, the thought that was in my mind was the raccoon would have been dead by the 10 second mark if it was a larger dog with some shaking-of-prey drive. If the raccoons were tucked out of the way in a barn, where larger dogs couldn't access them, then I could see the need for a gritty small dog like a Patterdale, but out in the open, there are better, faster dogs to use.