
Terrierman's Daily Dose
Information on working terriers, dogs, natural history, hunting, and the environment, with occasional political commentary as I see fit. This web log is associated with the Terrierman.com web site.
Sunday, March 02, 2025
The Tesla Bubble Is About to Pop

Saturday, March 01, 2025
Cleaning Up the Shed
Friday, February 28, 2025
The Fight We Must All Enjoin
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Lost Swarm of Bees Did Not Go Far
ONE OF MY HIVES swarmed off last year, and my neighbor found them in one of his many hollow trees. Glad they didn’t go far — maybe 100 yards downhill.
Monday, February 24, 2025
Newtonian Bombing

“The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put that rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now, they are going to reap the whirlwind."
"The MAGA entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to inflict trauma on everybody else, and nobody was going to inflict trauma on them. In Washington, Georgia, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, they put that rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now, they are going to reap the whirlwind."
A New World of Understanding
My mother was a very young girl when Hitler rose to power.
Living in a small town — Augusta, Kansas — she tried to make sense of the bits and pieces she heard adults talking about.
Finally, she went to my grandfather with a world map.
Where is the United States, she asked?
My grandfather circled it with his finger.
And where is Canada?
Russia?
Britain?
France?
My grandfather circled each in turn.
And where is Germany?
My grandfather circled it.
My mother grew silent.
Finally, she asked in a very quiet voice, “Do you think Hitler has a map too?”
Sunday, February 23, 2025
The Bees Seem to Be Thriving
Saturday, February 22, 2025
A Land Of Dragons, Bears, Lions, and Wolves
Some of the descriptions of British terrier work can border on the absurd.
Does every fox have to be described as a "lamb killer"?
I suppose so in a country that has no coyote, wolf, bobcat, mountain lion, black bear, alligator, or grizzly!
When your biggest game animal eats worms and bulbs, and your largest predator dines on mice, you may have to dress up your rationale for the hunt every bit as much you dress up yourself. Mere sport with dogs cannot do!
In America, of course, such a claim would be met with laughter.
A red fox threatens your farm? A badger?
Please!
We have real predators from one end of this country to another. No need for tales of Beowulf here!
A country full of bears and coyotes does not need to invent dragons.
Not when we have... you know... dragons.
Friday, February 21, 2025
Newspapers Always Butter the Rich
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” — Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
The Evil in the Heart
Thursday, February 20, 2025
How Do You Think It Will End?
HOW DO YOU THINK IT WILL END for Trump?
For JD Vance?
For Tom Hollman?
For Kash Patel?
For RFK Jr?
For Stephen Miller?
For Dr. Oz?
For Leonard Leo?
For Pete Hegseth?
For Tulsi Gabbard?
Do you honestly think it will end in accolades?
Do you honestly think it will end in a positive write up in the history books?
How has fascism and kleptocracy ended in the past?
▪️The Italians shot Mussolini and his mistress and 15 of his key cabinet and entourage, stoned their bodies, and then hung them by their heels from a gas station awning.
▪️During the French Revolution, the French invented the guillotine to behead potentates, including King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Robespierre, and dozens of others.
▪️The Lincoln conspirators were hanged
▪️Hitler, a coward, killed himself and his girlfriend-wife.
▪️Hermann Goering committed suicide on the eve of his scheduled execution.
▪️Ten Nazis were hanged at Nuremberg and thousands were jailed for long terms by other courts.
▪️Oswald Mosley was beaten by a mob of anti-fascists, jailed, and then driven from his country.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Monday, February 17, 2025
Hedley & White British Toothpaste
Sunday, February 16, 2025
Strange Sex
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Friday, February 14, 2025
It’s Time to Frag
Thursday, February 13, 2025
When Democracy Is Sick
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” -- Albert Camus
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Happy Darwin Day!
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Sheep to Slaughter
"They married at 20, they were middle-aged at 30, they died, for the most part, at 60. Heavy physical work, the care of home & children, petty quarrels with neighbours, films, football, beer, and, above all, gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult." —- George Orwell - 1984
Monday, February 10, 2025
Sunday, February 09, 2025
Lessons Learned
Saturday, February 08, 2025
My Ted Talk on Pit Bull Terriers
▪️A cat bird isn’t a cat.▪️A dog fish isn’t a dog.▪️Chinese checkers are not Chinese or checkers.▪️Porcupine caribou are not porcupines.▪️An electric eel is not an eel.▪️English horns are not English or horns.▪️A star fish is not a fish.▪️Bombay duck is not a bird.▪️Fire flies are not flies.▪️American Eskimo dogs are not either one.▪️White chocolate is not chocolate.▪️A raccoon dog is not a raccoon or a dog.▪️A mountain goat is not a goat.▪️A sago palm is not a palm.▪️The Australian shepherd is not Australian.▪️A killer whale is not a whale.▪️Arabic numerals were not invented by arabs.▪️A mountain chicken is not a chicken.▪️A mantis shrimp is not a mantis or a shrimp.▪️A maned wolf is not a wolf.▪️A red panda is not a panda.▪️A koala bear is not a bear.▪️French horns are not french.▪️Lead pencils contain no lead.▪️Strawberries aren’t berries.▪️Glow worms are not worms.▪️The Norway Rat is not Norwegian▪️Russian dressing is not Russian.▪️Catgut is not made from cats.▪️King crabs are not crabs.▪️Peanuts are not nuts.▪️Guinea pigs are not pigs or from Guinea.▪️Headcheese is not cheese.▪️Panama hats are not made in Panama.▪️A horny toad is not a toad.▪️The Chinese Crested dog is not from China.▪️Prairie oysters are not oysters.▪️A velvet ant is not an ant.▪️French fries are not french.▪️A Pit Bull Terrier is not a terrier.
The True Story of the Blue Paul Dog

“If you listen to our Morning Edition debate, I tried carbon paper (still being made), steam powered car engine parts (still being made), Paleolithic hammers (still being made), 6 pages of agricultural tools from an 1895 Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalogue (every one of them still being made), and to my utter astonishment, I couldn't find a provable example of an technology that has disappeared completely.”
* Radium suppositories made by quacks in the 19th century and which caused quick cancer;* A Roman "corvus," a military boarding device used in naval warfare in the First Punic War against Carthage, and;* The ferrite "core" of a Seeburg Jukebox of the 1950s.
Poem by Tara Shannon
Sometimes, a country forgets the weight of its own name.Forgets the hands that built it,the blood that sealed its soil,the voices that cracked like dry earthdemanding something better.Sometimes, history stirs in its grave.Not as a whisper, not as a warning,but as the slow, rolling thunderof something coming again.A woman stands in the doorway,the light catching the fear in her eyes.A man at her side, hand curled into a f!st—not for v!olence, but for holding, for keeping,for something solid as the ground beneath themthat does not feel solid anymore.It was like this once—when colonies turned to revolut!on,when brother took up arms against brother,when the world set itself on f!re,hoping the smoke would write a new future in the sky.And now—it is like this again.The papers that held the country togetherare fading under hands that twist law into chains,that break truth like brittle bone.Democracy turns fragile in the mouth of thosewho would swallow it whole.Outside, the streets hum with unease.A silence that is not peace,but the hush before the march begins.The past is speaking.It is the rattle of chains breaking,the ring of a hammer against steel,the footsteps of those who stood where we now stand—on the edge of something vast, something dangerous,something waiting to be decided.Do not wait.Do not let them carve your silence into consent.Do not let them turn your country into a graveyard of its own making.Do not let history whisper your name in sorrowwhen it could have sung it in victory.The f!re has already been lit.The only question now—is what you will do with the flame.©️Tara Shannon
Friday, February 07, 2025
Jesus Wept
A Note for Overseas Readers
Thursday, February 06, 2025
Identity Theft Is No Laughing Matter
Wednesday, February 05, 2025
Catch Them Young and Dumb
"If you wish to persuade people that because Adam ate an apple, all who have never heard of this interesting occurrence will be roasted in an everlasting fire by a benevolent Deity, you must catch them young, make them stupid by means of drink or drugs, and carefully isolate them from all contact with books or companions capable of making them think." — Bertrand Russell
Tuesday, February 04, 2025
Planning for Spring Planting
Monday, February 03, 2025
Sunday, February 02, 2025
The Turing Test Vs the Fido Test
