This post is recycled from April 2005.
The picture, above, is from Alberto Silvosa Ruiz's web site in Spain, and shows one of the more elaborate earth dog setups they employ.
Mr. Ruiz owns Jagd terriers, imported from the Czech Republic, and hunts fox, boar and rabbits.
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3 comments:
That's a pretty fancy tunnel. Don't they have badger or fox in Spain to dig too?
I'm surprised their getting their Jagd from Czech. I thought they were originally a German breed. German's have been pretty good at maintaining their working breeds,or so I thought.
Doug
Go-to-ground is a competition, no different than sheep herding trials or logging contests. They do hunt fox in Spain (and maybe badger too, but I have no knowledge of that), but as in the US, not everyone has the time to hunt or access to land, and many folks simply do not want to kill any animal which is fine so far as I am concerned. There is nothing wrong with go-to-ground other than the fact that the tunnels are far too large, which suggests that too large terriers can actually work in the field. They can't. But the tunnels are kept big so more people can compete. This is a case of "the tail wags the dog".
Jagd's were created in Germany, but now exist all over in small numbers, and there are a number of good working Jadg dealers in the Czech Republic. Ironically, all the folks I know in Germany who dig on their dogs are using Jack Russells and dachshunds. The Jagd Terrier was created to be an "all arounder," but is in fact really too large to do well in the ground, and is too small to retrieve bird (something its creator claimed it could do). It does very well as a terrier to bust pig out of thickets, but I am not sure there is a shortage of dogs capable of doing that!
Patrick
Hi
I'm from Spain, here the jagd terrier and teckel are the most used breed for earthwork, other breed used is the wire fox terrier. The jagd terrier it's a very good earthdog, its very biter, and very game and agressive with the game, here there is a sentence to describe the jagd terrier "Matar o morir" in english "Kill or dead" that describe the deutscher jagd terrier
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