Showing posts with label badger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label badger. Show all posts
Monday, December 26, 2022

Why Do Badgers Have Bad Attitudes?

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American badger . The question is raised about honey badgers , but it applies to all of them. From a National Geographic interview of...
Friday, January 18, 2019

Badger Digging, 1917

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Is this how it used to be done -- a whole tribe of men to dig, and far more dogs in the field than make sense? Were any of the dogs pictu...
Friday, February 02, 2018

God, Groundhog Day & Government

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The roots of Groundhog Day go back to the Bible and perhaps even earlier. The Romans considered February [the name comes from februa...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

The Spread of Tanukis (Raccoon Dogs)

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The Tanuki or Raccoon Dog is an interesting animal that is hunted with terriers in Finland and, increasingly, in other European countr...
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Friday, August 11, 2017

Horses for Courses, But Fox Are the Same All Over

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Red Fox Taxidermy manikin with 12.75" chest . Source . A repost from 2011 Armas writes from Finland about a post I put up some y...
Saturday, July 08, 2017

The Nonsense of Pull Dogs

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. This is a repost from this blog, circa Feb 2005 : In "The Working Jack Russell Terrier," Eddie Chapman writes: "Someth...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Record Numbers in the Hedge

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This is a repost from 2007. See side bar to this blog to order this, and other designs, on T-shirts, etc.  All money goes to support terr...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

German Raccoon-Dog, Badger and Raccoon Hunting

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Frank, badger and dachshunds. Frank Joisten, from Germany, sent in some terrific pictures of his dachshunds working everything from bad...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

A Wrench that Doesn't Fit

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Dog histories are always an interesting thing , as are breed standards and the all-breed dog books. I have found that all of these th...
Tuesday, March 05, 2013

The Earthworm Connection to Terrier Work

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What do worms have to do with terrier work? Ah! If you have to ask then ... well I guess you have to ask. The great fierce badger of Eur...
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Monday, October 29, 2012

The Architecture of Burrows

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A repost from 2005 The list of animals that hibernate in underground burrows, live in burrows or nest in burrows is astounding: fox,...
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Grave-robbing Badgers Dig Up Cemetery

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We very occasionally have the the same problem in the U.S. with badgers, groundhogs, prairie dogs and groundsquirrels.   I always give a w...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

Badger Theremin

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What the hell is a Theremin? A Theremin is an odd electronic musical instrument that makes eery undulating noises without any apparent c...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Boxing the Badger

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Here we have a brave young fellow catching a wild badger with bare hands, a blanket, and a dog kennel. He does a very good job , but ab...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Is the End of the Ban at Hand?

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In American Working Terriers I detail how the rise of the Enclosure Movement of 18 th and 19 th Century Britain led to the rise of a woo...
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Friday, December 04, 2009

A Brief History of the JRTCA

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This post is recycled from November of 2005 Five years after the American Working Terrier Association was created, Mrs. Alisia Crawford, o...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

Badger Baiting Is Not Badger Hunting

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Back in March of this year , I wrote a piece on this blog entitled Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas in which I bemoaned the inevitable...
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Danish Earthdog Setup

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The above picture is of a Danish den dog trial set up. Similar setups are done in Ukraine, Sweden, Germany, Finland, and several other coun...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Honey Badger

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Monday, March 02, 2009

Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas

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  Some 17 months ago, I wrote a piece entitled Honey Pots and Trolls in the Land of Eire in which I noted that some gas bag in Ireland had...