Message #215909

[gary fuller]

i have been hunting here in california with some of my hunting partners registered rat terriers for around 15 years now and with good success. for some reason the best strike dogs have all been males. we hunt short range dogs and the good rats have been as good as our good strike dogs of larger breeds. his dogs carry decker giant blood in them and he has produced dogs as large as 40 pounds. the best one named little hunted for several years with just 3 legs and was finnally killed by a boar close to my house. i think he has had a total of 4 of the rats killed by hogs  and  this was hunting pretty much 2 to 3 times a week. one kinda cool thing with them is a rat by itself doesnt seem to spook cattle or elk when runnin thru them   findin hog scent.  we have found the dogs alot of times due to the high pitch voxcie of one or 2 screamin rat terriers when we coulnt hear the other dogs till we got real close or else ruff dogs werent barkin and they had a good hog either caught or in a big fight.