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I agree with your synopsis Rednose.
I probably shouldn’t have included the phrase deadgame in the terrier comment.
But some of those little dogs come about as close without actually testing for it.
Bryant on here, also goes by underdog. He doesn’t post much anymore.
He used to have a message board called bonedigger.
There was a guy from around lake Charles LA that used to post on his board. He had patterdales that he used on levees hunt hunting nutria. Man if you ain’t ever seen a nutria and the giant chisels of teeth they have then you can’t appreciate what I’m saying. But the dogs were smaller then these big rats and guy would send one down the hole. Basically to fight and hold this rat for as long as it took for him to dig with a shovel down to it and grab the dog out by the tail still holding the nutria by the head. Not like a dog can subdue an agile creature like a nutria with any hold besides it’s head.
I’ll never shake the image of some of the injuries those little dogs fought thru. Sinuses crushed, noses gone, just ate up. But still they held. Dirt falling in all around the only retreat is to back up hole to small to turn around losing oxygen sometimes. Hot as hell. Basically fighting face to face and giving away size with the animal in its own den.
I imagine if you got a good one out somehow without it prey a person could scratch it right back into that hole. But that just ain’t the game they play in the sport. But man that’s pretty doggone close to dead game and a lot did die doing it.
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