there is good in all the terriers mentioned here , just gotta find the good ones ,
just cause its a jag , pat , jack or whatever dont mean it gonna be worth nothing alot of people breeding them just for pets
airdales can make good dogs too, fox terriers too
with 99.99999% of the breeds of dogs on this earth I will agree with you BUT I can honestly say I have seen and spoken with quite a few Jagd owners and everyone of their jagds are crazy as hell and GAMEY GAMEY GAMEY...........I don't know of anyone who would be dumb enough to honestly try to make a Jagd a house pet......I pity the fool! hopefully due to their super high energy and prey drive they will never be watered down into house dogs.........I know I have personally had 6 and there ain't no way in hell I would try to make em pets......it would be like turning loose a coon a tasmanian devil and a full grown p.o.'d bull in your house all at the same time, just won't work!
Justin...I first heard and read about Jagd terrier in the late 1980's here in the USA and they were not that popular around here for many years...and when comparing them to other breeds used for hunting they are still not that popular...if I remember correctly they were imported from Europe...a breed that is fairly new and not that popular is a good thing for the breed...that means that the folks that are serious about a good line of dogs paid the big money to import the best dogs they could import...and then I am pretty sure that these folks bred or breed the very best dogs...I am only speculating but this makes the most sense to me...I also know that in some ZEuropean countries they are very strict on breeding working dogs...I remember reading about their system on German short haired pointers and they had a very tough system and I think a lot of the other workining breeds were done the same...used to be that one Warden for an assigned area would come when the pups were born and cull down to so many because it was understood that the dam could only care for so many because of milk production...but also all other qualities were considered...they were then tested and culled again throughout there growing stage and at a certain age after thorough they were awarded working certificates and a few were granted breeding rights...some of the dogs looks and style of working had to do with the local club and wardens taste but all worked excellent before being allowed to breed...
Here in the USA we are free to breed any way we want including breeding the culls to get our money back...and then we have folks breeding hunting dogs that don't know what a hunting dog should be...and we have different ideas as to what a good hunting dog is...I believe that here in the USA because of the open competitions we will have the best anywhere but unfortunately competition can cause breeding dogs that are too high powered for the average hunter and our system creates a lot of culls because of the before mentioned...
agree 100%
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