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Tafia	Jul 16 2009, 08:12 PM
Total Gas Bag! Posts: 5,826 Group: Full Members Member #134 Joined: November 17, 2005	Linda was Eco Worrier Jul 16 2009, 06:37 PM I think they paint a very bleak picture! I don't have half of the things they insist are essentials and seem to be doing all right! Most of the dogs I fostered were terriers, and of course there is Fred. Yes, he's a pain in the bum, but we manage with a 4' fence, he's got fab recall. Also I've never had a terrier here who was anything like the escape artist they paint. They make it sound as if you can never take a terrier off the lead. Funnily enough on tuesday just as we were setting off for a walk, little Sally (a staffy/jr cross recently rehomed through Four Paws) came hurtling down the road and into the park at 100 miles per hour just having got out of her garden. Her owners had put 3ft of wire on top of their 4 ft fence and somehow she'd still managed to get out. Boo can jump 4ft without even thinking. Most of the long legged terriers can. As a pup she made her way out of a first floor window and tried to make her escape over a leylandi hedge - sometimes it seemed as though she could squeeze herself through keyholes. I know she didn't but I really did have to have eyes at the back of my head. She's exactly the sort of terrier who would yoyo in and out of different homes if they didn't know exactly what could be in store. She did my head in at times and I was bought up that first and foremost terriers were not pets. We had to take a terrier from my grans farm in Leicestershire to live with us in Wales, because not only did he escape, he'd stow himself away on the village bus and take himself off to Leicester market. Once he'd discovered the bus there was no stopping him apart from keeping him locked up 24/7. Tag actually couldn't be walked on a lead, never mind off - the second he wanted to do something he'd slip his collar and be gone - but the dog was fun! Incredible ratter. Fantastic around chicken, sheep, horses & cats but boy could he keep a yard rat free. I think it's absolutely right to make owners aware of the worst possible scenarios, it'd be doing the dogs a disservice to do otherwise.


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