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02-14-2010, 08:51 PM | #421 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Latvia
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| I am so very happy to for valentine day to buy for me and my dog a shovel, since mine is come without tail and i read here and understand more! Toy terriers: Bred "down" from larger terriers, these terriers are shown in the Toy or Companion group. Included among these breeds are the English Toy Terrier and the Yorkshire Terrier. While small, they retain true terrier character and are not submissive "lap dogs". what about the show dogs? What about them? Most show terriers are to working terriers what white lab rats are to wild rats; they may bear a passing resemblance, but they are entirely different animals in every way that counts. In truth, many terrier breeds never hunted much of anything other than an occasional rat or rabbit. Though nearly every Kennel Club breed, from Silky terrier to Glen of Imaal, claims they once hunted fox and badger, there is very little evidence to support most of these claims. Most terrier breeds, as we know them today, are synthetic creations cobbled together by show-ring enthusiasts beginning in the middle-to-late part of the 19th Century. Breeds were assembled from bits and pieces of genuine working dogs mixed with a dash of turn-spit dog, lap dog, dachshund, and spaniel. Features were exaggerated, coats lengthened and softened, colors selected, and nose color and "expression" given points. Slathered on top of all these new show-ring standards were invented histories and unfounded assertions that inconsequential attributes were of importance in the field. Almost all of it was (and is) nonsense. As Harriet Ritvo notes in The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age, from the 1850s and into the 20th Century, dog show folks "elevated standards that had no basis in nature or aesthetics but reflected the ignorant, self-interested caprices of fanciers who wished to boost the prestige of their own stock in order to associate themselves with people of good breeding." Ironically, even after 150 years of effort, the show ring has not killed off the true working terrier, which still exists outside the show ring in the same form it did a century and a half ago. No generation has ever had more spare time. No generation has ever had better dogs more easily obtained. No generation has ever had easier access to farms stretching out over a vast portion of the countryside brimming over with suitable quarry. If you want to hunt with terriers, it has never been easier to work them, and if you do so, you will quickly learn more with a shovel in your hand than you could in fifty lifetimes of bouncing around a show ring. Slip loose a dog at a naturally-dug fox or groundhog den, and you will know more about spanning in 10 minutes than you could ever hope to learn from reading a breed standard. Dig on a groundhog at the stop-end of a dirt pipe and you will know why tenacity and teeth are required. Patch a few dogs up at the end of the day, and you will appreciate why brains and discretion are required as well. Spend a hot summer day in a hedge and you will begin to value a dog's nose for its function and not just for its color. Put a mute dog to ground and you will know why diggers care more about good voice and an honest mark than they do about "movement" and "expression." Above all, get out and dig. If you do so, when you grow old and grey, you will look back and say -- "Ah! Those were the good old days." so much happy to have terrier dog friend! |
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02-14-2010, 09:02 PM | #422 |
Thor's Human Donating Member | Welcome, terrierlover. Not to be rude, but I notice that your English improves dramatically in the middle of your post... are you by any chance FriscoMom, by way of Latvia? If not, I apologize. If you are, I'd recommend that you switch back to your original handle. You will be permanently banned if admin discovers that you are posting under two different handles. |
02-15-2010, 04:58 AM | #423 |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | It does !! RE: Cherry Eye - The first time it happened to my Tessa (my cocker) I FREAKED. She only had about 4 problems with it and once I learned how to 'flip' back the eyelid - I didn't have to race to the vet each time but it looks so bad and painful. The vet said it didn't hurt them but you'd never know to look at it. ps - she never needed surgery - I was able to control it myself in less than 5 seconds - but had it been un fixable she would have had to have surgery -
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02-15-2010, 07:48 AM | #424 | |
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I did a little research on it when Maddie began having her eye problems because I heard so many people ask me if she was born with 'cherry eye'. | |
02-15-2010, 07:59 AM | #425 | |
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They are never born with cherry eye either. | |
02-15-2010, 08:02 AM | #426 | |
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02-15-2010, 08:12 AM | #427 |
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| Actually they do get it more then some breeds, It happens more in other breeds like the bulldog. It can happen to ANY breed and even cats. Maybe it needs it's own thread, but since it isn't a problem for yorkies (although they can get it) there is probably no sense in it.. but I sill send on this link anyhow.. Cherry Eye in Dogs and Cats |
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