Three or four diminutive ferrets and a half-dozen trained terriers will destroy several hundred rats in a day.
Traps are being used, but ferrets and terriers are most frequently employed.
They were not easily distinguishable from the better-known Border Terriers of which there are still many strains, ranging from Northumberland, where Mr. T.
For the full display of their beauty, Yorkshire Terriers depend very much upon careful grooming.
Other very first-class terriers have been the same lady's Ch.
These terriers belonging to the Allans and others in the district are considered by Mr. Cook to be the earliest known ancestors of the modern Dandie Dinmont.
Scottish Terriers frequently go by the name of Aberdeen Terriers--an appellation, it is true, usually heard only from the lips of people who do not know much about them.
In mentioning the names of celebrated men and terriers of years gone by, reference must be made to a terrier shown some time ago, which was as good, taken all round, as any that have so far appeared.
We may take it then that in 1600 the Argyllshire terriers were considered to be the best in Scotland, and likely enough too, seeing the almost boundless opportunities the county gives for the work of the "earth dogges.
He stands as it were upon a pedestal of his own; and unlike other Scotch terriers he is classified as non-sporting.
And the Pittenweem, with which the Poltalloch Terriers are now being crossed; while Mrs. Alastair Campbell, of Ardrishaig, has a pack of Cairn Terriers which seem to represent the original type of the improved Scottie.
Terriers were procured--but the dog Billy himself would have been at fault.
The terriers are useful still, preceding the line like skirmishers, and with finest noses startling the maukin from bracken-bush or rush bower, her skylight garret in the old quarry, or her brown study in the brake.
Thus white terriers suffer more than terriers of any other colour from the fatal Distemper.
Thus whiteterriers suffer more than those of any other colour from the fatal distemper.
It was pinned on the green baize-board, between notices of ponies for sale and fox-terriers missing.
Somewhere in the distance one of the Airedale terriers was whining softly.
As they were finishing breakfast, Mary Blackburn dashed in from the terrace, with the Airedale terriers at her heels.
They had reached the house, and as they were about to alight, the door opened, and a girl in a riding habit, with two Airedale terriers at her heels, strolled out on the porch.
The little men hitched their kukris well to hand, and gaped expectantly at their officers as terriers grin ere the stone is cast for them to fetch.
They fought together, bleeding and breathless, for half an hour, and, after heavy punishment, triumphantly pulled down their opponent as terriers pull down a jackal.
An authority in the Gentleman's Magazine recommends collars of bells being attached to the terriers to make the badger bolt, and states that broad collars of badger-skin save their necks.
I like to catch one with my terriers when the harvest moon shines.
I had gone back with the terriers to see if there was nothing more in, and hardly had got outside again, when there was a fall from the roof that would, if it had taken place earlier, have buried some of us alive.
The terriers I have found the best and surest are amongst the Yorkshire breed of hard, wire-haired fox-terriers, short in the leg and strong headed.
I have known a terrier bitch kill a litter of foxhound puppies, and one of my Irish terriers will kill puppies if she has the chance.
The terriers are the most important requisite; they must be good, the right size, hardy, enduring, and reliable.
It makes my blood boil to read of his terriers trained to face the badger by taking alive young and old badgers, and sawing off the under jaws, and employing other indescribably cruel methods.
There are degrees of wickedness, and when a badger is placed in a properly-constructed badger-box there are few terriers that would not be vanquished in the encounter.
The other terriers are tugging at their chains, frantic to join the fray, yelling fit to split their throats.
Unfortunately, theterriers punished him so much he had to be destroyed.
The terriers were sent for, one was put in to bolt him, but after a quarter of an hour's attempt he came out, having given it up, with severe marks of punishment.
The instant he finds himself pursued he makes to his den, and takes refuge at the bottom, into which the terriers will follow and keep him at bay, while the hunters remove the earth from above.
The gentleman whistled, but the fox-terriers were not trained like Pincher, who was brought up by Oswald.
The little men hitched their kukris well to hand, and gaped expectantly at their officers as terriers grin ere the stone is cast for them to fetch.
I have six terriersat hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs.
The front door was open and a couple of fox terriers barked a welcome, as well as a warning, for they quickly decided the visitor was a friend and not an enemy.
Jack thought it all looked very home-like, and the barking of the terriers recalled to mind his visits to The Downs, and the joyous capers of Winifred's dogs as they sprang up at him and then careered wildly round the lawn.
Miss Dorothy, "Mr. Polk knows more about bull- terriers than any amateur in America.
And from a book they reads out the names of the beautiful high-bred terriers which I have got to meet.
They was so pleased that I couldn't help feeling proud myself, and I barked and jumped and leaped about so gay, that all the bull- terriers in our street stretched on their chains, and howled at me.
Defn: One of a breed of small terrierswith long, rough hair.
Note: Most kinds of terriers are noted for their courage, the acuteness of their sense of smell, their propensity to hunt burrowing animals, and their activity in destroying rats, etc.
Never did a regiment leave dugouts with so much joy as did the London Terriers when they entered the trenches for the first time.
Before the London Terriers even saw the firing line, they lost over two hundred men.
I would like to add that kennels only large enough for white mice, or perchance piebald rats, can never be successfully used to raise Boston terriers in.
I think Boston terriers as a breed occupy the same position amongst dogs as the hunter and carriage horse does amongst horses.
I think Boston terriers are particularly susceptible to worms or distemper, and it is absolutely imperative that they should not be handicapped at the onset.
These sea-terriers were thin skins of steel, covering engines of enormous power; they tore through the water, literally with the speed of an express train, leaving a boiling white wake behind.
It was borne in upon him that they were a race apart, bred to their special work as terriers and racehorses are bred, the perfect product of numberless generations of sea fighters.
That’s just the difference between us and the Germans, between terriers and rats.
Fritz got down safely—he was clever, but too darned nervous for under-water work—and then began a hunt which was exactly like one has seen in a barn when terriers are after rats.
They hunt in the fields with me, and my Scotch terriers and they are on the most friendly terms.
I heard a man of "gentle blood" once say that there was no good in a cat, and the only use they were, as far as he could see, was as an animal to try the courage of his terriers upon.
It was, however, in terriersthat the old man excelled.
First they rushed here to the stairs; then to the stables, then to the lodgings of one of the horse-trainers, and I kept close behind, after the terriers and the other dogs.
The bloodhounds and terriers had been let out after being allowed to smell at the shoes, and a couple of them had soon found their way to the side-door where Hiram had waited for Paula.
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