[Myrddin]

I currently have 3 Rat Terriers. We had 4, but the oldest male developed lympho-sarcoma 3 weeks after he was neutered. Rat Terriers are a cross of Fox Terrier and Manchester Terrier. Our little guys eat the occasional squirrel. You can detect that gamey, fishy odor on them. Two of them are quite capable of climbing 6 feet up into the branches of our two big Black Austrian pines. We keep them fit by running them with a laser pointer in the evenings. They are fast as lightning.

I had a wolf/collie cross when I was young. We picked him up from a breeder near Seattle. He was a great dog. 120 lbs of solid muscle. He was very loyal to the family.

[tpanther]

Interesting.

I got my little man “Rascal” from a man that owns a farm and breeds them. They kill mice, rats, squirrels and other vermin DAILY!

They also keep the pests away like coons, strays, virtually any intruder.

They absolutely in their own way run the farm, and if need be will assist each other...

much like the wolves from which they descended.

But the thing about him is he’s as gentle as you can possibly imagine! NEVER bites other than playing. And what a digger! They can dig a rat right out of their hole!

BTW do you think the disease was related to getting snipped?

We didn’t get him fixed, the farmer said he thinks it “takes something out of them”.

Luckily we haven’t had too many issues with him other than the occasional sniffing of other dogs on my clothes...or the occasional “air-humping” out of the blue that’s fortunately rare ubt nevertheless awkward! :)

Perhaps I’ll look into breeding him and taking him back over to the farm.