Fox Terrier - any good as a boat dog?

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Looking to get a new puppy (the ex stole my Lab! :mad:) and quite keen on a smooth fox terrier - for country walking, fireside chats, weekend sailing, etc.

Anyone got experience of the breed?
 
I didnt know that a Fox Terrier was a dog.
if you get one of these then it will be a perfect boat dog :D

Copeland Fox Terrier...
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Babylon said:
Looking to get a new puppy (the ex stole my Lab! :mad:) and quite keen on a smooth fox terrier - for country walking, fireside chats, weekend sailing, etc.

Anyone got experience of the breed?
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Cannot help with Fox Terrier, but can sympathise about the dog. I lost my pair to the X-Wife, they now live in her garage :(

My suggestion for a smallish dog:
http://www.felsteadgundogs.com/workingcockerspanielsaspets.htm

Swim do not need toooooo much exercise, mine made excellent boat dogs even sat on the high side when sailing!
 
Our neighbours had a Lakeland terrier (looks like small Fox t), who sadly was put to sleep at age 14 a month ago. She was perfectly happy on the boat, and was a size to be easily handled. We all had great fun with her - especially visiting yachts when she would just clamp her teeth on a thrown rope and not let go! One reason I'd consider one is that they don't moult!
However, terriers are "characters", which means advantages and disadvantages. Suggest you look up the breed on Google and see if it sounds like your thing.
 
My brother owns one and I met her last week.

Beware the energy of these pooches: bro calls her his GAS powered dog.

Frantic she was.
 
If you have not had a terrier before then please get as much info as possible. They are great dogs, highly active and quite willful. If you do decide on one my advice would be to get a bitch rather than a dog.

Failing that how about a Border Terrier? Non shedding but will need to be 'stripped' twice a year. They are pleasant people and do not have strong 'terrier' traits.

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Let us know what you decide along with pics of course!
 
Hi all,
A foxterrier shares my life and when I say shares, it's 24/7... He is not allowed upstairs in bedrooms but will wait at the bottom of the staircase and every morning he jumps in the air three or four times his height to greet me or "the wife"... My daughter visits once a week and he goes beserck every time. As said higher, they require a lot of exercise and are not scared of anything. I have seen a german shepard dog who agressed him flee, shrieking with his tail between his legs and every time they meet he avoids him by a mile. This is the second FT I have and the first one lived seventeen years and to the very end was very active. I used to go shopping in supermarkets and ask him to sit and wait and he would be there an hour later. Never knew a lead, never ran away, great road sense, good swimmer, diver, guard, clown,friend,clean,never seen a vet apart from tatoo or jabs (I did have to sew him up once after a fight with a wild boar but never had a complication from the rough amateur vet operation though). They do not care where they are or what they do as long as it is with you. My current one just has been to Sicily (where dogs are not very welcome) for three months in the scorching summer heat and did not mind. We walked 500kms through France's "chemins de randonnee" with my donkey carrying the gear and he was sleeping in the hammock under my legs because of the cold nights with just a tarpaulin over our head. I also cycled from Marseille to Cherbourg via Bordeaux with a trailer behind the bike which he was sharing with the camping gear but he was running alongside for about 70 kms of the daily 100kms average we were making. (1500kms on tracks, less than 200 kms on tarmac, 15 days non stop...) At the farm, he has no fences, he does not bother chickens or sheep or cattle or postman or cats... only mice and moles (for which I am grateful). From all the dogs I have had, lurcher (couch potato), border colley (rounding obcessed but was good when I was farming myself), alsatian (nice but big dog) and my parents cocker (stupid and agressive) and poodle (nice but a wimp), I can say they are the best if you can get them plenty of exercise and give them something to do or look forward to...
Anyway, good luck with what ever breed you get. In facts, dogs are the way you make them and usualy, if the bond is genuine, they will do all they can to please you (if Love is the base for your relationship and there is no master to subordonate **** between you, this from someone who gets on better with animals than people...)
I take mine to work every day, sailing, flying, walking, cycling, traveling, reading, not doing anything, I just have to extend my hand and his little head springs under it to be stroked. Plus he is making wonders with my mother in Law who has Parkinsons' decease and is "uplifted" after every single visit... Cheers, Al
 
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ZigmundoVanDog said:
Failing that how about a Border Terrier? Non shedding but will need to be 'stripped' twice a year. They are pleasant people and do not have strong 'terrier' traits.
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+1 but not so sure about the lack of terrier traits - in my experience they can be astonishingly bloody-minded little b***ers - one of the reasons I like them!
 
ZigmundoVanDog said:
If you have not had a terrier before then please get as much info as possible. They are great dogs, highly active and quite willful. If you do decide on one my advice would be to get a bitch rather than a dog.

Failing that how about a Border Terrier? Non shedding but will need to be 'stripped' twice a year. They are pleasant people and do not have strong 'terrier' traits.

Let us know what you decide along with pics of course!
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Good advice Zig

My currently 'estranged' lab is a nine year old intact male, very athletic from a working line, and very dominant (not aggressive to people ever, but there isn't a dog in the kingdom that has ever won a standoff with him). I trained him from puppyhood onwards, including learning that once he's picked up a scent his snout takes over his entire brain! I'm no expert trainer, but I did pretty well with a large and inherently willful creature. His brighter brothers went to the Devon and Cornwall police.

When I get another dog, although I'll still do all the socialisation and basic companion training (not upstairs or on furniture, eat after I do, heel, recall, etc, etc), I hope that we'll be able to grow together and learn from each other.
 
al.carpenter said:
Hi all,
A foxterrier shares my life and when I say shares, it's 24/7... He is not allowed upstairs in bedrooms but will wait at the bottom of the staircase and every morning he jumps in the air three or for times his height to greet me or the wife... My daughter visits once a week and he goes beserck every time. As said higher, they require a lot of exercise and are not scared of anything. I have seen a german shepard dog who agressed him flee, shrieking with his tail between his legs and every time they meet he avoids him by a mile. This is the second FT I have and the first one lived seventeen years and to the very end was very active. I used to go shopping in supermarkets and ask him to sit and wait and he would be there an hour later. Never knew a lead, never ran away, great road sense, good swimmer, diver, guard, clown,friend,clean,never seen a vet apart from tatoo or jabs (I did have to sew him once after a fight with a wild boar but never had a complication from the rough amateur vet operation though). They do not care where they are or what they do as long as it is with you. My current one just has been to Sicily (where dogs are not very welcome) for three months in the scorching summer heat and did not mind. We walked 500kms through France's "chemins de randonnee" with my donkey carrying the gear and he was sleeping in the hammock under my legs because of the cold nights with just a tarpaulin over our head. I also cycled from Marseille to Cherbourg via Bordeaux with a trailer behind the bike which he was sharing with the camping gear but he was running alongside for about 70 kms of the daily 100kms average we were making. (1500kms on tracks, less than 200 kms on tarmac, 15 days non stop...) At the farm, he has no fences, he does not bother chickens or sheep or cattle or postman or cats... only mice and moles (for which I am grateful). From all the dogs I have had, lurcher (couch potato), border colly (rounding obcessed but was good when I was farming myself), alsatian (nice but big dog) and my parents cocker (stupid and agressive) and poodle (nice but a wimp), I can say they are the best if you can get them plenty of exercise and give them something to do or look forward to...
Anyway, good luck with what ever breed you get. In facts, dogs are the way you make them and usualy, if the bond is genuine, they will do all they can to please you (if Love is the base for your relationship and there is no master to subordonate **** between you, this from someone who gets on better with animals than prople...)
I take mine to work every day, sailing, flying, walking, cycling, traveling, reading, not doing anything, I just have to extend my hand and his little head springs under it to be stroked. Plus he is making wonders with my mother in Law who has Parkinsons' decease and is "uplifted" after every single visit... Cheers, Al
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..that was just brilliant.... thanks... :)
 
Thanks for the appreciation but I can only have praise for terriers and I am always (and others) amazed at how easy, troublefree, tough and lovable dogs they are. One last good point is their size... I always carry a 15 or 20 litres rucksack for my papers, tool kits, knife, rain gear etc... and at 10kgs he can get in easily and if I say - stow away- he curls up inside and keeps quiet so you can take him absolutely everywhere, even to the pictures... and its really funny when only his head pops out and his cute face always brings a smile on everyone noticing...
 
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