Teckels - Country Life

[Keith Edmunds]

Then, with all due respect you don’t need a teckel.

They are bred to be ferocious and tenacious trackers and workers. Show blood by definition has actively wrecked the breed for the use it was designed - why would you ever use it

I understand your sentiment Dan but, I wholly agree with the writer's (Ben Oxley-Brown) first hand experience in that situation - his results were the same as ours with our 'B' litter. Horses for courses. Working dog breeding has always been about experimentation and trying to produce the best dog for 'the job in hand' - those 'jobs' change based on culture, law, geography etc.

Define good.
Define not as good.

To me good is does what I require. My old Norfolk terriers sole job was to weight the sofa down so it didn’t float away and wag his tail when I said hello. He was ace at both. I have his nephew in training for the same role.

I have a Teckel, I don’t have requirement for a driven boar or badger dog. I need a house dog with the capacity to track a deer. For me that is good.

Absolutely - breeding for the job in hand and if anybody thinks that's a 'new' thing....Wilhelm von Daake was adding German schweisshund blood to his teckels, to improve blood tracking capability back in the 1860's.

 

[Keith Edmunds]

Pictures below of the hardest working pup we've produced out of the hardest working litters we've produced and yet the litter most criticised by the purists for it's 25% show blood. I would like to add that the 25% - paternal grandparent and 100% showbred is not only one of the best put-together dachshunds I have seen but....he also passed his 600 metre/4 hour tracking test in order to gain is Scandinavian show champion titles. I would use that blood again in an instant.

 

[Bowland blades]

A nice front cover and article on teckels in this week's Country Life magazine. Some interesting points, I agree with the writer in that the addition of some 'show' blood can take the edge off what he describes as the 'insane prey drive' of the working-bred teckel - although it must be remembered that they do vary a lot from line to line and individuals within litters. The comment that they make good picking-up dogs always makes me grin - yes they can be excellent little retrievers but........if I wanted a retriever...I would buy a retriever. Top marks to Ginger Fox Gundog's 'Jonathan' (Potter Du Roy Busard) who looks fab on the front cover - he is a really nice example of the breed.

LOL for a dog to qualify as a " retriever " it should be capable of retrieving our smallest and largest quarry from land or water . A tackel simply could no more retriever geese than one of my labs could go to ground on a fox ( even though one would if he fit LOL)
Stopped reading all these magazines

 

[Keith Edmunds]

LOL for a dog to qualify as a " retriever " it should be capable of retrieving our smallest and largest quarry from land or water . A tackel simply could no more retriever geese than one of my labs could go to ground on a fox ( even though one would if he fit LOL)
Stopped reading all these magazines

Agreed, although the comments came from interviewed owners so the responsibility was shared and, all in all, it wasn't too bad and I've read worse written by those who should know better.

As soon has anyone has owned examples of any breed in number, and done some research, you start to see inaccuracies written by experts, but you have to take it with a pinch of salt.

 

[Bowland blades]

Agreed, although the comments came from interviewed owners so the responsibility was shared and, all in all, it wasn't too bad and I've read worse written by those who should know better.

As soon has anyone has owned examples of any breed in number, and done some research, you start to see inaccuracies written by experts, but you have to take it with a pinch of salt.

unfortunate that the term " expert " has no qualifying grade .

 

[Keith Edmunds]

unfortunate that the term " expert " has no qualifying grade .

X is an unkown quantity and a 'spurt' is a drip under pressure