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One showed up at the shelter where my wife worked in the Gallatin Valley.. He was a pretty cool dog (Actually, they just thought he was one but he sure had the ridged back and body style and color).. Someone told me that some folks use them for Mountain Lions out west but I don't know if that was BS or not.
 
Thanks for the info on CLD. RR are awesome dogs but I have worked with them before and I'm looking for something new. They were/are still bred to hunt loins and they do a very good job of it. They do tend to have a deep hate for anything cat....the ones I have worked with couldn't be trusted around the barn cats. RR's tend to be very one person/family dogs so I also do not think that it would be a great choice to train and try to place in a new home. I'll have to look up the breeders that were listed above and see what I find. I know one in ND does not use their dogs so I'm leary about getting one from them...hard to know if the dog will work if they don't work the dogs they are breeding.
 
Chickshunt2 said:
I think I found a winner of the puppy lotto..... I'm leaning with a Catahoula Leopard Dog, They can be taught to herd,hunt,and S & R..!! So now I'm wondering if anyone has had them, worked with them, know of one? Likes /Dislike about the breed? Anyone know of a breeder whos breeding for the dog not the color? I think it would be cool beans to have a 3 'n' 1 dog :) Would keep me busy training for a while tho. Not so sure if I got one if I would want to give it away when it's done with training. They are a very pretty dog and heck any dog that could tree a coon,bring back a downed bird and get the cows and horses...might be to good to let go of.
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An Airedale will do any of the above, plus make unwanted visitors think twice about poking around. Definitely my dog of choice on this ranch.
 
Airdale? OH, RRRoss, I found an Airdale one time. I was driving home in
a rainstorm and there was this little dog in the middle of the street.
I stopped, picked him up and went to several houses on the street
mad enough to choke someone, but the pup didn't belong to any of
them. So I took him home. We called him "Petey" and I fell absolutely
in love with that dog. The owner finally turned up and wanted him
back... I wanted to keep him, but he wouldn't let me have him. Soooooo, long story short, I had to give him up.

He called us a year later wanting to give him to us after he had
let him run loose all over town, and develop some very bad habits. We didn't take him, but I always remember how much I liked that dog.


One question, do they bark at cattle?

Would you put up some pictures of your Airdale?
 
My mom has had Aiedales since I was about.. Oh 14 maybe... Nick was a bum.. Loved my mom a whole bunch but really loved wandering off. We have picutres of him at the police station after the cops picked him up a mile away from home and took him into "custody".. Yes.. They did mug shots and everything as a joke and even made a wanted poster... Small town officers with nothing better to do, lol.. Poor nick died of cancer when he was 8 years old and I was out in Montana.

Jazz was a very dfferent dog.. More aloof and more of a barker. Nick neverde barked, it buged his ears, lol. Neither were good guard dogs but that is because they were too darn friendly and nick, well.. he didn't bark.
Jazz died very young. One day he walked right into a door frame and my mom realized he was blind. Took him to the vet and he was dead in 6 hours. Bled out internally from some immune system disease. Nothing could have been done unless caught before it started basically.

Now there is Henry who is a big Airdale... He is still young but shares the same kind of stubburness they all have. iDidn't spent much time with the last two because both were family members after I left home. The one consistant thing between the three are.

1) They like to drink water and than drag their beard over your legs while you are wearing shorts.

2) The chase cats like nobodies business

3) They are the slowest runners under the sun, lol.. Okay, not really but compared to my sprinters they are slow.

4) All have been very good with kids..

I would never get one again but that is just me.. I am not a big fan of the beared dogs.. Too much work for me. I think they are fine dogs, just can't deal with the beard and my wife would kill me if I got a beared dog..
 
They used to use them as hunting dogs when tehy would dog things. They would have something fast run the critter down and the Airedales would come in second or third and just act like big terriers do.. Fight and be stubborn and wear the animal down until the killers could get there.. Can't remember where I read this, I think it was some breed description... I don't think the modern airedales are quit that way but they are stubborn when they get their dander up.
 
IL Rancher;

Maybe you could enlighten us as to how big terriers should act? You seem to be some what of an expert. Of course your expertise is based on the poor examples that your mothers dogs apparently were.
 
RRoss. I am talking about the classic terrier action of being rough and tough dogs.... Just like the fox terriers used to be used and just like the other smaller ratting type terriers were used for. This would be 100 years ago when TR would have hunted lions wiht Airedales...Terriers are a tenacious group of dogs.... It enables them to do things that milder or more timid dogs would not do. I believe the comment in this story they used was that they used the Airedale because pound for pound there wasn't a dog that was tougher. If you think this was a slam at Airedales or other terriers I am sorry because it was not... I doubt many of the dogs from today resemble the dogs for 100 years ago in any breed. Some of this is good, and some of this is bad.

Airedales are trainable to do a lot of things. Never said they weren't. My exposure to them has not been limted to the three dogs I speak of either. Have know a few others in my life.. Have seen them used for S&R and I know they have been used as service dogs and police dogs. So have other breeds that some would refer to as stubborn. To me stubborn is not really a bad thing. My kelpies are stubborn.. I have always seen it as a dog kind of wanting to know why instead of just accepting right away to do it... Again stubborn could have two different meanings for us.

where the two deceased airedales good or bad examples of the breed? I don't know... Mom liked them enough to keep getting them so she must not have thought they were all that bad.. She loves them and I always thought Nick was a pretty good dog even with all his quirks.. His main problem, besides dying too young, was his infatuation with the neighbors female dog and their adventures.. The invicable fence finally fixed that..
 
A friend told me once about a guy he met who bred Airedales and crosses. He hunted coyotes with them. The guy would drive through fields and out old roads until he'd spot a coyote then turn two Airedale/greyhound cross dogs loose, L__ said it was like two missiles be set loose, those dogs would hit the coyote before it knew to run and there wouldn't be much left by the time they drove the truck up there.
 

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