Thread: Non hunting breeds out there hunting

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

I have a staffy also, its funny because a lot of people will tell you that staffys and other bull breeds are not good swimmers and wont like deep water as they have too much muscle and not enough fat and sink like stones, but mine loves the water, I wouldnt call him a strong swimmer but he enters the water himself and will swim quite happily.
As far as hunting goes hes not that good... took him out with a mates very good finder/bailers one weekend and all he managed to do was teach my mates dogs to bail possums up trees... mate wasnt happy at all haha.

I've had 3 staffs over years still got one . two of them sunk like stones (wanted to swim tried it multiple times)and the 3rd which we still have is a absolute fish she will be out in 4ft surf no worries out swimming in middle of the kaituna river where we live and she will do it with a 1.5m by 4inch think piece of drift wood in her mouth too no worries

Rottweilers are by far the best living animal on the planet (two legged or four)
That is a fact, look it up.

Ryan Yep, just because it's used on ducks doesn't make it any good. In fact it's painful to watch.

I've seen heading dogs used on deer with pretty good results. And a fella on here used an ex racing grey hound. But the grey hound was pretty noisy. Better on rabbits ha

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Both the staffs and grey hounds are hunting breeds though......rats and hares

Originally Posted by kawhia

Both the staffs and grey hounds are hunting breeds though......rats and hares

English staffordshire was originally bred for "Bear Baiting" because they have that "never give up" attitude they somehow found it entertaining to throw them in a cage with a bear and watch them duke it out to the end..

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

English staffordshire was originally bred for "Bear Baiting" because they have that "never give up" attitude they somehow found it entertaining to throw them in a cage with a bear and watch them duke it out to the end..

Sounds like a great story on paper, but in the real world the breed was a direct cross between a bull dog and a terrier...bull and terrier.
Used in the rat pits which came about after animal baiting was banned, and them poms needed something else to bet on.

Originally Posted by kawhia

Sounds like a great story on paper, but in the real world the breed was a direct cross between a bull dog and a terrier...bull and terrier.
Used in the rat pits which came about after animal baiting was banned, and them poms needed something else to bet on.

I thought bulldogs and bull terriers were bred to bait bulls.

Originally Posted by Cordite

I thought bulldogs and bull terriers were bred to bait bulls.

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Bull dogs maybe the terriers were breed to fight.

I used to take my Alaskan Malamutes out with me when we got the call from local farmers who got cull permits to thin out some roos. They were good indicators but with a strong prey drive they wanted to chase - and the old fellow was a bastard for claiming anything dead as HIS. Just about had to fight him for anything I wanted to take home mostly for dog tucker anyway. They loved fresh roo, and I got to like it too. Really nice lean meat

Originally Posted by keneff

I used to take my Alaskan Malamutes out with me when we got the call from local farmers who got cull permits to thin out some roos. They were good indicators but with a strong prey drive they wanted to chase - and the old fellow was a bastard for claiming anything dead as HIS. Just about had to fight him for anything I wanted to take home mostly for dog tucker anyway. They loved fresh roo, and I got to like it too. Really nice lean meat

Wouldn't they over heat in Australia?

Had to ban all the fun sports didn't they?

mines english bull x dogo argentina, he was bred as a pig hunter but had no inclination. so was starved etc till we rescued him. since i fed him rabbit meat to build him off from a underweight 17kg to his current 35 he thinks of wild bunnies as food. he will not "go for" any other animal and has a weird trait of liking bichons and poodles as the first dog he was socialized was a bichon. the look of horror on bichon owners as he runs up at the dog park is legendary. even worse was the look from them when he came back covered in blood n guts after catching a rabbit. i swear the grannies just about had a heart attack till they saw there woolly dogs again.

Originally Posted by gonetropo

mines english bull x dogo argentina, he was bred as a pig hunter but had no inclination. so was starved etc till we rescued him. since i fed him rabbit meat to build him off from a underweight 17kg to his current 35 he thinks of wild bunnies as food. he will not "go for" any other animal and has a weird trait of liking bichons and poodles as the first dog he was socialized was a bichon. the look of horror on bichon owners as he runs up at the dog park is legendary. even worse was the look from them when he came back covered in blood n guts after catching a rabbit. i swear the grannies just about had a heart attack till they saw there woolly dogs again.

Wow, I thought the Dogo Argentina was one breed which cannot be imported to New Zealand ... along with the American Pit Bull Terrier, Brazilian Fila, Japanese Tosa and Perro de Presa Canario.

Originally Posted by EeeBees

Wow, I thought the Dogo Argentina was one breed which cannot be imported to New Zealand ... along with the American Pit Bull Terrier, Brazilian Fila, Japanese Tosa and Perro de Presa Canario.

There's an existing line of dogos here already. I'm pretty sure they are not supposed to be bred for sale or something along those lines but they are about. They use them a lot to hunt pigs and protect stock from pumas in south America and are second to none if you want something to protect your property. A farmer in our area over there had one of them and it was chained to it's kennel if he wasn't about and their property was robbed, the dog dragged it's entire kennel around to the front of the house and smashed straight through the ranchslider glass trying to get at the thieves, they found him nearly dead (the dog) hanging out the bathroom window by his chain, his kennel had been dragged through the house behind him and he had obviously followed the thief out the bathroom window bleeding really bad from a big gash up his front leg from going through the glass. I didn't see it but was told there was blood from both human and dog all through the house like some kind of grissly murder scene. Thieves obviously thought they were safe since the dog was chained up..