Thread: Recommended small dog breed for hunting

Originally Posted by Tussock

Can I come hang with them? A wild pack of foxies would be like commuting if every car on the road was a WRC car.

I'm confident if you were to harness the performance of a foxy it would be devastating. Unharnessed, devastating in a different way. My cousin had two as hunting dogs on the farm. There is not a floor board in any of the houses that was not ripped up to recover one from under the floor. Had a habit of digging along pushing the dirt behind him, thus making a return to daylight unlikely.

He was a very good heading dog though once my uncle took him over when my cousin went on his OE.

I grew up with a lot of foxies. My mum kept a particularly wild strain that was her father's. As kids, every weekend with friends started by selecting which dogs to run, then going to the garden shed and picking your weapon. Hammer, slasher it didn't matter. Our record in one morning was 18 possums. One particular bitch 'pip', would climb trees then fall out attached to a possum. Spent hours digging her out of rabbit holes, bailed the odd pig, ratted the chicken coop, and when dad's labs were gone, fetched ducks. She was addressed by all the common curses but it didn't matter as she responded to none of them. The most fun you can have with your pants on