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Other Hunting => Bird Dogs => Topic started by: woodchucker on January 04, 2014, 05:48:18 PM

Title: Airedale breeders in or near WA?
Post by: woodchucker on January 04, 2014, 05:48:18 PM: Long time lurker first time topic poster. Does anyone know of any Airedale Terrier breeders in or near WA? I've been searching around and the only breeder I've been able to locate is www.oorangsonline.com (http://www.oorangsonline.com) which I'm not really looking for an oorang. I'd prefer one coming from a hunting line, but the impression I get is that may be difficult w/ out going real far. I also found http://www.takalatrailsranch.com/ (http://www.takalatrailsranch.com/) in BC which right now looks like my best bet. Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: Airedale breeders in or near WA?
Post by: Bluemoon on January 06, 2014, 04:20:10 PM: This girl "Abby" is going to be bred in about a month. She loves to hunt birds (as you can see). She is going to be bred to another Bird Hunting Airedale. She resides on here in Washington on Whidby Island...
Title: Re: Airedale breeders in or near WA?
Post by: scrminbanshee on January 06, 2014, 09:36:24 PM: I have two airedales both rescues. one came from a breeder out of Washougal in august and the other i have no idea. I know there was one in fife that i found a few years ago and if you do a google search there is high country airedales out of California they advertise that there dogs are from a hunting line but i have no clue if they are any good.
Title: Re: Airedale breeders in or near WA?
Post by: woodchucker on January 07, 2014, 11:52:17 PM: Thank you both for the replies. scrminbanshee how do you like your resucues? I'll check into the sources you mentioned. Bluemoon I'm sending you a pm.
Title: Re: Airedale breeders in or near WA?
Post by: scrminbanshee on January 08, 2014, 10:31:50 AM: I do like my rescues but the first one defiantly has had some issues we work on. He was beaten, malnourished, his eyelids grew into his eyes, and the people tried to dock his tail at home. We we first got him i spent hours training him and gaining his trust. Gaining that trust and loyalty took a while compared to every other dog i have ever had, and even still gets really scared with loud noises(but runs to me instead of away, even if its my gun that made the loud noise). He has come to be the most loyal dog i have ever had and that is worth allot to my wife and i.

The new little guy, Came from up in bothell, the family was keeping him locked up in a spare room after the pup bit his kid. The people said he was aggressive, in reality the pup was being a puppy and played a bit to ruff while unsupervised. He has been great so far taking to his training quickly and he is getting up to speed quickly.

I would add that getting a rescue you never know what you are getting i feel like i got pretty lucky with both of em and the new one i think will work out fine for what i want. I know some guys want a dog just to hunt but like i have said before mine are house pets first and then hunting dogs second. So a rescue was fine but if you plan on hunting them hard and thats there main goal in life i would recommend getting a pup straight from the breeders so you know what your getting when you get them.

One last plug though, if you can find a pup i mean a real pup like under 4 months in a rescue or off craigslist and they haven't been really messed up and you have a bunch of time (when i got my older one i worked nights so we had all day everyday for training.) i think you can train an airedale for almost anything. The training can just be extremely hard when they aren't interested and sometimes you cant break them of some things like the loud noises with the older. In fairness though i haven't worked really hard to try and break him of it. I think when it comes down to it it will depend on how serious of a hunting dog you want, and the amount of time you have to spend training them.