Canis lupus hominis

Posted in working dogs | Tagged dachshund, raccoon dog | 16 Comments

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1. on January 4, 2013 at 3:36 pm massugu

   Doxies can also be hell-on-wheels when it comes to cats.

   
   
2. on January 4, 2013 at 3:45 pm Dave

   According to a certain “working dog” pundit, Finland doesn’t have “working” terriers because the country doesn’t have dens dug by animals.

   
   
   • on January 4, 2013 at 3:46 pm retrieverman

     LOL.

     
     
   • on January 4, 2013 at 8:28 pm massugu

     Gee, I could have sworn that that was a den.

     
     
   • on January 6, 2013 at 9:45 am labpack

     Oh Dave, shouldn’t you advise “the pundit” that Finnish Kennelclub does have all official tests/trials for working terriers and dachshunds in below ground work…

     
     
3. on January 5, 2013 at 5:51 am chervilmeadow

   One of our dachshunds years ago reappeared from a badger hole with a badly torn ear and screaming at the top of her voice. Don’t recall her ever going down a hole again! Incidentally, the British countryside is currently like a wet sponge due to record rainfall and I don’t know how this is affecting the guys underground. At least we are having the warmest of winters right now and the earliest spring bulbs are already peeping out. Unfortunately the winter crops have not been planted and this bodes ill for some food prices going forward.

   
   
4. on January 6, 2013 at 10:54 am Chas Clifton

   I had not realized that raccoon dogs had been introduced into eastern Europe and the Baltic countries. Apparently hunting them is a fairly big deal in Finland.

   
   
   • on January 6, 2013 at 3:22 pm Dave

     Only because they are one of the few animals which have an open season all year round due to their status as invasive species. The raccoon-dogs are not highly prized as game-animals.

     
     
     • on January 6, 2013 at 3:52 pm labpack

       Dave, actually female raccoon dogs with a litter are off season from May till the end of July. The same applies to (Europian) polecats, foxes, arctic foxes and badgers.

       
       
       • on January 7, 2013 at 3:35 am Dave

         And exactly how does granting females with litters amnesty change the fact that the species is open-season? Or that there is no quota set?

         The English translation provided by hunting organizations is not entirely correct. Wild Arctic foxes are almost expatriated in Finland and are protected by the government.

         http://www.riista.fi/?group=00000140&mag_nr=13

         Let us look at the document in the native Finnish: tarhattu naali. naali is the word designated for Arctic fox. tarhattu is referring to animals reared on fur-farms.

         
         
         • on January 7, 2013 at 7:55 am retrieverman

           I don’t understand why they even give that amnesty.

           Coyotes in my part of North America aren’t native. They self-introduced. My state has a continuous open season on them, and there is no amnesty toward denning individuals.

           It seems to me that they are almost trying to promote that raccoon dog as a game species. If they were treating it as areal invasive, they would kill every single one they saw, including cute little baby ones and their mothers.

           
           
           • on January 7, 2013 at 3:46 pm massugu

             Sounds kinda like wild boar or Sika in some parts of the US doesn’t it?

             
             
       • on January 9, 2013 at 6:38 am chervilmeadow

         slight correction, for Britain anyway, labpack, our badgers are protected all the time; no wonder we have over quarter of europe’s badger population on these islands. Bit contentious just now as they stand accused of being involved with bovine TB.

         
         
         • on January 9, 2013 at 7:51 am Dave

           A laika hunter told me Sweden has a badger-overpopulation problem.

           
           
5. on January 7, 2013 at 7:16 am labpack

   Well, probably it is nitpicking but closed season for females with litters doesn’t sound they’re open season all year round… ;)

   “Tarhattu naali” is a variant of Vulpes lagopus reared on fur farms – and creates immense havoc in nesting bird populations when loose in the wild.

   
   
   • on January 7, 2013 at 7:38 am retrieverman

     They have been a major problem in the Aleutians, where they have killed scores of nesting seabirds.

     
     

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