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The Redline Airedale Terrier As Hunting Dog
Redlines are often used to hunt dangerous game like bear, hog or lion.
They are tough, gritty and persistant enough to bring even bad hogs out of
the thick thorn bushes. Fast reactions, agile turns and brain are
necessary to hunt successfully on such game. Aggressions on cats and other
small predators are a general behavior in this Airedale strain.
Especially the combination
between strong dislike of critters and the will to work with their master
makes the Redline Airedale Terrier an excellent tolling dog for hunting
coyotes. In case of a bad shot the dogs are usually fast enough to catch
the wounded coyote and will kill it or hold it in place depending on the
situations.
Redlines work also very sucsessfully as trapline dogs where they have to
follow trapped animals so they can be dispatched quick as possible.
 
There are maybe different opinions about the different types of huntings
but I have to say that predator controlling and game management is in big
parts of America and Europe a important obligation and a necessary job
which has to be done. And it is a interesting fact that even if the number
of Redlines is small a lot of them have been used and are in use with
government hunters and professional trappers.
The most Redlines are good around other dogs. Especially when the dogs
hunt in far distances it is important that they are safe around strange
dogs. Dogs that rather fight than hunt are of a very limited use.
Most Redlines are loud at sight. Loud on a
hot track may happens but is unusual. Even if terriers in general aren't
typical tree dogs, Redlines do well under a tree and seem to have that in
their genes.
In difference to hounds Redlines won't range that far. They are hot nosed
terriers instead of the cold nosed hounds. They are more short to medium
ranging dogs but of course they will follow the hounds if the race is on.
Redline Airedales work on a track but they take scent out of the air as
well.
Their medium size is one part what makes
them versatile hunting dogs. They work under harsh conditions like snow,
higher grass or in rocky areas without the problems the smaller dogs
become and they are small and agile enough to work boars in the thick
thorn bushes or cornfield where bigger dogs are in permanent danger to get
badly hurt. They are very persevering even in hot conditions.
I want to make
absolutely clear that hunters that are looking for the ultimate dead game
catch dog, the real cold nosed tracker or the perfect working field dog
may look somewhere else. There are bulldogs, Bavarian Bloodhounds or
English Pointers that for sure do better in this jobs.
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