Sporting Terriers: Their History, Training and Management by Piece O'Conor was reissued in 2001. This book was originally published in 1926. Chapters One and Two deal with Medieval earthdogs and Tudor and Stuart period earth dogs (a lot of myth here!), Chapters Three and Four cover "Modern Terriers" and "qualities which make a good working terrier," Chapters Five and Six cover "Choice of Breed" and raising and training. Chapter Seven is on the Fox, Eight on the Badger, Nine on the Otter, Ten on equipment for badger digging, Eleven on "notes on badger hunting," with subsequent chapters on otter hunting, weasel hunting, rats, rabbiting, terrier trials, housing terriers, feeding, sickness and injury.
The book is 157 pages long and has black and white illustrations and a new foreward by the late Brian Plummer.
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