How To Use Terrier In A Sentence

  • Louis XIV spent 200,000 gold francs for the construction of the royal kennels at Versailles where he kenneled hunting hounds, truffle terriers and toy poodles.
  • That I did not drop it into a cageful of terrier-pups was wholly due to the native vigour with which _Striatus_ hung on. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04
  • Our trip from Florida to Pennsylvania to attend the Cairn Terrier Specialty Dog Show, was one long series of mishaps, turned into hilarious memories.
  • He was judged against a flat-coated retriever, a giant schnauzer, an Old English sheepdog, a wire fox terrier, a saluki hound and Pekingese toy dog.
  • David brought along his wire-haired terrier, Dexter; Audrey brought along only her exquisite taste. Stephen Collins: winner of the Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story prize 2010
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  • Dogs such as Akitas, bull terriers and Rottweilers have a bad reputation due to the way they are paraded around by idiots.
  • My parents' dog is a wire-haired fox terrier about eight years old.
  • For the past couple of hours our terrier, Brough, has been stretched out in the footwell silently farting. Historic walking trails: smugglers' routes in Cornwall
  • One bite from a Staffordshire bull terrier cross just missed her eye. The Sun
  • Thereafter, when any cat came into view, the dog would retreat to his doghouse and, I suppose, peruse his collection of Playmutts (last month's centerfold, a fox terrier, is really hot by the way). Weird Things
  • It is regarded by many as the most prestigious fell hound show there is, with classes for beagles, harriers, Jack Russell's and terriers.
  • The home took in 91 pit bull terriers last year, which it said confirmed that underground breeding and sale of banned dogs was continuing. Times, Sunday Times
  • He has a pencil moustache and a trusty sidekick, a little terrier. Times, Sunday Times
  • She was like a terrier worrying an elk hound, charging in and pressing an attack so fast and furious he had no choice but to defend himself.
  • Among the favorites to become top dog are a wire fox terrier, a smooth fox terrier, an affenpinscher and a couple of standard poodles. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • She said: 'She is a highly strung fox terrier. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Boston terrier sustains it popularity because it continues to embody the endearing qualities of its bulldog ancestors and the spunk of its terrier kin.
  • He has a pencil moustache and a trusty sidekick, a little terrier. Times, Sunday Times
  • The BU Terriers are the Yankees of the tournament, having seized the silver pot 24 times.
  • A punting cabbie is a bit stressed when he has to give Holmes a ride, and ends up in the middle of an assassination plot, and loses his ring-in rat terrier. Archive 2007-11-01
  • Including a dandie dinmont terrier, owned by Bill Cosby. CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2007
  • Leaving aside terrier men, for whom the label ‘lower class’ might have been invented, the field and its followers included only a tiny handful of people who could fairly be described as toffs.
  • He threw himself into them with a kind of piratical ardour; took them by the throat, wallowed in them, worried them like a terrier, and finally assimilated them. South Wind
  • These activities supported high-stakes gambling, for example, on the outcome of fights between selectively bred bull terriers.
  • This cute canine is a Yorkshire terrier - just like the one police tried to seize from Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho.
  • Finally, some observers report, bull terriers were commissioned to smooth out remnants of the otter hound cross that were considered unpresentable after the Airedale had entered the show ring in the 1860s.
  • The newest addition, a small, 12 year old wire haired terrier, arrived at the behest of my partner who is obviously going through one of those strange broody phases that often occur with women of a certain age.
  • This is borne out by him in his famous book on Otters, Ring of Bright Water where he writes, ‘They bear as much relation to a domestic cat as a wolf does to a terrier and they are reputedly untameable.’
  • It was a portrait of the white bull terrier, executed with incredible precision.
  • A native of Tullamore, she has been showing Airedale terriers for the last six years.
  • The date is also traditionally the first day of hunting meets and foxhounds, lurchers, greyhounds, beagles, minkhounds, terriers and other hunting dogs will all be taken along to Higham.
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  • Papa's Yorkshire terrier was tied in the truck bed and when one of the elephants walked by, the dog snarled and snapped, straining at the end of her chain.
  • We had all sorts of dogs from terriers to spaniels and even a French basset hound.
  • Occasionally . . . he carries in his hand an iron cage in which are ferrets, while two or three crop-eared rough terriers dog his footsteps. Sociology most Dickensian
  • He shall come, sidesmen accostant, by aryan jubilarian and on brigadier-general Nolan or and buccaneer-admiral Browne, with — who can doubt it? — his golden beagles and his white elkox terriers for a hunting on our littlego illcome faxes. Finnegans Wake
  • Already there are genetic probes available to detect carriers of cystinuria in Newfoundland dogs; Von Willebrand's disease, a bleeding disorder, in poodles and Manchester terriers; and copper toxicosis in Bedlington terriers. The Truth About Dogs
  • The final cluster includes scent hounds, terriers, spaniels, and retrievers.
  • All unbeknown to 16-year-old Tan, the little Lakeland Terrier from Nottinghamshire, she was about to be named ‘special friend’ of the year.
  • You start out with a goal, and a clear intention to pursue it -- aiming, let's say, for information on which kind of terrier is best with children -- and the next thing you know, you're engrossed in an online chat about Napolean Bonaparte. Susan Stiffelman: Are We One Click Away From Disconnecting From the People Around Us?
  • The act made it illegal to own breeds such as the pit bull terrier, and targeted owners of any dog dangerously out of control. Times, Sunday Times
  • After undergoing a pseudopregnancy, my neighbors' Jack Russell terrier chased away the family's cat and adopted and suckled her kittens.
  • The view from their house is completely unobstructed over Loch na Gar, and she likes to take their border terrier, Dougal, for walks up the hill at the back.
  • During my North Cotswold Mastership, I made Butler, the terrier man, carry a huge white buck ferret on his bicycle, and very useful he proved to be.
  • You’d take a wild species, say a wolf that hunts caribou by long pursuit, and apply selection experimentally to see if you could breed, say, a dogged little wolf that chivies rabbits underground: let’s call it a Jack Russell terrier. The Wonder That Is Dog, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • His paperwork lists him as a "griffon"; though he looks like a very cute terrier to us! Independent.com stories
  • January 29, 2008 at 8:44 pm this just in teh Windee Hill Gote farm in vermont has just been raided by teh ATF BBQ aftuh receebing tip taht terrist gotes carrying esplosives in writing devices hab cree ated a traing kamp to indoktrinate adn train fyuuchur terrierists. Left foot blu - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • The owner of the terrier, which had no lead or muzzle, had apparently walked away leaving Tasmin to fight for Mogget's life on her own.
  • I've seen someone who taught a Yorkshire terrier to imitate slowly rising pitch contours, and have myself sung along with a mutt who seemed to imitate motifs from George Jones and Mozart.
  • Here I might be in trouble with the law again, for my dear little Jack Russell terrier Polly has had her tail docked.
  • There is also evidence of a borzoi cross entering the mix along the way, that evidence revealing itself in the convex profile of the bull terrier's head.
  • High Road has tackled all kinds of issues from pit bull terrier fighting to cot death in order to illuminate character.
  • It was an English scene, and the two men, the dog at their feet, (for Peter Dealtry favoured a wirey stone-coloured cur, which he called a terrier,) and just at the door of the little inn, two old gossips, loitering on the threshold in familiar chat with the landlady, in cap and kerchief, -- all together made a groupe equally Eugene Aram — Volume 01
  • The first, which apparently looked like my old cairn terrier Geordie (who died of old age about 8 years back), he bought to give to me, but later gave it spontaneously to his Aunt for no real discernible reason.
  • Then he identified the noise, know that no harm impended, and resumed his stealthy advance on the Irish terrier. CHAPTER XV
  • The fox terrier on the right side of the photo is a prime example of a Maltese type of fox terreirs with a perfect trangle of a face with obtuse angles formed with the ears and the nose. Timesofmalta.com
  • The older, her bezique cards and counters, her Skye terrier, her suppositious wealth, her lapses of responsiveness and incipient catarrhal deafness: the younger, her lamp of colza oil before the statue of the Immaculate Conception, her green and maroon brushes for Charles Stewart Parnell and for Michael Davitt, her tissue papers. Ulysses
  • Examples: 1. ( One snippet from a recent" intimate portrait" of the first lady: Mr Bush likes to spend his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles, one of which shows the face of his Scotch terrier, Barney.
  • The Bedlington Terrier is often described as a "lamb on a leash" because its unique blond, curly hair and soft, round features give it an uncanny resemblance to the farm animal.
  • He also has other breeds, including basset hounds, Salukis, English springer spaniels, Jack Russell terriers, Pekingese and German shepherds. Old dog show Westminster learns new tricks
  • Visitors were treated to displays of equestrianism, ranging from show-jumping to a Shetland Pony Grand National, livestock, pole-climbing and even terrier racing.
  • The Yorkie has strong, terrier-type teeth, but it is well to have them scaled by a veterinarian at regular intervals.
  • She is an unusual yorkshire terrier, because her father is a biewer yorkie. Times, Sunday Times
  • A terrier came running up to them, circled Job and yapped. THE MAIN CAGES
  • The two dogs were cross-breeds of a mastiff and bull terrier.
  • Amy has a lurcher, who I've looked after on occasion, and she takes my crotchety terrier.
  • The Dangerous Dog Act bans the ownership of four breeds: the pit bull terrier, Japanese tosa, the Argentine dogo and the Brazilian mastiff. Yahoo! News: Latest news headlines News Headlines | Top Stories
  • Terriers are bred for their fighting instincts.
  • These activities supported high-stakes gambling, for example, on the outcome of fights between selectively bred bull terriers.
  • Spaniels, terriers, retrievers - each breed has a different personality.
  • My little bitty Boston terrier has racked up over $2,000 in vet bills when she fell off a counter a couple of weeks ago. Christmas without presents « Dating Jesus
  • The terrier fell down the cabin companionway and lamed its nigh hind leg, then repeated the manoeuvre and lamed its off fore leg. Chapter 17
  • A pair of Staffordshire Terrier crosses mauled three cats to death and attacked a woman during a horrific killing spree on a Southampton estate.
  • The ban also meant that for the first time hunts were using terriers to drive foxes out of holes, he said.
  • The tan-coloured dog looks suspiciously like an American pit bull terrier.
  • She is an unusual yorkshire terrier, because her father is a biewer yorkie. Times, Sunday Times
  • A group of 70 people were asked to match photos of 41 dog owners to 3 possible breeds - Labrador, poodle or Staffordshire bull terrier.
  • One trip for their Jack Russell terrier in a plane's cargo hold was enough to convince Alysa Binder and Dan Wiesel that owners needed a better option to get their pets from one city to another.
  • I've got my eye on one or two oddly named brews - I fancy a half of the Norwich Terrier, for instance.
  • Over the years Coles has picked up various nicknames, from 'Yorkie' - short for Yorkshire Terrier - to 'Coles Snap'. Home | Mail Online
  • Miss Walkden spotted the dogs running towards her and picked up her 11-year-old pet - but one of the animals, a pit bull terrier, repeatedly lunged at her, attempting to sink its teeth into Sooty.
  • The name 'terrier' comes from the Latin word 'terra' meaning the earth.
  • Others, however, say the bull terrier crosses never occurred, while some people suggest that Border collies or other sheepdogs participated in the Airedale's evolution.
  • Last week, the Terriers had travelled to Spotland with only 12 fit players, though that game was cancelled as the pitch was unplayable.
  • A pensioner has been reunited with her disabled pet terrier after thieves stole her car… while the dog sat quietly in the back.
  • After being run to ground by hounds the fox was flushed out of its earth by a terrier and shot.
  • Despite their unprepossessing looks, bull terriers have many attractive virtues.
  • Its equable temperament, unusual among terriers, results in large measure from the fact that it was originally a hunt terrier, expected to run peacefully with foxhounds.
  • The mini fox terrier had trailed him to the Control Room.
  • •The breeds with the highest proportion of cardiovascular-related deaths were Newfoundland, Maltese, Chihuahua, Doberman pinscher and fox terrier. Diseases that kill dogs tend to affect specific breeds
  • What looks like an airedale is a wire-haired fox terrier similar to but smaller than an airedale. Surfing the Curves of Change
  • The date is also traditionally the first day of hunting meets and foxhounds, lurchers, greyhounds, beagles, minkhounds, terriers and other hunting dogs will all be taken along to Higham.
  • Here I might be in trouble with the law again, for my dear little Jack Russell terrier Polly has had her tail docked.
  • Kennan, a bowline around his body under his arm-pits, lowered by a couple of seamen down the generous freeboard of the Ariel, who gathered in by the nape of the neck the smooth-coated Irish terrier that, treading water perpendicularly, had no eyes for him so eagerly did he gaze at the line of faces along the rail in quest of the one face. CHAPTER XX
  • And while the trained-nurse-apparelled young woman seated Dag Daughtry in the enamelled surgeon's chair and leaned him back under direction, and while Doctor Emory dipped his finger-tips into the strongest antiseptic his office possessed, behind Doctor Emory's eyes, in the midst of his brain, burned the image of a desired Irish terrier who did turns in sailor-town cabarets, was rough-coated, and answered to the full name of Killeny Boy. CHAPTER XIX
  • The tan-coloured dog looks suspiciously like an American pit bull terrier.
  • Bully was a wire-haired terrier mix, and he was quite simply incorrigible. Spoken from the Heart
  • It was the kind of yapping she associated with a terrier in need of discipline, and she wasn't disabused of this notion when four different locks were released and the opening door allowed a Jack Russell to charge forward, intent upon her ankles. With No One as Witness
  • Where once a Chanel handbag or bull terrier would have done, the fashionable woman now holds a smiling child.
  • We regret to find that Mr. Skinner, so well known to the sporting world as the able extoller and defender of the rights of our canine friends, should recommend the cropping of terriers. The Dog
  • After the terrier cornered the rat, all Padlin saw was a commotion of claws, paws, and teeth.
  • Oh, when he ran with me up the long-grass slopes, and down the long-grass slopes, it was like hurdling in a dream, for he cleared the grass at every bound, leaping like a deer, a rabbit, or a fox-terrier — you know how they do. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
  • Roche has worked like a terrier on the campaign, cancelling his summer holidays and launching a series of blistering broadsides on the No side.
  • But his young Terriers, with an average age of just 21, were generally out-thought and out-manoeuvred by their hosts, whose starting line-up worked out man for man seven years older.
  • At that moment Michael was lying squirming on his back a dozen feet away, his legs straight up in the air, both fox-terriers worrying with well-stimulated ferociousness. CHAPTER VII
  • The captive badger is taken to the ‘sporting’ venue - a trench covered by Perspex - and pitted against terriers.
  • Kazimoto wrapped an enormous mound of cold mtama pudding in a cloth and went his way, prophesying darkly of murder and sudden death lurking behind rocks and trees, as unwishful to be alone as a terrier without a master, but much too faithful to refuse duty. The Ivory Trail
  • We have two dogs: one is a terrier, a breed noted for their rat-hating, but in the absence of rats they take on mice - or possums.
  • Harrison's normally-expressive flint-blue eyes turned shark-like as he savoured the import of those words, turning them over in his mind like a terrier worrying a bone.
  • Jack Russell Terrier named Snickka, owned by a comprehensively drunk homeless dyslectic Snickka Stakes A Claim For Fame
  • He met many farmers, poachers and bullterrier-loving miners, who taught him his natural history in the field. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hester Lockyear of Beacon Bay gets a lick from the Maltese terrier pup she rescued from a roadside hawker in Transkei.
  • The other breeds on this year's top 10 include, in descending order: Yorkshire terrier, German shepherd, golden retriever, beagle, boxer, dachshund, poodle and shih tzu. Labradors fetch top dog honor
  • She blushed and wagged her finger as if admonishing a small terrier, then hooked her arm in mine and steered me towards the pub.
  • Mike's face is exactly like the terrier in the old picture, and he sits up and gives his paw just like Bonneau, and I never saw him have any instruction; and as for voice, I wish you could hear Bonfire's "whicker" to me in the stable or elsewhere. In Flanders Fields and Other Poems
  • A few more pets and their owners were visiting and it turned into a bit of a Norwich Terrier hootenanny, as the photo below will demonstrate (in a static, on-the-lead kind of way; Millie is second from the right).
  • He was judged against a flat-coated retriever, a giant schnauzer, an Old English sheepdog, a wire fox terrier, a saluki hound and Pekingese toy dog.
  • It works especially well with the brown and red upholstery forced on us by our terriers' muddy paws. Times, Sunday Times
  • In 1824 dogs used by farmers for shepherding were greyhounds, hounds, pointers, spaniels, lurchers and terriers all of which were exempted from the dog tax if the value of the farm was less than £190 per year.
  • Mr. Doonan admitted he was "bewildered" that he hadn't been contacted as we sat in the elegantly eye-popping Greenwich Village apartment he shares with his partner, home-furnishing designer and potter Jonathan Adler , and their Norwich terrier Liberace. A Royal Pronouncement
  • The dachshunds, terriers and poodles of the world have waged a high-tech war against the Siamese, Persian and tabbies.
  • She overfeeds my Jack Russell Terrier and he has fat pockets. The crime of overfeeding your dog.
  • The affenpinscher, meaning "monkey-like terrier," is generally alert and inquisitive with great loyalty and affection toward its master and friends, according to the American Kennel Club. Azcentral.com | news
  • The back page has a strip called Haggis, which is about a black highland terrier and his adventures.
  • These include the Brazilian fila, the dogo Argentino, the Japanese tosa, and the American pit bull terrier.
  • The dogs included shih-tzus, dachshunds, Lhasa apsos, bearded collies, corgis, chihuahuas, poodles, Pekinese and Yorkshire terriers.
  • With only a giant turtle called Fifi and a murderous terrier for company, Mac slowly starves.
  • Everyone knows that terriers are excitable, that pit bulls bite and that all pups urinate on the carpet.
  • But the plucky terrier survived - and emerged as the proud mother of two healthy pups.
  • The couple are childless - but instead they have a little terrier called Rose. The Sun
  • Johno is a 13-stone bull mastiff, Barry's the tiny border terrier.
  • Both the Clydesdale and the Paisley terrier eventually became extinct, but not before they had contributed to the development of the Yorkie.
  • When doggy men beyond ocean talk about a terrier, they usually pronounce it _tarrier_, and not _terrier_, as we mostly call him on this bank of the Atlantic. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859
  • From 20 yards out, his thunderbolt crashed off the underside of the crossbar to leave Terriers' goalkeeper Ian Gray clutching at air.
  • A Sun investigation has discovered there are thousands of American pit bull terriers on our streets. The Sun
  • Nearly every show in Cumbria has classes for foxhounds and terriers which shows the importance that hunting holds in the agricultural and village communities.
  • There are more than 50 traditionally docked breeds recognised by the Kennel Club, including cocker spaniels, pointers, Irish terriers and vizslas.
  • The dogs range from puppies to an 18-year-old and include two lurchers, two German shepherds, 15 Yorkshire terriers and up to 20 other terriers.
  • Everyone knows that terriers are excitable, that pit bulls bite and that all pups urinate on the carpet.
  • The tan-coloured dog looks suspiciously like an American pit bull terrier.
  • yaps" and snarls as any Irish terrier, and as peevish and fussy as a fault-finding old woman. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
  • The midfield dynamo with the energy and face of a terrier said this spring that the mood around the team was ‘miserable’.
  • We're the terrier at the rat hole, sir," said Bush, coming back to Hornblower as soon as Hotspur had lain-no with her main-topsail to the mast. Hornblower And The Hotspur
  • They claim it would outlaw the use of terriers to flush foxes out of their holes so they can be shot by waiting gamekeepers during the bird breeding season.
  • Badger is a Jack Russell Terrier, a little taller and rangier than most, but he has the total Jack Russell personality. Best Products & Practices
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  • They are quite independent, but once you have had a cairn terrier that's it - you just fall in love with them.
  • The dachshunds, terriers and poodles of the world have waged a high-tech war against the Siamese, Persian and tabbies.
  • The Terriers went into this 77th derby clash top of the table on the back of four wins and a draw in their opening five league games. The Sun
  • The hind-leg problems that trouble Boston terriers are known as luxating patella, a dislocation of the small, flat, moveable bone at the front of the knee.
  • The tan-coloured dog looks suspiciously like an American pit bull terrier.
  • Archbishop of Canterbury, is transformed, as if by irreverent enchantment of the dissenting interest, into A Favourite Terrier, or Cattle Grazing; and the most extraordinary work of art in the list described by the Bleater, is coolly sponged out altogether, and asserted never to have had existence at all, even in the most shadow thoughts of its executant! Contributions to All the Year Round
  • In the country pursuits section there will be falconry displays and terrier, beagle and foxhound demonstrations including one by shepherdess Katy Cropper, of BBC's One Man and his Dog.
  • The strongest dog for its overall size in my sample was the American Pit Bull Terrier.
  • English breed of small terrier with a straight wiry red - and - black - and - tan or grizzled coat and dropped ears.
  • The greyhound, which appeared as Jessie in the hit film, was badly injured in a frenzied attack by a pit bull terrier.
  • He was judged against a flat-coated retriever, a giant schnauzer, an Old English sheepdog, a wire fox terrier, a saluki hound and Pekingese toy dog.
  • One bite from a Staffordshire bull terrier cross just missed her eye. The Sun
  • The Affenpinscher's name describes it well: 'Affen' meaning monkey and 'Pinscher' meaning terrier.
  • They beat him with bats and set a pit bull terrier on him. The Sun
  • He was like a terrier, bounding along, whereas I was more like a snail - there was just so much to see at this site.
  • Some terriers' tails were cropped because it made it easier for them to get into badger setts, fox dens and the like.
  • If I couldn't get ten pounds for him, just like that, with a thank-you - ma'am, I'm a sucker that don't know a terrier from a greyhound. CHAPTER 1
  • The bull terrier at once left off lapping water from its baking dish and went and put its head on her knee.
  • When Tait barked he started for a moment, but then came on steadily – a collie is rarely as formidable as an Irish terrier. Mates at Billabong
  • He said Yorkshire had one of the highest concentrations of mounted foxhounds, beagle packs and terrier and lurchermen, from moorland fox packs to ratters in Leeds and Sheffield.
  • We had an awesome cairn terrier / Jack Russell mix that was preternaturally intelligent, capable of stunning tricks (including climbing trees), but he wouldn't fetch a stick for any reward.
  • Breeds include the Chihuahua, dachshund, Boston terrier, shih tzu, bichon frise, miniature pinscher and the xolo, a Mexican hairless dog. Ready for the Dog Days of Winter?
  • If he walked out with his bull-terrier, it was generally to Bagley Wood, where a pretty, dizened gipsy girl named Selina told fortunes; and henceforward he took a keen interest in Selina's race. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
  • One bite from a Staffordshire bull terrier cross just missed her eye. The Sun
  • I used to have a fox terrier called Monty who barked when the telephone rang with its old double ring. Times, Sunday Times
  • Apparently a Bull terrier needed six stitches after being attacked by a large pike as it chased a stick.
  • The Irish Terrier must be neither "cobby" nor "cloddy," but should be built on lines of speed with a graceful, racing outline. Undefined
  • Suni Williams's Jack Russell terrier is named Gorby, perfect for a master who has spent months with Russian cosmonauts in orbit. Gorby Makes Suni's Home Town Paper - NASA Watch
  • Ronnie enjoys the country life and while his girlfriend of 15 years, Fiona, spends all her time with the horses, he is content with his two terriers and other animals.
  • This is borne out by him in his famous book on Otters, Ring of Bright Water where he writes, ‘They bear as much relation to a domestic cat as a wolf does to a terrier and they are reputedly untameable.’
  • An exegetic argument about Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billy Joe" between Gerry, a gangster's moll and the chief drug dealer could have come out of Reservoir Dogs, or Tipperary Terriers as they might well call it out there. The Guard – review
  • We should cherish these glimpses of her as it won't be long before she goes to ground again, squirrelling away in her Manhattan apartment or the Virginia bolt-hole she shares with two pugs and a Boston terrier.
  • Generally, a well-balanced Scottish Terrier dog should weigh from 19 to 22 pounds and a bitch from 18 to 21 pounds.
  • We should cherish these glimpses of her as it won't be long before she goes to ground again, squirrelling away in her Manhattan apartment or the Virginia bolt-hole she shares with two pugs and a Boston terrier.
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  • Henry applied to be allowed an office in Balaklava, so as to secure a stable for "Bob," who is half starved and as rough as a terrier. Journal Kept During The Russian War: From The Departure Of The Army From England In April 1854, To The Fall Of Sebastopol
  • By last Thursday though, he needed to get out, as Butch the Staffordshire Bull terrier needed the toilet, and was so well house-trained he wouldn't go in the flat.
  • Except for the flies that is which had the persistence of pit bull terriers.
  • Debra has sent me a copy of a well-written piece on Norwich Terriers from Dog World a few years ago, which sums up the breed's difficulty whelping rather well, I thought.
  • Shaw ordered a sculpture of his champion fox terrier, and Bayard Warren a portrait of his champion Sealyham.
  • `Do you happen to know if anyone else in the Choir had a wire-haired terrier? STAGE FRIGHT
  • Today he is a slaughterman, but his pro-hunting boss gives him days off to work as terrier man for the York and Ainsty South.
  • Yesterday the two appeared for sentencing and Simon Catterall, prosecuting, asked Teesside magistrates to confiscate their pet terriers.
  • The government wants to amend the 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act, under which four types of dogs - the pit bull terrier, the Japanese tosa, the dogo Argentinos and the fila brasileiros - are banned. Rocket News
  • Bull-terriers, retrievers, nondescripts — the dog-lover abhors the term mongrel — sheep dogs and cattle dogs, pointers, and, most beloved of all, Irish terriers. Last Leaves from Dunk Island
  • Yes, Stump was almost eclipsed by the competition, by the other dogs competing in Best in Show, a standard poodle, a Scottish terrier, a puli, a Brussels griffon and a Scottish deerhound, but Stump proved to be no schlump. Erica Heller: The Year of the Geezer: The Triumph of Stump, the Sussex Spaniel
  • We don't want our nation overrun by a host of poodles, corgis or pit bull terriers.
  • Last fall, I was excited for a line-up of new shows to add to my old favorites and this season I only have one that made the cut: Terriers on FX, but I'm still iffy as to if it is a really well-conceived neo-noir show or if I just like the San Diego-Ocean Beach backdrop for the two gumshoes. Jake Arky: School'ed: The 2010 Fall TV Line-Up
  • According to our lab experts, it's one of those little wire-haired terriers. STAGE FRIGHT
  • If the German Shepherd and Doberman stood on top in their numbers, the breeds like the wire-haired fox terrier, smooth-haired fox terrier, cairn terrier and Rhodesian Ridgeback were all loners.
  • Who knew bull terriers could be so fabulous? Times, Sunday Times
  • The date is also traditionally the first day of hunting meets and foxhounds, lurchers, greyhounds, beagles, minkhounds, terriers and other hunting dogs will all be taken along to Higham.
  • Cragsmoor Buddy Goodman, a Skye Terrier, with his handler Lawrence Cornelius during judging in the Terrier group on Feb. 15.
  • If he walked out with his bull-terrier, it was generally to Bagley Wood, where a pretty, dizened gipsy girl named The Life of Sir Richard Burton

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