Canine Quarterly - ADBA CQ OCT 18 | Page 34

Popular Patterdale Terrier Bloodline The dog featured, along with the dogs in the pedigree, are some of the more popular dogs in the pedigrees of the breed today. J&J’s Cedar Nuttall's "Rocky" Ray's "Higgens" Nuttall's "Treacle" Kuper's "Warf" Nuttall's "Duke II" Nuttall's "Magic" Nuttall's "Kessie" Breay's "Rusty" Breay's "J.R." Breay's "Gem" Skogg's "Jugg" Nuttall's "Flint II" Nuttall's "Miss Ellie" Nuttall's "Trouble II" (This is in honor of one of the Best little dogs, we owned. It’s not telling even half of his adventures, it’s only meant to give a glimpse of what kind of dog he was.) Our friend, RM came by one day with a scruffy little red Male Fell type Terrier, and asked would we be inter- ested in him. He belonged to his friend, Nigel, that was not able to keep him at the time. He had a natural bob tail (and produced it) and some big teeth for his size. He was only 11 lbs. then. He eventually filled out to 15-16 lbs. We already owned a pair but this little dog had something special about him so we said, 34 “Yes, we’ll gladly give him a home!”. He was so smart. We had a yard full of good dogs then. While Cedar would “fight a circle saw” as my father would say, he would not start it. He could run the yard and ignore the dogs if they barked, growled etc. He was always on the hunt. We had Black Walnut trees all over the property so there were plenty of squirrels, and out in the back several ground hog settees that ran into the yards on both sides. We called Nigel to thank him and ask a bit about him. He told us he’d bought him from NY I believe as a pup. He said that even as a pup, Cedar would bring his findings, mice, moles, rats into his shop and pile them up. According to the pedigree, Cedar was pure Nut- tall. We became friends with Nigel and still are to this day. There was always a crowd at our house back then. Folks from all over when come to sit and talk dogs with my father. There weren’t many Patterdales around our area back then. So, when dogmen came to our home and seen that little fuzzy red dog popping his chain, they’d ask “Jack, what in the world is that?”. My father would smile and say “That’s a real Tasma- nian Devil” and laugh. And he was. Because of the Walnut