Eventually, these adorable little pups moved up
from vermin hunters and became popular companions for noblemen.
Not exact matches
With amazing ability to remove itself
from borrows, the Dachshund used its strong jaw and bite to haul out the
vermin for their
hunters.
Dog breeds developed in all parts of the world to do all kinds of jobs
from bed warming in palaces and peasant huts, hunting
vermin in farm pantries and barns, and driving livestock to market to hauling freight, watching over nomad camps, and retrieving quarry for
hunters.
Derived
from the Latin word for Terra, many working terriers were selectively bred to hunt
vermin, large rodents and foxes by «going to ground» in their underground burrows and dens and forcing them out of their habitats where the
hunters awaited them.