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DERETH L WYLLIE
Prescott, Iowa 
Home: (641) 335-2573 Cell: (712) 370-5288
E-Mail 
beartuffrats@iowatelecom.net
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WELCOME TO “BEAR-TUFF RAT TERRIERS
  “THEY ARE AS CLOSE TO HUMANS AS A DOG CAN GET, ONLY BETTER!”

My Rat Terriers are bred with the best of intentions to insure ability, quality & personality. They are a part of my family. Whenever & wherever I can I inform people of the wonderful traits that our pure Ratties have. They are such a fine breed, with the temperament for a perfect family pet, small enough for apartment living, easy to train, hardy enough to withstand children & their rough play & they love to hunt! Most of all, they live to love & please their humans! I always recommend that owners take their new puppy to obedience classes, to teach themselves as well as the pup. It will help the new owner & pup to form a life long bond.

I follow the NRTA breeder’s code of ethics & it is my duty & my pleasure to do so. I breed the Class A longer legged square type, in the small to large Standard size. I also now have a male from Mike Brown of Brownking Terriers, out of the Fire Mountain Decker line. (Mike has one of my pups, “Chip” who joined his kennel in 2004.) “Tank” as I call him, is 73% Decker. I have all of my dogs registered with the NRTR first, (after much research & thought) & with UKCI. I get photos & updates regularly, & each one seems to be a very vital part of the families that they now live in. Some are on farms; some are used as hunters, some as babysitters for children & other pets, (from cats to ferrets & rabbits!) It makes me happiest to hear that they are so important to the new owners! I do of course have references upon request.

 I sell all of my pups with a written health guarantee & sales agreement, approved by the NRTR. I ship puppies no earlier than 8 weeks, & I will also deliver part or all of the way if we can work it out. All pups have tails docked at 3 days, & are wormed every two weeks from birth. All shots are kept current until they are sold, with a record of all worming & shots included. They are fed vitamins & quality food, & I send a bit of food home so that they can be transitioned to any new food that you will be feeding. Friends & family handle them & every day I give lots of TLC! So they are well socialized from all of the hugs & kisses. My adult dogs are immunized & vet checked regularly. I have kennels for each one of them outside while I am at work. I live on a farm, so they get to romp in & out of barns & be around other farm animals when I am at home. In the fall I try to hunt as much as I have time for. Litters are born inside, with me as midwife! They go outside when they are 3 to 4 weeks. For that reason I try not to have pups in the late fall, winter or early spring. Our weather is just to cold for them to be outdoors when they are so young. They learn to do their business outside of the kennel boxes by following mom. This helps them to learn how to use “doggy doors”.

Female pups are $350.00 plus delivery/shipping. Male pups are $300.00 plus delivery/shipping. Eventually I will be breeding to increase my Decker blood. Prices will go up accordingly.

If you have any questions, please feel free to call me! I have an open door, & I would love to have you visit. Because I work during the day, please call so that I can tell you when I will be at home.

Please call on us! We would all love to chat with you!

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It all started with “Bear Tuff’s “Bear”
Sadly, she passed away in the fall of 2004. She was 13” tall, 13 ½” long &18 lbs.  She was a Black/Tan, & carried the Black/White-Tri gene. She usually had 4 to 6 pups. Her Sire & Dam were farm raised & hunted regularly. She herself was a Pheasant flushing/catching & Coon hunting demon! I bred her to Preston’s Buster, (AKA Bandit) a Black/White-Tri. Mark used him to hunt Pheasants. He came from Henry Hainline’s Rat Terriers. Henry was a farmer, avid hunt & trapper & his name is still famously known in South West Iowa for his line of Rat Dogs! This mating produced:
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Bear Tuff’s “Josie”
14” tall, 14 1/2” long & is 21.5lbs. She is Black/White-Tri & she also carries the Choc (or liver to some) gene. She usually has 6 to 8 pups. She does tricks, loves to go for walks, ride the 4-wheeler, go in the pickup & hunt Pheasants & squirrels, & just to be with me, what ever I may be doing. She is a wonderful mother & would nurse any & all pups that I put in with her!
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Bear Tuff’s “Buster”
came to me by way of a friend. He was given to me, & what a gift he has been! He is 15” tall, 16” long & 21lbs. He is a Black/White, but he carries the Choc/Tri gene as well. His grand dam was also one of Henry Hainline’s dogs. He loves to play ”jump up” & will bounce in one spot to hit my hand. He is never cross with the ladies, always gentle with his babies, loves to hunt rats & moles, & does so regularly, and then he makes sure that I know it by giving them to me! He also packs rocks & sticks around just for fun. Chases a ball, but not sticks. He has the sweetest personality & some of his pups also do the “rock & stick” thing. What a guy!
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Bear Tuff “Honey Bear”
born 2/25/02 out of Bear X Buster. She is a Black/Tan-Tri, 14“tall, 14 1/4“long & 21lbs. She was mated for the first time in the spring of 2005 to Tank. Honey is so sweet natured, like her sire. She hardly ever barks, & only wants to please! She has even picked up helping me “herd sheep” all on her own! She has traveled with me all of the way to Idaho & Colorado, & what a good girl she is!
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HONEY & TANK’S FIRST LITTER
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These are the first litter born to Honey Bear & Tank. They are all excellent pups & loved by their new owners with passion!
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Brownking/Bear Tuff “Tank”
Born 11/11/03, out of Fire Mountain Decker Stella X Fire Mountain Decker Duke.
He is 73% plus Decker. He is a Black/White-Tri & has Apricot & Blue genes as well.
He is 22“tall, 23 1/4“long & 41lbs. His mature size is yet to be determined. You can see his sire & dam on Mike Brown’s (of Utah) web site Click Here
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Bear Tuff “Dolly”
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Lucy is a full sister/litter mate to Reba. 
She now lives in Des Moines Iowa.
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Bear Tuff “Cocoa”, (on the right) 
born 7/8/04, out of Bear X Buster. A very Dark-Choc/Tan-Tri. 14.5” tall, 15” long & 20lbs. Her mature size is yet to be determined. Loads of personality & full of fun, this one!
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Bear Tuff “Angel”
Born 7/25/04, out of Josie X Buster.  She is a very Dark-Choc/White-Tri. 13.25” tall, 14.5” long. Her mature size is yet to be determined. She has her sire’s sweet nature!
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Ruby, full sister to Reba...Dam Josie, Sire Buster. Born June 11th 2005.
She is 14.5 inches & 23lbs
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And Lastly...................
Sally with her Pal Rusty
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Potter out of Tank x Honey Bear
See the puppy photos above
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And Cotton with his Family
out of Tank x Honey Bear
See the puppy photos above
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Visitors as of Dec 2005