 The tools used for terrier work have essentially remained unchanged for more than 400 years – a small-chested and very game working terrier, a good roundpoint shovel, a digging bar, a brushhook to clear away hedge and bramble, fox nets, water for the dog and digger, and a snare to remove the quarry or a gun or blunt instrument to dispatch it.The only “modern” piece of equipment found in a terrierman’s kit that would look foreign to a terrierman from the late 18th Century is an electronic radio collar used to help locate the dog underground and speed the dig.Locator collars have greatly increased the safety of dogs when underground, and no sensible digger will put a dog to ground without one today.