Halle Berry

Have to agree with Wideboy, stock breaking and stopping a dog running into danger (like a road) both require something a bit more extreme (an absolute 'no') but if you have the bond established, they have a better reaction to your displeasure/command. I learnt alot from a dog we had who was 100% the pack leader but also a really nice chap. Watching him discipline a pup (and still have a bond with them, play with them, sleep with them etc) taught me what they understand and accept as a 'no' without being broken mentally by the experience.

I'm no expert but we have just taken in a young dog (18 months old) which had been handled this heavy handed way. Well bred beautiful coursing type dog with a lovely nature and plenty of prey drive as it turns out but when we first got her she was so frightened of doing wrong that when you asked her to do something she just dithered and wouldn't even think of striking a rabbit right in front of her. I think she'd been beaten on the recall so she used to cower 10 yards off which was really unhelpful. Any sudden movement sent her running and screaming. She was also underweight and horribly t

Things were looking good in the summer of 2016, loads of rabbits everywhere, then towards the end of the summer the dogs started picking up myxi ones and when we started working the dog and the ferrets there was nothing anywhere. Maximum bag 2 rabbits (bucks) a day. Has anyone else in the Dorset/Hampshire area had a similar experience? The dog, the ferrets are getting bored and we are getting quite despondent.