You’re right moocher71 it is wrong and cruel to drop rabbits, there’s no justifiable reason for it, it teaches a dog nothing, anybody dropping rabbits has no place in field sports and doesn’t deserve to keep a dog, if anybody needs to sharpen their dog up as you put it I’d say take the dog and do a bit of ratting with it, a few bites off them would sharpen it up, but imo if somebody need to sharpen a dog up that dog’s lacking the qualities needed to be a hunting dog, atb