bushing

[Guest MOLLY]

Get a breed usually known for their excitability....you want a bushing terrier to throw its voice, the more excitable ones tend to do this easily.

Bushing for the lurchers is my favourite form of hunting

MOLL.

 

Molly, forgive my ignorance...but why does a bushing terrier need a voice? Is that if working longdogs or guns or something else?

Foxdropper has answered Nuv. A lurcher can still hear on a nice calm day when they are quiet and running about in the bush. But if the terrier is deep in the bush, its windy, raining etc, its much better. Plus the lurcher knows its 'game on' when they hear them, and stops sniffing at the grass and gets to where they should be

Another point id make is to train your terrier to retrieve. There is nothing worse than hearing it kill in the bush, you cant get to it and the terrier just leaves it for the next chase.

MOLL.

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Get a breed usually known for their excitability....you want a bushing terrier to throw its voice, the more excitable ones tend to do this easily.

Bushing for the lurchers is my favourite form of hunting

MOLL.

me too moll we take four lurchers out they manage to scatter a few but with the help of a terrier theres surely more fun to be had

[lampinglurcher 36]

why not a beagle or a harrier? give tongue, very sociable dogs IMO the best bushing dogs around. lad on here works them.

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why not a beagle or a harrier? give tongue, very sociable dogs IMO the best bushing dogs around. lad on here works them.

whats a harrier then mate

[lampinglurcher 36]

its a scenthound, bigger than a beagle, usually 19"-21" mate. hunt hare, fox, bush for bunnies...

[Guest MOLLY]

That would be too big for the bushes i work, the terriers have to belly crawl through some of them

MOLL.

[Guest grubygrafter]

theres a lot of patts and laky's used round here. ide go for a russell or plummer.

. if set on a terrier. if not a cocker

[hafod 1]

better off getting a yappy type of terrier for your bushing mate,like as been already said,gives you an indication in cover when there is something about,a silent dog you always on the look out for increase in speed of the dog when theres something about,me and my mates use a beagle or 2 when out beating cover,great when there a few of you out as you can stop them iff you miss your quarry,terriers can be hard work at times,a beagle might break your heart......

[Guest dazzert66]

Get a working bedlington I have 2 and they are the best bushing dogs I have ever seen and I used to keep springers which are good but lack the agility and speed of the beddys.

[Guest MOLLY]

ide go for a russell or plummer.

I would disagree, not because i dont think they are up to the job i know they are, but you need a dog with a good deep strong coat of you are going to bush on a regular basis, smooth coated dogs will end up full of thorns and cut to ribbons

MOLL.

[DUCKWING 302]

PERSONALLY ...

 

TERRIERS OF A GOOD LINE ARE A BLOODY MENACE TO BUSH TO IN LARGE OVER GROWN AREAS AS THEY WILL DROP TO GROUND ........ NOT NICE WHEN YOU ARE CRAWLING AROUND UNDER WHINS LOOKING AND LISTENING FOR THE SOUND OF A BAY ALL DAY WORRYING .....SEEN IT HAPPEN A MILLION TIMES TO KIDS OUT BUSHING ....... THE MAJORITY OF LADS WOULD BE BETTER OFF WITH A HARD HUNTING SPANIEL

 

AS A POINT OF FACT ............. LAST SEASON , WE WATCHED 4 KIDS AND THERE BOBBERY PACK WALK UP THIS HEDGE TOWARDS SOME ALLOTMENTS , 10 MINS LATER WE WALKED THE SAME WAY WITH A FRIENDS SPANIELS ....... AND PUT OUT 3 RABBITS ,

 

JEEZ THEM KIDS FACES WERE RED WHEN WE FINISH RIBBING THEM

 

 

ALL THE BEST DUCKWING

[bshadle 5]

Please forgive an ignorant American for asking what's probably a stupid question, but...

 

Is "bushing" using a dog or dogs to flush game, I presume primarily rabbits, from dense cover, i.e., brush piles, briars, bramble, hegderows, etc.?

 

Do you flush them to gun, or to a lurcher to run down and catch? Or both ways, depending on the season and location?

 

If it's flushing to gun, I've had a lot of luck with the smaller beagles, <13", and the closer to 11" the better. The smaller ones can work under just about any tangle I've ever encountered.

 

Don't mean to call anyone's baby ugly, and maybe your terriers are bred for different work than ours, but it would seem to me better to use a breed of dog for its intended purpose if you have the option. I've hunted grouse and pheasant with a beagle when that's all I had, and did better with the dog than I'd have done without it. But when I hunted birds over a spaniel or even a good retriever, would do even better.

 

Just one man's opinion, and it might not even be related to what you're after.

[Guest stantheman]

I/v a p/t and she works through brambles gorse anything were she thinks theres bunnys never had cuts 1 or 2 thorns now and again, I think she is the best bushing dog I/v seen, if she kills in the thick stuff she retrevs it to hand, she opens up [bANNED TEXT] she.s in the bush to let yuo no where she is, I can recall any time and she will come strait away.Stan.

[marko 30]

me and my mate have border terriers they have cracking coats not too small in size and work bush and cover very keen with their little tails going they knock out plenty of stuff for the whippet and lurcher.would highly recommend them also they aint to vocal very helpful if you are in areas that you aint meant to be in incidently i dont like my dogs being to noisy because all the quarry for miles away say to themselves heres the terrier lets f**k off.each to their own i suppose horses for courses.

[valerio 32]

I've tried my terrier for bushing but it was a total disaster,he was allways going to ground on his own.

I'll have a spaniel or an hound.