Bushing

[crazybones16 0]

Hi all i am just reading posts about bushing and i was wondering how one goes about this and do you need to teach your dog what to do or do they just do it?????

[lamping-lad 160]

Hi all i am just reading posts about bushing and i was wondering how one goes about this and do you need to teach your dog what to do or do they just do it?????

YOU,VE PUT THIS IN THE LURCHER SECTION MATE ALTHOUGH SOME LURCHERS WILL BUSH AND HUNT IN TIGHT COVER ITS MAINLY TERRIERS AND SPANIELS THAT BUSH MATE, BASICLEY IT IS THE TERRIERS HUNTING THROUGH THE TIGHT COVER LIKE BRAMBLES AND FLUSH HIDDING RABBITS OUT FOR THE LURCHERS TO CATCH HOPE THIS HELPS

[crazybones16 0]

oh sorry lol i will post it there then

[Night Hunter 109]

Hi all i am just reading posts about bushing and i was wondering how one goes about this and do you need to teach your dog what to do or do they just do it?????

YOU,VE PUT THIS IN THE LURCHER SECTION MATE ALTHOUGH SOME LURCHERS WILL BUSH AND HUNT IN TIGHT COVER ITS MAINLY TERRIERS AND SPANIELS THAT BUSH MATE, BASICLEY IT IS THE TERRIERS HUNTING THROUGH THE TIGHT COVER LIKE BRAMBLES AND FLUSH HIDDING RABBITS OUT FOR THE LURCHERS TO CATCH HOPE THIS HELPS

 

 

I thought it was what you do down the back of pub if you get fixed wi a hairy bird......lol

[Tyla 3,179]

Terriers or spaniels work the cover and flush rabbits to the lurchers, it can be great sport as you never know what'll happen. The terriers need to be keen and willing to face cover to either flush or catch rabbits in the bushes, the running dogs need to understand that they need to keep with the cover dogs and be in the right place to catch bolters. It helps alot if the dogs all know each other and how they each work as this makes them more able to read the signals and act accordingly. Not sure how you train them to do it, mine just picked it up working with more experienced dogs.

 

Just get out there and give it a go!

[crazybones16 0]

Terriers or spaniels work the cover and flush rabbits to the lurchers, it can be great sport as you never know what'll happen. The terriers need to be keen and willing to face cover to either flush or catch rabbits in the bushes, the running dogs need to understand that they need to keep with the cover dogs and be in the right place to catch bolters. It helps alot if the dogs all know each other and how they each work as this makes them more able to read the signals and act accordingly. Not sure how you train them to do it, mine just picked it up working with more experienced dogs.

 

Just get out there and give it a go!

 

thanks for that i havent got a terrier or lurcher at the moment but my dog and my mates 2 (beagle and husky).. have caught a few rabbits through my dog rushing through the bushs and the husky going around the back and i really enjoyed it so i am thinking it something i will enjoy

[lamping rabbit 11]

i have two jrt and they just pick it up easy i started but throwing there tennis ball in and they just went from there .hope that works pal

[Neal 1,854]

Bushing has more to do with the temperament or work ethic of the dog rather than the breed. I'm sure there are a lot of lurcher owners on this site who'd regard their dogs as bushing dogs.

 

My last lurcher, kelpie/collie x greyhound, was raised on his own so naturally did all his own bushing. When I bought a pure kelpie to use as the bushing dog he, understandably, let the lurcher carry on doing what he was so good at. As a result it took a while for the kelpie to realise he was allowed in...though you wouldn't think it to see him now.

[Mick C. 229]

Get yourself a ferret and dont be afraid of cutting back heavy bramble to get at the rabbit burrows a young LURCHER(

pREFEREBLY ON THE SMALL SIDE) will follow what your at .Plenty of praise and encouragement should do the rest.

 

Thats roughly how the three dogs i owned became mad for it.

 

Mongrel lurchers some would call them.

Edited March 14, 2010 by Mick C.

[crazybones16 0]

ok cool i will try some of this with my dog just to see her reaction should be interesting???

[goldfinch2007 2,331]

my bull cross,thinks its a terrier.it leaves nothing behind

[lofti 579]

my bull cross,thinks its a terrier.it leaves nothing behind

 

ive got one like that too goldy

[adamb20 22]

My beddy Whippet x collie grey is va good busher, just came naturally to her, but when I go out with my mates borders she waits out a bit more for bolters

[rootertooter 5]

my little busher,they just need good nose and most just know what to do

[wrowmon 1]

its a great side of the sport,thats why i am getting back into it,ten years ago a sunday out with the mix pack was never a wasted day.

we used to have a pack of two lurchers,2 border T,and a jr cross . lurcher and the jr cross which were mine loved it very good sport and amazing how the dogs learnt thier place//job.

 

now started again but with an ess,labxess,doberman and a friends whippet lurcher.thats why i crossed the dobie with the whippet.

 

and the only work the ess and lab got this season as the beating was very lean...