any one have a collie cross

[adamb20 22]

just wondering if all collie crosses leave thier hedge rabbits when they know theres no cance of catching them or do some still ru right up just to watch it through the fence?

[samba 534]

some do some dont alot of people can live with it but

mine used to do my head in

[Top Lamper 2k10 169]

my saluki grey cross colli grey done it and it done my f*****g head in

[adamb20 22]

i can live with it but it gets on me nerves sometimes. but when a think it is jst a waste of energy.

[Top Lamper 2k10 169]

not realy mate because your dog always has a good chance to bring the rabbit off the hedge and make a catch

[adamb20 22]

maybee where you go but very rarely happens where i go, especially late on in season they like lightening getting through. she will hit the bush if she allready coursing it though.

[Big bald beautiful 1,231]

my collie cross would do it, wouldnt run rabbits that were sat near wallsor fences.

yet the sister would run and catch them when they bounced off

[#1poacher 8]

have saw them keep hold of the rabbit through the wire fence it had grabbed it and couldnt pull it back just kept tugging on the wire till we got over and got hold of it

[wuyang 513]

In the daytime my border collie greyhound 50/50 slows down way before the hedge when chasing head on, this can be annoying thinking that she gave up way too soon, but i'd sooner her use her experience and save injurying herself for the sake of catching a rabbit. On the other hand she is no coward and has made some incredible strikes in places where i never thought she would have stood a chance, eg in woodlands. I was talking to a chap a country fair asking him the difference between his collie lurcher and kelpie lurcher, in his opinion his collie was more sensible, in that his kelpie lurcher would push that extra bit to get the rabbit, which would pay off sometimes, but he would also have more visits to the vets. I'm happy with my collie greyhound pulling up, although she's perhaps too clever for the likes of some.

Edited April 15, 2010 by wuyang

[adamb20 22]

In the daytime my border collie greyhound 50/50 slows down way before the hedge when chasing head on, this can be annoying thinking that she gave up way too soon, but i'd sooner her use her experience and save injurying herself for the sake of catching a rabbit. On the other hand she is no coward and has made some incredible strikes in places where i never thought she would have stood a chance, eg in woodlands. I was talking to a chap a country fair asking him the difference between his collie lurcher and kelpie lurcher, in his opinion his collie was more sensible, in that his kelpie lurcher would push that extra bit to get the rabbit, which would pay off sometimes, but he would also have more visits to the vets. I'm happy with my collie greyhound pulling up, although she's perhaps too clever for the likes of some.

 

exactly the same for me, my dog has never been laid up yet (touch wood, where as my mates dog is laid up nearly everytime hes out as his pray drive is so high. he is laid up at the minute with a very nasty leg injury for the sake of a day time rabbit.

[Fat-Ferret 857]

I almost wish at times my oldest bitch would pull up....But no, like a bull in a china shop!

[Neal 1,875]

My old collie x whippet would only try for things it thought weren't too far away but my kelpie/collie greyhound didn't stop until the rabbit was either caught or had gone to ground. All the time I owned him, and subsequent pure kelpies, most of my catches have been in cover.

 

I have to say that I was lucky with his first catch in that we'd just entered a field and he saw a rabbit hop into the gorse and brambles on the opposite side, shot over, ploughed in and came out holding the rabbit and retrieved it. As a result he was always confident that if he'd seen it then he was in with a chance no matter how slim.

[Stabs 3]

This one never let a hedge slow her up and I sometimes used to have my heart in my mouth

 

[whin 463]

had acolie lurcher years ago who started rating her rabits next to cover no god ,but the collie type i have b now get stuck in if a rabbit hits afence hedge they try and pull him out

[poacher3161 1,766]

This habit it is not exclusive just to collie crosses as i have seen other lurchers do it devoid of collie blood and was one of the reasons some lads would not lamp dogs used exclusivley for coursing.atb dell