Squaters

[Guest Lurchers2006]

How do you normally get your dogs taking squaters? My pup has had about bunnies now but is running over squaters!! Should i keep walking him upto these or try slipping him and hope he sees them?

[Ray Mears 272]

i just kept slipping mine and she picked it up after abit dont know if this is the right way but it worked for me mate hope this helps

Edited January 2, 2007 by whippet boy

[snoopdog 1,256]

what you have to do is get your dog to trust theres somthing at the end of the beam evertime ..what i tend to do is at first is to walk up slowly keeping the beam on the rabbit as you get closer hold your lamp higer so the beam is only lighting the rabbit up and not behind the rabbit..i.e. then its not lighting the field behind it somtimes just in front of the bunny the dog looks where the beam ends ....keep doing this and he will get the hang of it ..it takes time ...thats how i do it and it works for me...people lamp in different ways...

 

i just kept slipping mine and she picked it up after abit dont know if this is the right way but it worked for me mate hope this helps

not saying your wrong my mate .. but if he keeps slipping it it may run over the bunny if it sits tight ..then it can loose trust ..if you walk up to tne bunny it will either bolt or you can show it to the dog flick it with your foot...

 

 

mabye iam wrong what the fook do i know... :laugh:

[towzer 3]

spot on snoopdog thats exactly to the word how i was taught mate

[juckler123 707]

get the dog used to lamping without a slip lead it might be a bit chaotic at first but they soon settle down and follow the beam then just walk on the squatters and dont shout the dog on let it get used to em with no encouragement its a lot easier lamping with the dog off the lead

[Guest Lurchers2006]

what you have to do is get your dog to trust theres somthing at the end of the beam evertime ..what i tend to do is at first is to walk up slowly keeping the beam on the rabbit as you get closer hold your lamp higer so the beam is only lighting the rabbit up and not behind the rabbit..i.e. then its not lighting the field behind it somtimes just in front of the bunny the dog looks where the beam ends ....keep doing this and he will get the hang of it ..it takes time ...thats how i do it and it works for me...people lamp in different ways...

 

i just kept slipping mine and she picked it up after abit dont know if this is the right way but it worked for me mate hope this helps

not saying your wrong my mate .. but if he keeps slipping it it may run over the bunny if it sits tight ..then it can loose trust ..if you walk up to tne bunny it will either bolt or you can show it to the dog flick it with your foot...

 

 

mabye iam wrong what the fook do i know... :laugh:

Thanks snoopdog when i was just slipping him he was running over them so im just going to keep walking up to them, hopefully hell get the hang of it,

[dickyboy 1]

to speed up the process i covered some dummies with skins and let him watch my mate throw them down the beam. then on short grass like a football pitch/park i would throw 3 or 4 out leave that field and come back 5 min later when he's forgotten the n lamp them from 20 yards or so! i found it helped him put 2 and 2 together so he knows he has to rtrieve something from the end of the beam everytime and sometimes it doesn't move it also taught him on longer grass to hunt around the area where the beam ends till he finds it.......then well down the line he's starting to click!!!!

 

but apart from that same as snoopdog!!!

[Guest JOEB]

I dont walk up on squatters, I just keep working em on the lamp and if the dog will run the beam it will eventually get the idea.....lots of dogs run over the top, dont worry about it, it will come.

Keep at em

J