Anybody else had this problem

[ady-b 94]

Well took my pup out for a quick shine tonight it was only her second outing as she is only 10 months old, anyway everything had gone ok she'd had a few runs and had returned immediately as soon as she'd missed and apart from catching had done everything spot on. So now to the problem... last field I pick a rabbit for her and slip her, so far so good,after several turns she catches her first ever rabbit(I was over the moon) but that is where the problem came, not only did she not retrieve it even though she has been taught to retrieve since she was 8 weeks old and has very rarely faltered,after running the field for 10 mins rabbit dangling from her mouth she decided it was going to be supper by the time she let me anywhere near her I was faced with only half the catch left, to say Im gutted is a massive understatement.

So heres my question has anybody else had this and if so how the f**ck do you stop it.

[BEARINATOR 2,883]

It's just a pup mate, seen it happen a few times with the pups first few rabbits

[Chid 6,655]

when the dog catches walk the opposite way , 9 times out of 10 dog will follow you with catch in mouth when its walking to heel , keep walking but take the rabbit of her ... worked with my whippet/grey

[Catcher 1 639]

Did you train her on fur on dummies mate.

[MOUSE TRAP 19]

hi mate 1 o ma dogs used to bring back to hand then went out with a mate with 1 of his dogs after catching 1 she would bring in to about 20 feet when you walked to her she would run another 20 feet then started rippin it to bits think it was because of other dog being there now i just let her kill it walk away and she comes to me

[Guest RAB.MCKAY]

lol seen it a million times , did u feed her rabbits be 4

[Bosun11 537]

Yep mate, as with the other replies, it can be a common occurance with many pups. They seemingly are so chuffed the've caught the fecking thing they do a little war dance and all that good training looks to have gone right out the window!

 

Fear not mate, all that training will pay off and the more you get 'em out the faster it'll come right. There are many different methods that can help, Chid's just said one, but whatever method you use, just remember that it may take a bit of time and whatever you do, do not loose your rag..!!

[Catcher 1 639]

  On 03/02/2011 at 22:26, Bosun11 said:

Yep mate, as with the other replies, it can be a common occurance with many pups. They seemingly are so chuffed the've caught the fecking thing they do a little war dance and all that good training looks to have gone right out the window!

 

Fear not mate, all that training will pay off and the more you get 'em out the faster it'll come right. There are many different methods that can help, Chid's just said one, but whatever method you use, just remember that it may take a bit of time and whatever you do, do not loose your rag..!!

 

 

[Rake aboot 4,936]

Yup

Seen this before, All reason gets chucked when they get a live kicking bunny in there gob, Don`t worry too much though, seen good dogs start in exactly the same way !

[ady-b 94]

Tried the walking away and there was no way she was gonna follow me, shes been trained with a whole variety of items including rabbit skin dummies and no shes never been fed rabbit. Just couldnt understand it , during exercise her obedience is superb and shes been a real joy

[Catcher 1 639]

  On 03/02/2011 at 22:36, ady-b said:

Tried the walking away and there was no way she was gonna follow me, shes been trained with a whole variety of items including rabbit skin dummies and no shes never been fed rabbit. Just couldnt understand it , during exercise her obedience is superb and shes been a real joy

 

 

Hi bud.Try it for a few weeks on whole dead rabbits.

[ady-b 94]

Thanks for the replies guys its restored my confidence somewhat that maybe its just a puppy thing and that with a bit of extra training and work it will sort itself eventually, wouldnt of been so bad but as soon as she caught it I was planning a rabbit curry

[darbo 4,776]

dont despair seen pups do all manner of things with their first catches and come good. i would just take a bit of time out give it some retrieves dead rabbits try again. i had a collie grey first catch killed it then cocked its leg and pissed on it and i am not joking. i can laugh about it now but at the time i couldnt beleive it happened.young dogs can do all manner of things when catching their first rabbits. if trained to retrieve as young dogs with dummys then dead rabbits early problems as the pup matures should get better.

[wuyang 513]

  On 03/02/2011 at 23:24, darbo said:

dont despair seen pups do all manner of things with their first catches and come good. i would just take a bit of time out give it some retrieves dead rabbits try again. i had a collie grey first catch killed it then cocked its leg and pissed on it

 

 

Thats made my night....

[darbo 4,776]

can laugh about it now but at the time i was only a young lad 23 i thought my lurcher world had come to a end. it didnt happen again and the dog retrieved well the rest of its working life.