Lamp training

[priceyo 1]

After a bit of advice iv got a 12 month old pup she's been coming out with my other dog watching from the age of 6 month and started her running the lamp for the last month of the season never caught anything but was showing much improvement has anybody trained a dog to lamp using a lure machine over the summer and does it work just don't want to lose wht she has started to pick up I'n the last month

[Hunting boys 7]

I've never used a lure machine, we got a clean rabbit when ferreting and waited till night, dropped the rabbit in the big field, put the lamp on and let the dog go, just keep teasing him when looking down the lamp, it will get him game as a badger mate

[Giro 2,648]

Just walk him, let him have free running over the summer and show him the lamp in september..

 

You will see the difference in a september rabbit in grass a foot high compared to a wise febuary rabbit on grass like a bowling green. I would just wait fella no rush what so ever, you may also want to get a flying start to the season and go mid summer if thats the case make sure the grounds soft enough, its like concreat round my way now. You dont want a knocked toe and your young un will loose the best bit of the season and the easy runs..

 

Never used a lure they will have some benifits but not many rabbits run in straight lines lol .. I prefer bike trianing or jogging with my dogs to keep the fittness up good for building stamina and fitness also keeps them quite in the kennel. Just dont over do it in the heat.

Edited March 29, 2012 by Giro

[moonlighter 1,164]

Don't listen to that idiot about dropped rabbits and teasing the dog! Just wait for the autumn and it will all come naturally. Coney catcher 3 is a good watch.

[Millet 4,497]

Like Giro has said just wait till september.. ..the rabbit's will be as green as grass and you will be able to just about stand on many of them before they jump up..just make sure the dog has 100% seen the rabbit before you let it loose..after a few trip's out the dog will soon click..

[skycat 6,173]

Taking a pup out and letting it watch another dog is a pointless exercise: all it does is get the pup over excited in what is already a very exciting situation. It is far better to go out quietly alone, and like the others have said (the ones which spoke sense), wait until early autumn when there are plenty of young, green rabbits about.

 

As for 'teasing the dog': words fail me> another ill advised recipe for over exciting a young dog. Lamping is supposed to be about quietly getting in the right position, putting yourself between the rabbit and where it wants to go. If the dog has already had plenty of runs and never caught anything, then either you are doing something wrong or the dog isn't fast enough, agile enough or mature enough. I once went out with someone who lamped like a bloody dalek.......... lamp on all the time, and he walked right across the fields, pushing the rabbits back into the hedge as he did so, rather than sneaking quietly along the hedges and getting in the right place to cut the rabbits off as they ran for home.

 

What breeding and size is the pup> large bred dogs take a lot longer to mature than smaller more lightly built dogs. Dogs which unfit, overweight, weak, and most of all, without proper preparation and training, can often be made to look fools of by rabbits.

 

Rather than running a lure, you'd be better off throwing a tennis ball which will bounce all over the place on rough grass, thereby teaching the dog to become more agile, as it runs and twists after it to pick it up.

[Giro 2,648]

Eye forgot about tennis ball, Got a ball laucher great to get dog running,picking up and retrieving real good training aid,good for exercise and the dogs really enjoy it..

[Rabbiting man 1,191]

As skycat said take the dog on its own. and if you want you can do what I do when training a young dog use a rabbit skin dummy with small pieces of foil about the size of an 10p and stick one on each side go out with your dog at night get in a field keep the lamp on so your dog can see what you doing throw the dummy the foil replicates the glare of a rabbit eye that is what you want the dog to look for. Encourage your dog to get the dummy walk down if you have to when the dog got the nack of running down the beam for the dummy with the lamp on you can sart to throw the dummy before you turn the lamp on as ive said the foil replicates the glare of a rabbit eye and in a few weeks of this training your dog be running down the beam every time I train my own dogs like this and it works every time good with with your training

[pernod 466]

I've never used a lure machine, we got a clean rabbit when ferreting and waited till night, dropped the rabbit in the big field, put the lamp on and let the dog go, just keep teasing him when looking down the lamp, it will get him game as a badger mate

 

 

Another hunting life muppet.

[spazzy paddy 127]

I've never used a lure machine, we got a clean rabbit when ferreting and waited till night, dropped the rabbit in the big field, put the lamp on and let the dog go, just keep teasing him when looking down the lamp, it will get him game as a badger mate

 

 

Another hunting life muppet.

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