Cracking Mooch To End The Season.

[fitchet 788]

Was out with my saluki greyhound yesterday evening. Now when i first got this dog he was a shivering wreck of a animal so nervous he wouldnt even walk on a lead. I took the dog on but it soon became a chore hunting with him. after alot of work and an inhuman amount of patience i now have something that resembles somethimg that i can call half decent. Now hes educated confident and obediant. He knows how to use his nose he runs the beam 100% marks warrens ritrieves rabbits and feather alive to hand.

 

Now what i was really looking for before i took this dog on was an allround pot filler. I think i got what i wanted. All the best

 

[darbo 4,776]

Good on you that was nice to read.

[LaraCroft 863]

How nice to hear that someone has the time, patience and ability to turn a dog around.

[3 Turns 326]

FAIRPLAY MATE

U STUCK WITH IT AND ITS PAID OFF FOR YOU.

ATB

[Millet 4,497]

Well done for putting the time in what must of seemed like a thankless task..all the hard work has paid of now and you can reep the reward's..

[fitchet 788]

Cheers people. Dont get me wrong there were times when i was thinking of rehoming him to a pet home but i have to say hes turnt out better than i ever thought he was. He kills on small hedgy land aswell as the big stuff.

[freelance 448]

Fairplay fitchet for sticking with him, sounds like he has done you proud. Well done fella Cheers Atb

[lat 29]

Well done to you mate, you should be proud of yourself for keeping another one out of the rescue centres. It just goes to show it can be done. I wonder how many of the ones in rescue are there because of their owners inability to train them properly.

Well Done.

[Frank.2 31]

All your hard work has payed off well by the looks of it, he sounds like he is flying it..

[skycat 6,174]

I'd love to hear more about him: what problems he had, how you overcame them ... I'm sure there's one or two other people who would be interested as well. There's enough people who post about the problems they have with these sort of dogs, even ones they've reared from pups.

 

Lat has it dead on: most wouldn't know how to go about training a sensitive, and sometimes wayward animal like a Saluki type.

[AirgunGuy 362]

Well done...credit to you. Bonnie lookin dog :-)

[J.DOG 1,355]

 

Lat has it dead on: most wouldn't know how to go about training a sensitive, and sometimes wayward animal like a Saluki type.

Spot on that is , to many people give up on them and write them off too early

[AirgunGuy 362]

Just goes to show a lot of the time that its what you put into a dog :-)

[swaino 126]

Well done fitchet, you've done a great job there! Atb mate

[fitchet 788]

Thanks for the kind replies people. Skycat the dog was pretty much feral he didnt know anything about people and didnt want to. if im honest he was more of a liability then a working dog.

 

The first time i took him him ferreting i bolted one for him and he chased it to a piece of gorse and stood there marking the gorse for 3 hours !! I just carried on ferreting and bolting bunnies and as soon as he heard a rabbit sqeal he came flying back i dispatched the rabbit put his lead on gave him the rabbit and let him carry it home. My thought was praise means nothing to him but a kill does so thats his reward. I started carrying a rabbit skin around and a long line and everytime i called him he got a good rag on the skin and plenty of praise.

 

I mentioned earlier that he was so nervous that he didnt walk on a lead. So i had to teach him that when i put the lead on him it meant he was going for a walk and play wich wasnt too difficult.

 

He isnt a titbit and bot of praise sort of dog so i had to condition him to please me before he was of any use.

 

I was told by more than one person to "give him a cartridge and be done with it. And dont get me wrong there were times when i thought i was gonna have to. Like the time he ran a roe through a woodland and i lost him for 2 days. Or the time he f****d off for 5 hours and when he did eventually come back i had to praise him. Like i said inhuman amounts of patience. But we got there in the end. There are many many more times and problems we had to deal with but id rather look to next season when i can give him a good crack of the whip and see what hes made of. Heres a few pics from this season. Atb