Catching More Than One Rabbit Off A Single Slip?

[silentpoacher 14]

Theres a field near me has mixy all over it happens very often there if that counts lol

[squab 2,875]

Most dogs I go Lamping with are worked without a slip...and like said once mastered its a lot easier than fumbling about with a slip lead in the dark after every run.

 

I've seen my dog catch 3 in a row ferreting..But i only got 1 bunny out of the 3 that bolted,the other 2 had a lucky day and ran off when they realized they were free from the dog..lol.

 

In the 1980's my mate had a Tommy Mcfee bred dog that would do what your talking about..It would catch the rabbit and crunch it,drop it and move onto next rabbit until there was no more to lamp etc etc..but then he would have to go into the field and pick up all the bunnys he had killed..All well and good when your on permission etc etc,but a bit tricky when your walking about a field trying to find dead bunnys with a lamp.. He got bored picking them up himself in the end and would end up leaving bunnies on the field rather than go pick them up. . . thats Just all wrong in my book..lol.

yep thats exactly what i was getting at,so it has been known then,cheers

[trigger2 3,146]

never seen one dog do it. but sometimes ive run dogs doubled up, and a couple of times ive seen another rabbit get up running in the same direction as the one the 2 dogs are allready chasing the dogs have split and caught one each.

 

had a funny thing happen to me the other month which i dont think will ever happen again. my dog was coursing a rabbit in the lamp when another one got up and ran straight into the fence post with the barbed wire on and killed itself just has my dog was picking the one up he was coursing so i had 2 rabbits of the one slip.

[Bosun11 537]

Yep, same as Vin's post, seen a few bloody good rabbit dogs that have never retrieved, just catch, kill and on to the next. As long as the dog don't work too far away from you, you can keep the dog on its game with the lamp and pick up all the dropped rabbits then it can be very fast and effective.

[J Darcy 5,871]

It isn't just about numbers though is it, it's about more than that. A polished performance is what I like to see, thats why I spend many hours training. When I was younger, with much less experience, all I wanted was a dog to 'kill'. Today things are more refined, hunting for the partnership of dog and man.A dog 'doing it's own thing' is not a partnership, in my opinion anyway.

If there's alot of rabbits in a field a good dog making a retrieve straight back to hand shouldn't disturb any, in fact, a dog can be guided back to hand on a wavering route to avoid spooking a rabbit that is squat in his path. but we all do things our own way.....

All the very best, JD

[Poacherspocket 189]

My dog did it this season I slipped him he caught the rabbit and was making progress back to me then as my dog was half way back my lamping partner slipped his big dog and to my horror mac turned and dropped the rabbit he had and caught the second. I wasnt best pleased about the situation because I was worried if he gets into a habbit of this it could lead to him hunting on trying for rabbits I havnt lamped. Thankfully on impact the first rabbits neck felt broken and was dead and it has never happened since.

[weasle 1,119]

Seen a dog drop one to catch another,

I've had a dog that wouldn't retrieve didn't like it much,always go out of my way to have dogs with a decent retrieve now.

Also had a dog that would make rabbits squeal carrying them back, was handy back in the day, would spook some rabbits but others would just freeze, and if there was a fox around it would fly in.

[Poacherspocket 189]

Yep, same as Vin's post, seen a few bloody good rabbit dogs that have never retrieved, just catch, kill and on to the next. As long as the dog don't work too far away from you, you can keep the dog on its game with the lamp and pick up all the dropped rabbits then it can be very fast and effective.

I know a dog like this. Only problem in my area is that their is rabbits however fields are small and rabbits are shy. If your dog isnt straight back after a slip he will scare the rabbits off from surrounding areas. And unfortunately you see lots of rabbits but you have to work hard for them its rare to see more than 4 or 5 in 1 field.