Suluki Problems,

[claude greengrass 7]

I have just bought a saluki whippet greyhound dog, he is a cracking dog, jumps anything, very fast, retrieves live to hand, his only fault is when lamping if he misses the rabbit he runs around the field hunting, any one got any ideas or have had success putting this right, he is a relatively young dog at 16 month old

[delboy_187 902]

Hold lamp to your feet turning it on an off whilst calling also put time in playing fetch or retrieve each time he comes back rewarding him with small treat . Try limit his space when playing retrieve somewhere like a lane way or side entrance so he have no where else to go other than by you taking the toy an giving him a treat

[claude greengrass 7]

Cheers delboy ill give them a go

[bullmastiff 615]

Find an empty field or Park and take him out on the lamp and practice his retrieving at night. Throw a dummy, shine it under lamp light and release him, when he's fetched it back then reward him with a nice treat, liver or chicken etc. (don't reward him until him returns to hand...) Dropping 10-20ft from you isn't acceptable. Just walk away from him until he comes close.

Once he's got that down pat, change to as soon as he picks up the dummy, turn the lamp off, call him back as normal and give him the treat as normal.

It's called conditioning. Food is usually the biggest reward for most dogs but have a look at the Collies that do fly ball and watch the owners 'treat' them with a tennis ball. Same thing. Each dog has it's favorite treat you just need to condition the dog that when the light goes out and you call, theirs a treat for returning.

Mind you, I've only worked with Bull crosses and Spaniels so don't really know about Saluki Crosses. I've heard their pretty hard to train and very independent???

All the best with the dog.

Luke

[the big chief 3,099]

Same as all the above really can't ad more but if all that fails try an e collar but be very careful with them if you don't know what you are doing with them can make the dog worse very easily but if you know what you are doing and not shock willy-nilly can work brilliantly one of my dogs had to use one i tride everything couldn't get him bk at all used a e collar correctly and came right bk to me no hunting up and ended up being one of the best dogs i owned but do try everything 1st its not a substitute for lack of traing

[claude greengrass 7]

The dogs retrieving is brilliant, it's when he misses the rabbit he is off looking for another, once he catches one straight back live to hand, it's just

No good when he's missed I want him back not hunting the field

[J Darcy 5,871]

Don't use an electric collar on saluki crosses. They are not needed IMO. Just get the dog listening to you. Next season you'll hit the floor running.

[J Darcy 5,871]

Find an empty field or Park and take him out on the lamp and practice his retrieving at night. Throw a dummy, shine it under lamp light and release him, when he's fetched it back then reward him with a nice treat, liver or chicken etc. (don't reward him until him returns to hand...) Dropping 10-20ft from you isn't acceptable. Just walk away from him until he comes close.

Once he's got that down pat, change to as soon as he picks up the dummy, turn the lamp off, call him back as normal and give him the treat as normal.

It's called conditioning. Food is usually the biggest reward for most dogs but have a look at the Collies that do fly ball and watch the owners 'treat' them with a tennis ball. Same thing. Each dog has it's favorite treat you just need to condition the dog that when the light goes out and you call, theirs a treat for returning.

Mind you, I've only worked with Bull crosses and Spaniels so don't really know about Saluki Crosses. I've heard their pretty hard to train and very independent???

All the best with the dog.

Luke

Under no circumstances use food as a 'reward' for retrieving. All that will happen is that the dog will stop retrieving, drop whatever it's carrying and just come for the food.

This isn't a retrieve issue, it's a dog hunting up issue. The dog has to realize that there will be no more lamping until he is back on the slip. Once he realizes that then the rest is plain sailing.

[delboy_187 902]

Good video on you tube mate . , training lurcher pup its called. 3 part video each part twenty odd minutes worth a watch good man with a dog

[delboy_187 902]

Remember dont ask him to come. tell him to come

[Hot Meat 3,109]

Take Darcy's advice mate

[johnny 2 367]

Don't use an electric collar on saluki crosses. They are not needed IMO. Just get the dog listening to you. Next season you'll hit the floor running.

E collar sorted recall with mine.Used correctly a great training tool imo.

[baw 4,360]

Surprised no ones bothered to ask how long he's had this dog he's just bought. What happened to good old bonding? Seems to me that's the problem if its doing everything else hunting related apart from returning empty handed.

[the big chief 3,099]

My dog never left my side as a pup the bond on mine was there he just liked to hunt could be the same with his baw

[baw 4,360]

My dog never left my side as a pup the bond on mine was there he just liked to hunt could be the same with his baw

Could be mate but problems with a new dog, I'd be looking at forming a bond before I started trying to train it anything.