Not To Jump Fences

[Aussie Whip 4,158]

I work whippet lurchers in areas with a lot of barbed wire and have been told to teach them not to jump fences,both dogs were cut as pups but learned as they matured to clear fences better.Do many hunters teach there dogs not to jump fences.

[Fat-Ferret 857]

Makes things easier

[Shaddy93 840]

Depends what sort of dog my heavy set lurcher will jump anything but i try to avoid him jumping if it's barbed wire, a dog of his weight coming down on a barbed fence would end bad

[Sirblessed 2,511]

I teach mine not too I got sick of stiching years ago, lost my best dog to barb fence

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec6UmJ77Gts

[Treehands. 1,379]

Better to jump mid coarse than go through wire at speed, always throw a leg along top wire and jump to command.

Everything else is down to the dog and gravity .

I'd rather a dog caught the odd wire than it give up at a fence.

[asd83 4]

My first lurcher got caught a few times on the dreaded barbed wire. I decided never to teach her daughter to jump. She lost a fair bit through not jumping. My old bitch will jump anything or try n go through it in full flight lol. But my lamping bitch got caught on a double fence early last season and jumping is now out the window. Thought see would be fine this season, but so far it's been a nightmare. I'm now stuck between a rock n a hard place atb

[Aussie Whip 4,158]

Luckily the dogs always jump over if they didn't id catch very few rabbits and probably loose my permission.I noticed they size the fences up quickly before jumping now.

[Kieran Ritchie 340]

If my dog couldn't jump it would be useless up here you need a good jumper

[jake824 517]

They need to jump . A lot of stuff is lost with dogs pulling up at fences / hedges. I hate seeing a dog running up and down a hedge . Find a gap and get through. I always take my pups out young and leave them at pig netting fences to find a way through and never lift em over. They learn quickly, some will go under or through some are natural jumpers. Accidents do happen but they re working dogs and it's the nature of the job

Edited December 7, 2016 by jake824

[air gun ant 1,666]

Wish I'd taught mine to jump! She's a heavy tw*t when you need to lift her over a gate lol I don't want her jumping fences when she's on the game tho, a rabbits not worth the vet bill and time out IMO

[Shaddy93 840]

It's the same sort of thing as crashing into hedges do you like your dog crashing into hedges? Both of my dogs will smash through a hedge at full speed sometimes it makes me cringe I see a young beddy whippet dog smash into a hedge after a rabbit one night only to get speared by an old iron steak in the hedge the dog had to be put down I guess it's one of those things though where ever you lamp there are hazards and it's luck of the draw on the night

[C.green 3,231]

I like a hedge buster myself as I like doing abit of hunting in forestry block and woodland so a dog that's handy round cover is a must.

 

As for jumping all my dogs jump never owned one that won't f**k all that picking them up at gates and fences up and over.

 

Have come unstuck a few times was having a walk by chievely services and me dog jumped one of the double fences landed clean on the second fence. Also try to teach a dog to go under wire on command.

[Shaddy93 840]

Yeah I like how mine smash into hedges it just makes me gulp sometimes haha same with the fences mine will jump anything and tbh I'd lose a lot of stuff if they didn't jump or crash into hedges, a mate of mine lost a bull collie greyhound a couple years back that dog cleared any fence, one day he commanded it to jump a double fence that the dog jumped every day for nearly 5 years this one day his back leg dropped in between the brow fences and snapped ligaments had to be put down

[johnpee 214]

I would never own a dog that does not jump. Nothing worse then seen a dog chasing up to a fence stops or trys getting under it or worse case scenario trys to run through it.

[Wild-Bill 500]

A dog that can't jump Is useless to me, plenty of fences gates dykes all sorts on all the land I go so it's must for a dog to be a jumper and pretty good at it to I would say.