Bring It Back

[NE_Monkey 159]

So,my 11 month old Lurcher caught his first rabbit on the lamp last night but decided he was gonna be a bit rough with it and not bring it back however his recall was still working but minus the rabbit.

 

Training;

Good recall

Works off the lead

Brings ball back to a high standard

 

If anybody has experienced this has has visibly seen positive results from any retraining they used I would appreciate some tips

Cheers

[bird 10,013]

So,my 11 month old Lurcher caught his first rabbit on the lamp last night but decided he was gonna be a bit rough with it and not bring it back however his recall was still working but minus the rabbit.

 

Training;

Good recall

Works off the lead

Brings ball back to a high standard

 

If anybody has experienced this has has visibly seen positive results from any retraining they used I would appreciate some tips

Cheers regards

yeh , just leave it, carry on walking the pup will come , it just a rabbit no big deal. the prob is and i just said the same on a post (age) you got to just chill with the dog, because he excited with the rabbit so he high lol and he sence your getting wound up deff, all his training will go out of the window recall etc , and should imagine its the time it had rabbit in its mouth.All my lurchers had caught plenty of rabbits well before they 11 months old, so at your pup age it was no big deal to them, it getting them out when very young that the crack mate. i did have a bitch who was bit mad like that 30 years ago . she was near enough 90% running grey,whippet dog with bit of collie , she catch and piss off with rabbit, i just waited till she was calm , then do 2-3 recalls no rabbit just pure recall , then lamp another rabbit, same again she pissed about, so same again 3 recalls . what i did just turn into a training no difference to the day, its still only recall nothing else , the dog got to come back to with or with out anything in its mouth . this paid off brill in the end it took 3 -4 nights of recalling her in the lamp, get her to come back to the spot light on the floor with the recall . that bitch was great lamping bitch in the end, caught loads of rabbits, and she bring back hares as well from other end of the field in the day. but sadly she got hurt at 5 with cruciate ligament knee , and that was the end of her . she was prob me worst retriever , but she came very good in the end with the above

[NE_Monkey 159]

Appreciate it

He's had a couple of daytime rabbits but they were in his favour

his behaviour at night off lead is coming on really well Inc his recall and he got a fuss for catching the rabbit on the lamp.

I think your right, Defo excited to have the rabbit in his mouth and getting lost in the moment (I was aswell lol).

I'll keep the fetch games going and get some weighted bunny hides on the go and get it down for winter

[NE_Monkey 159]

[Squirrel_Basher 17,101]

Did the dog kill it mate or live to you eventually .

[NE_Monkey 159]

Did the dog kill it mate or live to you eventually .

He didn't kill it but it was proper knacked and no longer putting up a fight

[FUJI 17,328]

I've a dog here that will retrieve a ball to hand all day long,will retrieve to hand lovely on the lamp,if it catches anything in the day (rarely) lol,it will not retrieve it an inch so if it catches out of sight your f****d lol..Thick b*****d it is ?

[dog man 176]

I use a rabbit skin from an early age skin stuffed with news paper first then progress with a shooters dummy covered in rabbit skin as it will be the first time they will have had a mouth of fur but it is first kill they like to run around proud as punch with first kill but try shooters dummy covered in rabbit skin.

 

if they get lazy they can always read the news paper lol