dropping rabbits

[brock 11]

can any body give some advice please,

my mate has a first cross saluki greyhound,2 year old shes good on hare and rabbit but once she has caught them she seems to bring them back a bit ,then just drops them,because she is so soft mouthed they get back up and run off and a few are then making a escape,the boy is very pissed off with this at the moment because he loves eating hare and rabbit,does anybody have any suggestions on how to stop this

[swanseajack 227]

can any body give some advice please,

my mate has a first cross saluki greyhound,2 year old shes good on hare and rabbit but once she has caught them she seems to bring them back a bit ,then just drops them,because she is so soft mouthed they get back up and run off and a few are then making a escape,the boy is very pissed off with this at the moment because he loves eating hare and rabbit,does anybody have any suggestions on how to stop this

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Slip her on a red one....

 

They soon learn to become hard mouthed with different game... might not work but worth a try!

[brock 11]

she has been slipped with fox killing dogs,but she isnt interested.

[Guest CharlieC]

guinea pigs? :11:

Soft mouthed dogs lack committment and drive, thats my honest opinion, I had one like that years ago she caught well, in fact she was a great rabbiting dog, but she was nervy, skittish and hand shy and would drop rabbits as she was bringing them in to me, which ended up in a vicious circle cos the more she dropped them the more pissed off I got and the more she kept dropping them, that dog infuriated me! She snapped her leg out coursing one day and that gave me the excuse I had been looking for to have her PTS.

 

Some young dogs will mess around with their first few rabbits, and it may take a while for the penny to drop, but I personally couldnt put up with an experienced adult dog that was soft mouthed on a regular basis. Bodies in the bag are all that matter to me so I dont care if the dogs are hard mouthed (which all of mine are to a degree), as the rabbits are only getting fed to them anyway

 

My eldest bitch jumped up to make a catch on a bunny last time I had her out lamping, and she struck the rabbit just as it jumped the dyke and she managed to mouth the rabbit along with the strand of electric fence that runs along the top, she yipped and dropped the rabbit but as soon as it was on the ground, she had it again.

 

Its up to you, but a soft mouthed dog is not for me, I couldnt put up with it, theres nothing more frustrating than the dog working well and catching a bunny and then it drops it and the rabbit gets away :realmad: :realmad:

[brock 11]

its nothing to do with commitment,she is 100% to get to her quarry and a hell of a striker,its just that she seems uninterested once she has caught them.

[Guest CharlieC]

seems unusual for a dog of that age to drop its quarry while still alive. How does she fair as the night goes on? The more you lamp a dog the harder they tend to crush their prey as the night goes on, does she improve with more runs or does she do it all the time?

Whats she like on hares? Most dogs wont drop a hare once they have worked hard to catch it, is she harder mouthed on hares than rabbits or just the same?

[brock 11]

FUNNY YOU SHOULD SAY THAT CHARLIE,SHE DOESNT DROP HARES,EVEN IF SHE KILLS THEM QUICK,AS THE NIGHT GOES ON LAMPING IM PRETTY SURE SHE STILL DROPS THE RABBITS,SHE DOESNT REALLY TIRE EASILY,SHE WOULD HAVE TO RUN A HELL OF A LOT OF RABITS TO TIRE HER,SHE IS LAMPING FIT,ANYWAY WE HAVENT GOT A GOOD NUMBER OF RABBITS NEAR US,IF WE WERE TO TAKE THIRTY IN A NIGHT IT WOULD BE A MIRRACLE,ITS NOT THAT THE DOGS COULDNT CATCH THEM ITS JUST THAT THE RABBITS ARE NOY HERE.

[Guest indy]

try cutting the dogs food right back ,have found this sometimes livens a dog up it can start to make them posessive over kills though when worked along side another dog

[brock 11]

MAX AS YOU KNOW MATE,I DO CULL FOXES ,THERES NOT MANY RABBITS BECAUSE ROGUE HAS CAUGHT THEM ALL

[Guest dondog]

Brock

One of my mates had the same problem with his CollieXGreyhound it was one of the hardest dogs I can remember seeing. It would crunch fox all day long ,but right up to the day it died it would catch rabbits and then more often than not drop them just before it got back to my mate most it re-caught but some got away.

This was if another dog was with it or not in fact he would leave them for the other dog to retrieve if there was one.

It would have drove me mad,we used to joke that if our dogs disappeared out of sight on the chase if they come back and my dog had it that meant his probably caught it.

So if you find a cure let us all know just in case I have the problem in the future.

The dog above died at only 4 years old it run into a pile of railway sleepers chasing a rabbit and limped home about 5 miles with us all taking the piss that it was being soft my mate got up the next morning and it was dead on the kitchen floor.

[macker 5]

very little wrong with the lurcher.

have seen it a few times my self

for a quick result give her a rat.even if she will not kill it

and just give her a nip.she should improve.

other than that just hunt her.she wont be too happy to see

game get away from her time after time.

a gundog trainer told me a few years ago.

that making a dog hard mouthed is a very easy thing to

do.its keeping them soft thats hard.

its the same with lurchers.

nothing to do with how game she is.

just she is soft mouthed thats all.

she is just a bit green still and will learn soon enough.

best of luck

macker