Trainability

[Daniel cain 44,959]

3 hours ago, mC HULL said:

 

I’m back lol right how many times man lads  driving me mental I canny service me women I don’t own a plodder  

if we slipped hundred yards my none plodder lol and your terrier cross with a tow rope attached to the 2 when it went tight it would look  like your terrier cross is a tree getting uprooted lol need Goggle’s for the speed tears lol  

My terrier X would let your dog catch the hare...then take it off it ,and bring it to me..if your dog played up..then I'd let my dog eat it pal

[poxon 5,718]

1 hour ago, SheepChaser said:

Problem is if you’re only keeping a rabbiting dog and then saying you’re lucky to see two rabbits a night ....... as good a rabbit dog as it might be it’s kind of a bit pointless. I love rabbiting day or night, probably some of the best sport you can get. But at least some other specialist dogs can have a lot of stuff out in front of them. This season my main dogs catch rate on rabbits is 100%, he caught the one slip he had. 

I don’t keep just rabbiting dogs I like more from a dog without calling a specialist of nothing a chancers dog if you like or a dog that’s just a used dog. The same can be said from a specialist fox dogs there not taking no more than one or two a night if Lucks on there side it’s also debatable how many times a week month  I think it was you that said this yesterday with a bit of mathematics on numbers .I don’t look at rabbiting men or there dogs any less in comparison to one another we graded all the same but even the most unlikely rabbit mans dog will fold the odd fox up here an there or drop the odd deer it don’t make it a fox dog or deer dog or a fox dog a rabbit dog are we now saying a all rounder is a better dog than specialist dogs? Because I think we’re all equal 

[shaaark 10,693]

3 hours ago, mC HULL said:

Herding types  

 

Edited April 8, 2021 by shaaark

[shaaark 10,693]

3 hours ago, Gypsydog94 said:

So which is the most trainable? 

 

3 hours ago, mC HULL said:

Herding types  

But that doesn't necessarily equate to ability in the field. ...........

[Gypsydog94 4,557]

9 minutes ago, shaaark said:

 

But that doesn't necessarily equate to ability in the field. ...........

can’t put in what god left out but I wouldn’t be using a plodder

[shaaark 10,693]

14 minutes ago, Gypsydog94 said:

can’t put in what god left out but I wouldn’t be using a plodder

God?! ..........

[socks 32,253]

4 hours ago, South hams hunter said:

No I'm not, you said they all rate the same and 150 rabbits is more impressive than 40 foxes but chances are that 40 fox dog will do 100/120 of those rabbits but that rabbit dog may not do 10 of those foxes. They're not all equal imo

Just because you’ve got a good fox dog that doesn’t make him a good rabbit dog. Totally different quarry that runs a totally different way which taxes the dog a totally different way. 

[South hams hunter 8,921]

21 minutes ago, socks said:

Just because you’ve got a good fox dog that doesn’t make him a good rabbit dog. Totally different quarry that runs a totally different way which taxes the dog a totally different way. 

I know it does, that was an example. As it happens I've seen more dogs struggle to catch foxes than catch rabbits 

[socks 32,253]

1 minute ago, South hams hunter said:

I know it does, that was an example. As it happens I've seen more dogs struggle to catch foxes than catch rabbits 

Because they probably didn’t want to catch them .......

[mC HULL 12,134]

1 hour ago, Daniel cain said:

My terrier X would let your dog catch the hare...then take it off it ,and bring it to me..if your dog played up..then I'd let my dog eat it pal

Lol it’s a dog mate strong full of its self you couldn’t get in me garden be on your neck lol never mind take a bone or kill from it lol

finishes things mate not play about lol  

 

[mC HULL 12,134]

26 minutes ago, socks said:

Just because you’ve got a good fox dog that doesn’t make him a good rabbit dog. Totally different quarry that runs a totally different way which taxes the dog a totally different way. 

Think most will catch few rabbits mate but 100 a night like some you lads on here is very good going I’ve managed 45 few other bits in night most ever with Sal coursing bred the little dogs excel 

fox is just get dog confident enter it right most crosses catch them no good rabbiting till 4 and then slipping on fox wondering why it didn’t strike  

[South hams hunter 8,921]

2 minutes ago, socks said:

Because they probably didn’t want to catch them .......

Perhaps so but when lamping solid hedges the rabbits generally run up the hedge, turn 180 and run back down and then repeat until they either find a gap/burrow or get caught. A fox turns any which way with no pattern and any over run on a turn can cause alot more issues. its easier to learn running rabbits then it is foxes, rabbits run more mechanical 

[South hams hunter 8,921]

Just now, W. Katchum said:

That’s only usually green bunnies do that, they prob only ever do it once

Don't plan on running them weekly and naming em Don

[Black neck 15,841]

4 minutes ago, South hams hunter said:

Don't plan on running them weekly and naming em Don

Used 2 know a hare like that called sue uncatchable sue

[mC HULL 12,134]

6 minutes ago, South hams hunter said:

Perhaps so but when lamping solid hedges the rabbits generally run up the hedge, turn 180 and run back down and then repeat until they either find a gap/burrow or get caught. A fox turns any which way with no pattern and any over run on a turn can cause alot more issues. its easier to learn running rabbits then it is foxes, rabbits run more mechanical 

You running rabbits or coursing em like hares lol 

don’t recon running a fox any different to running about with another dog playing lol