Bit of help please

[Guest lurcher#1]

hello everyone,after getting myself a lurcher bitch(whippet x collie/grey) which, have now started taking, on the lamp, too a few fields that i shoot,

she has had a few since i first started her a couple weeks back and am so pleased with her,but she has a habbit of, once slipped and missing the first decides too chase off to find more without coming back too me first, this being a problem,and without whisstling (scaring rabbits?)she wont come back untill she thinks theres none around,shall i let her carry on and illuminate the next quarry? as have been doing, or should she be coming back to me after the first miss?

she is perfectly obediant, retrieving dummys and coming to call,just not when rabbiting, untill i call for us to go

any advice ? please help

 

here she is

 

[warner86 4]

whistle her back

[hang & bang 114]

that second rabbit looks like it had young in her notch up the catchs not comeing back a problem espicly 2 the lads your out wit that there dog not geting a run cause your bitch has cleared the feild , put time into her and work , good look wit her tidy looking bitch mate :welcomeani: 2 the fourm

[Guest longslip]

Lovely looking bitch youv'e got there lurcher#1.How old is she?Annoying isn't it!Personally i would turn the lamp off after a miss and stick to that routine,get her back on the slip even if it means whistling or whatever and putting the rest of the field down.She's got to learn lamp off/return and it will cost you a few bunnys to get it sunk into her.Iv'e found hunting up on the lamp happens more on light nights and if you could take her out on a realy dark night somewhere unfamiliar to her you might just find her pleased to come back to you after a miss and the lamps gone out and theres a start.You will overdo youre pup if you illuminate the next bunny in the field after a miss and so on,in the space of two minutes she may have ran up to half a dozen bunnys.Some good folk on here that will give you some better advice

[STAN22 3]

The same happened to me when i first started the my bullx what i did was i never called him walked back to the truck and waited then when he returned i gave him a good telling off "you know what i mean" couple of pulls on the ears and slung him in the car, he never did it again.

[Rocks 77]

i would try long slips ideas

[spice it up 0]

[bANNED TEXT] pal i think we al have bin there with are dogs it wil take time just dont over run her spend loads of ur time with her then u should c a change in her

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

I think that if take long-slip's advice then you cant go far wrong. I think that if after a miss you turn the lamp off and whistle her back and put her back on the slip then it wont be long before she gets the idea that she has to come back to wether she has caught or not.

 

Good luck mate,

 

Gaz

[bird 10,013]

Lovely looking bitch youv'e got there lurcher#1.How old is she?Annoying isn't it!Personally i would turn the lamp off after a miss and stick to that routine,get her back on the slip even if it means whistling or whatever and putting the rest of the field down.She's got to learn lamp off/return and it will cost you a few bunnys to get it sunk into her.Iv'e found hunting up on the lamp happens more on light nights and if you could take her out on a realy dark night somewhere unfamiliar to her you might just find her pleased to come back to you after a miss and the lamps gone out and theres a start.You will overdo youre pup if you illuminate the next bunny in the field after a miss and so on,in the space of two minutes she may have ran up to half a dozen bunnys.Some good folk on here that will give you some better advice

 

 

Spot on, with a pup get the recall 100%, then think about rabbits. Doint forget its a pup,

next season you will see a differnce.

 

BIRD

[c_greg 1]

she's still just a puppy! just keep her in work on her obedience til the start of next season she should of matured abit then you dont want her picking too many bad habits at a young age!

[Guest lurcher#1]

Cheers long slip, and the rest of ya will give that a go, and hope she gets used to lamp off/return,

many thanks.

[tote 856]

Lovely looking bitch youv'e got there lurcher#1.How old is she?Annoying isn't it!Personally i would turn the lamp off after a miss and stick to that routine,get her back on the slip even if it means whistling or whatever and putting the rest of the field down.She's got to learn lamp off/return and it will cost you a few bunnys to get it sunk into her.Iv'e found hunting up on the lamp happens more on light nights and if you could take her out on a realy dark night somewhere unfamiliar to her you might just find her pleased to come back to you after a miss and the lamps gone out and theres a start.You will overdo youre pup if you illuminate the next bunny in the field after a miss and so on,in the space of two minutes she may have ran up to half a dozen bunnys.Some good folk on here that will give you some better advice

 

Good advice there longslip.

 

Lurcher#1 you say "she is perfectly obediant, retrieving dummys and coming to call,just not when rabbiting," To me that suggests there is room for more obedience training especially on her recall.After all she cannot be obedient if she ignores you when your out rabbiting.

 

If you keep the lamp on the rabbits when she goes "runabout" she will soon begin to think that this is what's required when your out lamping and it will be harder to break her of this bad habit.

 

Far better to start her as you would like her to continue. As soon as she misses a rabbit whistle her in,preferably with the lamp off.If you have to put the lamp back on to see were she is that's fine,but keep whistling/shouting for her untill she starts making her way back to you.You could try walking/running away from her as it might encourage her to follow you.

 

Don't worry about scaring a few rabbits while your training her,they will still be there to be caught on another day.

[poacher9991 10]

i reckon the dog is just overkeen mate get her out more and she.l soon start comeing back

[skeet 1]

while still training her whistle her back forgot the other quarry for the time being its more important to control the dog.then once you get the coming back right, game on!

[Guest dotty]

its not a good idea to tell her off when she eventually comes back to you. then she'll think that you told her off for coming back. if you do need to tell her off then you go to her.