RETREIVING IS IT A MUST

[Guest greengrass123]

Reading some of the threads on here it seems some guys arent to bothered if their dogs dont retreive, to my mind i think its essential that a dog will retreive. If it wont it must surely limit the size of the bag. Whats your views on this.

[Rabbithunter 456]

If your walking about for rabbits all night, then a dog that doesnt retrieve, is sure going to make a lot more work for you. However, talking preban, When lads run their dogs solely on fox or "daylight" deer, then i dont think retrieving is a must

[Chid 6,582]

one of my dog retrieves everytime (not trained by me)

 

another doesnt

 

but im training my pup to just because its so much easier and you can be on your way a lot quicker

[Giro 2,648]

I think a rabbit dog that dose not fetch back is a waste of time... JMO

[sounder 9]

i don't think it makes much differents,my bitch does it,but some dogs when they start killing foxs they stop retrieving, so are you going to get rid of it then if it don't retrieves rabbits,

cheers sounder

[Guest greengrass123]

i don't think it makes much differents,my bitch does it,but some dogs when they start killing foxs they stop retrieving, so are you going to get rid of it then if it don't retrieves rabbits,

cheers sounder

No i never get rid of a dog once ive got it.

[noddy10 411]

I think a rabbit dog that dose not fetch back is a waste of time... JMO

 

 

you right ther mate. a dog that catches then fucks off with the catch is even worse

get a pup put some time in with him and hel do the job!!

my dogs retreeve right to hand but (some times dead)..but thats off trying to retreeve big lings as the aint rabbit dogs

[Giro 2,648]

i don't think it makes much differents,my bitch does it,but some dogs when they start killing foxs they stop retrieving, so are you going to get rid of it then if it don't retrieves rabbits,

cheers sounder

 

 

My dog is an out n out rabbit dog so i cant comment..

 

I do know i put in the effort in and its paided off for me.. If you want to take 25 plus rabbits you will get sick as fuk walking for them... Well i would anyway

[mackem 27,025]

I used to lamp in the north of scotland with a couple of guys,they never trained their dogs to retrieve and took bags of rabbits most guys will never see As soon as a rabbit was snapped up they would sprint over,relieve the dog of its catch and spotlight another almost straight away,and so the evening continued,on and on,point and shoots,but those guys were doing it for cash and not sport.

[whin 463]

i beleive every pup should learn to retreive it all depends how far you want to go with it and what type of qaurry are you chaseing most mines all retreive some better than others but when i was mad keen for a hundred percent obeidence retreiving jumping etc i expected it and put alot of time makeing sure they were spot on cheers saw dogs retreuive thousands of game and some over fences with the rab etc alive my old collie line does it without much training as its inherited etc