Bushing/Flushing

[Molie1337 35]

he looks spitting image of my mates border x yorkshire

[Hamish 0]

WOW, what a fantastic response!

 

Many thanks to all that took the time and trouble to reply. I'll take on board all your tips, advice and comments. Lets hope Hamish becomes a good 'un!

[Dave C 63]

Hello Hamish, he looks like a Border x Lakeland to me mate but as a couple of lads have said who cares as long as he does the job for you.

As for bushing, get him out with some older dogs and praise him when he goes into cover, get him ragging dead rabbits or skins and then start hideing them in bushes an make a game of it.

if he starts chaseing rabbits to the burrows and starts getting interested in going into holes, keep a skin in your pocket and throw it in the hedge and incurage him to hunt for it, this will learn him that when a rabbit has gone to ground to give up on it and look for the next one, another way of learning this lesson is taking hime to a place where there are loads of rabbits, so why waste time going down holes when there is loads more rabbits in the next bush.

A few tricks i used to train my Border x Lakeland.

 

Dave

[Dave C 63]

Hows the pup coming on Hamish.