A good rabbiting dog is a well trained hunting companion. Those that knock it are too slow between the ears to train a decent rabbiting dog and so knock those that do. Anybody can get a dog to chase and catch the odd rabbit, its a different ball game training a dog to deserve the title of a true rabbiting dog imo. How many of the lads that knock the rabbiting men have trained a running dog to work the lamp properly, work with ferrets, nets, bush as part of small rabbit pack and retreive to the gun?