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Part of what got me interested in bop was my father rescuing a pair of fledgling peregrines from a cat that had cornered them inside a loading dock downtown toronto ontario.

Thanks for the replies. He's actually only hooded for about 20-30 minutes each day. I hood to weigh him or he would never step on the scale.Other than this he's never hooded. I tried the tidbits in the hood when I was getting him use to it but that didn't work with him. I found taking him into a room I have a dimmer switch and turning the lights down as low as I could to just be able to see what I was doing worked for me. As he got use to this I just increased the amount of light in the room while hooding each day until he was accepting it in full light. My routine is when I pick him up ea

This is my second year now with my 2yr old MHH. Took a while to get him use to being hooded but he's fine with it going on now. He loves the hunt! Takes anything he spots, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks and mice. Follows well, sets to hunt and comes to the glove instantly every time he's called. All in all a perfect 1st bird IMO. Only issue I'd like to do away with is every time the hood is removed he instantly tries to leave the hand. After he makes that initial attempt to flee he will sit unhooded and wait for me to release. I never let him take off as soon as the hood comes off because I fig