Well this is only my opinion on it .... you bring young dogs out the majority will hoke about at a rabbit or smell at them it would be really foolish and stupid to me to write a dog off for hoking about at one at a young age it comes with experience and schooling them ..I do not hunt rabbits if the hound terriers look at them they get a clipping and they know not to....and if they kept it up they wouldn't get to many chances till they got put in a hole either but I'd give them a couple of chances for poking about at a rabbit... if they walked out the once I'd read them there rights