pup kills rabbits before retriving

[hunter4561 3]

Ive ad my pup owt 3 times and she has 2 kill the rabbit before she brings it 2 us,how can i stop this?shes 7 month old do u reckon its 2 young luk,ive only took her owt cos she was getin them on daytime mooches and looks promising got 4 out of 7 runs so im chuffed with that but lyk i said she kills em thn fuks abwt a bit brf retrving. Advise would be gud lads first lurcher pup only ad terries brf

[pot hunter 24]

still a pup!> spend next 3 months "fetch" training with her

then when she catches next rabbit whistle and run away from her.

[philkemp 50]

My mates dog jst starting out this season does the same we the 1st few bunnies even tho she retreives balls/sticks anything else well, think its more to do we the pup bein excited than anything else would giv it a lot more time n maybe calm down we the dog till bout 10/12 month old at least

[hunter4561 3]

cheers lads ill leave her til 10month at least i knw shes got it in and seems lyk a good 1,its jst 2 temptin 2 go hunting wid her bt rather wait instead of fukin her up for the sake of a cuple a month

[philkemp 50]

Jst make sure shes retreiving everything well, you could even try a rabbit skin dummy works well for me pal

[derbylad1 293]

your right about waiting. take her out the field, go back to basics and find out what she is really into(what makes her tick). is it praise or is it food...whatever it takes. throw something that she likes to carry, then start with small throws. you ideally need to be in a place that she is contrained...an alley for example, so she has no way of going anywhere else but except back to you. then she has to come back to you...then this is where the thing that makes her tick comes in....and plenty of it. she is after all...just a pup. before getting her out on the lamp again, make sure she is ready mentally and physically. 7 months is very young(personally a bit too young) whats her breeding.

[robert michem 314]

your looky she his bringing it back, and beleave me in time she will kill and spit it out and will not pick it back up...the dogs far to young you will fack her up..

[Rabbiting man 1,192]

My young lurcher taking three rabbits last night on the lamp he killed the first one then retrieved it the other two he retrieved straight away its a pup thing

[iceman001979 1,316]

So what if she is she is killing rabbits and bringing them back to you at 7 months old don't see the problem.Why does the dog have to bring live to hand ???? its catching and bringing them back simple that is the point.Unless you are looking too eat them your self

[robert michem 314]

has a norm, dogs with age when they start killing then ,tend too spit them out and will not pick them up again,,its the easy option for the dog,, whilst a rabbit his a live in the dogs mouth, out of confusion they tend to bring back, iff they put it down they no they are going to run off again,,

Edited September 2, 2011 by robert michem

[nat 8]

My dog does/ did this last year was his first season and only went lamping about 5 times and ferreting towards the back end if the season, when ferreting he held it in the net but lamping he only had abou. 4 but they were all brought back killed, his retriving was fine. Just waiting to see what this season brings ...