how to stop hounds hunting game your not after

[Guest whitser]

question lads, how do i stop my hounds hunting after say a hare if im out after foxes?

[gaz 284]

question lads, how do i stop my hounds hunting after say a hare if im out after foxes?

 

It depends on three things really whitser,firstly and most importantly it depends on how competent a dog trainer you are, by this i mean how well your dog responds to STAY,NO or LEAVE.

Secondly the type of cross and how fired up your dog is a factor aswell,and by this i mean a collie cross is obviosly going to be more biddable than say a saluki ect.

Thirdly it will depend on how far your dogs work out in front of you but that proberly goes back to how competent a dog trainer you are i suppose.........hope this helps and good luck whitser

[lampinglurcher 36]

am i right in assuming you run scenthounds, whitser? if so ~ practically impossible!

[pointer28 1]

Certainly not impossible, we run a pack of beagles after hares and they never bother with fox scent at all.

 

We never encourage them to chase foxes and they never rag a fox carcass so they never associate fox scent with their job.

 

Any failed beagles that don't suit hare hunting, we usually give to lads for hunting foxes, and they pick it up in no time once they get to rag a carcass, but they will always still hunt hares as it's what they know.

[gaz 284]

Oops sorry,i thought we were talking sighthounds

[inan 841]

question lads, how do i stop my hounds hunting after say a hare if im out after foxes?

I allways give mine a good talking to just before we go out ,telling them just what we are after,and what we are not ,thats me in the clear then as far as Im concerned.

[gaz 284]

question lads, how do i stop my hounds hunting after say a hare if im out after foxes?

I allways give mine a good talking to just before we go out ,telling them just what we are after,and what we are not ,thats me in the clear then as far as Im concerned.

 

 

does it work ?

[scottish lurcher 185]

i have had all types of lurchers and most can be called off if you get in there before chase really gets under way i now run two frist cross saluki cross greyhounds and to be turthful once a chase starts you will never call them off the breed makes them natrual hunters keen to take all game and have talked to a few lads with this breed and say the same just out and out hunting dogs so i would say your big rabbit gets f**k could be a INTERESTING THREED HERE FOR ALL GUYS WITH SALUKI CALLED CAN YOU CALL IT OFF OF A HARE

[dEs 6]

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Edited October 7, 2008 by dEs

[pointer28 1]

If a fox jumps out in front of them, they'll chase it but the huntsman will never holler them onto it or blow away on the horn. Eventually when they check he'll manage to call them off. Very seldom happens though as we tend to hunt open land rather than cover where you wold expect to out up a fox.

 

Ours are proper stud book beagles (not KC crap) bred from hare hunting stock for the last 300 years, so none of their ancestors would have been fox hunters either.

[Irish Lurcher 1,013]

whitser

 

OBE pal, seen your mutts, not worth the grub ur feeding them.

[inan 841]

question lads, how do i stop my hounds hunting after say a hare if im out after foxes?

I allways give mine a good talking to just before we go out ,telling them just what we are after,and what we are not ,thats me in the clear then as far as Im concerned.

 

 

does it work ?

NO!

[Guest whitser]

i asked an experienced huntsman the same question and his answer said it all...

" hounds will hunt a fox before anything, but they'll hunt anything before nothing."

Edited May 30, 2007 by whitser

[macker 5]

sounds like good advice witser.