Question ?

[Tracy Priestnall 83]

basicly, there are three types of bushing dog. find and flush or find and hunt, or find and catch.

or you could try to breed a dog to find, flush, hunt and catch ?

decide what type you want, that suits your gaffs and your hunting.

[Tracy Priestnall 83]

 

how can you give hand signals to a dog in deep cover? how can you whistle it to go right or left if you cannot see it? i don't train my dogs, they are obedient, taught over time out in the fields.

some packs are well trained.

for example you cant train a dog not to chase cows, you take it out and show it not to chase cows, so you school pack dogs rather than train them, even on a recall, if the dog is in cover, you might be shouting it back just as the dog as found its quarry...now your trying to call it off its quarry. in big cover, gorse, bramble you have to trust the dogs to hunt for themselves.