First Catch For My Pup

[socks 32,253]

Due to a torn ligament in my neck I decided to give ferreting a miss today and took all the dogs out for a good run instead ... After the first half hour of running around like a demented lunatic after the older dogs the pup settled down and was happy to be mooching around by me as the other dogs were off to my left a couple of hundred meters hunting up in some sedge ... I was watching the pup sniffing the air and obviously getting a little whiff of something .. she put her nose down and started to rot about in a patch of light grassy scrub ... I seen her tail start ticking and out popped a rabbit with the pup right behind it ... It was full of myxi and probably had just days to live but it tried in vain to run/hop away .. The pup was up on it and caught it about 20 meters out from me .. No hesitation she grabbed it it squealed but she held onto it ... I gave her a quick whistle and just as she has done with the dummy came straight back to me and dropped the scabby carcass in my lap ... I know it was a half dead scabby myxi rabbit but I was happy with her instincts and the fact there was no hesitation in the retrieve ... The signs of good things to come I hope ... Not bad for eleven weeks old ........

[Guest vin]

nice one Kenneth.

[s.e.s.k.u 1,893]

Well done the pup...myxi or not it's a great start.. first of many..atb sesku

[bird 10,014]

Well done the pup...myxi or not it's a great start.. first of many..atb sesku

[shealy1 71]

Due to a torn ligament in my neck I decided to give ferreting a miss today and took all the dogs out for a good run instead ... After the first half hour of running around like a demented lunatic after the older dogs the pup settled down and was happy to be mooching around by me as the other dogs were off to my left a couple of hundred meters hunting up in some sedge ... I was watching the pup sniffing the air and obviously getting a little whiff of something .. she put her nose down and started to rot about in a patch of light grassy scrub ... I seen her tail start ticking and out popped a rabbit with the pup right behind it ... It was full of myxi and probably had just days to live but it tried in vain to run/hop away .. The pup was up on it and caught it about 20 meters out from me .. No hesitation she grabbed it it squealed but she held onto it ... I gave her a quick whistle and just as she has done with the dummy came straight back to me and dropped the scabby carcass in my lap ... I know it was a half dead scabby myxi rabbit but I was happy with her instincts and the fact there was no hesitation in the retrieve ... The signs of good things to come I hope ... Not bad for eleven weeks old ........

nice one mate cant hope for a better start than that

[TOMO 29,036]

First 3 or 4 rabbits my pup cought were mixys,,it's the only good thing about that disease,,mind my pup was around 6 month

[krawnden 1,036]

Perfect start - now she knows rabbits are catchable, which is half the battle

[LurcherLad94 2,582]

well done

[nothernlite 18,260]

That's the only use mixi rabbits have got is bringing on pups must of been delighted