Best Lamping Dog

[buster gonads 862]

If i were looking for a dog just for lamping bunnys i,d go for a 3/4 Whippet or Grew, 1/4 collie, i,d want something that finished up between 20 & 22" but i,d rather have a pup off 2 dogs that are doing the job well, not injury prone and i,d seen working, that way it wouldnt rearly bother me about what was in the mix, proven parents is the way to go.

[Spadge 3]

Yeh good call about the parents mate

[thorny 100]

I've got a 5/8 3/8 collie grey, large lad at 28tts he is not the most agile of hounds, on a big field where he can run them down, he scopes them up. I also have a 19tts 3/4 whippet 1\4 bedy she is a cracking little thing on the lamp once she's on there arse poor old bunnies off to meet the black rabbit

[haymin 2,465]

Iv got Wheaton xbull whip grey and mist both great rabbiters day and night must say mist is a great catcher and a good head on her can't complain about the 2 of them , great dogs doing a grand job ?

[slip lead 862]

1/2 whippet-1/4 greyhound -1/4 collie.

[Wales1234 5,424]

Haymin Tia is bloody lighten quick aswell!!

[NEWKID 26,182]

 

 

All running dogs need intelligence.. they build up knowledge with experience and thats how they get better. I think a lot of people only see intelligence when a dog does tricks for them,but cleverness is more than that in a dog

yeh but you can get caught up in the intelligence thing, I have in the past with choosing lurchers. all lurchers don't matter what they x with , will learn lamping if took out enough its practice practice

Aye True. They will all pick up point and slip.

But sometimes we need that bit more? Thinking outside the box. Come at the rabbit from an angle, keep them off the hedge etc. Only so much can be learnt. There needs to be a bit of hunting brain in there to start with. And I assure you they haven't all got it.

That's the sort of thing I love watching on the lamp.

Yes a any dog will chase a running rabbit, but can you send them on in the dark flick the light on once they're going, coming out of the beam and onto a sitter from an angle, slowing up to pick up squatters. Then Watching them box a rabbit off the hedge and running clever. nice watching a dog working it all out, most of em will with practice in matter the type from what I've seen.

[haymin 2,465]

Haymin Tia is bloody lighten quick aswell!!

yea she is mate some prey drive on the bitch as well . see ya next month hope the ground sofens up s bit for us ?

[wi11ow 2,657]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

both these were honest on the lamp go for lurcher x lurcher

 

 

[kevin kiely 66]

I like to see the different traits in dogs like collie x sighthound or bull sighthound etc instead of a mixture of a few breeds

[OneManAndHisDog 498]

I have bedlington whippet greyhound x pure whippet she's only 19 1/2inch great little dog, She got soft mouth and is very fast mostly used her for lamping and ferreting.

[Spadge 3]

Cheers lads for the info much appreciated?

[Stud dog 632]

Best dog on lamp I ever seen was a thorn dog rough coated don't know the breeding he was just a lurcher to lurcher called gin I was only young at the time one of them loyal dogs wouldn't leave my side unless told to could catch bunnys out of the beam just got better with age he did one day I come home from school an my step dad had sold this dog gutted is a understatement never forgive the c**t for that

[Spadge 3]

Too right pal Id nack him

[Stud dog 632]

I will make sure he gets the worst nursing home ever

Edited January 22, 2015 by Stud dog