Learning To Bush

[fay 75]

Ways your ways of getting a Dog hunting on its own with out any other dogs to show it

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

Time and patience is the key I reckon. If they are gonna get it, they will get it.

[squab 2,875]

You want it working on scent just get it out on ground holding lot rabbit,don't take a good one long for the penny to drop

[leethedog 3,071]

Use a dead rabbit play tug game with it with the pup and it'll click let pup rag it and hide dead rabbit in obvious place and encourage pup to find it reward pup when it finds it at this time of year a dead rabbit is easy to get just check the lanes out

[king 11,664]

A few stones thrown into cover without the dog seeing you do it works wonders they will soon be going in with a little encouragement.

Edited May 20, 2016 by king

[socks 32,253]

A few stones thrown into cover without the dog seeing you do it works wonders they will soon be going in with a little encouragement.

The only problem with that is that they will be going into cover that holds no game and if that system is kept on the dog spends half the day bushing areas where there is no game ... Wasting energy and time .......

[king 11,664]

 

A few stones thrown into cover without the dog seeing you do it works wonders they will soon be going in with a little encouragement.

The only problem with that is that they will be going into cover that holds no game and if that system is kept on the dog spends half the day bushing areas where there is no game ... Wasting energy and time .......

I totally agree with you socks.

as an example there's an old slag tip a few hundred yds away from me that's mainly bramble gorse etc. Theres a good few rabbits about there.this 12 month old terrier bitch here wouldn't go into cover at all months ago but she could scent them and was getting very excited l.but still wouldn't go.a few stones thrown into the middle of thick cover with some encouragement.soon had her going in.only 2ft to start with and I would do it say twice a day at random intervals during an hour walk as the weeks went on she would go further and further.now she will go in and even crawl on her stomach to go in.and I haven't thrown a stone for a long while.as I walk alone she didn't have another busher to follow.she now scents them and flys in.

[tb25 4,626]

Take it to a place what holds game.the nose should do the rest.

[fay 75]

Some very good points I use to throw the stones but Luke socks said can b a waist of time NY try a droper in front n !let the dog off at it into cover

[terryd 8,024]

get out early while the rabbits are out and about if it sees chances are it will follow if its up behind one

[tatsblisters 7,915]

The time of the year imho is a relavant factor its better starting a young dog when the covers down and no distractions like lurchers running about the easyist way is to get them out with older exspeirenced bushers.Then again if its a well bred spaniel or one of the spaniel cross breds those I have had and seen working cover comes as natrualy to them as ducks to water

Edited May 20, 2016 by tatsblisters

[matt1979 766]

There are things you can do as suggested to help but Imo it should be natural thing to do, if a dog needs encouraging to enter cover that is breed for bushing then something is wrong. Maybe I have been lucky but the ones I have had (all terriers) have never needed encouraging especially if there is stuff around and Iam talking from a very early age Getting them out around scent early and honing there skills and hopefully having some fun is the key In my eyes atb

Edited May 20, 2016 by matt1979

[j1985 1,983]

Find an area coated with bunnies let it suss it for itself, a local school shut down near me and it was always full of rabbits so used to take the terrier pup there from the day he was allowed out and he would push em out the hedges from around the classrooms ?? now he's mustard

Edited May 20, 2016 by j1985

[jiggy 3,207]

Hunting rabbits in soft cover like long grass, rushes or heather that has no rabbit holes so they cant drop to ground is ideal for pups they will soon smash heavy cover after them without even realising it. Shoot a fresh warm rabbit for them to smell and mouth it and they,ll know what they,re after.

[squab 2,875]

Throwing stones in cover,lol ffs God help us,next thing will be throwing kibble into cover,you lot crack on,maybe get a Plummer does all the hard work for you from what I hear