One On One Time With Pup

[squab 2,875]

Forget the dummy,its not rocket science bringing on a busher,its just a pup keep getting it out every day where there's plenty rabbits,won't take long for the penny to drop,when it does be no stopping it atb

[csd_88 138]

There be no good working a one on one on are land to much cover for one dog, they soon learn to spread out and find quary. Every one does things different there's no right or wrong

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

Forget the dummy,its not rocket science bringing on a busher,its just a pup keep getting it out every day where there's plenty rabbits,won't take long for the penny to drop,when it does be no stopping it atb

Why forget the dummy? It's a great training aid, mental stimulation for the pup, builds the bond between man and dog, gets it entering cover willingly, gets it retrieving. List is endless.

[leethedog 3,071]

Rob have you not thought of letting your pup play with fresh dead rabbit should do the trick of switching it on to rabbit scent is fun atb Lee

[rob190364 2,593]

Rob have you not thought of letting your pup play with fresh dead rabbit should do the trick of switching it on to rabbit scent is fun atb Lee

Yeah when I go ferreting he'll rag the dead rabbits....I have to put them out of his way or he's obsessed. I think he's just much too young at the moment tbh, I'll see what the next couple of months bring.

[lurcherlad92 24]

Interesting thread this, I've got a terrier pup that doesn't seem massively interested in cover dispite my lurcher diving in

[deck 35]

 

He wouldn't though, he'd just stay mithering her. Took him out on his own first thing this morning. Followed his nose around most of the time but didn't actually go in any cover even though there were plenty of rabbits about. At what age would people normally expect a pup to start doing this? Obviously it depends on individual dog and breeding etc, but approximately?

 

had a Russell dog once he was over a year old before he started bushing i wasnt fussed though as i had three other terriers that were working so he was under no pressure from me to hunt but when the penny dropped with him what a dog.

[morton 5,367]

Do not let it run around cover with a lurcher Ffs, I always put mine on the slip and let the pup run around with the bushers. At one point the pup was singing on the lurcher when I let her run around.

Any busher that cannot interact with a lurcher is as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike,any busher that fails to service an attendant lurcher is as useless as the same motorbike without an engine.

[rob190364 2,593]

 

Do not let it run around cover with a lurcher Ffs, I always put mine on the slip and let the pup run around with the bushers. At one point the pup was singing on the lurcher when I let her run around.

 

Any busher that cannot interact with a lurcher is as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike,any busher that fails to service an attendant lurcher is as useless as the same motorbike without an engine.

And that post is about as helpful as both!

[morton 5,367]

 

 

Do not let it run around cover with a lurcher Ffs, I always put mine on the slip and let the pup run around with the bushers. At one point the pup was singing on the lurcher when I let her run around.

Any busher that cannot interact with a lurcher is as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike,any busher that fails to service an attendant lurcher is as useless as the same motorbike without an engine.

And that post is about as helpful as both!

 

Its a bushing section,you know or you think you know.

[csd_88 138]

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[squab 2,875]

 

Forget the dummy,its not rocket science bringing on a busher,its just a pup keep getting it out every day where there's plenty rabbits,won't take long for the penny to drop,when it does be no stopping it atb

Why forget the dummy? It's a great training aid, mental stimulation for the pup, builds the bond between man and dog, gets it entering cover willingly, gets it retrieving. List is endless.

did this method work for you then?,not one lad I know with decent bushers has needed to adopt this method to encourage entering cover,I'd not worry about trying to say the right thing I'd just be getting it out every day,they ain't all smashing cover at 5 month he got plenty time yet for it to come good

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

 

 

Forget the dummy,its not rocket science bringing on a busher,its just a pup keep getting it out every day where there's plenty rabbits,won't take long for the penny to drop,when it does be no stopping it atb

Why forget the dummy? It's a great training aid, mental stimulation for the pup, builds the bond between man and dog, gets it entering cover willingly, gets it retrieving. List is endless.

did this method work for you then?,not one lad I know with decent bushers has needed to adopt this method to encourage entering cover,I'd not worry about trying to say the right thing I'd just be getting it out every day,they ain't all smashing cover at 5 month he got plenty time yet for it to come good

Yes this method has worked for me in the past.

 

I still don't understand why you would tell someone to "forget the dummy" when bringing on a pup. Just because lads you know don't do it? Lol.

 

Each to their own. I just made a suggestion ?