New member needs some help!

[TomUridge 3]

Hi all I am a new member to this site and hope I’m doing it right. Apologies if I come across as an ameteur, I am, so any advice is much appreciated. I will try my best to provide the correct information required to get the best response. 

I have a Lurcher, just over a year old, she is a whippet English bull terrier x collie greyhound. She is a brilliant pup, well behaved, good recall, most of the time and has serious prey drive despite her size. She chases everything that moves out on daytime walks, deer, rabbits, squirrels,  hares, you name it she’s on it. Despite her desire to chase she is yet to return with any animal, dead or alive. Sometimes I watch her and she’s so far up the creatures ass I get so excited and think this is it, she’s going to launch at it and finish the job off BUT I am always let down. She seems to love the chase but never makes the lunge!! What can I do to promote this, do I wait and be patient, will it come in time? She obviously doesn’t associate a running rabbit to a dead bleeding tasty treat? I want her to catch a daytime rabbit before I go out at night and train her on the lamp, is this a good idea or am I doing it the wrong way round? 

This is my first dog and I am obviously very inexperienced in this field but am willing to learn and want to follow it up coz I clearly have an intelligent dog who is keen to do the job but just doesn’t know how? I am always told what an amazingly well behaved dog she is despite her age so am doing something right. I live in Oxfordshire and have been trying to find someone to go out with lamping but to no avail, if anyone would be willing to help out in this department also that would be greatly appreciated. 

 

Many thanks guys

[Bobtheferret 1,224]

Keep taking her out and showing her game and she will get there. Have you shown her any dead rabbits? Have you got any ferrets? Showing her a rabbit in the net or bolting her some rabbits might help. Good luck. 

[Dinosaurs 2,008]

Try her with a flirt pole get her used to grabbing stuff. Some dogs just take longer to click. Atb

Edited August 12, 2018 by Dinosaurs

[Qbgrey 3,983]

Try not to sicken it buy constantly running stuff with no reward.use a slip lead to control what you launch here at,that way you may get closer to a young squirrel ,away from nearest tree,etc,etc.have you trained the dog to retrieve,if not when it does catch it may run about with it for ages.

[Aussie Whip 3,827]

Good you got the control part done,take her ferreting like bob said,plenty of excitement and action should get her fired up.

[delboy_187 900]

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[Black neck 15,162]

11 hours ago, delboy_187 said:

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