what type of rabbiting dogs do you keep

[Dullahan 0]

the best rabbiting dog i've had was a whippet/collie greyhound, fast and brains to burn but was very shy with foxes

 

The best Cross is a Greyhound/Collie (border Collie) because as you say you have the speed and brains supplied by the collie. Collies are the MOST intelligent of all working dogs. I have been hunting for over sixty years (including Poaching) and the collie cross is the easiest to train and they have a NATURAL instinct to control the quarry. They respond immediately to whistled instructions. When poaching they will circle the field and drive the quarry to gate nets or snares on command.

 

Good info My whippet X collie is a dream to rabbit with... shes way ahead of me in the'know how' and I watch her switch between her collie and whippet heads all the time. The collie head is like watching sheep penning and the whippet one is just speed. Shes totally got the game under control and it appears that shes directing bunny traffic for herself!

 

Spot On. A collie/Greyhound/or Whippet cross are a pleasure to watch work. Sometimes they out think to owner.

[Ballybricken 1]

For an allrounder in my opinion the collie/grey cant be beaten.

[Brummy 9]

Ballybricken I'd agree that the collie cross is a superb rabbiting cross. However, to state that they can't be beaten as an allrounder is a bit rich don't you think ?

[Ballybricken 1]

Thats just my opinion mate not saying its right, there a canny good dog ( if bred right) and they will work pretty much all quarry rather then just being a specialist dog if you know what i mean. What would you say was the best allrounder?

[Brummy 9]

To be honest I think it's very more to do with the individual animal rather than the actual cross type. I think to say any particular cross is the best allrounder is a very sweeping statement indeed.

What quarry taken in your opinion would constitute a collie cross being an allrounder? Also in what regularity would said hound be expected to catch this array of quarry to be realistically mooted as "an allrounder" ?

[bird 10,014]

To be honest I think it's very more to do with the individual animal rather than the actual cross type. I think to say any particular cross is the best allrounder is a very sweeping statement indeed.

What quarry taken in your opinion would constitute a collie cross being an allrounder? Also in what regularity would said hound be expected to catch this array of quarry to be realistically mooted as "an allrounder" ?

 

 

I would say allrounder, would be pre ban deer,fox,rabbit, a colliexgrey would take them if

it is bred right. They can take the odd hare, but they are not really a hare dog.

The 1x collie grey is a good pot filler.

 

BIRD

[Ballybricken 1]

Well beat me too it Bird but yeah IMO an all rounder would have taken deer,fox,coney & puss but also as Bird pointed out a colliex aint exactly upto the job of taking hare regularly. As I've said thats just my opinion, I agree that its more the dog then the breed that makes an allrounder. But all I'm saying is that I think colliexgreys on a whole make a better all rounder then the other breeds out there.

[xx-georgia-xx 15]

i think ill stick to my whippitXgrayhound very fast and good looking dogs too!

[Ballybricken 1]

Nice one Georgia! Great bunny bashers!

[Rabbithunter 456]

a rabbiting lurcher will do everything a rabbiting whippet will do. But a rabbiting lurcher can do other things, that a rabbiting whippet can't

 

each to their own is what i say

[Ballybricken 1]

Yeah a lurcher is more versatile then most whippets are. At the minute all ive got quarrywise is coney hence forth getting the whippet, got me mams bullx if a charlie popped up and needed retrieving .

[Rabbithunter 456]

as i say b.b each to their own

 

i doubt i'll be out on thursday night now mate, i'll go late evening instead

[Ballybricken 1]

Nice one mate give me a bell, could be out stalking not sure yet though bloke hasnt been on the blower yet soo.

[Rabbithunter 456]

okay mate.... let me know if you hear of any of them beasts

[xx-georgia-xx 15]

Nice one Georgia! Great bunny bashers!

 

lol thanks here's mine...

 

Edited April 22, 2008 by xx-georgia-xx