ferreting dog

[pencoed hunter 7]

i got 1 lab just coming to 1 year old very hyper tho and 2 lab pups

[Brimmer 220]

Not a gun man, don't know whether that would spoil a gun dog taking it rabbiting, but I used to use a mates yellow lab years ago on rock piles for marking, pinpoint accuracy with that snout!

[runforyourlife 361]

Good answers, all my lurchers mark, the best being my beddywhippetxcolliegrey. My beddywhippetxsaluki works the nets unreal, never stands on them, or distrubs them. and gets 99 % of all bolting rabbits... Even my bulls are good markers...

[col g 0]

Good answers, all my lurchers mark, the best being my beddywhippetxcolliegrey. My beddywhippetxsaluki works the nets unreal, never stands on them, or distrubs them. and gets 99 % of all bolting rabbits... Even my bulls are good markers...

 

i work a beddie/whippet,good nose on it but its a ferret killer unfortunatley.ive also got a collie/whippet,shes a blinder,a little long in the tooth now and nowhere near as quick as she used to b(shes 12)but she marks well,lets you know whats going on beneath ground and is a gem with the ferrets,and all this shes learnt heself.once they get used to seeing bolting rabbits they soon learn

[j davies 8]

those that take a dog ferreting, how do you encourage/train it to mark holes?

 

hi i got a 3 year old cocker dog and from the age of 6 months took him ferreting with me the first season all my mates did was complain about him ripping nets want let the ferret out the holes and things like that

then he must have thought if i sit here and wait one rabbit wil come out lol

now he is one of the best dogs i ever had marks holes even the one he marks is the one the first rabbit comes out he sits there lets the ferret do the work.

the ferret i got even comes out and goes back in here box most of the time all it take is time

its better to lose one year learning your dog then you get 10 good years out of him or you can go the ohter way and have 10 bad years with him os worse still leave your dog at home

[rangers 0]

Good answers, all my lurchers mark, the best being my beddywhippetxcolliegrey. My beddywhippetxsaluki works the nets unreal, never stands on them, or distrubs them. and gets 99 % of all bolting rabbits... Even my bulls are good markers...

 

lucky you my dog stiks her nose in the nets and chases the ferrets bk down the holes ...hope she grows out of it the more i take her

[donk 12]

My beddy x used to be a pain when she was young,but they sharp learn and the more they do it the better they get. Wouldnt think it matters what kind of dog is used? All dogs can mark to some extent. Not sure who it was,but someone on moochers once told me "watch your young dog,learn it stuff,but also be taught by your dog,learn to understand why it does certain things and your dog will help you become a good dogman" That was about 7 years ago,and ive never forgot that piece of advice,and its true,as a novice ive learnt how to read my dogs by watching them.