Soft mouthing

[Adam-RunningDog 1]

Was just wondering how people teach thier dogs to soft mouth and not mangle what they catch, like if it catches a rabbit to soft mouth but then a fox to mangle how do you teach them, most appreciated Adam

[ferret boy charlie 0]

Was just wondering how people teach thier dogs to soft mouth and not mangle what they catch, like if it catches a rabbit to soft mouth but then a fox to mangle how do you teach them, most appreciated Adam

dogs aint thick mate they know what to kill and what to ritrive although you will sometimes get a dog that just crunches anything and everrything

Edited January 25, 2009 by ferret boy charlie

[littletimmy 71]

Was just wondering how people teach thier dogs to soft mouth and not mangle what they catch, like if it catches a rabbit to soft mouth but then a fox to mangle how do you teach them, most appreciated Adam

dogs aint thick mate they know what to kill and what to ritrive

 

No teaching involved, dog will either do it or it wont. You can optimise its chance though by doing small things like teaching it to retrieve, not showing it any thing with sharp teeth until its confident on rabbits. Some dogs will never do it though.

[Adam-RunningDog 1]

cheers lads that will help me i was just cruis thats al li heared all sorts to make a dog soft mouth like using a hard brush with a rabbti skin rapped round it and put slices in the skin so if the dog bites to hard it will spike them and they wont hard mouth but i though if they do that they wont want to catch a rabbit , i like your answers though guys

[whin 463]

to get gaurateed good soft mouth you have to breed of dogs that are soft mouthed simple as , several of the line of dogs i keep are soft they retreive fast the minute the rabbits caut or hare unless knacked , , breeding entering and training ,dont run them doubled up dont run them with strange dogs out side there own kennel mates even then you need to watch ,for jealousy one rabb one dog and not saying anything else on it

[undisputed 1,664]

to get gaurateed good soft mouth you have to breed of dogs that are soft mouthed simple as , several of the line of dogs i keep are soft they retreive fast the minute the rabbits caut or hare unless knacked , , breeding entering and training ,dont run them doubled up dont run them with strange dogs out side there own kennel mates even then you need to watch ,for jealousy one rabb one dog and not saying anything else on it

 

 

Agree with some of Whin's points there some dogs though can be naturally hard mouthed my old fawn bitch even as a pup would crunch bunnies. And she wasn't trained any different from my other dogs. Maybe not in all cases but certainly with my own after a few seasons on charlie they just crunched everything. Good luck!