true or false

[flyboy 11]

hello all,have a coarsing bred pup coming on for the new season , but i would also like to do lamping with her as well ; only a few old lads at the game for years have told me never use a hare dog for lamping as the dog gets to used to stopping at the ditch and will start doing it by day as well , so is it true or false. thanks

[Guest lurchers&terriers]

False for me. My lurcher has always run day and night and he has never stopped at any ditch, hedge, fence etc

[Guest TERRIERCENTRAL]

same here dogs never stopped i use her day a night once there focused theres no stoping them

[flyboy 11]

thanks lads those are the replies i was wishing for , suppose if its in them ditch or no ditch doesent matter

[bud9 79]

hello all,have a coarsing bred pup coming on for the new season , but i would also like to do lamping with her as well ; only a few old lads at the game for years have told me never use a hare dog for lamping as the dog gets to used to stopping at the ditch and will start doing it by day as well , so is it true or false. thanks

all my years lamping and running lurchers a think who told you that is telling you shit mate it has never happend to me thats for sure

[marshman 7,756]

well lads i,ll lick to agree whith yous becuse i think if working your dog day and night is your game your dog shuld be good at it .but last year i was going whith a frend of mine he dune a lot of day time cousing he had a handy little bitch that was a reguler 3 out of 3 bitch bread out of digger ones he stated lamping her she was good but stoped at hedgs coused again . so for me its got to be houses for corses . regars marshman

[skycat 6,172]

Providing a dog gets a good all round education in the field while its growing up: like jumping ditches when it is NOT chasing something to begin with (saw one or two uneducated dogs kill themselves falling in big drains (ditches) on the fens.) then once a dog has got used to the difference between long ears and rabbits I've never had a problem.

 

IMO all dogs should be used to running stuff by day before they are taken lamping: they need to learn field craft and look out for the dangers like wire etc before they're actually on something.

 

I used to notice that dogs first run on long ears when they'd been used to rabbits took a few sessions to realise that not all stuff that hits a hedge goes to ground: once they'd sussed the difference then they were straight through or over on a long ear, but stopped when it was a rabbit as they'd known it had gone to ground.

[poacher3161 1,766]

do both and enjoy both easier to get them fit and sharp with a few hours in the lamp alvb

[shamo28 1]

i think you can use your dog for both daytime and lamping but if you have from pup always get used to daytime first

otherwise if do lamping first they can become hedge shy

[flyboy 11]

thanks lads ; was thinkin down the same line as the replies i am gettin so i will be startin her off on long ears first ;roll on the winter

[dwalin 0]

our dog works both day and night

enjoys it as well

good luck

[inan 841]

hello all,have a coarsing bred pup coming on for the new season , but i would also like to do lamping with her as well ; only a few old lads at the game for years have told me never use a hare dog for lamping as the dog gets to used to stopping at the ditch and will start doing it by day as well , so is it true or false. thanks

A lot of people tell you that they start a dog on the lamp then progress to daytime after wards ,I do it the otherway round.I like a dog to be competent at daytime catching before I take it out on the lamp,then I think a dog is used to following its quarry wherever it goes.

Edited April 5, 2009 by inan

[leegreen 2,100]

A good dog is only as good as what you put into it