I've been keeping hunting-mad Grey away from much hunting and focussing on retrieving until now. However, this spring we'll be working on pointing and on steadying her up to quail in the launchers, so I've been focussing on quartering this winter - albeit on ground with (I thought) no game on it, just practising using the wind and running, turning off my shoulders etc.
She is already rabbit-mad - she brings me every dead rabbit in any state of decay - and I mean, even when they are not recognisably rabbits. (It is kind of hard to fake ecstasy at the 4th raggy smelly thing she has brought me in 30 mins, but I do my best.) She is naturally much more interested in ground game than in birds, even when dead; Slate is more interested in birds.
Then, up pops a mixy rabbit yesterday. Grey knows how to sit to whistle - but not with game as a distraction yet - that's what we'll be doing this spring. I blow the whistle. Slate sits immediately. Grey totally ignores me and chases the mixy rabbit (not very fast) and catches it. Then (sigh) she shakes it to kill it, before bringing it to me.
DARN!£$@$%$%T@
Well, I guess she brought it to me.
Damn those mixy rabbits that don't run fast enough! I'd rather a chase than that she learns to shake game
Lisa
Oh poor you Josie! I had this trouble with Blu a few months ago!! But it was Emmy (my other weim) that caught and killed the myxie rabbit but Blu took it off her and just held it with a very pleased look on his face He did give it to me but as we walked away from it Blu just kept looking back before suddenly bolting back to get the rabbit, I managed to blast him on the whistle and surprisingly he did stop. I kept away from that field for a long long time after!
He did give it to me but as we walked away from it Blu just kept looking back before suddenly bolting back to get the rabbit, I managed to blast him on the whistle and surprisingly he did stop. I kept away from that field for a long long time after!