Dogs Kill Rabbits At Night-what Is The Law

ivanthehunter

:rolleyes:Just wondering what is the legal word on lamping with dogs on rabbits and other unprotected animals such as rats.. and does any body have any tips on training a suitable dog........:)

meathstevie

Allowed for vermin.

MrVostro

Train a dog to kill rabbits and you need to lock him up forever if you are near farms.

Wait til the farmer catches it killing lambs instead of rabbits.

ivanthehunter

MrVostro wrote: »

Train a dog to kill rabbits and you need to lock him up forever if you are near farms.

Wait til the farmer catches it killing lambs instead of rabbits.

:eek:A good dog is trained by its owner not to atack sheep.. this is done by placing a pup in a pen with a ewe and her lamb, the much larger ewe will give the lamb a good puck and the develop a fear of close contact with sheep. this fear can be overcome when dog are in packs.... so knowing where your dog is at all times is v. important... I have read that dogs trained to attack one type of prey will ignore all others if well trained. surly some sheep farmers go lamping with dogs in sheep country and some have problem dogs and some dont...

Black velvit

A friend of mine uses Lurchers for rabbits and they dont need much training at all, he just makes a quiet sound to alert the dog that a rabbit is on the lamp, the dog will see straight away and then when the rabbit bolts he uses a different call for the chase.
He used to have a Deerhound/pitbull cross for fox and work in with a terrier to bolt the fox from the den but he never had any problens with dogs chasing livestock.

maglite

feed rabbit to the dog

dog makes connection with food and presto,

its all that s needed

ivanthehunter

if you feed rabbit surly the dog will run of and eat or chew all the rabbits it manages to catch

Banjax

Any decent lurcher is trained with stock (cattle sheep etc) and to command, as in it won't course a rabbit until its given the go-ahead.

Same methods and means as any other trained hunting dog.

ivanthehunter

Banjos wrote: »

Any decent lurcher is trained with stock (cattle sheep etc) and to command, as in it won't course a rabbit until its given the go-ahead.

Same methods and means as any other trained hunting dog.

Got Any tip to get a bloke started?? -- Have pup and they keep on growing.. they wont wait-- Did you ever hear of a bloke called plumber (david)??

Banjax

I think you mean Brian Plummer, he wrote a lot on the subject of lurchers, bred his own line of terrier, and even after his death is still a controversial figure, personally I think he was interesting but deluded and would not use him as a standard to work by.

Jakie Drakeford writes some very good books and magazine articles, and on the web there are sites which are popular with lurcher & terrier men, www.thehuntinglife.com & www.earthdogrunningdog.com.

The countrymans weekly always has a few lurcher articles. Best of luck, it's a very fine sport if you get into it.

spideog7

I'd imagine it's illegal for hare's though, you can't lamp game to the best of my knowledge.

Mellor

You're right you can't