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Shiggles and the rabbit
susie
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need to teach him to trail em forward not backward..........
Sweet!
Rabbit did what rabbits do, out smart the dog. Backtracked over his trail
She looks just fine for her age. Keep running her with good, experienced dogs, and she'll be a good dog, someday. Did she jump that rabbit?
Good video. Looks like she will make a good rabbit dog. Love to hear beagles run.
You were supposed to uphold your end of the bargain, and what that wassckly wabbit when she brought it back around...
Edit, that's a good dog!
Yep, she jumped it by herself. I have a warren of rabbits that live between me and the gravel road that fronts my farm. She gets up in the cool air of the morning and heads out to find them. Once she jumps one its off to the races. I have multiple videos of her tracking and running. This was the first one I was able to get the rabbit in the video.
She is raw talent with not a minute of training. She comes from pedigreed bloodlines.
What is truly amazing to me is back in early summer she would catch young rabbits and bring them onto the deck for her pups. She is now taking them out with her to run. Again, all by instinct.
Susie, after 40-something years of fooling with beagles, I'm convinced that natural instinct is where it's at. I have never been able to “train” a dog to run a rabbit. The only training I've done on my dogs is just to fine tune what's already there and to deal with that hard-headed stubbornness that is a beagle. Actually I think my beagles have trained me. It sounds like the area between you and the gravel road serves as a natural version of the starting pens we use for our pups here in Tennessee. I can tell Shiggles is gonna be alright.
I've ran a lot of beagles. If she is running loose and getting daily trail experience she is going to be awesome. A little hunting and she well catch right on.
I forgot to mention that the young rabbits she caught for her pups were alive when she brought them onto the deck.
And yes she runs loose throughout the day. I live on a 70 acre farm surrounded by hard timber on three sides and hayfield to the west. Shiggles is not penned or chained so she has free rein to roam as she pleases.
Just let her out about 30 minutes ago. She greeted the pups, had a bit of a tussle in the yard, then off they went. She still sleeps on the back of the couch and then with me at night like a lap dog. Come morning though she is all outside dog.
Next step will be to start shooting while she is outside to get her used to the sound.