Re: A dog that uses sight as much as its nose
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2014 1:28 am
david wrote:People are going to wish I had never got a phone that would let me post on BGH.
What I don't like about your situation,Kansas, is that you are not in a situation to have gotten her on a few cats by this age. What I do like about it is that she is learning something in your yard. Most people won't let a dog fool with off game by the time they are old enough to seriously hunt and work hard. But if she has learned that going airborn gives her a moment of silence to listen, and gives her a better view at the same time, then she has learned how to use a hunting tool that could make all the difference in closing the gap on a bobcat.
I try really hard to keep my dogs from learning certain things. Like how much fun it can be to chase a deer. I try to have them green broke befor I ever turn them loose in the field. But I also feel so strongly that if I want a thinking dog I have to keep him learning SOMETHING as often as possible. Where as a deer chase can and has completely ruined a day of cat hunting, I have absolutely never seen a bump on rabbit destroy a day of hunting. I think that if you can not get her learning about cat right now, at least she is learning SOMETHING. And it might actually be something she can apply to cat hunting some day.