well there seems to be alot of rabbits out at rabbit run.ive seen about two or three rabbits behind my house in the past couple of weeks.ive set out some traps with apples in them but they just wont get anywhere near them.ive heard alot of people say that tame rabbits work for starting pups.what do you think?

Posted by BB at 05/24/08 19:37:27

BB, I bought some tame rabbits a few weeks ago. They look alot like cottentails. The guy said they were Caincutters,but San Juans look like wild rabbits too.There is a guy on huntingboards.com that knows alot about trapping rabbits,his name is ncrabbitman.How are the pups doing? What did you name them?Keep me posted from time to time on their progress. They should make some fine rabbit hounds.

Posted by hover at 05/24/08 20:32:20

ok thanks ill check that out.the pups are doin real good.i named the male Rocky Creeks Red Man and the female Rocky Creeks Little Ann.ive been walkin them on a leash a little everyday and tryin to get them to lead good and they are leading realy good.the reason ive been doin that is because ive had a couple dogs before that freaked out when i put them on a leash and i dont like that.ive also been workin them on a bench a little because i plan on entering some feild trials in the next couple of years or so with them...lets just say im REALY confident in them.i still think they are a good week or two away from bein ready to try out a rabbit for the first time.they are almost to the point where they dont want to play all the time and seem more serrious about things and figurin out what different scents they pick up are.ill probably try to start them on a rabbit in the next week or so.

Posted by BB at 05/25/08 02:47:21

hover,today i went over to my neighbors house to drop off a turkey blind that he let me borrow and rite there in his flower bed was the biggest cottontail i think ive ever seen.once i left i was riddin my four wheeler around a huge briar patch back in the woods behind my house and out came runnin two more rabbits.after i had seen that many rabbits i was determined to give the pups a shot and thats exactly what im doin in the mornin.ill be up bright and early to turn out red man and little ann for the first time

Posted by BB at 05/25/08 20:53:41

Hope they do well, BB.

I ran the whole Rabbit Journal Pack in the back yard on Saturday.

Sally, the oldest puppy (the one Uncle NoPass's daughter gave me)doesn't have papers, but she is going to be a barnburner.

The big surprise for the second outing was Samuel P. Thumbsucker. I might have to change the name of the red male puppy I got from Hover. He had been a bit whinny and under my feet. In other words, a little timid while his black and tan sister, Sissy was bold, outgoing and a partner in crime with Sally.
I thought it may have been from a certain person that I got the pups from having gave him to much attention.
Eh, Hover?.
lol

Last week, Sissy stayed at my feet, but Sammie took off with his aunties and Sally when they ran a rabbit. They would out distance him and he would cry till he caught back up when they tried to sort the trail out.

Saturday, Sissy joined in fun and all the pups ran or tried to for a good forty minutes. I don't think that they really knew what was going on, they just wanted to go with the pack.

That's basically how I train the dogs.
Put them in the pen with their new Aunties while they are really young and let them bond.
Load them with the big dogs when I go to run them.
Put them out and let them decide when they are going to run.
They tend to run what their aunties do. If they take off after a deer, then it's a session or two with the electric pine limb

Posted by rimfire at 05/25/08 21:15:13

i was going to run them with my oldest female daisy but she had a litter of pups and i just started to wein them yesterday.i just thought she wouldnt mind layin around in her pen for a couple of weeks until she got rid of all her extra baggage.lol.it would surely help the pups out to have an experienced dog with them but i trained my first hounds like this so ill just try it and see how it turns out.i dont think it will be that hard.there is sooooo many rabbits in this briar patch behind my house that if the pups just walk around in there enough its almost a gurantee they'll jump one

Posted by BB at 05/25/08 21:31:44

Lets hope that the rabbit don't startle them and they turn tail
lol

We had a dog (well Cuz did) I've mentioned in previous years called "Chance" then we changed it to "Last Chance"
Not only was he gun shy (something I've already introduced the pups to) but once a rabbit came out of some bushes straight at him and he turned tail and run. Cuz gave him away the next week.

Posted by rimfire at 05/25/08 21:54:22

haha!ive never heard that before.ive heard of plenty dogs being gun shy but bein scared of a rabbit is a new one for me.lol

Posted by BB at 05/25/08 22:57:17

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