Dog killing rabbits

zaksmum

pigpen wrote: »

hares are much bigger.. and run rather than hop and they have looooooong ears... if he manages to catch a hare he is amazing.. they are extremely fast and very big.. as a jack russell they are probably bigger than him!

Oh dear...I think it might have been a hare, then. It was massive. And ran like the wind, but my dog was faster, sadly.

He's a first cross of a Whippet and black Labrador - his father was a hunting whippet and his mother a retriever Lab for what he hunted.

zaksmum

myway wrote: »

Don't worry you won't get to too any trouble, Because your not working your dog. To be honest most of the rabbit's that most dog's catch have mixi, so the dog's are putting the poor mite's out of pain.What breed are your dog's?. Even if your dog got a hare unless you sent your dog to get it you can't get in any trouble, and to be honest, Most untrained dog's wouldn't be fit or fast enough to catch one. The rabbit could even have been dead when he found it. My oh would have brought it home for dinner:p.

What's mixi? Could my dog catch anything from it? It definitely wasn't ill - let alone dead - because I saw it running.

Caroline_a

Mixi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis

Comes round every couple of years

bagginslover

Dogs can't catch myxi, don't worry. They can carry it though, so if you have pet rabbits best to make sure they are vaccinated.

zaksmum

bagginslover wrote: »

Dogs can't catch myxi, don't worry. They can carry it though, so if you have pet rabbits best to make sure they are vaccinated.

Thanks! No, I haven't got any pet rabbits...Jack would think all his birthdays had come at once:)

CFC

I'm thinking....clever dog and there's dinner sorted!

On the other hand I also think....bunnies, dogs and cliff edges are NOT a good mix. You need to be careful where you let him off lead, bunny blind dogs WILL go over any handy cliffs.

zaksmum

CFC wrote: »

I'm thinking....clever dog and there's dinner sorted!

On the other hand I also think....bunnies, dogs and cliff edges are NOT a good mix. You need to be careful where you let him off lead, bunny blind dogs WILL go over any handy cliffs.

I was a bit tempted to take the rabbit back for the dog's dinner, but wouldn't have the stomach to do the necessary to the poor thing.:(

But there's no worries about my dog going over the edge of clifftops. He's like a mountain goat and unbelievably agile.

rev229

I have the same problem my dog has killed 4 rabbits in a week! She is a flat coat retriver/collie and a tad thick! She was wearing a muzzle! I walk her in the park/woods for past 3 years and she has maybe managed to catch a couple in that time. But this is the worse ever!! The past 2 days I have had her on the lead but she can bearly contain her excitment at the smell and sight of them to the point she won't have a wee or doggy doo! I think she quite likes the squeak they make, she loves squeaky toys! She has killed them outright and will eventually leave them. Do I let her off the lead and let her get on with it or keep her on the lead, she is muzzled as she can be funny with some other dogs and people. Strangely we have seem loads od dead rabbits around in the past few days not all killed by my bunny loving dog!

zaksmum

rev229 wrote: »

I have the same problem my dog has killed 4 rabbits in a week! She is a flat coat retriver/collie and a tad thick! She was wearing a muzzle! I walk her in the park/woods for past 3 years and she has maybe managed to catch a couple in that time. But this is the worse ever!! The past 2 days I have had her on the lead but she can bearly contain her excitment at the smell and sight of them to the point she won't have a wee or doggy doo! I think she quite likes the squeak they make, she loves squeaky toys! She has killed them outright and will eventually leave them. Do I let her off the lead and let her get on with it or keep her on the lead, she is muzzled as she can be funny with some other dogs and people. Strangely we have seem loads od dead rabbits around in the past few days not all killed by my bunny loving dog!

She killed 4 rabbits while wearing a muzzle?? HOW??

Owain_Moneysaver

zaksmum wrote: »

But there's no worries about my dog going over the edge of clifftops. He's like a mountain goat and unbelievably agile.

I bet he can't fly though.