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Post by chewbacca on Dec 3, 2021 9:18:27 GMT -5
Years ago I had a beagle for rabbit hunting. I had to get rid of him due to moving to a different house. It's been nearly 20 years since I've rabbit with a dog. Me and a buddy are looking to get back into it and are in the process of testing out some beagles to find a couple we are happy with. Here is my question...I also deer hunt and I know a beagle would be capable to track a wounded deer if it were needed. I would like to use the beagle to do so (if needed) but would I risk screwing the dog up by allowing him to run a blood trail. Or, if the dog was working a blood trail would he give up on the blood trail as soon as he crossed a hot rabbit trail? Obviously I don't want to to teach a dog bad habits but also if he could be of use to me or one of my friends in the event that one of us can't find a deer at the end of the blood trail then I would like to use him for that if possible. Hope some of you can come up with suggestions. Thanks!
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Post by span870 on Dec 3, 2021 10:38:46 GMT -5
Just so I can be as clear as possible, DONT DO IT. Unless you want to be chasing that beagle all over the place when he's supposed to be chasing rabbits and decides to want to run a deer. I'd guess the problem you'd have more than him quitting a deer trail to run a rabbit be more him quitting running a rabbit to run a deer. Yes a blood dog is "supposed" to be tracking blood, it's doing both. It's just a bad idea all around. It's your hound though to do what you want. I have mine 99.9% deer broke. With that said, they are bored and a deer jump in front of them, I grab the button real quick. You're asking for problems. Even if you run correction collars on them, and pop them if they take off after a deer, then they'll get confused when you want them to blood trail. If the deer and rabbit season didn't overlap I'd give you about a 1% chance of it working out but, well it's not going to work out.
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Post by stevein on Dec 3, 2021 10:53:47 GMT -5
^^^^AGREE
Maybe 1 hound in a 1000 would do what you want.
It would probably be a lot simpler to find a hound that loved to run deer and develope it into a blood tracker then to find a clean rabbit runner.
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Post by chewbacca on Dec 3, 2021 11:41:11 GMT -5
Just so I can be as clear as possible, DONT DO IT. Unless you want to be chasing that beagle all over the place when he's supposed to be chasing rabbits and decides to want to run a deer. I'd guess the problem you'd have more than him quitting a deer trail to run a rabbit be more him quitting running a rabbit to run a deer. Yes a blood dog is "supposed" to be tracking blood, it's doing both. It's just a bad idea all around. It's your hound though to do what you want. I have mine 99.9% deer broke. With that said, they are bored and a deer jump in front of them, I grab the button real quick. You're asking for problems. Even if you run correction collars on them, and pop them if they take off after a deer, then they'll get confused when you want them to blood trail. If the deer and rabbit season didn't overlap I'd give you about a 1% chance of it working out but, well it's not going to work out. That's what I figured. But, I didn't want to discount the thought without asking guys that have a lot more experience than I do with beagles. The thing that gave me the idea is I've heard of a few people that have taken their pet non-hunting type dogs out with them when they were doing a grid search for a lost deer just to let the dog get out and get some exercise and the dogs ended up finding the deer. Thought maybe I could do the same with my beagle when I get it. But, if there is any chance of screwing the dog up I'll just let do what he is supposed to do...run rabbits. Thanks for the info fellas. Much appreciated! |
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Post by span870 on Dec 3, 2021 17:03:46 GMT -5
Just so I can be as clear as possible, DONT DO IT. Unless you want to be chasing that beagle all over the place when he's supposed to be chasing rabbits and decides to want to run a deer. I'd guess the problem you'd have more than him quitting a deer trail to run a rabbit be more him quitting running a rabbit to run a deer. Yes a blood dog is "supposed" to be tracking blood, it's doing both. It's just a bad idea all around. It's your hound though to do what you want. I have mine 99.9% deer broke. With that said, they are bored and a deer jump in front of them, I grab the button real quick. You're asking for problems. Even if you run correction collars on them, and pop them if they take off after a deer, then they'll get confused when you want them to blood trail. If the deer and rabbit season didn't overlap I'd give you about a 1% chance of it working out but, well it's not going to work out. That's what I figured. But, I didn't want to discount the thought without asking guys that have a lot more experience than I do with beagles. The thing that gave me the idea is I've heard of a few people that have taken their pet non-hunting type dogs out with them when they were doing a grid search for a lost deer just to let the dog get out and get some exercise and the dogs ended up finding the deer. Thought maybe I could do the same with my beagle when I get it. But, if there is any chance of screwing the dog up I'll just let do what he is supposed to do...run rabbits. Thanks for the info fellas. Much appreciated! I'm not saying a beagle won't blood trail, probably be real good at it. What I'm saying is a either or. |
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