Thread: Bolting rabbit...

Originally Posted by gqhoon

With a pigeon launcher, the proximity is much different. The launcher is used 5-10m plus from the dog, so there should be little influence on the dog (if not, then it isn't being used correctly). However, the bolting rabbit it used right under the dog's nose and can often have negative association for the dog.

Personally, I'd teach the stop on the whistle, transfer that to stop on the thrown dummy, then transfer to stop on hand-thrown pigeons before repeating the process with a rolling ball and then a wing-clipped pigeon (flies low to the ground....not a bolting rabbit, but as close to replicating it, within reason, as possible).

Exactly how it's done.