Opinions on using a Dog to hunt rabbits ?

Question

What's everyone's opinions on hunting rabbits (or rats) with dogs ?

Personally I see nothing wrong with it.

Answer 1

I have a beagle I use.  I go out when its in season and let my dog loose.  I follow him around and when the rabbit gets

into the open i shoot it. Usally its not the dog that kills the rabbit. And do not listen to the activist they don't know the difference between hunting and abuse

Answer 2

its only right if the dogs are killing them if they are destroying your crops (if your a farmer) if you just do it for fun, then thats sick

Answer 3

Well, as long as you aren't doing it just to kill something for the fun of it.

I see nothing wrong with it.

God did put animals on the earth for US.

I personally would never ever hunt rabbits.

But, if I really needed to, I would hunt rats.

Rabbits just seem to cute and fluffy and all that jazz.

I mean, I have nothing wrong with rats.

There are particular breeds that were bred for those exact reasons.

So, I think that if you get some good Huntin' dogs that were bred for those reasons, I am sure they would love it!

For the Rats the breeds that come to my mind are Parsons Russell Terrier ( Jack Russell Terrier ), Rat Terrier, and most any other Terrier Breed.

Answer 4

There are far to many rabbits and rats around so I personally think culling them with dogs is a good thing. I get a lot of rabbits in my garden and my gsd`s catch them and eat them quite often. It means extra worming the dogs though to be on the safe side.

Answer 5

i personally think its sick! xox

Answer 6

I live on a farm & have Staffies, i don't like hunting as such, but they do hunt rats & mice. I wouldn't set them after rabbits etc, but that's just because i wouldn't want to prepare them for the dogs.

My partner's collieXlab used to hunt hares & eat them as nature intended.

I don't mind my dogs hunting mice/ rats, it's more natural & faster than poison.

Answer 7

its what would happen in the wild isn't it?? and people have to do soemthing to keep the numbers down =]

Answer 8

As long as hunting dogs aren't starved or dumped or basically if they're not treated badly, I have no problem with people hunting with dogs.

Answer 9

I live on a farm and my 4 dogs are hunting rabbits and rats every day, my youngest GDS has killed 14 rabbits so far and about 5 mice, no rats yet though.  

Answer 10

My opinion is that there are dogs that are bred specifically for that job.  Hunting rabbits - bassets, beagles to name just a couple.  For rats there are a variety of terriers that were bred to hunt and kill vermin - rat terrier for example.  Absolutely nothing wrong with using a dog for what it was bred to do.

Answer 11

WELL.....I have always owned coursing Lurchers and ratting terriers, i love it, i know many people think i am cruel and i will get loads of thumbs downs but i don't care, for me it was a way of life, when i was small we had an awsome Lurcher who would catch 4/5 rabbits/hares a night, all would be gutted and fed our terrier and 2 cats, so no waste.

EDIT wow, i can't believe the good responses you got, i thought everyone would be dead set against it.

Although i am happy to hunt with dogs i have never and will never hunt with a gun, to me i i think it is cruel, the animals have no chance of escape and are often left injured, at least hunting with dogs gives the hunted a chance of escape, survival of the fittest, as nature intended.

Answer 12

I would never kill anything  ever it is horrible would you liked to be killed by a dog