Has anybody done this and how well does it work?

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Bad idea..Rabbits are more active at night...Better off starting a dog on squirrels...Because they climb trees.House cats are also a bad Idea because they can get a dog killed by there owners.We had that happen opening night this year with a buddys new dog..Good thing he had a lighted dog collar on the dog..Treed a cat in a guys front yard..The guy was a good sport and called us on a cell phone...LOL...

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Just wondering, some of the oldtimers around here said if you could get a dog to run rabbit track then looking up slick trees will be a thing of the past. I've got some Tennessee redbacks that I am planning on turning lose in a big fenced in ball park a couple of times and let the pups chase it then turn them lose in the wild and do the same with a coon a few times and then break the pups off another released rabbit with the tri-tronics. I beleive this tactic might work, I'm just trying to try something different with my pups. I have three and neather has yet to see a live coon but have been messed with on a hide.

I have heard of pups running rabbits...they say when they start treeing coon real well they will not mess with the rabbs anymore... never try it myself but yes i'v heard old men talking about it...its suppose to teach track sence..

I took my three eight month old pups to the local baseball field today where I could close them up inside the fence. One by one I turned a rabbit lose then leashed a pup and let it watch the rabbit hop around LOL. I then turned the pups lose one by one and watching those pups chasing the dodging rabbits was really funny and intertaining. One even caught a rabbit corse I was able to get it away before she killed it. I only wished I had done this when the pups were three or four months old......

The best dog I ever had was started on rabbits. She was only 4 months old and she'd start trailing rabbits while our older dog was trailing a coon. One night she straightened out a track and put a tree on it. After that first coon, to my knowledge she never run another rabbit. Best track dog I've ever been in the woods with.


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