I have also written about our Rabbit hole experience on the New Puppy thread, however it is making me nervous and I am wondering what to do.
Pups discovered rabbits last week, has allways ignored them but she went down a hole - I am not sure if she, I didn't see where in the bracken she went down but thank god she reversed up once so I spotted her white bottom and after a lot of hysterics got her out.
Two days later on a different walk she did it again but did come out for a treat and didn't go back in.
I have now avoided those two commons and have taken her to a very exposed place which has miles and miles of open countryside where there are rabbits but I think all the holes are deep in the heather. The heather is not as long as the bracken on the common so I can see her a lot better and if she does go into the heather I am calling her out immediately - she has so far allways come back.
Now I am nervous of going to the places where it is very rabbitty and very holey as I hate having to put on her the lead and she has never been on a lead on a walk.
My question is what to do with your terriers or rabitters? Do you just let me find the odd hole and let them go down or do you try and stop it altogether? Although her recall is fantastic there is allways the chance that I don't see her and call her back in time and I am of course terrified that she will find a hole that then collapses on her. Do you have a locator collar for your dogs - again terrified that if she does find a hole and I haven't quite seen where she has gone I can't locate her. Am seriously considering a long line for very rabbity walks but I suspect even the woods is going to have rabbit holes - you can't really avoid them!
What would you do?