QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 188 



Ans. We are glad to get your letter about the 

 Airedale hound cross running mute. I have seen 

 a good many of these dogs but have never seen 

 one work, and was under the impression that they 

 barked on the trail. 



Eegarding teaching your spaniel to retrieve, 

 have you run him with a beagle after rabbits yet? 

 I have had several spaniels and they were all good 

 dogs to put up rabbits. After starting the rabbit 

 they would follow, barking continually. As they 

 do not go very fast, the rabbit circles. To make 

 him retrieve, I would begin by teaching him to 

 "fetch," or making him sit down and open his 

 mouth to take something. After he gets that 

 into his head, by successive steps you get him to 

 take anything you hand him at command; next 

 to pick it up at command, and, finally, to go and 

 hunt for something at a distance and to bring it 

 to you. If this is done with a dead rabbit from 

 the first, I believe you will have no trouble in 

 teaching him to retrieve rabbits. 



HOUND AND AIREDALE CROSS 



1. I have a nice English beagle hound one year 

 and five months old, and a friend of mine has an 

 Airedale terrier which he would like to cross with 

 my beagle bitch. Do you think it would make any 



