r/whoathatsinteresting • u/nievefrina • 1d ago
A rabbit doubles back along its own trail before a pursuing dog arrives
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u/Reasonable__Man__ 1d ago
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u/redditman3943 1d ago
When you hunt with dogs you train them by chasing rabbit when it isn’t hunting season. When you do that it’s cool to video tape it.
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u/Reasonable__Man__ 1d ago
Wow! The more you know. That’s interesting, like coaching them with tapes! I didn’t know that.
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u/Petty_Laws 1d ago
To see if the dog was fit for this or if it's not. I wouldn't trust that dog to catch even a stick. It seems it was more interested in running for passion than for sport.
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u/Honest-Yogurt4126 1d ago
You must be some kinda hound expert?
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u/imronburgandy9 1d ago
I read where the red fern grows in school so I'm basically an expert
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u/Pleasant-Darkness 1d ago
Dude, that was an unexpected blow without warning, to make me think not that.
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u/Dogwood_morel 1d ago
It’s running by more by scent than sight, and was pretty frigging excited to have a wheel furrow to blast down. Over run the crap out of the rabbit but I bet it figured it out
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u/CampingMonk 1d ago
Would be nice to see this with more than 3 pixels.
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u/chilldew 1d ago
Usually, these are the coolest videos the ones where the video quality always makes you want to take a closer look at every detail.
If videos like these disappeared, the internet would break. Lol
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u/Downvote_me_dumbass 1d ago
Looks like it could a terrier, like a Fox Terrier or Wheaton Terrier. Probably more of a Wheaton since it’s pretty big.
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u/SeismicRipFart 1d ago
I was going to say wouldn’t the dog easily be able to smell that little escape maneuver?
But then again, it’s not like the bunny ran off perpendicular to the trail and into the woods. He ran straight back over its scent line on the trail, and sat there in it, allowing the dog to keep tracking until the end up the scent, which was still further up the road at that point from where the bunny had settled at.
Either I’m way over thinking it or nature is very intelligent
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u/CapMany9999 1d ago
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u/HiBob-HiBob 1d ago
Since when is surviving a crime.
Oh wait it’s 2026. It’s making too much sense ðŸ˜
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u/MuddledLucidity 1d ago
This is what rabbits do, which is why hunters train dogs to chase rabbits. When the rabbit returns to where the chase started the hunter is there to shoot it.
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u/WildFlemima 1d ago
There was a rabbit in my back yard that outsmarted my dog all day like this
Hop off, freeze and go invisible, wait, go somewhere else
Prince of a thousand enemies