I know what you mean about the hunt drive. It is pretty impressive that you could actually call Rocky off that possum, though. If he's stubborn, that was very impressive. I can tell that you have him very well trained.

Graham has a really strong prey drive. I can call him off a chase and he'll come, as long as the chase just started, but once he catches an animal, or he gets out of site, his training goes out the window. He no longer cares about me, or my screaming, or whistling. He will come when, and only when, the animal is dead. By then his face has blood on it, and he usually has at least one bite and/or bloody scratches. When I take him into an area where there is lots of wildlife I have to keep an eye on him if he's off lead. He has a very good recall, like I said, when he just starts a chase, but if I am not paying attention to him, he'll get far away, quickly, and eventually, probablly catch whatever it is that he's chasing (unless it's a herd of deer, if that's the case, then he'll be gone in no time.

Kersey has a hunt drive but it's not as strong as Graham's. She'll chase stuff, but sofar, has not caught anything except for a bird, and when she caught it, she didn't try to kill it, she simply kept tossing it up in the air and catching it, and tossing it and catching it. She played with it rather then intentially kill it. She promptly dropped it when I called her, and it ran away chirping in pain and I could never find it. I should have let her kill it because I fear it suffered with probablly puncture wounds and possibly broken bones. She will also follow Graham when he makes chase, so I don't very often take them on woodland adventues together anymore. Graham is a bad role model in this case. I don't want him turning Kersey into the hunter that he is.

I have taken both Kersey and Graham into the aquarium shop that I used to work at and they sell baby ferrets. Graham wants to kill the ferrets, I can tell by the look in his eyes, and Kersey wants to play with them.