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My girl is a rescue. She’s around 5 years old and is very intelligent.
She is very good and I am confident to leave her off the lead.
She listens pretty well and comes when I call her.

The problem I’m getting now, is that when I take her to certain places, we have seen rabbits, or it’s clear that rabbits live there, and she just seems to go into a trance.
She starts sniffing around frantically and totally ignores me. It’s like she does not hear me, even when I’m shouting her name directly next to her.

I like to let her off the lead when we are in open areas, but I’m worried I may lose her, as she runs far away and it sometimes takes me a long time to get her to return. She’s small and when I’m the woods for instance, I can’t walk on, as I’m unsure when she’s gone and if she will find her way back to me.

The only way I can explain it is that she goes into a trance when she smells a bunny nearby.
Any of you old enough to remember Disneys Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers, may remember their friend Monty who went into a trance when he smelled cheese. It’s exactly like that haha. I call her Monty when she finally comes back to me.