Hare Coursing

Ive been to the waterloo cup at altcar approx 35 years ago.
Used to have greyhounds when i was a kid.
Ours were track dogs , very different to coursing dogs
It was quite an organised affair. Not just blokes on a field so to speak. Almost like a point to point horse racing meeting

They had beaters flushing the hares out from behind the dogs and if the hare wasnt deemed fast enough they wouldnt let the dogs go. As said above , the idea wasnt to catch the hare, but to show the dogs chasing skills.

I think about 1 in 20 hares were caught. The rest escaped.

It was a thing of its time i guess and right it was outlawed.

Just giving a bit of in-site
 
The thinking about longdogs copping for a hare is it wont be a fit en..opposed to a cull which is too indiscriminate. Culling poor dooing hares will make the tribe breed stronger/healthier. If youre fit enough to escape, youre fit enough to breed.
 
I'm all for it. As long as the tree hugging do-gooders are busy with fox hunting hare coursing the fishermen get left alone.
 
Fat Chance said:
The thinking about longdogs copping for a hare is it wont be a fit en..opposed to a cull which is too indiscriminate. Culling poor dooing hares will make the tribe breed stronger/healthier. If youre fit enough to escape, youre fit enough to breed.
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They wouldnt slip the dogs if it was a slow hare which suggests it was nothing to do with a cull and all about the sport.

I can remember there being a massive group of animal rights activists playing Bright Eyes on a ghetto blaster
 
Successfull rabbits are culled by the goverment...it takes em three days to die of essentially strangulation with their eyes bulging out of their head...if i see a myxi'd rabbit i always give the dog a run at em so i can neck em sharpish.
 
Bluesince1979 said:
They wouldnt slip the dogs if it was a slow hare which suggests it was nothing to do with a cull and all about the sport.

I said opposed to a cull....

A non slow hare doesnt mean its non daft...the non daft hares will take the piss in the slop.
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idahoblues said:
We were working on a roof in winter a few years ago and a snowshoe hare appeared about a quarter of a mile away on the drive/ road.Eagle eyed Rude Dog, a Springer Spaniel saw it immediately and took off after it at full pace. We were all cheering the dog on and she was trying to impress the crew, running at full sprint. The hare finally saw the dog and jumped into the snow, it was like it had twin turbos, they can leap about twelve feet at a time and just don’t sink. Rude Dog jumped into after it and was immediately swamped, flailing around, it was so funny, she walked back with her head held low
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The clue is in the name, snowshoe hare.
 
I live in a village outside Lancaster and often walk my whippet around the lanes nearby. Last summer as I was walking her a car comes screaming up behind me and brakes alongside. A man and woman got out and started yelling at me accusing me of hare coursing - their logic was because I had a whippet and was wearing camo shorts then what else could I be doing? It got really nasty with the guy getting in my face and the woman was now filming it all. No matter how much I protested my innocence they were having none of it. In the end I had to ring the police and give the car registration - turns out it was stolen!
Ironically my dog is an RSPCA rescue; her and her sister were being kept in absolute squalid conditions in a garage in Ormskirk and the guy had been prosecuted a few times in the past for coursing and banned from keeping animals but he just carried on as before. (Has since been arrested and charged yet again!)
When I was younger I worked in an animal refuge in Carlisle and we were forever getting whippets, greyhounds and lurchers tied up and dumped at the gates. As soon as they were too slow for racing, lamping or whatever then they were classed as useless. Some were covered in cigarette burns and had their teeth filed to points. Since then I’ve always had sighthounds especially rescue ones - they’re absolutely brilliant dogs.
The people who treat them that way and allow them to rip other animals apart are utter cunts.
 
idahoblues said:
We were working on a roof in winter a few years ago and a snowshoe hare appeared about a quarter of a mile away on the drive/ road.Eagle eyed Rude Dog, a Springer Spaniel saw it immediately and took off after it at full pace. We were all cheering the dog on and she was trying to impress the crew, running at full sprint. The hare finally saw the dog and jumped into the snow, it was like it had twin turbos, they can leap about twelve feet at a time and just don’t sink. Rude Dog jumped into after it and was immediately swamped, flailing around, it was so funny, she walked back with her head held low
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Brilliant.
Everything ive studied about Hares over the years is inc in your post.
Lol
 
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