Hunting

[DIDO.1 22,864]

Just read in hounds magazine that there has been over 40,000 days hunting in the UK since the rediculous hunting ban in 2005. There has also been at least 2 new packs of hounds formed. Keep at it lads!!!!

[Guest Rod&dog]

2 new packs of hounds formed.

 

 

A few have packed it in also.

[cocker 2,655]

aye its its alright for them lot, but how many coursing meetings has there been ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? how many coursing clubs are there now?????? how many coursing clubs have packed in,and how much pressure is there on lurcher and longdog owners.

 

cocker

Edited October 19, 2009 by cocker

[DIDO.1 22,864]

aye its its alright for them lot, but how many coursing meetings has there been ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? how many coursing clubs are there now?????? how many coursing clubs have packed in,and how much pressure is there on lurcher and longdog owners.

 

cocker

 

Yes I agree. I loved (legal) courseing as much as hunting with hounds. Unfortunatly courseing not only has a corupt goverment to deal with but also all the scumbags it atracts, in the last year of legal courseing I saw a small club wiped out by poachers, lurchers slipped from the crowd onto courseing fields and 4x4s driven over growing crops.

 

Dido.

[DIDO.1 22,864]

2 new packs of hounds formed.

 

 

A few have packed it in also.

 

I can only think of 1, in scotland, but that was for reasons other than the ban and a new pack has formed and taken and increased the hunt country. Also 1 a militry pack has switched to drag hunting.

[cocker 2,655]

i understand what your saying but thats a little bit like saying lets ban fishing because of people who dont purchase licences, and who fish waters without being a member, who leave rubbish on the riverbanks, or illegaly remove fish, who fish in the close season etc, who leave gates open and on occasion drive across private land, with you cant tar everyone with the same brush .

 

cocker

[cocker 2,655]

heres an instance for you, a few weeks ago i was walking down a bridlepath near my house, the landowner came down the track and pulled up besides me, where are you going he said, ime just walking my dogs on the lead on a bridlepath making my way home i said,,

 

well keep them dogs on a lead anyway he said, cos i dont want people thinking ime condoning breaking the law, by letting you course hares on my land , thats what theyll think if they see you round here all the time he said, theyll think i let you come on here, he said, havent you heard about prescott and easterby getting done for allowing hare coursing on there land he asked, yeah but thats got nowt to do with me i replied,

 

so this fella doesnt even want me seen on his land in case people say he lets me course on there, NOW FOR THE BEST BIT, THIS FELLA IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN HUNTING IN MY AREA, HE ALLOWS FOX HOUNDS TO HUNT ON HIS LAND REGULAR, but he dont want someone walking around with longdogs?????? its becoming a f*****g joke....................................

 

cocker

[pink head 28]

2 new packs of hounds formed.

 

 

A few have packed it in also.

good shout . more for us

[pink head 28]

heres an instance for you, a few weeks ago i was walking down a bridlepath near my house, the landowner came down the track and pulled up besides me, where are you going he said, ime just walking my dogs on the lead on a bridlepath making my way home i said,,

 

well keep them dogs on a lead anyway he said, cos i dont want people thinking ime condoning breaking the law, by letting you course hares on my land , thats what theyll think if they see you round here all the time he said, theyll think i let you come on here, he said, havent you heard about prescott and easterby getting done for allowing hare coursing on there land he asked, yeah but thats got nowt to do with me i replied,

 

so this fella doesnt even want me seen on his land in case people say he lets me course on there, NOW FOR THE BEST BIT, THIS FELLA IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN HUNTING IN MY AREA, HE ALLOWS FOX HOUNDS TO HUNT ON HIS LAND REGULAR, but he dont want someone walking around with longdogs?????? its becoming a f*****g joke....................................

 

cocker

lamp it and f**k him

[DIDO.1 22,864]

i understand what your saying but thats a little bit like saying lets ban fishing because of people who dont purchase licences, and who fish waters without being a member, who leave rubbish on the riverbanks, or illegaly remove fish, who fish in the close season etc, who leave gates open and on occasion drive across private land, with you cant tar everyone with the same brush .

 

cocker

 

Mate, I never said I support a ban on courseing in any way, as I said I loved courseing. My point was that courseing has to contend with the nob heads it attracts just as hunting with hounds has to contend with its uppr class image (I grew up/live on a council estate and have hunted with the best).

I support all organised fieldsports on private lands but you hear a lot of lurcher/courseing lads say 'whose campaining on our behalf' when [bANNED TEXT] they were doing was illegal before the ban is illegal now and will be llegal after the repeal and there actions will make it harder for courseing to ever regain its respectability.