Frozen snow... no lurcherwork

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

Out with the terriers and for a mooch about on a small shoot today, was hoping to take the lurchers along, but the snow has frozen solid and its just too risky it was -6 last night, and the other night the vehicle read -13 over the hill... in some areas the snow is a good 8 inchs and deeper in the drifts, the crust is like glass and its obvious that it could injure even good feet on a lurcher.... so its spaniels and terriers only today, hopefully we will find old charlie tucked into the cover or to ground and make the landowner happy... as he has been avoiding the lamp and snares for some time now.

 

Whats the conditions like in other areas?

 

all the best

 

DnN

[rizla1 122]

been snowing all morning in s-wales and it looks like its gonna snow all day

[chewton 7]

Down in cardiff today and the snow just turned to rain

[oggy808 24]

falling as rain here now but have to tansport hounds to a meet on the mountains near the coast gonna be cold !!!! and arranged a day of vermin destruction tomorow so lets hope it all falls as rain got 8 or 10 people to come tomorow as large area to cover and lots of cats going from 1 farm and ground bird corpses all around , saw 8 on the lamp in the snow but could not get any wear near so hears hoping for good day on both A.T.B. oggy

[dafydd thomas 13]

weather is annoying as hell no decent weather to run dogs on for the past two weeks at least really, not snowing at the moment just very windy. all the best dt

[wild rover 548]

Out with the terriers and for a mooch about on a small shoot today, was hoping to take the lurchers along, but the snow has frozen solid and its just too risky it was -6 last night, and the other night the vehicle read -13 over the hill... in some areas the snow is a good 8 inchs and deeper in the drifts, the crust is like glass and its obvious that it could injure even good feet on a lurcher.... so its spaniels and terriers only today, hopefully we will find old charlie tucked into the cover or to ground and make the landowner happy... as he has been avoiding the lamp and snares for some time now.

 

Gone from floods to snow now freezing rock hard, haven't had a decent day for weeks, 2010 sees a big thaw ha bloody hope so, apart from an occasional mooch, to hard to run the dogs.

[James Doyle 59]

weather is picking up here mate rained last night so frost is gone and the wind is unreal

 

unfortunately this feckin moon is nearly full

[shaun dee 7]

took my 2 lurchers for a walk today and the frozen snow is cutting the pads doing me head in

[Thomsons dogs 37]

snowing here but ground like solid ice forget walking dogs in that most streets here not been touched with road salt cars havent moved for days its that bad

[bullmastiff 615]

Nothing but rain, rain and more rain down here in the South-West. The grounds saturated and floods have started already and it's still raining.

We only had a very light dusting of snow before xmas but had several hard frosts.

Took the dogs out to a favourite spot for a few hours this morning, it was 3ºc but with a North-east wind and the rain it felt more like -20! Got soaked through to the skin, and had to strip off to my Boxers in the car to try and get warm again. Still showed the pups coat is decent though, started to dry her off and found she was still dry near her skin.

[longdog13 36]

Defrosted well here, just wet and soft, sorry, i was thinking of something else then.

the weather is fine for running down here at the mo. even at night the frost isn't too hard.

[Helen 2]

Ground frozen here lots of sharp ice around, I've been doing some tracking every day gone about a mile or so a day with each dog I hide three lots of food along the track to keep them interested. It really tires them out using their noses.

[dogs-n-natives 1,182]

Sounds like different conditions up and down the country...you lot with the wet stuff can count yourselves lucky i suppose lol, as ive just looked at the met office website and the next 15 days in the north east hill ground is frosts and snow lurchers going to be bouncing off the walls soon like!

Hunting invites down south... more than welcome

[stroller 341]

We were out with the ferrets today, couldnt take a dog as the snow is still frozen and like glass in places, rabbits were bolting very well considering the noise the crunching snow made as we set the nets. got half a dozen missed a couple but packed in due to lack of light and freezing cold. Durham/north yorks

[GET THEM OUT (.)(.) 39]

obviously not been out on the lamp with the snow, but done alot of mooching with the dogs, , it dont bother my two with there breeding, snow neally all gone so get the batterys charged up for a few seesions this week,