Return of the Hare ??

[chartpolski 28,746]

Right behind my house are a few fields and a small nature reserve. There's pleanty game there; woodcock, partridge, pheasant, rabbit, fox, badger, roe.... but no hares. There hasn't been hares for about 35-40 years, since the new motorway cut it off from the rest of the land......UNTIL YESTERDAY ! I walk across these fields about four times a day to go to my allotment. Yesterday, I went over, fed the hens, collected the eggs, etc, and headed home. About 200 yards from home, the dogs were mooching about and suddenly..GAME ON !!! They spotted a hare that had lifted a fair way off and they were after it ! I was at a vantage point and saw the whole run, I think he had been run before, as his ears were flat on his back and he was off at full speed, no hanging around ! Well, he led the dogs a merry old dance; back and forward thru' hedges, in and out of sheep netting like a slalom skier, out onto heavy winter wheat... they turned him inside out and threw themselves into the strike, but after about four minutes, he made sanctuary in some heavy rough. I collared the dogs up, and my first though was "how the hell didn't they kill him?"... my second thought was "no, I'm glad he got away, he put up the run of his life and put the dogs thru' a grueller, good luck to him!!".I hope he hangs around, and who knows, maybe start breeding and stock the land again. I look forward to seeing him again. Sometimes the course IS better than the kill !!

 

Cheers.

[Ideation 8,217]

Just pray the local idiots don't see him, or it'll be 6 dogs vs 1 hare on the lamp. Or just a gun.

[kevin from bristol 95]

if they aint been round there for 30 odd years maybe leave em for a couple more and get infested

[PoshPikey 560]

Wouldn't have thought he will hang about long if that was his welcoming committee! Sounds like a good run though!

[mintstick999 485]

If i'd be like you mate, nice to see the dogs on it but better to know there could be more out there on another day, if left alone to breed.

[cocker 2,655]

hares are thin on the ground round here this year, i have never seen so few hares in 40 years, and i know a lot of it is down to them getting shot. unlike many other species which are shot the hare has no real close season, and it isn't half showing.

[whin 463]

good story cant beat a daylite chase in and out hedges fences for four minutes a chase to be remeberd