hare coursing

[snoopdog 1,256]

before the ban getting a dog ready for the season which properly starts late october november ....you have your normal run off the mill training e,g.road work ..lamping some folks do bushing with there coursing dogs to get them fit .....ect .. ect ..every dog is different so miles on the road and lamping can vairey quite a bit .........food and so on is up to the invidual owners too .....but its a must that dog gets some practice and learn the no how off the brown hare ....and the only way off doing that is to course one ......or two so when september does come espeicaly with a youngish dog or a dog which is just entering its first proper full season needs to get on some early hares ...meaning sep hares ...now we all no they arnt no where near flying at this time off year but you do get some good runs which will teach a young dog the way a hare runs and it also learns you what sort of style your dogs going to run and if its going to be able to do the job in hand ....now a few folk spit there dummies out or should i say spat there dummies out pre ban ....because folk where running early hares ..iam not talking about tosses who run them all summer iam talking september hares ....these days you seem to get leverts all year round near enough ....so who is to say when the season starts ...... now everbody who has coursed hares have ran them in september espeicaly to fetch a young dog on ....if they say other wise then sorry i dont belive you now say your dog was born janurary its to late in the season really because the hares are flying and you can ruin a dog so you have to wait for there second season so by september the following season your dog is around twenty months old ...that dogs need some exspearence behind a hare before they really start moving ...now this is my opinion i maybe wrong ...if i am then i would like to here your pre ban preperation for a young dog in its first or second season ....cheers snoop

[baz 464]

snoop if the ground is right at this time of year.....its on like donkey kong....

[snoopdog 1,256]

snoop if the ground is right at this time of year.....its on like donkey kong....

meaning baz????i dont get that cumbrian twoddle

[Guest Frank]

I totally agree snoop, they need to know about their quarry and gain experince from early autumn onwards, not thrown in the deep end.

Iv seen too many dogs distroyed, from throwing them in the deep end, they jack after a while.

Edited September 24, 2007 by Frank

[Guest MOLLY]

Is that after starting them on rabbits Snoop or would you not bother with rabbits first?

MOLL.

[snoopdog 1,256]

yes moll they are started on rabbits first but a rabbit has a totally different stlye off running and the course is normally over with in or under a min ...they need that exspearence behind a hare ... most coursing lads will start a hare dog on rabbits alot earlier than you would normally start a pup ... or this is what ive found

[Guest SJM]

My pup was born late summer which isnt ideal because it means she wouldnt be ready for a pre ban run at long ears until the summer of the following year but you can bet your boots if hare coursing was still legal I would be out August/Sept giving my dog experience and education, and I dont give a fiddlers fart what anyone on the internet says or thinks because its my dog and I will do what I thinks going to benefit its running career

[Guest MOLLY]

At the end of the day, only owners know what is best for their dogs. Take on board all sensible advice, trying to work within the laws and the seasons, but utimately the best for your dog must take precedence over anything else, you only get one chance to get it right.

MOLL.

[snoopdog 1,256]

this isnt about people who have posted pics of hares they have shot but forgot to put the gun in there pic ...thats there fault and another disscusion .. this is about folk getting stick pre ban for running hares in september ..like i said we all no they arnt at there best but how else is the dog going to learn its trade if it dosnt .....if sombody can enlighten me on another way how to fetch a hare dog on pre ban and how they used to do it ...i would be very interested to know .....there seems quite a few folk handing stick out for it and thats there opinion .....but i would just like to know how they used to do it ...thats what these sites are for ....disscusion and for learning ....iam sure lads would like to now how it was done pre 2005 if they wasnt running early hares how they did it .............not out for an arugment i uppset enough folk on these sites as it is because i speak my mind and tend not to bite my tounge .....there opinion will be received with open ears ..... all the best snoop

[Guest WILF]

To be honest Snoops, everfyone works to there own morals............now I have heard lads trundle out every excuse in the fecking book so that they dont have to run there dog..........too hard........to cold........to warm........to rough.......scratch on the leg........bump on the foot........sore toe.........they do nothing but non stop road work and bike riding......which is great as come late November the dog knows how to run the London marathon and win the tour de fecking France...........as for putting tackle on the deck........ziltch!!

 

Make up your own mind

[Guest MOLLY]

as come late November the dog knows how to run the London marathon and win the tour de fecking France

MOLL.

[snoopdog 1,256]

my point exactly wilf ....is running early hares and iam talking september hares ..everybody has the odd accident through summer if you didnt your not taking your dogs out enough but if like i sayi is running september hares just a thing everbody does ..but dosnt talk about it ...like a unwriten rule ...????DONT MENTION IT ..if so why do people slate people who do it ..or should i say done it... pre ban ......if they have done it themselves ......,,,...to me it dosent make them any better a dog man or woman and it wont make me bow my head in respect ....because i KNOW every serious dogman or woman who ran hares ...fecking ban making me talk fecking riddles .....WHO RAN hares .....has run them on september hares .........does that make sense .....>>???? snoop

[Phil Lloyd 10,739]

To be honest Snoops, everfyone works to there own morals............now I have heard lads trundle out every excuse in the fecking book so that they dont have to run there dog..........too hard........to cold........to warm........to rough.......scratch on the leg........bump on the foot........sore toe.........they do nothing but non stop road work and bike riding......which is great as come late November the dog knows how to run the London marathon and win the tour de fecking France...........as for putting tackle on the deck........ziltch!!

 

Make up your own mind

 

 

 

 

Too right WILF,...

 

These guys always put me in mind of the fellows that you see 'rubbing down' their boats and forever varnishing the feckers ,.etc,.etc,.BUT,.they never get their bums wet and get out in the water after the fish

Same with some falconers and austringers ,..they love walking around with the birds on their fists,..posing like a medieval knave,.yet never daring to cast the beauty off into the wide blue yonder...

 

I exaggerate of course,...

 

But ya get my drift....

 

 

 

Best wishes to all you brave coursing boys this season,...

go careful though lads,.coz its dangerous 'out there'..

Cheers,.CHALKWARREN....

Edited September 26, 2007 by CHALKWARREN

[TOMO 29,206]

feck me i nearly spat me tea out tor de france

 

just get the dog out and get it educated Visa 11 months old end of july 2003 first hare ran a few more through aug and sept , they dont lern owt in the kennel

[sighthound1811 6]

to each his own....everybody has different ways of schooling a dog..early hares ,rabbits etc..just remember every dog is different an the ground,weather etc differs from place to place..i do my own thing but would never criticise anybody for their methods ...what works for me might not be suitable for snoop(sorry mate just using you as an example) but thats just the way it is...