lurcher prejudice

[sussexpoacher 45]

I was out this afternoon walking the dogs with a friend and her two dogs, the area we were on is overgrown fields which are being left to re-wild. the dogs pick up a scent and start circling a batch of bramble less than twenty feet from footpath, i hear a 4x4 approaching so we recall the dogs, 4x4 stops as dogs return to us, its the land owner and he starts goin on bout partridge and pheasant chicks and the dogs being a nuisance then he drives off. what pissed me off was i beat for the shoot on that land, i tell the keepers where n when iv seen foxes, and if he was that bothered about his chicks he wouldnt have put free range pigs on the land!! bet he wouldnt have said anything if we`d been walking labs or similar.

[Neal 1,857]

About nineteen years ago, when I lived in Cumbria, I was walking from Coniston to Torver with my lurcher and with an old gas-mask bag over my shoulder. A police car drove past a couple of times and eventually pulled up and asked where I was heading. He then asked what I had in the bag, presumably because he was assuming I'd have a ferret or a brace of rabbits...he looked a bit pissed off when I replied, "Some sandwiches, a sketch book and a box of oil pastels!" There's still a little part of me that wishes I'd refused to tell him as he'd have been even more annoyed if he's taken me all the way to the local station for the same result.

[Tyla 3,179]

I know what you mean, its either suspicious buggers like that or half wit do gooders comlaining that your dogs too thin while they drag their wheezing obese lab or whatever past. Where in sussex are you from?

[artic 595]

I got the same reply from a farmer in his truck. He wanted my dogs on a lead as he was worried about them spooking his birds this time of year.

 

I didn't argue with him, but i was worried that my sal/grey had already gone nose down around the corner!!

 

I kept the conversation short and sweet and walked off, the farmer remained in his truck on his mobile, my dog came trotting around the corner tail high, pheasant in his mouth and drops it infront of his truck looking for me LOL.............

 

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

 

[whin 463]

the funny one that happend alongtime ago19 85 , we were hard at it as the strike had took its toll so any fuel was welcome for my mates and family there was an opencast mine local gd for fuel so of we went for a run with dogs motor bike battery in pit sandwich bag and two dogs with lamp we get chased i say to my mate stop we have fech all ,all i got was were is the coal its in the small bag i laughed ,they were new to lamps and couldnt fathom how torch worked without a batt as we had unhooked the terminal a feching laugh they thought we had coal in a satchel eejits

[bird 9,872]

It will [never] change mate. Ive had lurchers [25] years, and it is still bad [now] as [then]. It gets your back up , you walk with a lab,gsd, rottie, no fecker says nothing.You walk with a lurcher, or bullx lurcher feck me people come out of the woodwork. Thats why it is hard to get legal ground for a bit of rabbiting, you say ok for a bit of ferret'n or shooting to the farmer or landowner, and most will let you on.You [mention] a lurcher no feckin way, i know lads that have got on with lurchers, but it took them a [very] long time to get on there. ????

[mooshka 22]

I got the same reply from a farmer in his truck. He wanted my dogs on a lead as he was worried about them spooking his birds this time of year.

 

I didn't argue with him, but i was worried that my sal/grey had already gone nose down around the corner!!

 

I kept the conversation short and sweet and walked off, the farmer remained in his truck on his mobile, my dog came trotting around the corner tail high, pheasant in his mouth and drops it infront of his truck looking for me LOL.............

 

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

 

 

[mooshka 22]

I was walking the other day with my Whippet off lead... she was being steady and kept close.. gamekeeper stopped in his little truck with a passenger brandashing his big 12bore.. told me to keep her on lead as she will upset the birds... off they went... a minute or 2 later you could hear the bangs of the shotgun (pressumably rabbits) with partridge taking flight.

 

Am I missing something? Would me little whippet who takes no interest in birds be more of a disturbance than a 12bore blasting rabbits?

 

But I smile sweetly

[Simoman 110]

Lurcher owners are always judged, just because I hunt in adidas sambas, a shell suit and wear burberry when working my bull cross people judge me..................

[poacher3161 1,766]

I remember walking my lurchers along the road [bANNED TEXT] i was only 17 at the time and a panda car pulled up with a big horrible copper who got out and told me to unzip my solaway barbour coat the inside pocket that were inside them he said thats a poachers pocket and punched me streight in the guts and said make shure you stay on the road. atb dell

[Simoman 110]

I remember walking my lurchers along the road [bANNED TEXT] i was only 17 at the time and a panda car pulled up with a big horrible copper who got out and told me to unzip my solaway barbour coat the inside pocket that were inside them he said thats a poachers pocket and punched me streight in the guts and said make shure you stay on the road. atb dell

 

 

Yeah, and i'll do the same again if you break your ASBO

[poacher3161 1,766]

P.C SWEETING was his name i remember he had his hands in a well known lurcher mans pockets of his coat he t

[matt221 0]

The last lurcher i had was'nt the slightest bit interested in pheasants or partidges the land owner who's farm i used to work heron knew it yet my vindictive neighbour kept phoning the farm manager up telling him that i was coming home with all sorts of birds from pigeons to pheasants even so i was told by the local old bill a barn owl? any way to cut a long story short the farmer eventually went round my neighbours and to them to stop harrassing him and was glad that i was keeping the local pigeon population down and asked if he could explain how a dog would catch a barn owl after this the phone calls stopped and mt idiot next door was nice as pie to me and kept on asking if i could get him a bunny or 2

[whin 463]

never had the police brutality for poaching did for knocking someone of a bike one nite ,back in the eighties i could wistle a dozen guys up and the police had the hands filled with us ,so got a a bit of respect of them ,in the strike alot went on and some were lenaint to us some were not

[poacher3161 1,766]

I remember walking my lurchers along the road [bANNED TEXT] i was only 17 at the time and a panda car pulled up with a big horrible copper who got out and told me to unzip my solaway barbour coat the inside pocket that were inside them he said thats a poachers pocket and punched me streight in the guts and said make shure you stay on the road. atb dell

 

 

Yeah, and i'll do the same again if you break your ASBO

It were a different story [bANNED TEXT] we met some years later and he forgot he had not got his uniform on