Hard Ground

[Stabs 3]

What's the consensus on running on hard ground? Do you blokes generally wait until things have softened up a bit before you run your charges?

[Simoman 110]

Had no rain for weeks here and the ground is like concrete in places but I have still taken the dogs out but chosen the ground as carefully as possible.......

[torchey 1,301]

Had no rain for weeks here and the ground is like concrete in places but I have still taken the dogs out but chosen the ground as carefully as possible.......

Grounds rock hard down here........no good........

[mikeyboy 7]

i have been out but i havnt run them much and hrad just few goes keep them keen there first season had bit of rain today so hopefully soften up

[UNFIT 0]

do you mean to say ,if the ground was hard ,all animals that hunt for food would starve because they would not hunt your dog will know how hard or not to run ,it is bred into them .get them out .

[charlie boy 85]

had 13 on lamp last night with my fella and ground was hard agree with last statement some dogs can compensate for this but obviously betta if ground is soft

[Guest TERRIERCENTRAL]

has mine out last week and she smashed her feet when i got her home all her feet were cut and swolen so i wont be taken her out till next week end but i was wondering if it was her breeding and if different breeds tend to have better feet she a firstx saluki/greyhound but has feet more like a greyhound thanks

[DOGGINLAD 538]

Ground is rock hard now, but the rain has started we need loads of it to

soften the ground out... we have still been running, if you wait for the right weather etc

how manytimes a season would you get out? not many, just have to pick the fields

you run, and keep an eye on there feet, and if they got dodgy stoppers tape them up

anyway.... hopefully the rain will keep up but not drown the land so it makes it hard

to drive

[mikeyboy 7]

i think its evryne to there own on this some places are harder than others depends what ground your dogs are used to running on. i dnt geta problem with mine that much but i am careful

[UNFIT 0]

,if the dog wants to go then why disapoint it ,the only time mine gets a night of is if it stays where it is ,or as my lamping buddy says , it shows me a sick note of the vet

Edited October 3, 2009 by UNFIT

[snoopdog 1,256]

i have been hoping to try my pup out who was 12 months at the start of september he knows what his mouth is for and has beem picking rabbits up all through the summer ....but i was hoping to do some flushing with him on the big land at the end of august start of september but its been rock hard down there......i keep hearing of lads who have been running the big land while the grounds been rock hard and there seems to be alot of knocked up toes and injuries ...... ..if your getting a pup going ...i think its better if you can get the pup flushing easier hares ...but people running exspearenced dogs on the hard ground are just asking for trouble .....and why take that risk when the dog already knows what it is doing .....it wont belong before we get some better ground and maybe the hares will be alittle better too....give them chance to grow into adults so to speak ....local to me the grounds been ok so ive been able to do enough with mine on the rabbits to keep them in decent shape.....me personally have been getting my dogs ready for the season jogging and lamping up the dales where the grass is rough and is like running on a quilt...so for me to go running on hard ground which could end up with me having a dog with a knocked up toe or wrist injury or worse would be very silly indeed ....it would proberly end up with the dog haveing aleast a month off.. or more which would bring me back to square one with the fittness ect ect ....so in realty it would set me back two months .....fook that ...i will wait for the rain .... ...dont get me wrong you could come home with no injuries and a good day ....but me i will wait for the weather because i would be as sick as a parrot if i had to lay my dog of for a couple of months when the weather is perfect ,,,,,

[bird 9,864]

do you mean to say ,if the ground was hard ,all animals that hunt for food would starve because they would not hunt your dog will know how hard or not to run ,it is bred into them .get them out .

 

 

True, But any [wild] animal dont run for 12-20 dinners. I have been out in these conditons, and prob still will do. I know you can [wait] for [ever] for right conditons, but if they do get knock or bust toe. It makes it a feckin lot harder to execept,? if you had only gone out on a better night.? And with this wind it is very tempting, pity about the feckin [moon] well the dog is fit

[UNFIT 0]

do you mean to say ,if the ground was hard ,all animals that hunt for food would starve because they would not hunt your dog will know how hard or not to run ,it is bred into them .get them out .

 

 

True, But any [wild] animal dont run for 12-20 dinners. I have been out in these conditons, and prob still will do. I know you can [wait] for [ever] for right conditons, but if they do get knock or bust toe. It makes it a feckin lot harder to execept,? if you had only gone out on a better night.? And with this wind it is very tempting, pity about the feckin [moon] well the dog is fit

but fox hounds do not stay at home on a hunting day just because the ground is hard ,its running on hard ground that toughen the pads and feet up , i will admit that not all dogs can do it but i only want to own one that could .

[undisputed 1,664]

never had a problem running the dog on hard ground plenty of road work should help keep the dogs feet tip top.

[whin 463]

run the dogs i breed now saluki type but very good feet on rabbs flush other game at nite but will not serously course until its softens up its not to bad for them now .but no proper daylite stuff unless grass feilds or big boggy areas ,if there gott o much greyhound or whippet and are to fast for there own good well i wouldnt be running any were pick my ground , no knocks this year and done a fair bit of running but were i am itss tony and hard you can drive in two wheel normaly four wheell so that tells you something if you no the score