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Skycat thats crap, how can a dog that does an hour trotting and galloping be fitter then the dog that does 2 hours mooching?

[skycat 6,173]

Like I said, it all depends on what your definition of mooching is: you need to have a lot of game around for a dog to do a lot just mooching. I don't: my rabbits are all bolted from brambles by terriers, they don't get very far at all. Slightly bigger stuff doesn't get far either if the lurchers are on the ball.

 

I guess if you live somewhere where rabbits sit out on moorland, and the lurcher is having to look for, find, run and catch all its rabbits alone, then that is completely different. People forget that so much depends on the land you run on. Flat fields of grass/set aside, where the rabbits are no more than 50 foot out in the day time, and not many at that: well, that won't get a dog hare fit now, will it?

 

What is your definition of a couple of hours mooching then?

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Taking the dogs down the local farm where there is alot or rough ground and small parts of woodland that has stuff of all sizes bolting at good fast intervals but i dont mooch very often. I prefer road walking, a run up the field and abit on the will to get my dogs fit.

[willow 53]

Like I said, it all depends on what your definition of mooching is: you need to have a lot of game around for a dog to do a lot just mooching. I don't: my rabbits are all bolted from brambles by terriers, they don't get very far at all. Slightly bigger stuff doesn't get far either if the lurchers are on the ball.

 

I guess if you live somewhere where rabbits sit out on moorland, and the lurcher is having to look for, find, run and catch all its rabbits alone, then that is completely different. People forget that so much depends on the land you run on. Flat fields of grass/set aside, where the rabbits are no more than 50 foot out in the day time, and not many at that: well, that won't get a dog hare fit now, will it?

 

What is your definition of a couple of hours mooching then?

 

nothing to do with were you live its just when the bushers are working the lurchers are spriting up and down the hedge throu the cover around the brambals flat out throu the woods and then what ever comes out they run as well A COULPE OF HOURS EVERYDAY THERE FITTER THAN you think

[lurcher330 2,297]

Like I said, it all depends on what your definition of mooching is: you need to have a lot of game around for a dog to do a lot just mooching. I don't: my rabbits are all bolted from brambles by terriers, they don't get very far at all. Slightly bigger stuff doesn't get far either if the lurchers are on the ball.

 

I guess if you live somewhere where rabbits sit out on moorland, and the lurcher is having to look for, find, run and catch all its rabbits alone, then that is completely different. People forget that so much depends on the land you run on. Flat fields of grass/set aside, where the rabbits are no more than 50 foot out in the day time, and not many at that: well, that won't get a dog hare fit now, will it?

 

What is your definition of a couple of hours mooching then?

 

nothing to do with were you live its just when the bushers are working the lurchers are spriting up and down the hedge throu the cover around the brambals flat out throu the woods and then what ever comes out they run as well A COULPE OF HOURS EVERYDAY THERE FITTER THAN you think

my dogs get a few hour out every day doing the same sort work and they could handle a few nights lamping on the trot and maybe out for a days coursing in between