Very distinctive bitch Stolen

[fcuktheban 140]

 

how exactlie do you train a dog to course a hare? you can get them fit but its ultimatlie inside a dog that makes it a coursing dog.

most dogs ( adults not untested 10 month old pups) round my way in pounds are failed hare dogs. you may be able to do a little rabbiting with these rejects but not coursing which most were breed for.

 

Or you could course hare, if it were legal. Which it isn't. And does it make it alright to dump a dog because it "fails" you?

 

I just cant see why so much efort is being put into finding this dog theres a very good chance it will end up back in a shelter and back to square 1 anyway in the end.

 

Because theft is wrong?

 

I wonder how many of the "pounds round here" you spend any time in. I'm not far from you and can say from experience that of lurchers in the "pounds round here" most are young dogs under a year and many are injured or have been obviously badly cared for, or worse. You also see older dogs which it is fairly obvious are descending that spiral of being sold and passed on until they hit the pounds and shelters. Some can be rehabilitated and go on to have good lives; why shouldn't they? It's no skin off your nose, since to you they are "rubbish" anyway.

 

It comes back to there being too many bred, too many dumped or passed on to be dumped later. Too many stolen from kennels and runs, because there is a market out there for them, and people will buy without asking questions. Basically not enough dogs being done right by.

 

But how low do you have to be, really, to steal a dog from an animal shelter? I don't see why that's seen as somehow a different degree of crime because it wasn't from a private house. There are some very flexible ethics, on this site.

Its totaly diffrent than a dog being taken from a private house, they should think there selves lucky someone wanted the dog to take it.

 

yes I have got "flexiable ethics" Its like if some one stole a load of tools from B & Q or stuff from tesco Id say good luck to them but if it was from the little shop at the end of the road or the freindly hardware shop in the town center then thats diffrent yes that effects individuals.

Large chains dont notice such loses when ther directors are siting on a tropical beach drinking cocktails.

And the pound should be greatful of one less mouth to feed. unlike the sickening felling of finding your own dog has gone.

 

the problem is people will always disagree with me on many things due to the fact I solie keep and breed my dogs for work and thats it, I get attached once a dog has served me well for a good few season and not before.

 

I dont show , or walk round dog pounds to find new stock and dont cuddle and kiss a dog thats " my pet ". and I dont think many people use the lurcher for what it was intended for nower days.

 

Your wife just sent me this pic of you and your hard dog

 

[6pack 60]

You are correct - not as many use lurchers for working now. Yet masses are still being bred. They have to go somewhere.

Someone has to take responsibility for those dogs - that is where rescue centres come in.

It would be fabulous if they weren't necessary, but unfortunately they are.

 

Bath Cats and Dogs home has taken responsibility for Petula, after one, maybe more, careless owners failed.

Theft is theft. They own Petula and of course are worried of her where abouts and her overall state, as any person would be if their dog was stolen. They have then done what any other person would hopefully do too, everything in their power to get their dog back!

[WILF 48,273]

Molly

 

Some of the folk spouting off on here are the same folk who were but days ago encouraging that f*****g idiot who has a 3 yo stud dog with 14 litters to its credit and also had another bitch that he was going to line every other year........that all adds up to one hell of a lot of pups on the ground.

 

Were they f**k are they all going to huh?....."Ohh, 300 quid for a well bred pup aint that much"........"Ohh its his business"

 

All willing to put money in a twat like thats pocket then on a thread like this saying "Its terrible the amount of lurchers in homes"

 

Newsflash......ITS YOUR f*****g FAULT!! for keep buying off these morons!

[boyo 1,398]

fact not all lurchers in homes are useless . fact last year someone not far from where i live got caught on the fens he was with some well known names coursing when the police came on top he did a runner and left his dog on the feild the said dog was taken into a dogshome in lincoln another traveller went and got it out a few weeks later to keep for himself as the dog in question was a young well bred dog that was running very and had never done anything wrong in fact it was showing a lot of promise and the guy that it had bred it .anothercase 30 odd year ago i had a little 22 tts lurcher out of newport dogshome and fly as i called him ended up a cracking working and died 15 years later after a long working life .dogstealing is dogstealing whichever way you want to paint it .

[jo54 255]

might be the owner of the dog ant got the cash to get the dog out no a lad who went and sneaked over a wall to get hes terrier back which i cant say i blame him ............as for jackers in the kennals you do get alot i suppose but a freind got a dog for £50 pound killing winter hares ..........................would be worth alot i surpose if the banned wernt out and he wonted to sell him of course ....................................................

[Fabapocalypse 35]

Its totaly diffrent than a dog being taken from a private house, they should think there selves lucky someone wanted the dog to take it.

 

I can't see that it's different at all. And why on earth should anybody, or any organisation, be grateful for somebody stealing from them? A rescue shelter's whole point is to rehabilitate and rehome dogs they have probably put considerable time, effort and vet fees into. Money that they've had to scrimp, save and beg for. It's a Charity. They're hardly likely to think, "Oh well, that saves a tin of Chappie this evening - brilliant!"

 

yes I have got "flexiable ethics" Its like if some one stole a load of tools from B & Q or stuff from tesco Id say good luck to them but if it was from the little shop at the end of the road or the freindly hardware shop in the town center then thats diffrent yes that effects individuals.

 

Large chains dont notice such loses when ther directors are siting on a tropical beach drinking cocktails.

 

Taking your analogy: remember Woolworths? Huge chain, part of our high street history for over a century. Probably the most shoplifted-from store in any town... they didn't survive. 27,000 "individuals" out of work. All such thefts affect "individuals".

 

And the pound should be greatful of one less mouth to feed. unlike the sickening felling of finding your own dog has gone.

 

See above. You put effort into your dogs; this rescue put effort into this dog. Just because it isn't yours doesn't mean it didn't and doesn't matter to somebody. Condone dog stealing from an organisation and you condone it everywhere.

 

the problem is people will always disagree with me on many things due to the fact I solie keep and breed my dogs for work and thats it, I get attached once a dog has served me well for a good few season and not before.

 

I dont show , or walk round dog pounds to find new stock and dont cuddle and kiss a dog thats " my pet ". and I dont think many people use the lurcher for what it was intended for nower days.

 

You don't walk round the pounds yet you knew exactly what was in them, earlier. And no, not many people do use them for their original intended use. How many on this site, even, actually NEED a lurcher to feed their family? To preserve their flocks?

 

For most, it's a hobby for them the same as showing is a hobby, or racing is a hobby. But there's still as many dogs being bred, sold, dumped, broken, passed on, stolen and ending up in the pounds or shelters. And everybody always says, "Oh, it's not us, we're PROPER dogmen - it's the others" who are doing badly by dogs.

 

Wilf hit it on the head in his post.

[littlefish 588]

As has been said anywhere is better than a dogs and cats home even if it was put down straight after it was stolen.

 

hopefully they spend a lot of money trying to get the dog back but dont.

 

your i nice a fella arnt ya

 

I hate rescue centres,theres no excuse to allow any animal to have to go to one,the animals they claim to love would be in a far better way if they didn't exist imo.

 

A'hare dog' is not the be all and end all to everybody. Some use dogs for more than coursing hares?

 

 

So very, very true..................if only dreamers/peddlars would stop breeding them en masse..........searching for 'the next big thing' instead of working properly on what they have before calling an inexperienced, poorly trained pup a jacker.......pathetic really.

how exactlie do you train a dog to course a hare? you can get them fit but its ultimatlie inside a dog that makes it a coursing dog.

most dogs ( adults not untested 10 month old pups) round my way in pounds are failed hare dogs. you may be able to do a little rabbiting with these rejects but not coursing which most were breed for.

 

I just cant see why so much efort is being put into finding this dog theres a very good chance it will end up back in a shelter and back to square 1 anyway in the end.

[Moll. 1,770]

you can get them fit but its ultimatlie inside a dog that makes it a coursing dog. most dogs ( adults not untested 10 month old pups) round my way in pounds are failed hare dogs. you may be able to do a little rabbiting with these rejects but not coursing which most were breed for.

 

I just cant see why so much efort is being put into finding this dog theres a very good chance it will end up back in a shelter and back to square 1 anyway in the end.

 

You did not specify age, breeding, working ability.

 

My point was not all lurchers, are in shelter because they are failed workers. And even if they are is a good pet home or a 'little bit of rabbiting' not better than pts?