Retiring Veterans

[templeking 775]

lol banter,your mad

[Banter 1,751]

lol its true

[tjones3862 3,423]

I THINK THIS GO,S BACK TO A POST YESTERDAY, POACHER OR HUNTER,,, I CAN ONLY SPEAK FOR MYSELF, AND ALL MY DOGS HAVE POACHED, EVERY 1 HAS MORE THAN 100 TAILS TO TELL BOTH OF US HIDEING AND RUNNING I MAY OF EVEN SPOKE TO THEM,,AT THE TIME OF ALL THIS,, LOL,, WHEN I THINK ABOUT IT ME AND MY DOGS[MATES] I SHUD SAY, WE ARE A BOND STICKING TOGEATHER, SO IN MY EYES WE STICK IT OUT TO THE VERY END,,, GOING BACK TO KENNEL SPACE,,I HAVE 1 YOUNG DOG AND SNIPE,,,NOT BLOWING MY OWN TRUMPET BEFORE ANY ONE JUMPS IN,, BUT I CATCH A LOT OF GEAR,,MORE THAN MOST,,,SO HOW MANY DOGS DO PEOPLE NEED,,, WHEN THEY SAY THEY NEED KENNEL SPACE,,,

Edited July 23, 2013 by tjones3862

[trenchfoot 4,243]

If a dogs earned it's keep, it's earned being kept

[bwfc 164]

It doesnt matter if the dogs are working dogs or pets,they become part of the family.A dog is for life not for getting rid of when its served its/your purpose!.

That dog would have been completely loyal to you so the least you can do is to repay that loyalty!!.A dog can have a quality life when its served your purpose because it deserves one.

I can understand pts an animal thats terminally poorly and in distress,but your way is just cold,callous and cruel. You sir are clearly not a dog lover,you just use them then have them killed. Im in no way looking for an argument but i think your just plain wrong.

[paulus 26]

old bitch (14) has become a fat house pet, old dog (11) is still out daily working, mooching with his son, as long as he still wants to jump in the back of the van, i will keep taking him. he can still work cover as good as any dog and is an old hand at the rough shooting and pigeon shooting game, Sure he is slower than he use to be, but my style of hunting only requires one fast dog, the rest just need brains and heart. both of these he has plenty of. when the time comes i will do the right thing, but all these dogs will never leave here, there my responsibility until there in the ground,

[cookiemonsterandmerlin 145]

I think alot of overweight unfit dogmen who are at the end of there useful working lifes should be PTS .

 

Totally diffrent if it was purely a working dog like them in the wilds like wild shepherdess and looking after the dog was too much of burden on the family and there harsh survial etc etc but we live in the UK in 2013

 

ATB Cookie

 

He is 16 now

Edited July 24, 2013 by cookiemonsterandmerlin

[Bosun11 537]

I'd never retire a dog again, they can run till they drop. Over the years i've been more than a little surprised with what some dogs that should/could be long retired can still do.... Warms the heart it does....

[Country Joe 1,411]

Old working Lurchers settle in to a life of non working no bother, the same as retired racing Greyhounds,

If you don't have the room to give a loyal hunting dog a good retirement, then don't have one in the first place,

And all this talk of no room in my kennel, then bring them in to the house, they would love it.

[fitchet 788]

Old working Lurchers settle in to a life of non working no bother, the same as retired racing Greyhounds,

If you don't have the room to give a loyal hunting dog a good retirement, then don't have one in the first place,

And all this talk of no room in my kennel, then bring them in to the house, they would love it.

None of mine would come into the house even if I wanted them too. My old boy won't settle at night in the house either,

 

The way I look at it I'd hate once bieng an owners pride and joy then getting too old and seeing the young dogs go out and earn there keep. It's nothing to do with kennel space for me it's doing what I think is right. The dogs I have here will struggle with getting old. I trained reared entered and worked them and they have a good life with me. What more could a dog ask for.

[dogmad riley 1,348]

A friend of mine had deerhound x greyhound which was still doing the job on rabbits but struggled on fox and hares were long gone out of his game. Tramp RIP died in his sleep at the age of 16. Cracking dog for his age.

 

I think we owe the dog aleast good retirement for the memorys they leave us with.

 

ATB and happy hunting

[craigluckyjihad 244]

my black dog been with me from a pup. He's not 4. slowed a little on the long ears so went to a good home on bigger stuff to a man of here. least he still working

[skycat 6,174]

I can see both sides of the argument: I have several older dogs who enjoy getting out for their daily mooch, but they can't really work: damaged tendons, muscles or just plain old arthritis. They will be put down when they don't enjoy getting out any more, BUT this means that I have twice the number of dogs that I really want, and they still have to be exercised and fed every day, which means less time for the young ones, and consequently less work.

 

If you have an older dog that is relatively injury free into old age and can carry on working, then you are fortunate indeed, but there are many dogs that suffer injuries whilst quite young and can't work as they would have done. What do you do? Pass them on to a pet home and hope they are well looked after? I've done that before, and regretted it forever when I've found the dog hasn't got the life it deserved. I've also done it and found the dog a perfect home.

 

These days I'd sooner have a dog put down than re-home it unless I knew the person very well indeed, but with the numbers of rescue lurchers around, good homes are so hard to find. I't's a hard choice to make, and I have dogs here that would never settle into a different home, or who are not suitable as pets, no matter how good the home.

[C Hall 552]

This subject and the subject of what to do with dogs that don't make the grade are very controversial subjects.

[talt 878]

I can also see both sides of the argument.Personally, my dogs are with me to the end, they are more like mates than tools to me, but some people have the dilemma of living in council housing and can only have two dogs so if one is put out of action for good by an injury and the other dog is past its prime then they have some hard decision to make. Personally, i think in most situations its far kinder to pts rather than let another dog jump on the lurcher merry go round