Whats The Worst Ground ...........

[socks 32,253]

What's the worst ground you have to run your dogs on regularly ... Everywhere around me is proper rough ground with Flint and chalk covering all the fields but if you want to a run the dogs have to get used to it ... Luckily both my bitches have real good feet ... The pup has retrieved 17 hares off this land in the last month .........

 

 

[TOMO 26,536]

Same as you in a way,,, not down south though,,, out in lincs on my old permission round Grantham,,,loads of stone on the fields ,, real nightmare .

[Giro 2,648]

Pups doing excellent

 

Worst ground is on the fells around my way.. Hidden dangers, stones, rocks, scree..

 

I would not like to run regular on that flint - but if I was local would have to

[arcticgun 4,548]

largely down to luck methinks, we run a place that's loaded with flint, dogs never suffered nowt there, ran em on seed that's lay like bowling greens and they come away with toe injuries, I think a lot is how well feet are built initially and what they get used too.

[iworkwhippets 12,656]

[TOMO 26,536]

But then again,,,it don't get much harder than catching them on the road...lol

 

[Hot Meat 3,109]

I've run me dogs on some rough stoney ground but I've seen more dogs kill themselves or seriously injure themselves on golf courses than anywhere else...

[TOMO 26,536]

largely down to luck methinks, we run a place that's loaded with flint, dogs never suffered nowt there, ran em on seed that's lay like bowling greens and they come away with toe injuries, I think a lot is how well feet are built initially and what they get used too.

I've always believed that winter seed to be bad,,, it looks great,,, but that soft tilled soil gets up in the quiks,,and they can get infected,,,the old dog was always having problems with that...I think soft grass land is the best for a dogs foot

[paulus 26]

 

largely down to luck methinks, we run a place that's loaded with flint, dogs never suffered nowt there, ran em on seed that's lay like bowling greens and they come away with toe injuries, I think a lot is how well feet are built initially and what they get used too.

I've always believed that winter seed to be bad,,, it looks great,,, but that soft tilled soil gets up in the quiks,,and they can get infected,,,the old dog was always having problems with that...I think soft grass land is the best for a dogs foot

 

not here at the minute all the pastures are that dry that they have badly cracked up some are several feet long 4 inch odd wide and over a foot deep

[Chid 6,583]

ground like that... still some of the worst ive ran on have been heavily cow trodden fields that have started to dry up, some of the hoof prints go down a fair bit and if a dog got its leg in one while running it wouldnt be nice

[paulf 820]

I have run some of the ground where socks has over the years and that flint is deadly ...cuts dogs feet to ribbons ...

[bird 9,969]

I've run me dogs on some rough stoney ground but I've seen more dogs kill themselves or seriously injure themselves on golf courses than anywhere else...

 

True, i try to keep off them if i can with a dog, rather shoot them on there, and save the dog for other ground .!

[Rabbithunter 456]

The ground where all the gates are padlocked or blocked with piles of rubble and you cant get the 4x4 in

[MikeTheDog 153]

It's pretty rough in some parts down my way, needless to say I would never run my dogs on this terrain unlike the local 'caravan club' who regularly drive across these fields and tip their dogs out on sighting hare or fallow.

 

Edited October 2, 2013 by MikeTheDog

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

Run various lurcher crosses,.from Lands End to John o'Groats,...and I have found danger in most counties...

 

However,..in my opinion,...the most awkward terrain, is amidst old woodland debris and felled brash..

 

When hunting rabbits, (or whatever), in such places, the dogs need to use just enough speed to come to terms with their quarry,.but must also learn to lay back, and time their strike, to avoid collisions. I've seen several dogs that cannot seem to grasp the potential dangers and who sadly end up getting impaled, on branches....Working in dark woodland or Pine forest is always best avoided,..but sometimes you have to go with the flow and take on the job..

 

Facts are,..the running dog game has never been a safe option,...and due to the exciting makeup of the fabulous lurcher,..it never will be.

Edited October 4, 2013 by Phil Lloyd