lurcher and fox

[Guest john2007oliver]

I wouldnt unless you are in Ireland as it is now illegal and we are all complying with this silly, vindictive ban untill such times as the goverment sees sense.

hasnt that gone back to court does anyone know the ressult or am i wrong

 

 

I read somewhere they've heard all the points and a decision will probably take about 6 weeks to be decided

[gelert 1]

i'm with everyone else 18 months no earlier own his own......i was lucky i let mine have foxes on his own that i'd shot but still fighting and he got bitten took a while to get his conidence up for the coup de grace.............big dogs are slower to mature than smaller dogs and i just read a very good article in edrd about a guy who ran his deerhound cross at 9 months(similar to yours) it turned to tight twisted its hip and would never run again, he had to have it put to sleep.

 

It really isn't worth running it to gain a couple of extra months work at the beginning, the dog wouldn't be good at that age anyway!! I'll never run a dog at that age again.....maybe a few easy rabbits but nothing else

[Guest Aussie_stag]

im new to this game but when im training a pup to hunt pigs around 6 months of age is the normal age to start a pup with them lugging around 8 months sometimes ealier with them catching there own by 12 months is it the different breeds of dog which help this?

[grubbavitch 0]

Staghounds and virtually any dog with a lot of deerhound blood mature a lot more slowly than your standard pig dog Jake. Their bodies grow quickly, but it takes a long time for their minds to catch up.

 

Because they're so placid you can ruin them if you start them too early - that placid nature needs to be protected while they're young, so that it makes them calm, confident and steady when they're older. 18 months seems to be the minimum for a pure deerhound, some of the blokes start their stags at 12 months.

 

If you want him for pigs, my advice would be to let him run with the other dogs when he has a bit of size about him, but don't encourage him to lug up before he's ready. If he gets hurt early on he'll switch off - they don't love pain like the bully and mastiff breeds.

 

Good luck with him mate, I'm just starting my first running dog too, he's just on 12 months.

[Guest Aussie_stag]

cheers mate yeah ive notcied how placid they are but she still gives it to my other dogs which is funny to see

 

cheers jake

[stevemac 434]

Hi jake can oniy agree wiyh grubavitch staghounds look at the world every differently from your average pig dog,

and as was said they need the time to mature, I have known blokes that have given up on sight hounds just because they are as big a meat head as the dogs they like and are not prepared to listen and have ruined perfectly good hounds starting them to early.

Stevemac