If You Wanted Just An Occasional Hare

[darbo 4,776]

A couple of old boys i knew in the 80s had dogs for ferreting daytime rabbiting and sunday morning on the hares in the main whippet/greyhound types used to knock over a hare or two exciting dogs to watch.

[Ideation 8,216]

Round here you'd need raw speed!

[Jekyll 329]

Think I'd opt for direct speed for knocking off the odd one, lamping 2-3 times a week seems to get the fitness level right.

[peterhunter86 8,627]

 

Ask w.katcham that cnut has all the answers

 

Were i live if dog can can catch rabbit in the lamp he do a hare no prob and if he can manage a rabbit day time hes a superstar and theres no shortage of rabbits or cnuts with lamps

 

I'd rather eat chicken than wait 3 mins for my plodder to catch a hare,so I'd go for speed unless I wanted more than ocassional one

[bullmastiff 615]

As for breeding, say you had already picked up a pup and potentially it's breeding meant it might be able to put a turn or two into a longish run. The land would be large dairy fields. So not Fen type land.

[Ideation 8,216]

If there are good fences and no blind bluffs then they are much easier killed in lamp. Most fit lurchers will be the odd one.

[roybo 2,873]

As for breeding, say you had already picked up a pup and potentially it's breeding meant it might be able to put a turn or two into a longish run. The land would be large dairy fields. So not Fen type land.

If you've already picked a pup ,then you have to wait and see what you have

[green dragon 701]

Just go for a racey lurcher x lurcher should be able to take anything u want

[Somewhereyournot 1,117]

You won't catch many with a slow dog where ever they are. Never seen an easy hare and probably never will. Lamp or in the day they have given the dogs present a hell of a run. And none of the dogs have been particularly slow dogs either.

[bullmastiff 615]

If there are good fences and no blind bluffs then they are much easier killed in lamp. Most fit lurchers will be the odd one.

No fences, it's all hedges with barbed wire buried in it round here, more than a hundred yards and it's over a small brow so the dogs then running off lamp. Only ever seen a few runs on lamp that ended in a catch round here (including saluki crosses)

Tried a couple of times during the day and my dog was basically outmatched.

So have very little experience of hares!

[lurchers 2,786]

Brains and speed when needed,you want a dog to use its head a it when it gets into a nice field to sit and wait for the right moment to take it quarry.hopefully in 3mins not 14+.

[Lenmcharristar 9,782]

Get a greyhound pup and rear it as a lurcher, it should be fast enough

[ryaldinhio 4,564]

Hypothetically If you weren't after hare full time and just wanted the occasional run. No 3 out of 3 etc.just maybe one or two runs over a few hours would you concentrate on speed or stamina?

 

If you had a pup you were bringing on would it be steady miles by the bike or sprint training by the ball etc.?

Im new to this side of things but if, pre ban, you werent after a hare dog, pre ban, then wouldnt you have concenrated on dog that was good on the quarry you wanted, pre ban, then if it caught a hare post ban it was obviously because it was already off after a rabbit that dropped to ground then spotted the hare???

 

I had this coversation today with a ferretin partner about dogs. He has two young dogs, one bitch one dog. I think both are top class but the dog has a bit too much size for me as I would only be after a bunny basher for the small fields I have available.....small field = small dog? I have been looking at whippets and whippety types for the burst of speed. If it decided to dissapear after something else it may be interesting however I would get a dog for what my MAIN taget was.

 

p.s. Not yet a dog man so listen to the ones that own em first!

[bob84 189]

I no an old boy in his 80s that would never have had a dog that took 3min to catch he always says if it don't get it in first 3 turns it never stayed from the picture they where all fast racey types and it worked for him

[Chid 6,537]

I had a dog that was little more than half running dog , the rest being bull and terrier , he'd catch a hare in the daytime (legal here)but not with 100 yard slips , most law he was given was 40 yards ..

 

He was fit had him road walking 2 hours a day and he was left to run the garden all day which was about half an acre..