Why Do We Do It?

[terryd 8,641]

 

Keeping old skills or knowledge alive. Why pay over the odds for some nasty looking shrinkwrapped meat when you can get it fresh an know how its been caught an killed.

I paid good money for a piece of beef and not a patch on a couple of rabbits the dog caught.

 

i wouldn't go that far lol

[Allan P 1,150]

 

 

 

Keeping old skills or knowledge alive. Why pay over the odds for some nasty looking shrinkwrapped meat when you can get it fresh an know how its been caught an killed.

I paid good money for a piece of beef and not a patch on a couple of rabbits the dog caught.

 

i wouldn't go that far lol

What do you mean?

[terryd 8,641]

I mean I prefer beef

[Harp 164]

It is in r d n a it is not all about the kill just been out with the dogs leting them do wat they do lol.i love it

[jcm 2,327]

Because I f***ing love killing shit

[Dinosaurs 2,109]

I just love it. End of. Atb

[Allan P 1,150]

 

I mean I prefer beef

Good beef yes, rabbits were free so were excellent.

[low plains drifter 10,734]

I always feel the need to kill anti’s with an axe hunting satisfies the urge

Are you the love child of Mark Brandon Chopper Read and Bea Smith ?

[Sirblessed 2,511]

 

I always feel the need to kill anti’s with an axe hunting satisfies the urge

Are you the love child of Mark Brandon Chopper Read and Bea Smith ?

 

I doubt it, my place of birth says Scotland

[pesky1972 5,350]

Guess for most who hunt & fish the instinct to do so is stronger than in those who don't. I do love being in the countryside..., and I do love watching dogs work etc., etc., but I don't think that explains the reason I do it. I think it is instinctive, and that instinct is probably the reason we survive as a species, and so no man should have the right to take it away.

[neems 2,406]

For me it's mostly about getting out and working the dogs,I don't particularly like shooting or fishing,but like to see a dog work at any task.

 

Seeing a rabbit or other quarry being run before the ban was/is better than anything else for me though.

[tb25 4,627]

It's pretty simple to me..it's what the dogs made for...

[shaaark 10,919]

Even though humans as a species are now classed as 'agricultural' for the last 10,000 years, up until then then we were hunter gatherers. So basically since we starting evolving into homo sapiens. I don't think the 'hunter gatherer' is going to be leaving our genes anytime soon

Edited December 8, 2016 by shaaark

[bird 9,982]

Even though humans as a species are now classed as 'agicultural' for the last 10,000 years, up until then then we were hunter gatherers. So basically since we starting evolving into homo sapiens. I don't think the 'hunter gatherer' is going to be leaving our genes anytime soon

i used to think the same, and after having lurchers 30 years, and killed lots of different quarry in that time .But being honest the only people i meet on my dog walks are people who are (none hunters), and they seem happy, fit, people who love there dogs, and there dogs look quite fit as well, that few labs and there not fat either, spaniels , mongrels, and few whippets .the look happy enough running around, most times they are playing with Buck having a run around lol. The one bloke , leaves work straight out with his labs 1-2 hours every night , and few more people like that , they put the effort/time into there dogs deff. Now they know ive worked my dogs , and other dogs before, there ok about it, but it would never enter there heads to kill a rabbit,fox,deer, hare, in million years lol never . So i reckon we do it just to see the dog work catch/kill a wild animal , and get a buzz from it and thats it , and for me seeing a lurcher flat out after its quarry , or springer knock a bird out , or digging down to a terrier , is seeing a dog in it true glory . those other people above are very happy with there dogs true , but miss out on that hunting Buzz Big Time with a dog, and the dog gets that same Buzz

[Guest edrd]

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Edited December 10, 2016 by edrd