Scottish laws Dogs and Rabbits

[Tam G 61]

Hi there as many of you know there has been a new law introduced in November 2024 regarding the use of dogs to hunt mammals in uk including rabbits and rats. Can anyone clarify what it means? Can you still have a Lurcher with you ferreting if the dog doesn’t kill the rabbit but catches it and brings it back for you to dispatch by hand? Can you still lamp rabbits if the dog bring them back alive and you dispatch them by hand? 

[brambles 3,311]

  On 18/12/2024 at 16:48, Tam G said:

Hi there as many of you know there has been a new law introduced in November 2024 regarding the use of dogs to hunt mammals in uk including rabbits and rats. Can anyone clarify what it means? Can you still have a Lurcher with you ferreting if the dog doesn’t kill the rabbit but catches it and brings it back for you to dispatch by hand? Can you still lamp rabbits if the dog bring them back alive and you dispatch them by hand? 

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No mate you can't, think there was a fella already been prosecuted for ferreting with a dog in tow.

[brambles 3,311]

 

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Edited December 18, 2024 by brambles

[Daniel cain 46,573]

Some of the best hunting days of my life,we're in the Highlands... was always envious at the sheer amount of stuff you  lads and lasses had to go at...it's shameful it's come to this

[brambles 3,311]

There you go lads, here a poor swine that already been caught

[brambles 3,311]

  On 18/12/2024 at 16:48, Tam G said:

Hi there as many of you know there has been a new law introduced in November 2024 regarding the use of dogs to hunt mammals in uk including rabbits and rats. Can anyone clarify what it means? Can you still have a Lurcher with you ferreting if the dog doesn’t kill the rabbit but catches it and brings it back for you to dispatch by hand? Can you still lamp rabbits if the dog bring them back alive and you dispatch them by hand? 

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It's YOUR God given right mate to run a rabbit or hare, just because the SNP and Green Party don't agree, laws are made to be broken. Keep at it

[Tam G 61]

  On 18/12/2024 at 19:59, brambles said:

It's YOUR God given right mate to run a rabbit or hare, just because the SNP and Green Party don't agree, laws are made to be broken. Keep at it

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  On 18/12/2024 at 19:59, brambles said:

It's YOUR God given right mate to run a rabbit or hare, just because the SNP and Green Party don't agree, laws are made to be broken. Keep at it

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Aye just what I was thinking 

[FKtheBan 12]

crazy times we live in!

 

[The one 8,522]

  On 18/12/2024 at 19:55, brambles said:

There you go lads, here a poor swine that already been caught

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Heard somebody saw him bolting rabbits to the dogs and phoned the cops , cant do sod all here no no snares allowed and you need a licence for a airgun 

[lurchers 2,909]

My mate knows a lad who has just been done on permission up there for ferreting £500 fine

[Black neck 16,306]

  On 22/12/2024 at 14:16, lurchers said:

My mate knows a lad who has just been done on permission up there for ferreting £500 fine

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Ffs

[jok 3,388]

How on earth can you be caught ?? Our farm , in the Borders, could take a hundred guys rabbitting and you’d never see them. We had guys coming down from the capitol shooting deer and we only knew they were there when we heard a shot. We had a wee burn running down from the local reservoir and guys would be trouting on a regular basis without any problem. We had a salmon run up the same water and my brother and I would be on it night and day. My point being. Keep out of the way, keep your head down and enjoy what is, after all, a country pursuit. Jok.

[jok 3,388]

Two of my mates are on their way, as we speak, with a team of lurchers, for a Xmas spree on the deer. I guarantee they won’t be caught. Jok

[Black neck 16,306]

  On 22/12/2024 at 21:09, jok said:

Two of my mates are on their way, as we speak, with a team of lurchers, for a Xmas spree on the deer. I guarantee they won’t be caught. Jok

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There are no guarantees or certainties just death

[jok 3,388]

Death and rent day my friend. Jok.