Hare Coursing

wexfordman

OldNotWIse wrote: »

We rescued one (an ex racer)that had either been sold on on dumped. She was lucky her ears were still intact. They often cut them off so that they cannot be traced back. Ours was traceable back to a syndicate (somewhere in Saggart I believe). Of course we could not contact them, but it was interesting to note that as soon as she stopped performing well she ended up dumped.
Thankfully there are a lot of private individuals who do fabulous rehabilitative work with them and have contacts in the UK for re-homing, where greyhound re-homing has higher rates than here. (in fact the woman who took her from us had intended to send her to the UK for re-homing but fell in love with her and kept her. She sent me pics a few months after. What a fab creature!)

I dont think any right minded individual would condone that sort of behaviour, similar to the treatment of that dog in wexford the other week. Cruelty happens, and it is not exclusive to people who course or hunt, there is no justification for it, and it should be reported and allow the law to take its course where possible.

It is unfair to tar an entire community with the same brush though!

Micky Dolenz

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Mod

Alright lads, let it go and move on.

wexfordman wrote: »

So, you are aware of a call from established organisations to flood the poll, you are aware also of the hunting forum highlghting the poll, you are not sure how many registered to vote on the poll, yet you are sure that "quite the opposite" happened!:cool:

Please don't post on this thread any more.

yubabill1

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Maybe I'm not being as clear as I thought I was. What I mean is that I'm interested in hearing from people who do hunt/shoot about what they experience in terms of being harassed, attacked etc. It wasn't really something that I was aware of. I'd hear the occasional story on the news etc but its not something I'd hear of very often. I'm not disputing that it does happen. I'm just interested in hearing about it from the hunting/shooting perspective.

I don't mean a thread discussing whether or not people agree with hunting/shooting. There seems to be a lot of anger about it from what I've seen during this thread and I think having a thread about it outside of hunting/shooting would give members of that forum the opportunity to share their concerns about that to a broader spectrum of people. Of course there will be some people that take the proverbial but you will find that in After hours.

Ok, the animal rights radicals in Ireland engage at a low level, inasmuch as they limit themselves to damage to property rather than on the person.
You may find this a bit sinister, but you asked;

http://www.animalliberationfront.com/ALFront/Actions-Ireland/BitebackReports2008.htm

Conmaicne Mara

Artful_Badger wrote: »

Check the hunting forum, you'll see plenty of posters from this thread discount the poll the second it went up based on how they thought it would turn out.

Isnt it ironic that its suddenly credible ?

And was one of those people me? No. Direct your comments towards those other people you speak of.

Artful_Badger

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

And was one of those people me? No. Direct your comments towards those other people you speak of.

Check your post, many of those thanking it are from the hunting forum where they dismissed the poll before it started. Only to claim it as a resounding victory when it changed.

The irony you spoke of didnt just extend to those you were directing it at.

Micky Dolenz

Thread has well run it's course by now.