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I have a question. ... but then they dont get to catch it?



"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive". I think that quote is talking about lurecoursing. From what I've seen of dogs chasing and catching, their joy is in the chase, the catch is just a mundane visit to the supermarket, and they don't much like the packaging (Sheesh, it's not even cooked, do something!). Dogs wander off, bored already.

I don't like live-coursing as a sport or for fun in principle, not fair on defenceless game to use dogs line-bred for 1000 years to outrun them. Not a level playing field. Like shooting mice with an elephant gun or fish in a barrel or bearbaiting.

Our three dogs do some lure-coursing now and then, but co-exist with the pet rabbit and cat. They do get toey out walking if a plastic bag blows across a field, that is like a bugle call for them. They don't care the difference between wild rabbits and wallabies, if it moves they move.

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