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- From: boardman%cancer.unm.edu@lynx.unm.edu (Bob Boardman)
- Subject: Re: GREYHOUNDS
- Organization: UNM Cancer Center
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:06:29 CST
- Approved: hunting@osnome.che.wisc.edu
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.100629.25639@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Lines: 46
- Originator: hunting@osnome.che.wisc.edu
- References: <1993Jan20.090324.11927@doug.cae.wisc.edu>,<1993Jan21.105129.20555@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan21.105129.20555@doug.cae.wisc.edu>,
- toby@stein.u.washington.edu (Toby Bradshaw) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.090324.11927@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- poppg@columbia.dsu.edu (GARY POPP) writes:
- >>I'M FROM SOUTH DAKOTA AND A FEW WEEKS AGO OUT COYOTE HUNTING I MET UP WITH
- >>SOME GUYS THAT WERE ALSO COYOTE HUNTING....WITH GREYHOUNDS! THEY HAD FOUR
- >>GREYHOUNDS AND WHEN THEY WOULD SEE A COYOTE- THEY TURN THE DOGS LOOSE ON IT
- >>AND THE DOGS WOULD THEN RUN THE COYOTE DOWN!
- >>I WAS THINKING OF GETTING SOME GREYHOUNDS BUT DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THEM.
- >>DOES ANYONE KNOW IF YOU NEED TO TRAIN THEM, OR HOW FRIENDLY GREYHOUNDS ARE.
- >>PLEASE PUT ANY INFO. YOU HAVE OVER THE NET.
- >
- >Nice dogs. Usually available for free as retired racing dogs. Call
- >any of the dog tracks in Florida, for example. I know Wisconsin
- >has strict laws about placing retired racing dogs in homes (as opposed
- >to shallow graves, as is done too often), so you could call there, too.
- >A friend of mine who lived in New Mexico used ex-racing dogs for
- >hunting jackrabbits. He said the best one he had was a bitch that
- >was rejected for racing because she would jump the rail, cut the
- >corner on the track, and jump the rail again to catch the mechanical
- >rabbit.
- >
- There are some folks down in the Roswell, N.M. area that regularly
- hunt coyotes with greyhounds and russian wolfhounds. Some of them have
- off-road 4x4s rigged with the dog boxes (usually 4) set up with the doors
- all opening on one side of the pickup truck bed, with electronic latches
- which can be operated from the cab. They go out into a good area and
- simply drive cross-country until they spot a coyote. Then they put the
- pedal down and scream up as close to the coyote as they can conveniently
- get, at which point they slew the truck around so that the dog box doors
- are facing the coyote and hit the electric door release. The dogs hit
- the ground running and the chase begins. Usually the coyote is very
- unconcerned at first, having outrun everything that has ever chased it.
- Then after a little bit, it looks over it's shoulder and realizes that
- the dogs are GAINING on it - that when the chase gets really serious, but
- still, the coyote never gets away. The greyhounds are just too fast!
- I have very mixed feelings about this practice, so don't bother to flame
- me about the ethics of this. I'm just reporting how they do it down there.
-
- -Bob
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