Max has finally caught a.......

From my experience with my lab (who is rapid by the way) she never ever EVER gets close to anything unless it's already wounded/ill/already half dead.

I doubt Max caught a fighting fit hare that was at full fitness...
 
Just to add that seeing a hare giving chase across fields at full stretch turning dogs/hounds time and time again is an amazing sight - they are spectacular creatures.

Of course I don't encourage this. At all. :rolleyes:
 
I thought hares didnt live in holes.......

no im pretty sure hares live above ground and scrape out a nest to give birth in...
 
I find it highly unlikely he caught a fit healthy hare so fail to see why it's such an issue?? The speed of a lab is absolutely no contest with a healthy hare, believe me I've seen my lurcher who is bloody fast attempt to take one down and the hare didn't break a sweat and left him standing.

My dogs often catch and kill rabbits where we walk and we are doing both them (because if they caught one it's ill) and the farmer a favour. Not proud of it but having a pack of terriers and lurchers well frankly there isn't much I can do to stop them...except keeping them on lead which isn't going to happen.

My bitch came running over yesterday with a mullett she'd 'caught' from the cliffs so think yourself lucky...at least a hare doesn't whiff like a dead fish does!!!
 
When my patterdale was a youngster and very fast he "nearly" caught a hare, but it beat him up good and proper lol!... poor doggie was rough for a few hours!
 
The two puppies "caught" what looked like a rabbit skin tonight, unfortunatly the little bull terrier ate it before I could actually check what it was! But the young badger that was wandering around the field in broad daylight got a very wide berth thank god!
 
I must be very cruel then as Daisy doberman single handedly keeps the wildlife down around us! ;)

Mostly rabbits and pheasants (I know, but they are the ones that have strayed from the woods- I don't take her through the shoot's land on purpose!) but occasionally she does get hares, hedgehogs and any other small, furry animal she can get her teeth around.

To be far, she never catches the more unusual quarry in a chase- she tends to stumble across them and grabs them before she, or they, realise what has happened!
 
Wow well done Max...and given that it was prob old or injured then whoever the bloody button pusher is get real...you are objecting to natural selection survival of the fittest!
 
I love hares - but this must have been a sick/elderly/injured or very young hare trying to rely on its camouflage to have been caught by a lab!! At least he gets a free meal!! - I'm all for natural food for my doggies I'm always picking up fresh road kill for my mutts, unfortunately the only thing my pack have ever caught are rats and a mixie rabbit - sigh!! Although they have had 2 roe deer in the last month - freaked the hell out of the post man though as one of my mutts proudly brought postie a deers head!!:D - as I have pet deer he thought it was one of mine and I had to explain to him - thinks I'm nuts anyway so no problem!!!!!!:D
 
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