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Jackrabbits
We encountered a big jackrabbit this morning. Actually, they are not really rabbits, but big and very quick hares. My dogs have always preferred jackrabbits over any other game. I saw it first, and told Halo, so he got a head start after it. Jack soon caught on and passed Halo, running like a greyhound. The rabbit ran over open ground and gave both dogs a good long chase. Both dogs came back when the rabbit lost them.
Dogs rarely can catch a jackrabbit, and the leopard dog that sometimes walks with us knows not to even bother chasing after them. A dog that I had as a kid caught one by cornering it on the bay shore. When the rabbit jumped in the water, the dog dove in after and grabbed the rabbit. He was so proud, after years of trying, to have finally caught one.
I looked it up, and the sport is called hare coursing, and it's legal in the western United States.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare_coursing
Dogs rarely can catch a jackrabbit, and the leopard dog that sometimes walks with us knows not to even bother chasing after them. A dog that I had as a kid caught one by cornering it on the bay shore. When the rabbit jumped in the water, the dog dove in after and grabbed the rabbit. He was so proud, after years of trying, to have finally caught one.
I looked it up, and the sport is called hare coursing, and it's legal in the western United States.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare_coursing