A police team set up to combat hare coursing in Lincolnshire has said its policy of seizing dogs is helping to reduce offences.
In December, there were 324 incidents of hare coursing, compared to 413 over the same period in 2016.
Since the season started in September, Lincolnshire Police has seized 49 dogs.
Ch Supt Mark Housley said: "We have heard from other forces that hare coursers tell them they will not visit Lincolnshire because we seize dogs."
So they'll just go elsewhere. You do euthanise the dogs, right? They aren't pets, they are weapons. Unlikely ever to be trustworthy around smaller animals....
Ch Supt Housley said any seized dogs were cared for in kennels and could be put up for re-homing if ordered by the courts.
*speechless*
Two dogs which had been used in illegal hare coursing have been rehomed.
The lurchers, Lucky and Spencer, were seized by police in Lincolnshire when their owners were arrested for hare coursing in Digby Fen last September.
John Langan, 31, of Great Ayton and Thomas Jaffray, 34, of Middlesbrough, were found guilty at Lincoln Magistrates' Court last Friday.
Police said it was the first time hare coursing dogs were rehomed rather than returned to their owners.
And when the inevitable happens, and they kill someone else's pet, I really, really hope that the owners take Lincolnshire Police to the cleaners.
The force seizes dogs if someone is caught hare coursing in the county, and has recently started seizing dogs temporarily if there is not enough evidence for a prosecution.
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Thats very dangerous to send trained killers into the suburban world and expect them to become pets. These dogs are natural prey animals anyway, and they will have been specifically trained to chase and kill prey. That cannot be undone by some well meaning person calling it Bonzo and trying to make it sit, and walk to heel. These dogs are killers, that is what they do, and they will do everything in their powers to kill something, anything on a regular basis for the rest of their lives. A friend rehomed a lurcher just last year, she had it for 2 or 3 months. In that time it killed numerous birds, several rabbits and a deer (a baby one). It then went for my friends dog she had had for years, and caused serious injuries to that as well. It had a taste for blood and no amount of love and affection was going to change that. It went back to the dog centre it came from.
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It's like the recent campaign to re-home rather than put-to-sleep "retired" UK Military German/Belgian Shepherds aka Land-sharks. They're attack dogs, de-militarising at their age would take longer than their remaining life and never be guaranteed safe.
Mr Alsatian Dog, too aggressive for Police? Apply to Army - be the best killer.
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"Thats very dangerous to send trained killers into the suburban world and expect them to become pets. "
Yup, it's insane. These aren't pets, and never have been;they are a four legged equivalent of a shotgun.
"They're attack dogs, de-militarising at their age would take longer than their remaining life and never be guaranteed safe."
Should hand them out free to any pensioner forced to live in our more 'vibrant' areas... ;)