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Sounds like those dogs need a daily walk or something. Sheesh.[/QUOTE]
I think their walks are about 10 mins. I pull up after work and they are heading out on leash. I go inside, get myself and my dogs ready for our walk and head out. Those dogs are now coming home. The dad will hang out in the backyard and idly watch their dogs freaking out at passerbies (on a cul de sac) :no:. I guess neighbors talk to me about it because I’m the “dog trainer.”
[QUOTE=Mao;7959591]cbv - I am positively eaten up with curiosity! Where are you located that has Deerhound kennels??? Do tell!
(I own/show/breed Scottish Deerhounds).[/QUOTE]
I suspected that person meant hounds of varied breeding who run deer.
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cbv - I am positively eaten up with curiosity! Where are you located that has Deerhound kennels??? Do tell!
(I own/show/breed Scottish Deerhounds).[/QUOTE]
No not sight hounds (which I love…had a couple of Borzoi’s bred for lure coursing at one time)- but relatively nondescript scent hounds used to hunt white-tailed deer in the south. Most are medium sized tan and white scent hounds. Very sweet and love to hunt. But a bit of a shock for folks, including deer hunters, from states where deer are not hunted with dogs.
I’d leave a note. I’d be reluctant to confront them but if my dogs were acting like that when I’m not home, I’d want to know.
I usually leave my front windows open in the summer for more air circulation in the house. One day last summer, I went to pull out of my driveway and my neighbor caught me to chat about what ever this or that for a second. Neighborhood kids were riding their bikes up and down, as they do in the summer. So I stopped in the road to chat with neighbor. Suddenly, I’m hearing this awful high pitched wailing/howling/bleating/crowing sound above the car engine, neighbor chat, and kids playing and I go, omg what is that sound?? Neighbor goes, that’s your dogs. I said what?? I’m telling you this was unearthly. I have never heard this noise out of my dog’s throat, I swear to you. But sure enough, when I get out to look, she’s sitting in the window screaming her fool head off. Neighbor adds: “they do that all the time”. I about died. I had no idea my one dog was shrieking at the top of her lungs like she was being skinned alive when the kids would ride their bikes up and down while I wasn’t home. Well I put it in reverse, went back inside, scolded the banshee, closed the front windows, and they’ve been closed ever since. Unbelievable. I can’t believe I subjected the neighborhood to that and I swear to you, I had no idea this was happening. No one said anything to me because, well, who really wants to have that conversation? In my defense, how do you know what your dogs do when you’re gone if there is no “evidence” left behind?
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No not sight hounds (which I love…had a couple of Borzoi’s bred for lure coursing at one time)- but relatively nondescript scent hounds used to hunt white-tailed deer in the south. Most are medium sized tan and white scent hounds. Very sweet and love to hunt. But a bit of a shock for folks, including deer hunters, from states where deer are not hunted with dogs.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the info. That is so interesting. I wouldn’t think scent hounds as you described would be big enough or fast enough to bring down a deer. Are they purpose-bred and hunted just for deer?
Scottish Deerhounds were bred to hunt the Red Deer in Scotland back in the day. Red Deer are very large - closer in size to elk at 300 to 500 lbs. The white tailed deer is smaller - so maybe that is the difference.
The scent hounds used for hunting deer down here do not bring down and kill the deer, they locate it, and chase it and the hunters shoot it. They call them “Deer Dogs” or “Deerhounds”. Sometimes they are failed foxhounds or coonhounds who could not be taught not to run deer so they are “repurposed”, sometimes they are specifically bred and trained to hunt deer.
