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Now that's fast!

Thats them Patch Hounds for ya!!!!!!!!!!

Crew Chief

I'd guess those are English hounds...
Beagle or harrier?...

That is a funny picture! It reminds me of hunting with a 22 pistol and wingin one, then sickin a pup on the rabbit.

With the muscled up shoulders and deep chest it looks to me like a Greyhound. I can't see the other dog very well to tell what it might be. Dan

Greyhounds. Found this picture in the same place. The one on the left in the picture above does kinda look like Alabama John's female Queenie though....

Darn what country or state are they running these rabbits in. Looks like some pretty open ground.

Looks like slow rabbits to me. lol

I would say the top picture is a Pointer & a Greyhound. I know some boys in Augusta that use a live rabbit in the off season to keep the racing hounds in shape & rabbit crazy. They kept a pointer to help find the rabbit when it squatted sometimes when it got tired. Greyhounds run by sight & don't use scent so if the rabbit hunkers down they would turn the pointer loose & he would point, then flush the bunny for the sight chasers. Not sure that is what happened in the picture but that was their game. They also knew some Mexicans that use to catch Jacks out of stacked oil piping & haul to them once a year. I tried to get hooked up & buy a couple of them but never did, I didn't figure they would live in my area or they would be here, but man what a race it would be for a while.

Plowboy

The top picture is likely two greyhounds. I have done lure coursing with my beagles (a joke, they don't chase plastic bags on a motorized string like a sighthound, too smart) so know a few sighthound people. The salukis run in the open, can't handle rough terrain, rips them to shreds. Greyhounds would be the same- short distance, wide open, sprinting. So a beagle could flush, sighthound would catch and kill. It is awesome to watch a sighthound in full flight.

Carolyn

sounds like fun

Not her, she's pregnant, but, my kind of dogs Tom!
Getting ready for the cold yet?
I like dogs to look ahead in open areas and see what they can see. Scent and sight, it all makes for a great race.
Do ya'll have any sight races in the snow?

John, those hare like to stay in the heavy cover so you don't get many sight chases, but once in a while these old slow dogs of ours stumble on to one and give it a scare. We do get some sight chases on cottontails on the snow, if you can get them to stay up and run.
It's starting to cool off up here now. I can't wait!