Hunting Dogs Quotes

There was never such a winter for country sports as the last … I have very good hawks and hounds, but we have not had more success in any sport than tory-hunting. The gentlemen of the country have been so hearty in that chase that of 13 in the county … the last was killed two days before I left home.

You might be a redneck if your 'huntin dog' cost more than the truck you drive him around in.

The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag symbolizing something-or-other, and Robin Hood getting in the way. An actual stag hunt is more like a horseback meeting of a county planning commission.

My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew.

You might be a redneck if your favorite hunting dog has a bigger tombstone than your grandfather.

Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.

Border collies predate the British Kennel Club. They've been bred consistently for 100 years. They're the last working dogs in the world, with some minor exceptions. Bench shows, dog shows have ruined the other breeds, like the hunting dogs. Border collies are peasant dogs, and that's protected them.

Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.

Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!