Ancestors

Written by Sarah Dal on 2025-01-17 at 09:49

Lovely story on the socials today about one of the Spine Race runners coming across a lost dog at Auchope, high in the Cheviots. She took time to make a lead and bring it to the nearest safety team who worked to track down the owner. The runner got a time credit and it's an all-round lovely story..

..except it's blatantly one of the fox hounds from the College Valley hunt. No-one cares about that dog, he would have been better off kept by the Safety Team after all.

https://bsky.app/profile/spinerace.bsky.social/post/3lfw7hrmuy22l

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Written by Sarah Dal on 2025-01-17 at 09:52

I mean I'm probably wrong, but there's a few people commenting on the facebook about it who came to the same conclusion

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Toot

Written by Sarah Dal on 2025-01-17 at 09:59

Here's a post from Chris Packham on bsky as part of his campaign against foxhunting, showing footage of how a typical hunt treats their hounds

https://bsky.app/profile/chrisgpackham.bsky.social/post/3ldbrprd4hs2i

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Descendants

Written by John Dal on 2025-01-17 at 10:09

@sarahdalgulls Not related to a discussion about rescuing a dog so it can kill foxes, but there's a Longfram chap in the race, Richard Garland (152) who I'm following, he's on Windy Gyll at the moment.

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Written by Sarah Dal on 2025-01-17 at 10:10

@JohnDal oh cool! I've been enjoying following it, it makes me keen to get back out for some long walks (but not running)

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Written by Owen on 2025-01-17 at 10:23

@sarahdalgulls @JohnDal Blimey that’s impressive for a 152-year-old

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Written by John Dal on 2025-01-17 at 11:01

@problemsdog That's nowt. Some of them are over 250.

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Written by Sarah Dal on 2025-01-17 at 11:22

@JohnDal I swear fell runners sign some faustian deal where they live forever BUT have to do fell running

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Written by John Dal on 2025-01-17 at 11:27

@sarahdalgulls Fom UK Climbing "And then there's the bus/ taxi and train journey home for most, carrying bags full of filthy wet kit and, if my small sample size of friends who've done this is normal, a couple of months of repeated chest infections to shake off. It's a mind-boggling achievement."

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Written by John Dal on 2025-01-17 at 16:17

@sarahdalgulls I missed the local bloke finishing, but so did the media and his wife. He ran the fastest time ever from the hut on Cheviot to the finish.

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