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Hare Coursing

Hare coursing is a highly contested animal/hunting context involving greyhounds and hares. Irish sources document ICC rules and state licensing/legal oversight; scientific and legislative sources also document major animal-welfare and ban contexts in other jurisdictions. The entry remains detail-capable, but is marked catalog-sourced, needsReview and problematic animal-use context.

LevelDiscipline FamilyAnimal sport CategoryOther

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Classification

Category Other

Family Animal sport

Level Discipline

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung Hare coursing is a highly contested animal/hunting context involving greyhounds and hares.

Geeignet für Fits if you want to classify historical or regulated hunting/coursing contexts, you want to consider law, animal welfare and land use together, you need problematic animal contexts visibly marked.

Cost 20-200 EUR depending on equipment and venue. 0-80 EUR per month depending on class, club, or venue. 5-50 EUR per month if a club structure exists. For rare sports, cost and availability vary strongly.

First progress Depending on sport, from immediate to several months.

Fitness level medium

Was du brauchst

Legal sources, welfare sources and clear documentation that the entry is not a participation suggestion.

First steps

No practical entry point: check local law and welfare sources first; in England and Wales hare coursing is legally banned.
For catalog work: use official prosecution and animal-welfare sources; do not recommend event or training searches.

For catalog work: use official prosecution and animal-welfare sources; do not recommend event or training searches.

The entry remains marked as a review case because of animal-welfare and criminal-law relevance.

Weitere Angaben

Tags animal-use, greyhound, legal-context, hunting, needs-review, hare-coursing, historical-problematic-entry, regulated-hare-coursing-context

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Not modelled as a sport recommendation; source-based description only of regulated coursing, legal status and animal-welfare context.

Teilnehmer

Greyhounds, handlers/trainers and official meeting roles; legal and animal-welfare status must be checked.

Teamgröße

Greyhounds, handlers/trainers and official meeting roles; legal and animal-welfare status must be checked.

Spielfeld

Controlled coursing field only in legally permitted contexts with licence, greyhound/hare management, muzzle requirements and veterinary/wildlife conditions.

Dauer

Duration depends on set, timed, tournament or local rules.

Wertung

Documented only under concrete ICC/meeting rules; not recommended as neutral sport scoring.

Gewinnbedingung

Not modelled as a general sport win condition; regulation context only.

Ausrüstung

Coursing field, greyhound/hare management, muzzles, licences, officials and veterinary/wildlife conditions.

Wichtige Regelpunkte

ball or implement out
net/zone fault
wrong contact sequence
unsafe or local-rule violation

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

Federations

Irish Coursing Club (ICC)

Hare Coursing The Crown Prosecution Service · legal-guidance · medium
Hare Hunting and Hare Coursing League Against Cruel Sports · welfare-guide · medium
Topend Sports Topend Sports · aggregator · medium
Irish Coursing Club Irish Coursing Club · official · high
Coursing Britannica · encyclopedia · medium