However, some Aboriginal groups kept them as pets or as hunting dogs.
Hare coursing is the pursuit of a hare by a pair of hunting dogs, often greyhounds, and is common in rural Northern Ireland.
"Most accelerant dogs or bomb-detecting dogs are trained to do passive indication, " said Keith Herron, who trains cadaver-hunting dogs for Child Connection, a nonprofit agency based in Kentucky.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Karl Campbell walks around a large kennel containing dozens of highly trained hunting dogs, located at the Charles Darwin Research Station, the main conservation and research body on the islands.
"It is a sad fact that many lurchers that do not prove to be suitable hunting dogs will be discarded or killed by their owners but in most cases their deaths go unnoticed".
They claim the hunt has repeatedly breached the ban on hunting with dogs under the Hunting Act.
The hunt's Richard Sumner and Julian Barnfield admitted unlawfully hunting with dogs on four separate occasions.
She added that she thought this could be the last year hunting with dogs would be banned.
This could mean that hunting with dogs could continue where it was shown to be the most effective and humane method of pest control.
The lack of a commitment to a hunting bill will anger some Labour backbenchers after the Lords blocked attempts to ban hunting with dogs earlier this year.
Hunting with dogs is regularly condemned by France's animal-rights lobby.
Hunts are no longer allowed to use dogs to chase down foxes, but are instead supposed to use techniques such as drag hunting, where dogs set off on the trail of a scent laid about 20 minutes in advance by a runner or rider dragging a lure.
He is the first huntsman to be summoned to court for allegedly defying the law which came into force in February last year in England and Wales, making hunting foxes with dogs a criminal offence.
On the Big Island, where people use dogs for hunting wild pigs, many residents have at least five and some as many 30 dogs, says Debbie Crazatta, founder of the Kohala Animal Relocation and Education Service, which helps find homes for stray dogs.
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Responding to Mr Paterson's comments, Labour's shadow environment secretary, Mary Creagh, said "most people back Labour's ban on hunting wild animals with dogs".
In December, Richard Sumner and Julian Barnfield admitted unlawfully hunting a wild fox with dogs.
Its role as both a prosecutor and campaign group was questioned by some Conservative MPs after members of Oxfordshire's Heythrop Hunt were fined in December 2012 for unlawfully hunting a wild fox with dogs.
The dogs were tiring now but still hunting the ground, noses down, taking more time to sniff, less hopeful.
In place of the missing buildings, he imagined a lively gathering of gentlemen on horseback with their servants, dogs and falcons, setting out on a "Hunting Party" that gives the picture its name.
Papa has an idea they would make good deer-hunting ponies, beign hardy and small and able to keep up with the dogs through the brush.
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