Chasing Hares (NHB Modern Plays)

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I’m sorry to hear you are having such difficulty. The problem is that you do not have a pet dog, you have adopted a feral dog. She has the brain and mind-set of a wild animal, because that is how she was brought up by her mother and learned to survive. It is extremely difficult to turn a feral dog into a pet beyond the age of eight weeks and I hear many tales of woe from people who have tried. The difficulty is that you have nothing she wants to reinforce her behaviour in a normal pet dog home environment, so your options are extremely limited. There will be foods that she is willing to work for, such as raw liver, especially if she is hungry, that you can use to reinforce behaviours you like for training, and that would be the start point for increasing your own value too.

If passion and commitment were everything, the excitingly, if rather cryptically, titled Chasing Hares would leave its competition in the dust. Instead, Sonali Bhattacharyya’s play is ambitious in its conception but only fitfully successful in performance – this notwithstanding a production from the fast-rising director Milli Bhatia that throws all sorts of bells and whistles at the text to keep the playwright’s (metaphorical) call to arms on course. Firstly, you’ve had her two months. There is often a honeymoon period after adoption where dogs inhibit their behaviour whilst they get used to a new environment. This could simply be her reverting to her previous behaviour.You will have to be very firm with him about this and never let him run in to a shot bird and get away with it.

I am looking for advice please on how I can try and stop the total focus on birds, if I can stop it, or should we walk them elsewhere … other local parks are too close to very busy roads so I cannot let them off their leads there. Is this a “phase”? I retired last year and we collected them two days later so I am with them the majority of the time Start to focus your dog on a toy, but not in competition with the problem. Change the chase context; play in a different place. Indoors is always good, or the garden if there are no rabbits. The new chase toy may depend upon your dog’s old preferred target. Many dogs will chase a ball, but inveterate chasers may be so focussed on their primary target that they ignore toys. Be inventive; make the new target sufficiently like the old one to stimulate your dog to chase, but sufficiently unlike it not to increase the brain connections with the old target when they catch it (if the dog still thinks they are catching a rabbit, the neural connections with rabbits are strengthened). Chase” is a motor pattern, or behaviour, that is inherited. Dogs that chase are being internally reinforced just by doing it. They don’t need to be externally reinforced with a biscuit or a kind word, because the behaviour is rewarding in itself. Why they won’t stop

run with the ˌhare and hunt with the ˈhounds

Understanding why dogs chase is crucial to controlling them; knowing that they take massive brain-chemical induced enjoyment from it; that they aren’t deliberately disobeying us, but obeying a stronger internal urge; that they can’t actually help it; that they’re fulfilling a hunger inside them, because they were bred like that. There are many ways to build up your own attraction and to engage your dog whilst out, but it will involve some training for you both. You can find details in my books, Guide & Control and Stop! Looking at Archie’s history; what do you think may be the motivation and reinforcement for biting Mr Johnson?

I take him to the beach everyday where he can run freely, he loves to chase the waves but never gets too close as he hates water. Chasing Hares playwright Sonali Bhattacharyya on political playwriting, jatra and the gig economy What was the inspiration behind Chasing Hares?the stimulus is probably either “living things” that he doesn’t know intimately or “running living things”.

At home in the garden her frizbee is focus, perhaps I will try taking it to the woods with me where the cyclists are present and see if there is improvement,There are alternatives for ‘disruption’ behaviours such as cardboard boxes with treats inside, but I’d be worried about encouraging a dog to destroy all cardboard boxes. We have a troublesome problem with a 2 year old totally blind lurcher who we have adopted from a rescue organisation as ‘cat friendly’ dog. I was circumspect about this but we already have a very cat friendly lurcher (they rub noses, eat together, walk around the garden companionably) so I wasn’t particularly concerned and took the rescue’s claim at face value. Jatra troupes perform outdoors in India and Bangladesh. Traditionally, they performed plays adapted from Hindu epics the Mahabharata and Ramanaya, but as the form developed new themes were woven in and contemporary folk tales created that celebrated the lives of ordinary people and their struggles. As jatra increasingly vied with Hindi cinema and television drama, this connection with local audiences became more vital. This shift from traditionalism and conservatism to more radical form and content echoes Prab’s belief in radical politics. What are the challenges in writing a play set across two locations and time periods?