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  1. Shortstraw
    Even rescue dogs these days cost a fair bit. Cant see why any lurcher or pedigree dog cost more than £300, but would I pay more......yes if I wanted one and I couldn’t find cheaper......I get a real bee in my bonnet about some dog prices. And why oh why do people pay up to and above a grand for a poodle x I’ll never know. but at the end of the day to anyone it’s worth what your willing to pay.
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    Having springer in the mix has certainly added some hunting drive......easier to tra8n than the collie crosses I’ve had too, not that they were hard to train. She’s just so bright and eager to learn.
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    Possibly bedlington.
  4. Shortstraw
    Nice.....fun days ahead. What breeding you gone with?
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    Whippet will be great as a bushing companion, but a little 22/23 inch lurcher would be my choice. Would be better suited to lamping and more capable daytime dog. I’m sure you’ll make the right decision. They’ll all catch a rabbit if you put the work in.
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    Oh and I forgot.......she’s very biddable.
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    She would lamp.....but if that was my first choice of hunting I’d probably be happy with a generic lurcher type.
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    Wouldn’t worry about it’s eyes. Mine isn’t nose down mad all the time, she’s got a good combination of covering ground, but also uses her eyes well. There’s plenty of times where she slowly moves to the area where she expects something to be, dropping her shoulders and freezing etc to get as close as she can be. Got the best working brain on a lurcher I’ve had for daytime hunting. Seriously mine uses its eyes well. I went for this breed as I need a dog who lives to hunt, some of the lurchers I’ve owned were not driven enough to go and find game when there wasn’t much about.....adding the sprin
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    Are you using a bushing terrier along side the lurcher to push the rabbits out? Or wanting the lurcher to do it all so to speak?
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    Quicker....I understand if that’s what you need. I’m not knocking your choice of dog,for the work and terrain you deal with. A lot round me used to use small grew bitches to catch the bolted or bushed rabbits back in the eighties,,,,,,,amazing at what they did and would leave whippets behind.....but again lacked in other areas. Bloody great to watch though. I have a small bitch here that is half springer spaniel, in fact she’s less than half sight hound, but she as a mooching rabbit dog will catch much more than plenty of whippets or lurchers that are faster. Trust me I love whippets
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    Any particular area of rabbiting you will be doing more of?
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    For me though a lurcher is just better at everything a whippet does...can’t think of anything a whippet does better......anything They bring less mud back into the house and don’t shed much.......
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    If Nigel ( sure that’s his name) is still at it he’d probably take you out with the whippets and when your whippet is older take it out again. Think he goes in the dales.
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    Allan, have you been on whippet forums....think they might be Facebook based now.......been a while since I was on the forums ( think it was nigels whippet site) If I was going down the whippet route I would be contacting him. Some of the whippet fellas on here will be able to point you in right direction.
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    Head looks Wheaton.
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    I’d like to see a bed/ grey in action....bet there cracking little grafters.
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    Most whippets and lurchers will work lots of quarry, but some are bred to do the job more effectively. I would go working rabbiting lurcher x working rabbiting lurcher rather than working whippet x working whippet......very little difference in working whippets and show whippets......Lots of whippets these day 22 plus inches.....prefer the shorter stockier type. One of the things on some whippets too is their bloody skin.....some is quite good others shocking.
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    I saw a beautiful lab lurcher few months back. Was told it was lab x whip, it def seemed half lab, but it was much taller than straight whippet cross. It really was beautiful and not in slightest bit heavy. It was all black....looked to have good feet too.
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    Depends on terrain as well......my jrt caught more than my whippet when bushing
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    Very similar looking to my old bitch
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    Daytime rabbits hunted bolted and caught by one dog has to be the hardest form of rabbiting, but like bushing with a couple of dogs I find the most enjoyable......lots of missed rabbits and coming home usually with not much...but who cares.
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    I generally just do mooching with my little two lurchers. Ones a bed whip x colllie whip greyhound 19 inch, others a spaniel x lurcher 22 inch. Plenty of dogs for you to pick from that’ll do above.
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    Allan.......what dogsyou got/ worked before? you after an all round rabbiting dog or more specialised in one area?
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    Sorry to bombard you with questions fred90.......I love little grafting lurchers that hunt hard even when there’s not much about.....would you recommend one if you were only to have one dog for hunting hedgerows and woodlands ...sort of one for the pot.....and would you go half or 3/4 for this? cheers
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    Good size for a whippet that......not keen on these 22 inch ones you see these days...might as well have a lurcher.
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