Shadow100
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We’ll leave it at that I think, could go on all night, best of luck to you & your dog for the upcoming pheasant season.
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I don’t reckon because a lurchers no good for gundog work it’s a one trick pony. There’s a lot of quarry in this country a dog can go at to be considered an all rounder without having to touch a game bird
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As far as I know it’s any non sighthound breed crossed with a sighthound, could be wrong though
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That’s exactly what I mean, the lurcher is a breed of dog crossed with a sighthound, the whole point of adding the sighthound is to add speed for running, that’s the lurchers job
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Depends what you’re doing with them, just an example say I’ve got a dog out on a Monday beating woods, has 3 or 4 good runs, I’d get him home, wash his feet, rub him down, dinner and in to bed. Next day I’d let him laze about the garden all day because I want him well rested to be back out on the Wednesday, same again Thursday because we’d be out Friday night then weekend off where it would just be good walks down the beach, if you’re wanting to run them hard I reckon they need rest days where they get to lie about the garden relaxing
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That’s what I mean it’s a job a lurchers is capable of doing but it’s not a lurchers job. I do think though if a dogs had a hard shift and you want it out again in a couple of days rest goes a long way
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If men are running their dogs then letting them tag along while they go beating as well that’s different. That’s not the same as saying beating is proper lurcher work that’s daft. For me I’d rather rest the dog up so it’s fresh for running rather than waste its energy in a beating line
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Just in my mind like I wouldn’t want a pup out of dogs that spent days messing about on shoots mid season but we’re all different if that’s what men like fair play to them. Its changed days and not for the better the proper poachers lurcher is a rare thing to find because instead of trying to outsmart keepers most lurchermen want to be in with them.
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I mean what lurchers are bred to do, course & catch running game. Rabbits & hares, foxes, deer (pre ban). Flushing game birds in a beating line & retrieving them isn’t proper lurcher work, it’s a task a lurcher can do if the owner wants, but it’s not lurcher work.
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I do lamp myself dogs, but they get more daytime work than lamping. What makes you say that?
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If that’s your view fair enough, but for me running my dog properly means a lot more than £30 and a free breakfast
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That’s what I’m saying traditional lurcher work is poaching pheasants that’s different from picking up on shoot days to help keepers out it’s actually the total opposite of the traditional lurchers job
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Traditional would be poaching pheasants not beating/picking up
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A lurcher won’t beat a proper gundog at their job, if they would then shoots would be full of collie & beddy crosses, not spaniels and labs. Lurchers are for running not picking shot pheasants.
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Dogs for jobs comes to mind I don’t see the point of a lurcher on a shoot day, you wouldn’t take a lab or a spaniel lamping, leave the shoots to the gundogs. Just my view we’re all different incase anyone gets offended
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They’re not what I’d call speed machines. I think in general Salukis are a lot slower than saluki lurchers, not after a debate about it just what I’ve seen myself
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Hit the nail on the head, stick a fast dog behind that hare it probably wouldn’t look so quick
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Can see where you’re coming from, and if a dog does nothing wrong then you’re right it deserves a home for life. But if you’ve got dogs to do a certain job & they’re not up to that job, you can’t be expected to keep them. That’s not meaning they should be sold, that should never happen, either pet home or PTS Obviously that’s not the case with jigsaws as it’s too young to have been tried and tested but I just mean in general the “dogs are for life” thing doesn’t always apply.
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People see the word ‘import’ and think the grass must be greener when a lot of the time it’s not the case
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To be honest I think it would be an unfair comparison, their dogs are brought up in that climate, ours aren’t so would overheat a lot quicker. I think we’ve got the type we need in this country tbh the saluki blood was a revelation when it first happened but these days I don’t know what can be added by bringing one of them over. Their idea of coursing is worlds away from ours
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Doubled up and still can’t catch, makes you wonder why people rave about these imports.
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Not just the young ones plenty older lads out to kill big bags to show off as well
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Proper joke that channel always having a crack at lurcher boys and poachers saying they’re destroying the countryside, even got the cheek to say it’s about money when they’re charging £150 a brace for grouse or £500+ for stalking, only part that bothers them is us taking money out their pockets they couldn’t give a f**k for the wildlife.
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Thing with a dog you’ve got to put the ground work in. Rearing from 8 weeks old, feeding, exercise. Then you’ve got to condition it, put the miles in to find the runs to get it fit, then if you go for a big bag night and get it it’s an achievement, and nobodies doing that with dogs weekly or even fortnightly, the big bag nights 100+ are a few times a season at the most. These boys don’t have any skills at all they just buy themselves a rifle and a thermal then away they go, mass destruction of wildlife. It’s a sad state of affairs when men know more about rifles & optics than the anim
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That’s the country we live in. We pay taxes to make the rich richer, and in return they tell us what we can & cant do, while they do whatever they want.
