What a great thread i love hearing about the old days! What a change it is to now. Im a lot younger and got my first lurcher in 92 but even then was a far cry from the shit we put up with today. My great granda loved his hunting and i must have his blood. I was never allowed a dog but i was a little shit when i was a kid had the police at the door everynight so my mam made a deal with me that if i stop the police coming i can have a dog, so i did. I was so excited that i bought the first dog i could find. It was a collie grehound i didnt even know what a lurcher was. This dog was my life. Slep