the old style lurcher

[turbotyke 62]

this is my turbo tyke every one says thats what a lurcher is supposed to look like

 

 

nice type of lurcher mate

 

looks just like 1 i had years ago topper of a dog ( do all britsh quarry ) got him from a mate at 10 mths old never knew what was in him all i knew was he came from a man in boston linconshire , a man called john frost dont know the man but was supposed to have decent dogs ? dog died when he was five. RTA took him out

its john frost still about ?

 

atb jackard

 

 

i dont know im going to ring the bloke i got him off see if he knows the breeders of his dogs atb jenna

 

 

[Bosun11 537]

Aye Roady, they were tough mutts years ago and many did do the job very well indeed, makes you wonder how really!

My first Lurcher back in the 70's, though well housed, was never really 'looked after', tipped out onto the street in the morning and out all day in any weather, she would be heard scratching at the front door at bedtime.

She was a Whippet/Greyhoundy type.

Banished to my spinster great aunts up the street, coz she had a nasty little habit of getting excited then running upstairs to piss on the beds!

Fed scraps and little else, a tin of Chappie or the like was fecking luxury and you could always be sure to find her after school, when it was time to get out hunting, scavenging in the bins in our jigger (back alley).

That said, she was as fit as any dog i've seen since, hunted well in to her teens and was game as they come. My 'ol man forked out many a penny to pay for windows she went through after cats!!

[321charlie 5]

thanks for replys lad nice to see not forgotten about

[waidmann 105]

the old style lurcher as said in previous posts were bred to look "ordinary" dogs and would hunt with cunning and guile rather than pace. the poacher/tennant farmers would be kicked off the land just for owning hunting dog,thats a long way back though

 

my uncle had a dog(lurcher) untill a few years ago which did not look much but could catch on the lamp no problem(she looked too stocky to be quick).

i've no idea how she was bred,probably just worker to worker(lurcher to lurcher) over years and years, a proper mongrel

[huntingalltheway 2]

the old style lurcher as said in previous posts were bred to look "ordinary" dogs and would hunt with cunning and guile rather than pace. the poacher/tennant farmers would be kicked off the land just for owning hunting dog,thats a long way back though

 

my uncle had a dog(lurcher) untill a few years ago which did not look much but could catch on the lamp no problem(she looked too stocky to be quick).

i've no idea how she was bred,probably just worker to worker(lurcher to lurcher) over years and years, a proper mongrel

when the mrs gets back i'l put a picture of the colie x i had bloke owns him on here now hes a blue merle type he looks the spit of the collie just very slightly leaner with a broken to rough coat. to most he looks just like a farm collie but when he runs hes at the same pace as many lurcher. as people have posted before these were the general types of dogs kepted when dogs were first used to catch food they were used by the land owners to help with livestock but also be able to fill the pot. it was only the gypseys who had no home who travelled in there horse and coaches owned the deerhound or other normal lurcher looking dogs as they didnt have to face the same consiquences in owning these dogs that looked like running dogs.

Edited March 15, 2010 by huntingalltheway