Favourite lurcher to work with bushing terriers

[wuyang 513]

I work a collie/greyhound first cross alongside my terriers when bushing for rabbits. We don't chase many and catch very little of what we do chase, but we do have some great sport. Most of the land i work comprises of small fields, woodland and disused railway tracks. I would probably catch more if i just worked terriers, but i enjoy watching the lurcher run. I may be getting another lurcher soon to work alongside my ageing bitch, but haven't fully decided what.. maybe collie/greyhoundxwhippet......bedlington/whippet x collie/greyhound or maybe a whippet, but i do think whippets or over priced. Anyway just wondering if anybody else is like me in that they come home with a empty rucksack on most occasions, but just keeps at it and also what your preferred bushing lurcher is or would be.

[morton 5,368]

I work a Collie/grey-Deerhound /grey, with the terriers.I prefer a larger type lurcher because you never know what will be flushed.Its not all about what you catch,the hunt can be more rewarding.

[beddylurcher 70]

i would say something with whippet in it maybe 1st corss whippet grayhound? and maybe some collie init.

[Guest jt750]

I'm the same ..my dogs work through the day terrier and lurcher on smallish fields and woodland ..my lurcher is just learning the daytime job and coming good even if we don't catch a great deal...she's big strong fast and agile and has to use her brains to catch.

I worked the same fields many years ago when i was a youth and we used mainly collie / whippet4 s ..first crosses in the open always did well ..and the 3/4 collie 1/4 whippet in cover always did a good job on picking up lots of feather in the winter.

[barry lurcher 27]

3 quarter whippet quarter beddie

[stoaty 171]

Hi all for me I gotta say cant go far wrong with a whippet or whippet greyhound 1st cross for working with terriers my old dog was a demon with the terriers and once the penny drops be suprised how your catch rate picks up

regards Stoaty

[Guest jt750]

just a quick question if you dont chase much or catch many why waste your time if there not going to get a chase??

 

You a numbers man ?

[Guest jt750]

not at all mate i spend most time mooching or ratting, i enjoy getting out walking, but why waste lurcher it wont be working to its potential, and could end up frustrated etc

 

so whats a lurchers job then numbers ? because you're saying 2 dfferent things here ...if your walking up and its not getting the game its not getting to its full potential ..but you spend most of your tome mooching or ratting which doesn't produce the numbers to stop your dog reaching its full potential ...sorry confused here

[pegstaff 9]

3 quarter whippet quarter beddie

maybe 1/4beddie 1/2 whipet 1/4 grey. thats my perfect cross

[black-spring 18]

I run a deerhound x greyhound and a wheaten x greyhound with my spaniel x and have had some fun. but in truth neither or them like getting anywhere near the cover and are only really any good at catching bigger gear!

but it give them fanfastic excersise and keeps them sharp! or sharper than they would be with me just walking them!!!

 

I meet up with a lady at the local country park she was over exercising her rescue lurchers, one was whippet greyhound and the other a very big saluki x. the whippet greyhound was outstanding it would wait to hear the noise from the spaniel on something then be strait on it and she was very very fast off the mark! and if it did not flush she was straight in!

from the look of her and what the lady had told me she had to be around 5-8 years

 

great little dog and i should imagine she could be very hand at night!

 

[no ban 1]

Any type, that puts grub in the pot, but normally a smallish type with a lightning

quick burst of speed, IE, Whippet Beddy cross, is my choice..

[samba 534]

id exspect any breed ov lurcher should be able to work this way no matter

whatx it is

in the end its a lurcher and what ever you teach them they should do or its

no use to you is it no point ever a different dog for each job

[foyrious 13]

I THINK A FULL BLOODED IRISH WOLFHOUND ...LOL. Seriously though, a well bred beddo whippet greyhound has stood the test of time.. always did the trick for me way back when!

[lifelong cumbrian 1,829]

The best daytime rabbit dog i ever saw was a whippet/greyhound first cross. It was about 23" and about 32lb and the whippet side was from non kc track breeding. It was a friends dog, he ran it with a cocker spaniel cross whippet which was awesome at ratching, the spawny begger had the best 2 rabbit dogs i have ever seen. It was a treat to take them out.

[wuyang 513]

just a quick question if you dont chase much or catch many why waste your time if there not going to get a chase??

 

So everybody whos out there working their lurchers and only occasionally gets one for the pot is wasting their time and owns frustrated lurchers? Come on fella ya better than that.

Edited October 16, 2010 by wuyang