baw 4,360 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 out of lurchers, terriers and gundigs, who do you think has the hardest job training them? I personally think it's the lurcher boys. We need to teach them so many disciplines, what they can chase what they can't. How to jump, retrieve, look down a lamp, chase only un-netted rabbits, the list is endless..... Whereas you terrier gets chucked down a hole and simply bays, a gundog retrieves wounded animals.... I might be wrong so what's your thoughts? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rocky1 942 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 I AGREE WITH THE LURCHERS AND FOLLWED MY SECOND BY GUNDOGS Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blan89 159 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 never trained a gun dog or a terrier to go to ground,but i think it will depend on the dog im sure a hesitant saluki x would be a lot harder to train than a well bred keen gundog and vice versa. and i thought with terriers they either have it or they dont Quote Link to post Share on other sites
danw 1,748 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Simple mate, I know for sure that gundogs are easier to train to a consistently high degree than lurchers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
baw 4,360 Posted April 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 I've never trained a gundog but that would be my thoughts dan. I mean if lab can do it, how f*****g hard can it be lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tb25 4,627 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 i suppose it depends of how much time and training you want to put in to a lurcher? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest joball Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Well we allknow how easy it is to teach a dog to sit and retrieve. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
baw 4,360 Posted April 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Exactly Jo, pretty much the basics. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Catcher 1 639 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 out of lurchers, terriers and gundigs, who do you think has the hardest job training them? I personally think it's the lurcher boys. We need to teach them so many disciplines, what they can chase what they can't. How to jump, retrieve, look down a lamp, chase only un-netted rabbits, the list is endless..... Whereas you terrier gets chucked down a hole and simply bays, a gundog retrieves wounded animals.... I might be wrong so what's your thoughts? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
KittleRox 2,147 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 out of lurchers, terriers and gundigs, who do you think has the hardest job training them? I personally think it's the lurcher boys. We need to teach them so many disciplines, what they can chase what they can't. How to jump, retrieve, look down a lamp, chase only un-netted rabbits, the list is endless..... Whereas you terrier gets chucked down a hole and simply bays, a gundog retrieves wounded animals.... I might be wrong so what's your thoughts? " wounded animals " Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spec 45 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 gundog does a lot more than just retrieving, and has to learn what to chase and not to chase just the same as a lurcher. What about a spaniel used for beating/roughshooting and then for just picking up? beating it's got to flush things close to you and then stop and not chase/catch, roughshooting its got to do that but then chase and catch runners and retrieve when you say so, picking up it's got to ignore all the birds it was flushing in its other jobs, but then gets sent on a runner and expected to chase it down over 100s of yards, when if it got that far from you in any other situation it'd get a b*llocking, then hunt and retrive but not flush! maybe I expect too much of my spaniels, but I think its a bit sweeping to say gundogs are always easier than lurchers- I'd probably put getting a spaniel to a decent all-round standard at the same level. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PoshPikey 560 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Depends on a lot. I have a gundog - a GWP. She hunts, points and retrieves pheasants, grouse and partridge. She also goes ferreting but when not ferreting is not allowed to look at rabbits. she is never allowed to chase hares but she is allowed to point them and retrieve them. I use her for deer work -both indicating deer in woodland and tracking hit deer. It is a versatile breed and i try to do as much as I possibley can with her - all of that takes a lot of training but she is a smart dog and it is in her blood to learn. I have a saluki x that is 95% untrainable. She retrieves just to show me what she has caught any other commmands are completely ignored. I had a whippet x that was obedient - easy to train and effective. it is not a black and white distinction to say gundogs / lurchers / terriers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The one 8,482 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 I would say gun dogs are the hardest to train ,but it depends how well trained your lurcher is .As theres a lot of hard work going into training a gun dog to field trail standard Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chimp 299 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 gundogs Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lab 10,979 Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Aw ffs........ Lol. There's a rabbit go and chase it, you must have to be f*****g ray mears to train a lurcher nowadays....Lol Gundogs everyday of the week!!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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