what or who got you started in this game?

[martync1967 64]

ok i got started in this roughly 25 plus years ago i was walking over some common land and saw a couple of lads day working a deerhound greyhound and terrier i got talking to them and tagged along with them and havent looked back since.my first lurcher was a bullwhippet x collie and my first terrier was a border lakey, my lamp was a lucas lamp off a citreon dolly 2cv home made but was just effective as the ones you see these days. to guess the amount of rabbits hares ect ive taken over the years would be in the hundreds,thanks for reading

[sighthound1811 6]

my mate had 2 dogs..both straight crosses ..one was collie/grey the other whippet/grey..i used to excercise my staffordshire bull terrier with them an after seeing some of the stuff these dogs could do i was well an truly hooked lol...it was all pre-ban an some of the quarry these dogs took left me awestruck ...had lurchers since after a lifetime of being brought up around staffs since i was a boy lol..atb..chris...

[trigger2 3,145]

my old man was one of a old school bunch of poachers. always had running dogs around me an eventually got into them myself.

[boyo 1,398]

grew up from a baby with a whippet or whippet cross in the house all used for rabbiting and ratting and never been without a running dog since and normally at least three sometimes more worked bred raced showed and judged them over the last never mind how long. lets just say a very very long time lol.

[THLpatrick 555]

Only just got into it, wanted a ''real dog'' when i was younger, ended up with a whippet, living where i live and people i met i soon realised a running dog is possibly the funnest dog you could have and i hope to enjoy hunting for years to come!

[Big bald beautiful 1,231]

taken to drax coursing and dragged around the field by a hugh deerhound cross, nearly 30 yrs ago

[dogrunner5 2]

Got into the game by accident, went to the pound with my girlfriend and there was a wee 3 month old collie x there, I had kept gun dogs before, and had done some research, Have never looked back since.

Once you get one u'll not have anything else.

[troter58 1,711]

taken to drax coursing and dragged around the field by a hugh deerhound cross, nearly 30 yrs ago

i used to coarse on there in the 70s was a good place for the long ears

[darbo 4,776]

working on a construction site 27 years ago. i was 20 at the time,one bloke started talking about his lurchers catching rabbits hares with them. turned out we only lived a few miles apart. asked could i come to see the dogs work. went out every weekend in season for 2 years before i got my first pup. then progressed from there.

[stroller 341]

it was just apart of the pit village life, young lads hunted, fished, bred poultry and kept pigeons. Dogs and ferrets where always around. We had a black and white telly with nowt on it worth watching. life was bit simpler 40 odd years ago

[Ossie n Arch 1,682]

3 years ago when Ossie walked up the drive and never left (Apart from the 7 days he had to stay in the rescue centre)

 

 

[Big bald beautiful 1,231]

Troter58

Was always a great day out, only place you could watch a deerhound cross run against a beddy cross.cant remember saluki types there either

[Guest jt750]

Troter58

Was always a great day out, only place you could watch a deerhound cross run against a beddy cross.cant remember saluki types there either

 

Saluki's then were dogs of legend ..they were out there but i never saw one work until the mid 80's

[Simoman 110]

Troter58

Was always a great day out, only place you could watch a deerhound cross run against a beddy cross.cant remember saluki types there either

 

Saluki's then were dogs of legend ..they were out there but i never saw one work until the mid 80's

 

 

1680's Flo?

[Tyla 3,179]

I was mad for a lurcher as a kid after reading too many poaching books. Both parents were anti's and hated the idea so we settled on a lab. I trained him as a gundog, not what they had in mind, and got into shooting for a long time. Once he died I lost interest in it, i enjoyed working the dog not the gun. I had a few years dog free while travelling about or living in different countries although used to go out with a mate and his lurchers when i could. I was very tempted to get one then but he ended up in prison and I didnt know anyone else with dogs. As soon as i was settled I knew exactly what i wanted, a lurcher! Never looked back. Cant imagine being without them, funny how addictive things can be!