Definition of a lurcher?

[B.P.R 2,798]

What is a lurcher defined as? I've met a few guys Walking their lurchers and when I've asked them what breeding are they, they reply a full lurcher they ain't crossed with anything. Is a lurcher a sighthound crossed with something?

 

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[Simoman 110]

Sighthound and working dog, although almost anything is called a lurcher nowdays.............All this talk of pedigree lurchers makes my piss boil

[Malt 379]

It's just idiot people trying to jump on the modern 'fashionable new breeds' bandwagon. The people who are convinced they are a breed obviously know f**k all about exactly what constitutes a dog breed in the first place.

[rob190364 2,594]

a couple of months ago I was putting my dog in the back of the car and I noticed a bloke stood next to his van having a brew with a lurcher in the back, I went over and said "nice dog, do you work it?", he said yes he's had it from a rescue centre and he hunts rabbits with it. I asked him if it was a bull cross (which it clearly was) to which he replied, no it's female So I said no, I mean does it have bull terrier in it's breeding and he looked at me as if I'd said can it ride a bike, he replied of course it doesn't, it's a lurcher

Edited August 12, 2011 by rob190364

[Guest dances]

Lurcher has to have atleast 25% NON running dog in it I was told but then what would you class anything less as?

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

Lurcher has to have atleast 25% NON running dog in it I was told but then what would you class anything less as?

 

That would imply that a 7/8 greyhound 1/8 collie is not a lurcher which it clearly is.

 

Any sighthound crossed with any herding/terrier type dog Is my interpretation.

 

But similarly a 7/8 terrier 1/8 whippet could be called lurcher and would clearly be a terrier so it's all bollox. Lol.

 

Gaz

[mattyg 1,862]

lurcher = bastardised greyhound,whippet or saluki, try telling the insurance its not a lurcher but its a mongrel, they aint having it!

[sighthound123 31]

Anything with at least 50 percent sighthound in it. Two different breeds of sighthound crossed is a longdog. I.e saluki/grey, whip/grey and so on.

[boyo 1,398]

in my eyes any sighthound crossed with another breed is a lurcher .

[J.DOG 1,355]

I got this off a website

 

A Lurcher is not a specific dog breed; it is a type of dog. By definition, a Lurcher is a Sighthound cross, most often part Greyhound. Lurchers that are the result of a cross of two Sighthounds (such as, the popular cross of a Greyhound and Deerhound) are a subgroup of Lurchers called Longdogs.

[borris 12]

in my eyes any sighthound crossed with another breed is a lurcher .

yes I agree I always thought a lurcher was a sighthound crossed with anything.

[3 Turns 326]

MONGREL WITH VERY LONG LEGS AND CAN RUN LIKE FXCK.

[watchman 256]

MONGREL WITH VERY LONG LEGS AND CAN RUN LIKE FXCK.

 

thats all it needs to be, as long as it can catch as well

[boyo 1,398]

we all knoow about the greyhound x collie supposedly the proper lurcher and 2 sighthounds being a longdog or supposed to be but think alout it if we see a non pedigree running dog anywhere show walking out in the feild in fact anywhere at all what do we see and think LURCHER so to me that sums it up a lurcher in my eyes is a non pedigree sighthound crossed with any other breed of dog known to man. and can be dressed up as longdog whirrier rtumbler norfolk or anything else but at the end of the day its all bullshit in my eyes their lurchers full stop .

[Bootsha 1,306]

Lurchers are a mix of sighthound and a pastoral breed ( beardie, border or any sort of collie sort), what percentage qualifies i dont know.

 

The amoeliaration of any two sighthounds bred together will result in a "Longdog" being produced.

 

Who exactly worked this out in days gone by I dont know. But theres no mention of bull, wheaton, airedale, Pointer or any other sort of dog often used in the smorgus board of lurcher breeding.

 

In my book, if it has the qualities that you are looking for, and from good working stock, then whats to say it wont work when crossed with a sighthound??.

 

After all, way back when, someone must have had a brain storm to put a collie across his greyhound, who'd have thought that would have caught on eh???

 

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