the atraction

[judge2010 196]

i was a member on this site for a while as i use to go shooting but started reading up on lurchers on here and decided to get one.

[freelance 448]

I started off with airguns and ferrets as a teenager, my granddad was a taxidermist so always from being a young kid was hearing tales of shooting and field sports. Then got into falconry in my last few years at school, then when left school got a job with a bird control company so at 17 i moved down south and took a job there with my hawks. Got in with the local click, one of the lads i flew with used to go for a dig and lamp the runners. So that was it when i left the job i gave the birds up and got myself a lurcher pup, got me interested and been hooked ever since.

ATB

Freelance

[iworkwhippets 12,495]

we wanted meat on the table, year 1959, so went out and got it, with a manchester terrier and lurcher

[Guest vin]

started with a kestrel..then an owl..then ferrets...then realized you needed a dog to catch the bolters and mark up.

[dogs and quarry 40]

started off beating for a shoot with my dad when I was about 9 or 10, looked forward to every season after that. then started ferreting with a mate of mine just local which was great. Enjoyed it so much I got myself a few ferrets shortly after. We then started lamping with his collie/grey, was amazed with how clever, fast and soft mouthed this dog was, he was so soft mouthed I was told he used to retrieve water balloons un-damaged! I never witnessed this but none of the rabbits he caught were never 'chewed up'. I wanted a lurcher of my own after that however I was still living with my parents and we already had 3 springer spaniels and two ferrets, there wasn't really enough room for another dog.

I only got my own lurcher 4 years ago when I moved out and I'll never go without one now, there's just something about there speed and agility when they are in pursuit of their quarry that captures me.

Cant think of many things better than being out in a cold, dark and windy night with nothing but a lamp and a good dog in pursuit of game

[SENTRAL 0]

We always had lurchers and terriers but I was 9 before I actually went out with Dad and the dogs to work. Was instantly fascinated and enthralled and therein my love began.

[troter58 1,711]

had some sort of dog around us growing up mongrels terriers nothing to do so went ratting on the local tips then rabbiting on the old pit waste lands in the early 70s so just moved on to lurchers to catch the rabbits always been it to hunting things for the last 40 odd years atb troter

[J.DOG 1,355]

Well I'm only 15 yrs old and I have grown up round lurchers my dad had loads over the years he uses to take me out on a walks with him and the dogs and I used to walk the little whippet cross he had that got me intrested in the lurcher as they stood out from other dogs then I watched the dogs working when I was seven and I got my first pup last year and i never used to be out around the village as it's boring as f*ck but now Im never without a lurcher by my side always have one by me lol I went out to get my sister from the park and a couple of people asked if my dog was ok because he wasn't with me lol I'm never out without him

Edited October 3, 2011 by J.DOG

[trigger2 3,128]

ive always had lurchers round me since the day i was born. had a interest in them and it carried on through to my adult life and long may it continue.

[bryson 562]

i started off with ferrets i bought a couple of dvds one of them being chipper smiths and i saw his dog being worked in the dales on rabbits it wasnt so much the catch that got me it was the run and the testing of the dog now i wouldnt imagine life without a running dog i have a 6 and a half month old whippet now and i cant wait to slip him on his first rabbit you just cant beat the buzz