lets have the truth how long have you been into runing dogs

[minion 29]

Started off with an air gun at 11. Then came a few ferrets the same year and while I wanted a lurcher my parents wouldn't let me get one. We ended up with a pet mongral who was 1/2 border collie 1/4 lab and 1/4 complete heinz 57!

 

I started taking her ferreting with me and she turned into a fantastic ferreting dog. Not fast enough to catch a rabbit on the run, but marked as good as any dog i have seen and pined the netted rabbits.

 

At 17 my parents finally let me get a lurcher. I had her for a few months when she got hit by a car and had to be PTS.

 

Was given a Lucus terrier at 18 and worled her soly on rabbits and she was a decent rabbiting dog. When I moved out at 21 my parnets were so attached to her I didn't have the heart to take her away, so she stayed, and still lives with them. My dad still takes her out with the gun and does a fair bit of ferreting with her.

 

Got my second lurcher at 21 and had her until last week. She was a 3/4 greyhound 1/4 border collie and was a excellant lurcher. Very obediant and whilest she didn't catch hundreds she caught a few and provided me with sport and to me that's what it's all about. Sport not numbers. She hit a fence post and damaged her insides. She was nearly dead by the time I got to the vets and the vet Put her to sleep. I was, and still am gutted. The hardest part was having to tell my wife and wee girl.

 

I also got a plummer terrier when I got my lurcher and she was mainly worked on rabbit, with the odd days ratting. However she got a tumor at 21/2 and had to be PTS.

 

I now have an 81/2 week old whippet bitch and hope to get her started next year. The summer will be spent on obediance training and stock breaking.

 

I am certianly no expert but I do not claim to be. I hunt puerly for sport and I still hunt exactly the same as I did before the ban and will continue to hunt in the future. Hopefully my whippet will see plenty of Rabbits and hares in her lifetime and as long as she gives me a good days sport then thats all I ask of her.

Edited March 25, 2007 by minion

[Guest LamperJohn]

got my first lurcher when i was 15 im now 27 got 2 lurchers now my old faithfull and me up and coming pup will always have a running dog at my side its an addiction the thrill of the chase theres nothing like it .lamperjohn

[bill88 6]

My dad kept lurcher's and terrier's,untill he was disabled by a stroke in his sixtie's,so there were alway's dog's around when i was growing up.I had a break from dog's,but have been keeping and working lurchers and terrier's again for the last 7 years.What do i know about dog's? enough to get by on.I know what i want my dog's to do and they do it,well most of the time.

[tiny tim 22]

37 years ...how time flies

[Lurcherboy 0]

he who knows everything knows nowt a wise man said to me

[sylus 0]

My dad kept lurcher's and terrier's,untill he was disabled by a stroke in his sixtie's,so there were alway's dog's around when i was growing up.I had a break from dog's,but have been keeping and working lurchers and terrier's again for the last 7 years.What do i know about dog's? enough to get by on.I know what i want my dog's to do and they do it,well most of the time.

hi there; i've had dogs for 23 years, at 17 i bought a springer/ lab and boy i used to have great fun mooching with him for hours, at 21 i got my first staff and from then on i was hooked on these bull breeds owning a rescue eng bull, and still now i own staffords and am bulls ; four weeks ago i got my first running dog inca who is a sal/grey and am looking forward to putting the time in with him and hoping he works for me , i'm 40 and still affixed with dogs as i ever have been thanks for reading

[countrymaid 2]

its nice to see theres a few experianced lads on here

Lads !!! what about lasses

[Guest markbrick1]

its nice to see theres a few experianced lads on here

Lads !!! what about lasses

sorry lads and lasses

[vixen210 0]

i've not long had my first lurcher got her last year but used to run a friends as he was away doing his apprentership wippetxgrey quality little mut i'd take him lamping and a bit of ferreting so about 6 years i think had terriers for 8 years so still got so much to learn

[brock 11]

i got my first lurcher 10 yrs ago,a first x collie greyhound,hes still alive and very well,he is retired now and living with my parents,i now keep saluki types,i have one 5 yr old and two 2 yr old pups out of her,i allso got 2 young greyhounds which im schooling at the moment.before the lurchers i had a spaniel and terrier which i used for bushing and ferreting,so in all ive been into dogs for nearly 15 years,and im only 25 so have many good years of hunting to come

[Ossie 11]

my great grandad kept, bred & trained racing greyhounds, as did my grandad. my mum used to spend most saturdays when she was tiny in the back of an old van, curled up asleep with the dogs. my dad started keeping lurchers when he married her in the 70's.

my first lurcher was a stunning black saluki x grey called Black Jack Davy, he was bought for me when i was a year and a half old, to keep me company after my brother was born. he was more my dads dog really, as i was so tiny. my next lurcher was one we bred from Jacko & my mums beddy/whippet x grey. i've had several lurchers since, all descended from Jacko. i didn't really work them when i was a kid, but i spent a lot of time out with dad on his permissions exercising the dogs & catching the odd rabbit. i really spent more time with my little jack russel bitch, training & showing her. (still love the little things, contemplating getting another, but i WILL NOT have a working terrier with an undocked tail, and that's gonna be a bit of a problem soon!). working dogs really went out of the window when i was about 12, and music became my life.

had a couple of years off lurchers after my brindle bitch died, then when i got my own place i bought my saluki x grey dog Gyp as a 7 month old pup, and i've been working him since he turned a year. (not as much as i'd like, but that's shitty work hours for you!).

 

i guess you could say running dogs are in my blood!

[midnight walker 8]

third genaration with running dogs grabbed a hold of one of my uncles whippet pups when i was six months old my uncle made sure the old man took it home for me as soon as was able to walk i was out ferreting and mooching with my uncles had that dog till i was 16 then i got my first lurcher greyhound x lab was not the fastest dog but we had some good times till she got run over then it was a whippetxpit grate we rabbiting dog had to have her put to sleep full of cancer at nine years old i was gutted the it was my old dog clyde deerhound greyhoundxbeddy greyhound who i had to get put to sleep a few weeks ago now im left with my bitsa fast as feck with a nervice disposition so for me all my life and at 41you could say i am hooked

[Running 7]

i went out with a few friends of mine a couple of years ago one night and bang i got hooked so 2 years realy .I may not know a lot but i know what i like

[reynardhunter 3]

I,ve been hunting with lurchers with a good friend of mine for about ten years now, but to be honest i only have my own lurcher a few months now, but since i got her i am more into it than ever

[NIGHTSHADOW 3]

Being x part time keeper Ive had jackrussels for 20 years and Springers for the some But met up with some poachers had a good chat as you do :whistle: at the time I was haveing problem with foxes around the pen thay said thay would sort it for me I one said come with us I did loved every min of it Said good bye to the part time keeper job moved on to lurchers never looked back that was ten years ago