Do you have a preference Rough or Smooth coat lurchers

[mintstick999 485]

I like both but i prefer smooth coated merely because i haven't got kennels, so mine have to live in, less mess easier to check for fleas when they've caught a few rabbits, easier to dry when wet or they've rolled in shit but i do admire a good looking rough coat when i see one...imo each to there own really.

[Acuspell 329]

It is common knowledge that broken coated luchers are faster, more versatile and better at keeping the freezer filled.

 

 

The dvantages of a rougher coat are they are thorn proof too. You can still see muscle shape through the hair. Smooth coated dogs aren't real lurchers.

[stripes 401]

Rough coat, always had dogs with rough coats , keeps them warmer on cold windy nights. My choice though.

[djs7547 104]

It is common knowledge that broken coated luchers are faster, more versatile and better at keeping the freezer filled.

 

 

 

Smooth coated dogs aren't real lurchers.

 

 

 

 

 

think some people might disagree with you on that.

 

My best ever dog, and worst ever dog were broken coat lurchers. Now i have to smooth coats, granted there both pups, 4 an half month , and ten month , and already the older one is proving its worth. As long as your dog does well, an takes what its intended for then thats all that matters.

[Acuspell 329]

DJS said: think some people might disagree with you on that.

 

 

No, it is true, a proper lurcher is rough or broken coated. The original lurcher was a herders dog, they had broken coats and worked the stock as well as provided for their keeper. They were not competition dogs, they were purely working dogs, in every sense of the word. I don't doubt smooth dogs can catch, but I would love to see them trained to work stock as well. The problem is, the word "lurcher" has been misused to describe any type of crossbred dog that is used to run to catch quarry. That is a running dog, not necessarily a lurcher - coursing greyhounds catch, but they aren't lurchers.

 

The same is true of the word SPORT. It too has been misused over the years. There are only three true sports, hunting, shooting, fishing. Cricket, rugger, football, tennis, snooker etc are NOT sports at all, every one of them is a GAME. One plays a GAME of tennis, a game of football, a game of rugger......but that word SPORT has been used out of place for long enough for it to have become accepted as the term to describe such activities.

 

I know language is a fluid medium that is forever evolving, one only has ot listen to some of the street talk on in our towns, it bears no relation to English whatsoever! That is no reason not to try and retain a degree of correctness in our terminology.

[Guest FTBBTH]

if a lurcher had a certain look or certain traits or a certain coat type..... it wouldnt be a lurcher, it would be kennel club registered with a stupid name, a lurcher can be anything from a jackrussel whippet to a bull deerhound, and coat doesnt really make much difference just roughs are harder to look after for tics and those annoying grass balls which get cottered up in the fur, but they both work exactly the same