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Good advice from reddawn, always best to get a pup if you can. The key to getting your first lurcher is patience as you'll have years with the dog and the wrong choice can cloud your outlook of having working dogs.

 

Good luck with whatever choice you make mate.:)

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dont want to throw a spanner in the works mate, but id much rather have a pup from the dam(6/8 weeks old), especially seeing as this will be your first dog, id seriously recomend that ye get a young p

Please be patient and get a decent puppy. There may be nothing wrong with this 13 month old lurcher, but there may be everything wrong with it! Unless you are very experienced ( and even then you won

I think the lad's acting resposibly ! He's asking advice about getting a dog that he probably has expectations of keeping for the rest of it's life ! So he wants to get a decent one, and not peddle it

Good advice from reddawn, always best to get a pup if you can. The key to getting your first lurcher is patience as you'll have years with the dog and the wrong choice can cloud your outlook of having working dogs.

 

Good luck with whatever choice you make mate.:)

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Please be patient and get a decent puppy. There may be nothing wrong with this 13 month old lurcher, but there may be everything wrong with it! Unless you are very experienced ( and even then you won't know just from looking at it) this dog could have all sorts of issues: it may not have had any training/socialisation (which means it may be fine in its own kennel, but a bag of nerves when you take it out).

 

You would really be much better off getting a pup: that way you can learn together, make your own mistakes (which you will: we all do when we are learning) but most importantly you will have a pup that bonds with you straight away. There ARE good pups up and down the country, but to someone new to lurchers it seems very much a 'closed shop' when you try to find a well bred pup from good working parents. I know of two good Collie bred litters on the way at the moment, and if you pm me your details I will pass them on to the breeders. These are one off litters bred for the owners' own use, and most pups are already spoken for, but there may be some spare. They haven't yet been born, which shows how many people want them.

 

I've sent you a pm.

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Good advice from red dawn I wish I'd done this when I started it would of saved alot of time and money in getting the right dog for the job just make sure you get it from the right place in the first place good parents worker to worker are priceless atb donk

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Please be patient and get a decent puppy. There may be nothing wrong with this 13 month old lurcher, but there may be everything wrong with it! Unless you are very experienced ( and even then you won't know just from looking at it) this dog could have all sorts of issues: it may not have had any training/socialisation (which means it may be fine in its own kennel, but a bag of nerves when you take it out).

 

You would really be much better off getting a pup: that way you can learn together, make your own mistakes (which you will: we all do when we are learning) but most importantly you will have a pup that bonds with you straight away. There ARE good pups up and down the country, but to someone new to lurchers it seems very much a 'closed shop' when you try to find a well bred pup from good working parents. I know of two good Collie bred litters on the way at the moment, and if you pm me your details I will pass them on to the breeders. These are one off litters bred for the owners' own use, and most pups are already spoken for, but there may be some spare. They haven't yet been born, which shows how many people want them.

 

I've sent you a pm.

thats the best offer you'l get mate :thumbs: get her PMed :yes:
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Av been looking for a pup n can't find one

Just be patient Robert..Rome was not built in a day..i waited around 4yr's for my current pup..the right one for you will pop up sooner or later..i have bought 2 older dog's in over the year's...one was 8mth and the other 6mth both of them ended up getting rehomed to pet home's through injuries but the bond was not there like you will get with a 6/8week old pup..it's upto you at the end of the day but i would never ever by a pup older than 8wk's.. :thumbs:

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skycat an northernlite well done for trying to get the guy sorted, i firmly beleive that a pup is the best way to go, im not saying folk should never get an older dog, but a pup makes far more sense to me for the reasons skycat has already pointed out, there is also a litter of pups advertised on here, normaly i wouldnt tell anybody to buy a pup off this site, but in this case i know an can/will vouch for lamp+battery an his dogs, so much so that my ferreting partner has got himself 1, an only reason i never is i got a pup on now, take skycat or northernlites offer mate, either that or go an have a look at lamp+batterys litter, either way im sure youll get what ye want :thumbs:

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well done lads and ladys if the lad takes on board what you have told him should end up with a better start with is new hunting partner and they will learn from each other i wish you all the best with your new dog and hope you have many happy days out in the fields . troter

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