Deer and fox dogs

[ruby jet 184]

Bull grey x Lurcher to Lurcher used to do them no bother at all on a regular basis ................atb rj

[Floyd17586 454]

I had a saluki gh dog preban who would take all quarry he was excellent.unfortunately i never took photos of him.he was the best dog i ever owned .

[fitchet 788]

Feck keeping a lurcher that COULDNT take fox or deer. I know a few keep specialised rabbit dogs, or hare dogs, but the rest should do the lot regular, with no issues.

 

Exactly mate there is nothing hard about taking the odd fox roe and muntie. . Ive seen alsorts of breeds catch them. Obviously fallow are whole different ball game and your dog needs to be committed and fast. Ive seen daytime roe taken by inferior dogs and ive seen daytime roe leave behind VERY good dogs. But for the whole pre-ban most dogs should've floored a couple. JMHO. Atb

[mr scent 665]

collie hond cross i had was mainly a fox dog but retrieved a few fallow for me too

[downsouth 7,411]

Feck keeping a lurcher that COULDNT take fox or deer. I know a few keep specialised rabbit dogs, or hare dogs, but the rest should do the lot regular, with no issues.

 

Exactly mate there is nothing hard about taking the odd fox roe and muntie. . Ive seen alsorts of breeds catch them. Obviously fallow are whole different ball game and your dog needs to be committed and fast. Ive seen daytime roe taken by inferior dogs and ive seen daytime roe leave behind VERY good dogs. But for the whole pre-ban most dogs should've floored a couple. JMHO. Atb

Spot on.Ive also seen very capable deer dogs that wouldnt look at a charlie.Much easier to get a good deer dog than a good fox dog and by good fox dog i dont mean knocking over youngsters on the stubbles or doubleing up.

[brockdog 285]

my old dog ,give 100% every time he was out ,pleasure to own and run,do foxes for fun,had his fair share of roe.,but never seen anything bigger.could do some good bags of rabbits as well.put down at 14,

[Dan Edwards 1,134]

brockdog, that is a fine lookin dog ya had there. I like that type.

[iceman001979 1,316]

my old dog ,give 100% every time he was out ,pleasure to own and run,do foxes for fun,had his fair share of roe.,but never seen anything bigger.could do some good bags of rabbits as well.put down at 14,

Whats the breeding in that dog any fox hound in there???????/

[bullmastiff 615]

Would of thought almost all fit dogs that were 3/4 sighthound (grey, Saluki, etc) even if they were pets would take a fox on occasion and a few Roe. Just depends how much work their going to see and on what type of ground?

 

For the larger species of deer, larger numbers of fox or any quarry on difficult ground, you need to start looking into the breeding a bit more and maybe look into getting a specialiy bred dog from working parents to have a better chance of success?

[brockdog 285]

my old dog ,give 100% every time he was out ,pleasure to own and run,do foxes for fun,had his fair share of roe.,but never seen anything bigger.could do some good bags of rabbits as well.put down at 14,

Whats the breeding in that dog any fox hound in there???????/

no mate collie grey x bull grey..and your not the first to ask that mate.

[Carraghs Gem 1,675]

My old bull grey bitch 7/8 grey 1/8 bull took the occasional fox

She was plenty willing but just not capable of taking them regular.

[moonlighter 1,164]

Don't you mean capable, but not willing?

[jo54 255]

cracking pics

[Carraghs Gem 1,675]

Nope, she was keen on fox but she just couldnt handle the larger foxes, ended up running her doubled up...

[moonlighter 1,164]

How big was she? If she was mainly greyhound, she must be greyhound size. How come she couldn't handle a large fox?