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as i said on page two the bitch i reared from 8 weeks old and lived to 11 was a good hunting partner and put plenty stuff away but any one who gets a ex track dog and thinks it can do as well as a lur

The use of pastoral dogs to produce lurchers goes back to the times when the common man couldn't own any dog above terrier size unless it was used for herding/droving. Put a rough coat over a longdog

Lurcher owners/breeders are after the "Holy Grail" of the running dog ; a dog with the speed of the Greyhound, the brains of the Collie, the stamina of the Saluki, coat of a Deerhound, the heart of th

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It's about 6 and a half hours in the motor. I had a holiday up in Inverness, on the Black Isle a few years back. I had my dog with me and we wandered all over the forest there and never even saw a rabbit!! I shot a bunny in Morrisons car park with my catapult!! Beautiful country though.

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If I can interject into the jay fest, I'd agree you cant base greys abilities on Waterloo dogs as they were not working dogs but trained/bred to course not catch.As to running into fences/injuries etc Ive had one bull cross kill itself, it was a half cross slow heavy type, one deerhound/grey/ bull break its wrist jumping and one grey wreck itself running through a single strand of wire, the black dog in the pic, along with 3 greys badly injured on the track. The greys was a racer, the bull cross an expericened lamp dog, the DH cross a sapling on exercise. Does this mean a greys run into things and are not suitable to run on a track? Bull crosses run into things so don't make good lamping dogs and DH crosses will all break their wrists? Of course not!Certainly many greys are big heavily muscled dogs that will struggle as workers but a small type with proper upbringing will do a decent enough job, likely no better or worse than many lurchers. My old rabbit bitch is getting on and when she goes I'll be after a medium sized nippy type to replace her as that's the sort that suits what I want where I am. I've got a 3/8 bull so I'll be after a pure rabbit lamper. A whippet might be a choice on dryer ground but would be up to its belly in the mire here so not really suitable but it will be a long dog of some sort and if a small pure grey was available at a sensible price then I'd be happy to buy it, if it did as well as the little bitch I lamped back along it would do just fine.

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