A Question About Lurcher Breeding

[ghostie 76]

Just something I was thinking about earlier that interested me... if you wanted a 'working lurcher' would you only get a pup bred from working parents? Or would you buy from a pet home ( bred from parents that have never worked) and get a puppy to train as a worker.

 

Would people buy a pup even though only one (or even neither) parent was a worker? Would a good temperament and the fact that parents were a nice stamp of dog be enough for you to get the pup?

 

Sorry if I haven't explained very well, can't word it how I want!

[jamesmc 582]

i would stick to working parents,but thats just me....lol,plenty of good dogs have came from non working parents ....atb....

[J.DOG 1,355]

I wouldn't buy a pup from non working stock.

[woz 260]

It's not that simple.......its if both parents carry and pass on the worker gene...that's why people inbreed dogs...oooops sorry line breed.......this was explained to me the other night by a very knowledgeable fella

[johnny boy68 11,726]

In an ideal world everybody buying a pup would have a pup from working stock and the best stock BUT its not like that so people like Hancock come into the equation, so people do buy off non working parents.

 

[ghostie 76]

I was kind of wondering if there a similarities to horse racing- having worked in racing I know that you can have a fantastic dam and sire, spending hundreds of thousands on a stud fee and the progeny is plain useless! And vice versa. Although of course some of that can be down to who trains the horse and other factors...

 

But I'm sure the same must happen with dogs, cracking working parents and a pup that is a failure..?

 

Just interested to hear your responses and views on this subject

[woz 260]

I was kind of wondering if there a similarities to horse racing- having worked in racing I know that you can have a fantastic dam and sire, spending hundreds of thousands on a stud fee and the progeny is plain useless! And vice versa. Although of course some of that can be down to who trains the horse and other factors...

 

But I'm sure the same must happen with dogs, cracking working parents and a pup that is a failure..?

 

Just interested to hear your responses and views on this subject

 

Spot on....no difference

[General lee 979]

It do happen more than ya think but ya gotta play ya odds and get a pup off the best workers ya can find

[ghostie 76]

It do happen more than ya think but ya gotta play ya odds and get a pup off the best workers ya can find

In an ideal world everybody buying a pup would have a pup from working stock and the best stock BUT its not like that so people like Hancock come into the equation, so people do buy off non working parents.

 

That's true agree with you both, and do people still find lurchers bred by him to train on as well?

Edited January 21, 2013 by ghostie

[LaraCroft 863]

Genes and temperament - One of my best workers was from non working stock, and I have known people pay a huge amount of money for pups from working parents that have been useless. How much of that is genes, and how much is training I don't know, but like you said about horse racing - Saddlers Wells has awesome offspring, Shergar doesn't.

[d lurcher 25]

Working parents is a must with me ya increases your chances but not always the case.Theres only so far ya can train and take a dog then its up to the dog