If Deerhounds Aren't What They Were

[No eye deer 22]

What have they lost? You here that they are a dead breed and have been spoiled by show breeding.

[kranky 507]

That's not true. Hardly anyone with an opinion has seen them or their crosses work. People who've seen them work or work them, know that they're still capable.

[No eye deer 22]

I'm not knocking them mate, I'm really interest in this x.

[kranky 507]

Speed, chilled out, speed, intelligence, speed, stamina, speed, able to run any land, speed.

 

 

Did I mention the fact that they're fast?

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

the only proper one ive seen work was a pure deerhound called fagan it was a big fast fecker of a dog and was awsome on deer of all kinds on the estate he had as many as me some weeks but he also had a thing for mutton on the hoof! he was the head keepers dog and in the end up he paid the price for it after killing 2 ewes. but when on the ball he was awsome!

[DeerhoundLurcherMan 997]

Agree with kranky, but if you get one now don't expect it to be working well till 2015/16 season.

[johnny boy68 11,726]

A good deerhound or deerhound x is definatley a "old school" type, no good for some lads who want a dog today, run it tomorrow brigade. Once they've found there legs so to speak feck me they can run and I imagine in the right hands they were/are a sight to behold.

[DeerhoundLurcherMan 997]

 

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

I'm not expecting to start my bitch before season 2013 - she will be 14 months this time next year.

 

And then I aren't expecting anything great until the season after.

 

From what I've heard the deerhound types need time to mature but when they do they can be fantastic dogs.

[forest of dean redneck 11,550]

There was a gypsy fella at weston super mare that kept and bred deerhound x ,I had one in about 2003/4 that was about 30inch high but had a straight level back that was about 3 ft long,

Stunning looking bitch,she was pet only,not fast but long stride on her.

Rehomed her as missus asthma was aggravated by her coat.

[No eye deer 22]

Will they take the hammer there were originally breed for

[kranky 507]

Will they take the hammer there were originally breed for

I should imagine they would.

[beast 1,884]

my old Mum had a pure deerhound whelped early 90s, we used to take it out with us. from kc reg stuff, wish i could remember what lines, i will have to se if there are any of its papers still here. the thing was pretty quick and very driven, but that was about all. dumb, clumsy, dumb, unco-ordinated, dumb and very annoying. and not really very tough as you might hope, feet were only average and the gangly build of the thing meant she was always pulling or tweaking something.

i know there are some working deerhounds still about if you can find one (platts, doxhope) and i think they could certainly bring some good qualities but i think that like so many of our other once-proud breeds stay away from the kc stuff, personally i'd rather run a greyhound.

[Ausnick 190]

I was talking to an old fella that has been hunting with deerhounds his whole life (86 years).

 

He said back in the day you would pick any pup out of a litter and you would have a dog that would catch and kill any emu and roo it could, 7 days a week. But now the problem is only a very small percentage turn out good hunters, and you'd take them out 7 days a week but the dog won't hunt for one or two of those days. So he's pretty much saying they're no longer consistent.

[bird 9,872]

I was talking to an old fella that has been hunting with deerhounds his whole life (86 years).

 

He said back in the day you would pick any pup out of a litter and you would have a dog that would catch and kill any emu and roo it could, 7 days a week. But now the problem is only a very small percentage turn out good hunters, and you'd take them out 7 days a week but the dog won't hunt for one or two of those days. So he's pretty much saying they're no longer consistent.

 

prob thats why the stags in your country + USA have the other breeds in the mix in the 1st place to make good hunting dogs, as in pure form they would be no good, for the above reason. A drop of grey and bull line bred , would make deerhound , like the deehound of old which is the stag type dog of today, when you see old pics and what they could do back then. same as the i/w/h which was only as big as todays deerhound, not like the donkeys they breed today