When Is A Lurcher Not A Lurcher

[Tozer 385]

 

 

Lol ffs :laugh:

 

http://whoodlepuppies.co.uk

 

To answer it's not a lurcher when it's a whoodle

you put your deposit down mush?

 

I have I've ordered three so that I can see which abusive methods work the best I really want to try a new technique out, it involves firing a nail through it's paws into the floor and kicking it in the face until it passes out from screaming

 

 

 

OK that made me laugh

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well they used to say sight hound to sight hound not a lurcher, but as long as it can catch something day or night does it matter lol

thats a longdog

 

true, but some think anything racy is still a lurcher lol

 

twats

[fluff 409]

a lurcher is a dog to catch game on the run when he cant do that he isnt much a lurcher

[lurchers1981 0]

Thanks - not. l don't have to stay here and be ridiculed, l can be ridiculed anywhere l go !

[Neal 1,869]

Although Fluff's answer may sound simplistic, it ties in with a comment I read in a herding dog book once which claimed that, originally, lurchers were simply crossbreds used to catch (as Fluff says) "game on the run." The author felt these were more likely to be collie crosses as they were easier to come by and the other half would be dictated by what else was available and the quarry and ground you were working on. As a result, some would be collie x greyhound whereas others might be collie x terrier or collie x gundog. Then, as time went by, the former became the more popular and the collie was swapped for other breeds.

 

I know it sounds like the complete opposite of what we're all lead to believe but it does kind of make sense.

 

Incidentally, I currently have three lurchers all of which are kelpie x kelpie.

[shaaark 10,831]

Although Fluff's answer may sound simplistic, it ties in with a comment I read in a herding dog book once which claimed that, originally, lurchers were simply crossbreds used to catch (as Fluff says) "game on the run." The author felt these were more likely to be collie crosses as they were easier to come by and the other half would be dictated by what else was available and the quarry and ground you were working on. As a result, some would be collie x greyhound whereas others might be collie x terrier or collie x gundog. Then, as time went by, the former became the more popular and the collie was swapped for other breeds.

 

I know it sounds like the complete opposite of what we're all lead to believe but it does kind of make sense.

 

Incidentally, I currently have three lurchers all of which are kelpie x kelpie.

yeah, I think it's only fairly recently, less than 100 years, that lurchers have been classified as such, as predominantly collie/herding dog x's. As you say, anything that could hunt and catch would've been used. I like some of the less sighthoundy types and reverse 3/4 breds etc, but where we work ours you need a dog with plenty of pace, and I don't mean to be contentious, but even some 1/2 x collie greyhounds wouldn't catch too much on some of the land we run ours on, but like I say, I do like some less sighthoundy types