Foreign Dogs

[General lee 979]

Just watched the video of the dogs tackling the wolfs and it got me thinking Britain is the home of the lurcher and has always had the best dogs but with the hunting ban and more and more people breeding for money will other country's that are still breeding best to best and running all types of quarry have better dogs in the future than we have here

[desertbred 5,490]

the sighthound side of lurchers are all originally foreign dogs, salukis greyhounds only deerhound wolf hound are indiginous so without the input of sighthounds lurchers would be what ?

Edited November 30, 2014 by desertbred

[forest of dean redneck 11,711]

Why not,everything else that came from Britain,we now suck at,tennis,football etc.

Dogs bred in countries that utilise them still for providing most of their meat intake,or vermin control will surpass most British dogs,with only the few dedicated people who are prepared to test and cull their produce,will have anything to offer similar.

Go and scour the internet for a year,same numbers and locations crop up 2/3 times a year.so how are the dogs working an being tested if their just producing litters.

[socks 32,253]

I don't believe britain always had the best running dogs ... I would say the countries of origin to each breed had and still have the best dogs as they havnt been curtailed by a stupid ban and they have hundereds of years of understanding of their breed ........

[Neal 1,873]

Well said Socks! However, we do have a knack of realising the potential (and then realizing the potential) of different foreign breeds. We have a particularly British way of blending them together too.

[shaaark 10,907]

I don't believe britain always had the best running dogs ... I would say the countries of origin to each breed had and still have the best dogs as they havnt been curtailed by a stupid ban and they have hundereds of years of understanding of their breed ........

Socks, a little off topic, sort of, but do your parents still have that sloughi, and how is he shaping up? was a very nice pup that

[General lee 979]

I was just looking for that have they took it off?

[socks 32,253]

 

I don't believe britain always had the best running dogs ... I would say the countries of origin to each breed had and still have the best dogs as they havnt been curtailed by a stupid ban and they have hundereds of years of understanding of their breed ........

 

Socks, a little off topic, sort of, but do your parents still have that sloughi, and how is he shaping up? was a very nice pup that

He is coming on nicely mate ... He is just over a year old and 29 inches and 70lbs ... He is a f****r for cats and kills them for fun ...,he has had a few rabbits but hasn't run anything else yet ... To be honest he has only just started to run properly and not like a gangly young giraffe .....

 

[mushroom 13,228]

Handsome dog that is sockypoos

[shaaark 10,907]

 

 

I don't believe britain always had the best running dogs ... I would say the countries of origin to each breed had and still have the best dogs as they havnt been curtailed by a stupid ban and they have hundereds of years of understanding of their breed ........

Socks, a little off topic, sort of, but do your parents still have that sloughi, and how is he shaping up? was a very nice pup that

He is coming on nicely mate ... He is just over a year old and 29 inches and 70lbs ... He is a f****r for cats and kills them for fun ...,he has had a few rabbits but hasn't run anything else yet ... To be honest he has only just started to run properly and not like a gangly young giraffe .....

 

 

Cracker

[Its_grim_up_norf 577]

Bloody foreign dogs,coming over here, taking all our quarry. Ukip will sort em out.

 

Smashing dog that socks. Be good on big land.

Edited November 30, 2014 by Its_grim_up_norf

[Brigzy 1,298]

Just watched the video of the dogs tackling the wolfs and it got me thinking Britain is the home of the lurcher and has always had the best dogs but with the hunting ban and more and more people breeding for money will other country's that are still breeding best to best and running all types of quarry have better dogs in the future than we have here

I think there will be people around the world, Australia, USA, Middle East, Russia, Spain, etc, who may not agree with your assertion that Britain has allways had the best dogs.

[morton 5,368]

There are far more countries than Britain that have bred and adapted jukels to cover their hunting lifestyles,some of which are possibly a better reflection of the originals that were bred here i.e.,the Deerhoundy and Staghoundy mutts that originated here and lost their purpose decades ago.

[mushroom 13,228]

Most of them countries have their own breeds yet still add British blood by mating or using a Brit dog in the pack

 

Stand to be corrected here but ain't most of the Ozzie blood descended from imported british dogs?

[morton 5,368]

Most of them countries have their own breeds yet still add British blood by mating or using a Brit dog in the pack

 

Stand to be corrected here but ain't most of the Ozzie blood descended from imported british dogs?

There will be few hunting dogs throughout the world that cannot trace common ancestory to Britain,some yet few?. Edited November 30, 2014 by morton