Just A Bit Of Confirmation Needed

[Andrew24 5]

can anyone tell me exactly what is the difference between a sight hound, long dog, lurcher? ive always been told that any dog crossed with a sighthound is a lurcher?

[slip lead 862]

sight hounds×sight hound make a long dog,

[peng 136]

Longdog = sighthound crosses mixed

Lurcher = sighthound x herder/terrier/pastoral/working breed

Sighthound = purebreed/greyhound/whippet/saluki/deerhound/borzoi ect...

[MR RABBIT 715]

diffrent breeds of sighthound ..crossed = longdong

 

exsample whippet x greyhound

Edited December 17, 2014 by MR RABBIT

[krawnden 1,036]

Sighthounds are dogs that hunt by sight - greyhound, whippet, saluki, deerhound, wolfhound, borzoi, sloughi, pharoah hound, Ibizan hound etc

 

The term longdog and lurcher just refer to a sighthound type rather than a pure bred. Ted Walsh always maintained that a longdog was the result of crossing one breed of pure sighthound with a different one, ie greyhound x whippet, and that a lurcher was a pure sighthound crossed with another breed ie bedlington x whippet, collie x greyhound etc. But you'd also get a lurcher from a lurcher to lurcher, lurcher to longdog or lurcher to sighthound mating. I wouldn't get too hung up about it if I were you - it's nothing more than a name.