Lurcher Feeding In The Past

[grompz 703]

years ago lurchers and lurchermen like the old time warreners, caught hundreds of rabbits day night,to make a meagre living,the dogs were worked hard and treated as true working animals.and basically ate what they caught and were fed scraps,why is it nowadays that every body advocates feeding high protein dry,every supplement going,and alot of dogs willnever see or work enough rabbitsto justify this type of feeding,the old lurchermen never had the money or acess to this type of feed, so how did these dogs do the work they did

[mushroom 12,961]

If I was in a position right now like I used to be in, where the dogs and fezzers ate everything they caught I would

 

Not long now.

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

Years ago my grandad ate tripe with vinegar on and handled asbestos daily.

 

Times change, medical advances, technological advances. We move with the times ?

[mushroom 12,961]

Bloody tripe with vinegar my old did too. He used to give it to me, feckin rank lol

[jeemes 4,484]

Tripe with vinegar on is good pure food,and a lot healthier than processed crap full of e numbers..Its a delicousy like pigs trotters. People today are lazy and mostly feed there dogs processed shit from a bag thats usually been recommended by some bent vet. Id rather feed rabbit guts..

[mushroom 12,961]

I feed and eat tripe myself but with vinegar lol no thanks only things that go with vinegar are chips, salad and cockles lol

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

Tripe with vinegar on is good pure food,and a lot healthier than processed crap full of e numbers..Its a delicousy like pigs trotters. People today are lazy and mostly feed there dogs processed shit from a bag thats usually been recommended by some bent vet. Id rather feed rabbit guts..

Lol

[the big chief 3,099]

Tripe with vinegar on is good pure food,and a lot healthier than processed crap full of e numbers..Its a delicousy like pigs trotters. People today are lazy and mostly feed there dogs processed shit from a bag thats usually been recommended by some bent vet. Id rather feed rabbit guts..

nowt wrong with those e's knocked a few shapes out on those lol oh shit wrong e's

[Saluki246 1,053]

 

years ago lurchers and lurchermen like the old time warreners, caught hundreds of rabbits day night,to make a meagre living,the dogs were worked hard and treated as true working animals.and basically ate what they caught and were fed scraps,why is it nowadays that every body advocates feeding high protein dry,every supplement going,and alot of dogs willnever see or work enough rabbitsto justify this type of feeding,the old lurchermen never had the money or acess to this type of feed, so how did these dogs do the work they did

A lot of dogs died early then too....however, i think rabbit is a great part, of a lurchers diet..

[neil cooney 10,416]

Year ago no-one was putting 50 + rabbits in front of their dogs or 7 or 8 foxes a day/night or expecting them to kill 7 out of 8, only messing on the last one but there wasn't massive egos and it was about the hunt with 2 dogs on 1 hare.

Also IMO the most common cross years ago was the collie cross and back then the collie was an unbelievable dog in that it usually lived of table scraps and little else but could do a harder days work than most other breeds.

Dogs today probably never had it so good but they're not the hardy SOBs they used to be.

[nans pat 2,575]

yrs ago ours was let out on tuesday when the bins went out ,

[jeemes 4,484]

we used to feed ours on chappie or breast of lamb which was almost nothing to buy.

[Hands of Stone 154]

knowledge improves over time. Don't get me wrong, i still feed loads of flesh n tripe to my dogs, but look at how boxers/athletes train and eat now compared with only 20-30 years ago and theres a big difference

[BGD 6,436]

My granda used to feed his matchdogs on brown toast dripping and whatever scraps were left on any carcasses he had been butchering. Seemed to work for him but how much better would his dogs of been on a decent diet?

 

Times change and our understanding of diet and nutrition have improved vastly, you'd be mad not to take advantage of it.

[Fly The Boy 339]

Feed some dry and they get plenty of rabbits plus scraps, only feed rabbit for 7 months, bollox have to freeze them for 3 weeks for the dogs,have my own freezer for rabbits,but wife still hates it,there still their ha ha,and the freezer will stay in spare room, working dogs and ferrets need meat to keep strong.