Greyhound Workers

[bonehead 92]

I know there are few lads work ped whippets for ferreting and lamping dogs etc but any lads work pure greyhounds I have only seen two pure breed ones work and that was years ago and to be honest found them very average maybe due to the Terran they were working but found both to be kind of blind to wire fencing maybe you guys with more experience be able tell me diffrent regarding how good they work just interested in others views on there ability as a good all round worker

[Bosun11 537]

I've known of a few decent greyhounds in the field but not seen nothing i'd own.

Seen a few ex racers meet their end by lads who thought they could run em like a lurcher but if they are raised like a lurcher it should greaten the survival rate!

[Wild-Bill 500]

Agreed bosun... I think you'd have to run the right terrain, with little or no fences, most places I go is full of that single babe wire and its a nightmare... Can't see a pure greyhound lasting long round here.. I can understand why lads who get them for breeding and like test them do so though, just finding the right land for them..

[Omanyra 2,518]

Been out with a few guys over the decades with pure greyhounds, micey on foxes..Ive had more rabbits in one night with deerhounds than Ive seen anyone lamping with greyhounds..

[darbo 4,774]

Seen the odd one over the years. This one my mates dads dog did go out regular but just as a one for the pot type dog run on the local flapping track and roamed the streets like any other dog times were very different then.

 

 

Edited October 13, 2015 by darbo

[dai dogs 1,404]

As an all round worker the greyhound is not suitable iv had a few Greyhounds over the years and have one at the moment

One comes to mind she was found not to far from a gypsy camp and was offered to me i named her Boogie b*****d 24"tts

She could jump, Retrieve and catch as good as any Lurcher or Longdog but lacked in stamina also very injury prone to her feet

10 rabbits or 3 hares and the night would be over for her

We would put a coat in the hedge near a gate tie her lead to the hedge and she would sleep there until we picked her up after we had finished the night off.

[Bosun11 537]

Darbo you've just reminded me of something i'd almost forgotten!

My dad and his family were evacuies in Ludlow during the war and lived on a farm. He told us of the greyhound that came back with them to live in the city when the family returned. It lived here as it lived there and roamed free but it was killed soon after.

I asked him what they used it for in Ludlow an he gave me a daft look and said they used it for rabbits an hares. I asked was it a lurcher and maybe they called it a greyhound but he said no, it was a pure bred and many people used em back then, lurchers were gypsy dogs.

It was my dad that got me my first 'lurcher', it was a whippet/ greyhound and he never took me hunting but rather got me the dog and took me to work, on sundays with him, where i could roam the fields and do as i pleased.

[darbo 4,774]

Darbo you've just reminded me of something i'd almost forgotten!

My dad and his family were evacuies in Ludlow during the war and lived on a farm. He told us of the greyhound that came back with them to live in the city when the family returned. It lived here as it lived there and roamed free but it was killed soon after.

I asked him what they used it for in Ludlow an he gave me a daft look and said they used it for rabbits an hares. I asked was it a lurcher and maybe they called it a greyhound but he said no, it was a pure bred and many people used em back then, lurchers were gypsy dogs.

It was my dad that got me my first 'lurcher', it was a whippet/ greyhound and he never took me hunting but rather got me the dog and took me to work, on sundays with him, where i could roam the fields and do as i pleased.

Nice tale bosun The one in the pic did knock over hares and took rabbits used to see them hanging up in the shed it just was treated like any old mutt was back then.

[FUJI 17,199]

I've seen a pure greyhound catch a few bunnies on the lamp,to say it was a bit like being on a helter skelter watching her would be an understatement,the bitch showed little regard for fences,gates,ditches or hedges every rabbit caught seen the bitch on her back after throwing herself at her bunny often ending up in the hedge bottom or tangled in the wire ,I can't actually recall if she made old bones or not? I had a Grey off Maxhardcore and I lamped him,he didn't look at sheep,caught a good few hares with him I did,he retrieved like a gundog he was the complete opposite of the bit h I've mentioned,he was so layed back,ran just like a lurcher,tight behind his quarry infact he was bloody fantastic to watch running.. I always thought had he been brought up from a pup like a lurcher I reckon he'd of been half handy..my advice would be don't get to attached to one if you are gonna work it regularly not unless you rear it from a pup and educate it the dangers that are out there!!

[nans pat 2,575]

ide 1 early 80s worked round holes a smasher at foxs,very laid back about the house but a wicked cxxt when it started,

[green lurchers 16,592]

had a grey bitch many years back bred off fearless action only used her for lamping, steady bitch went on command and worked her offlead never had an injury and terminated plenty of foxes pre ban never a problem with other dogs/ terriers / good bitch for the job I got her for

[bob84 189]

My dad had one for racing that never the grade but he wouldn't let me try her lamping he said I would kill itself he had it put to sleep if u brought them up like s lurcher u could have something handy

[dai dogs 1,404]

2 Others i had many years ago a big black bitch that i payed £15 for... A days wages lol

The other was a fawn track bitch she was very pleasing to the eye that id seen a old chap walking that was big into racing

I kept on to this old chap so much one day he knocked my door offered me the bitch saying that shes now retired he had payed thousands for her as a young bitch

Well one day i slipped the 2 on something at that time was legal the black bitch put so much into it she collapsed exhausted.. The fawn bitch got a bite on the nose and ran away.

Never to be seen again..

[keepitcovert 842]

Never seen one that could match a lurcher in the field, most have a suicidal prey drive that usually ends in grief. best used as the main building block in lurcher production IMO some may disagree.

Edited October 13, 2015 by keepitcovert

[bird 9,868]

ide 1 early 80s worked round holes a smasher at foxs,very laid back about the house but a wicked cxxt when it started,

i worked at a racing kennel for 4 months, and have seen what greyhounds can do when they get wound up,they are very strong dogs with hell of a bite on them. your right they smash foxes no prob, when there in the chase mode they wont hold back on any quarry., you just dont get speed from a greyhound, you get very good prey drive as well my dog buck 1x gsdxgrey his sire razzmatazz big strong 29in distance greyhound, as deff put strenght and great prey drive in his pups ,buck got very good stamina good pace and full on when hunting,well bred greyhound alot to offer,but like been said it could be there down fall if worked in pure form not many will make old bones.