Are Greyhounds Really That Fragile?

[mad4it 695]

 

 

 

there nothing wrong with greyhounds as already been said people base their opinions on ex track dogs but I my eyes they can be just as good, give me a greyhound any day

What dog do you run....a greyhound?

 

I run a first x collie x greyhound but I used to ran two pure greyhounds up until two years ago one was pts at 12 and the other is in retryment

 

did you run them on arable fields mate or mostly grass?

 

mostly grass some time arable

[leethedog 3,071]

A mate of mine has a greyhound dog on at the moment he is anything but fragile bounced off the quad flat out and shook it off

Edited November 5, 2015 by leethedog

[keepitcovert 842]

You hear it all the time people say the same about whippets, fact is the greyhound is the main building block in lurcher production, neither the grey or the whippet are as fragile as some would have you believe, as said the speed of them and the high prey drive can cost them dearly. As for working a pure grey it would not be my choice, a lurcher is a more versatile canine. YIS KIC.

[Dame92 387]

I bet the people who say they're fragile have never owned one

[shaaark 10,975]

You hear it all the time people say the same about whippets, fact is the greyhound is the main building block in lurcher production, neither the grey or the whippet are as fragile as some would have you believe, as said the speed of them and the high prey drive can cost them dearly. As for working a pure grey it would not be my choice, a lurcher is a more versatile canine. YIS KIC.

Speed, as you say 'can' be their undoing, but that could be said about most lurchers, especially the ones that don't learn how to use their speed, either through their own lack of intelligence, or are given limited opportunities to enable them to learn. And I've seen more than one or two nicely built greyhound bitches that were far more versatile than many lurchers. And I agree with you about the 'myth that greyhounds, and especially whippets, being fragile

[peterbirdman1 206]

A good friend of mine in the late eighties ran a small greyhound bitch that he reared as you would a lurcher.That

bitch was one of the best on the lamp that I had seen run and not to bad in the day time as well. I do believe if reared right they can be good

[Lenmcharristar 9,971]

Even a slower greyhound is gona be faster than most lurchers, they're pace is tremendous

[jukel123 9,045]

I've seen greyhounds break legs, hocks and wrists just running on sand at tracks. It just seems wrong to me to run them on rough ground that you would expect a lurcher to handle.

Flat fields yes, but rough and tumble stuff should be left to dogs with heavier frames in my opinion.

Whippets don't carry the weight of greyhounds so, again in my opinion, get away with knocks easier.

[johnny boy68 11,726]

All these people saying that greyhounds are this and that, yet they run lurchers....that says it all to me.

[Somewhereyournot 1,117]

Wouldn't take a greyhound on myself, had a lurcher turn out like a greyhound more or less , had all the right schooling you could give a dog where I live, too tunnel visioned, injury prone and just to big n heavy to stop. Prefer a lurcher everytime.

[dogmad riley 1,348]

Alright people, Why does everybody make out that greys are so fragile, feck me they're not made of glass, surely there's bound to be good solid stock out there, and as for lacking wind, where does that come from? They're the top running dog and ain't gona be bettered for speed.

One of the best dogs iv seen was a pure greyhound did it's job very well. I think there down fall is very high prey drive with lightening quick speed a recipe for disaster.

[Lenmcharristar 9,971]

Granted the flat out speed into objects ain't gona end well, but put it like this, if your grey gets straight lined then you can go home knowing that prey animal was just too fast, if your lurcher gets straight lined you'd be thinking I wish that dog was faster lol

[dogmad riley 1,348]

A mate of mine has a greyhound dog on at the moment he is anything but fragile bounced off the quad flat out and shook it off

Funny you say that the one I used to go out with got hit by a 4x4 while after a hare, rolled over and got straight back up and just carried on after the hare as if nowt happened ??. The hare lived to see another day.

[Somewhereyournot 1,117]

theres a saying..

..believe it when I see it lol

[shaaark 10,975]

At the end of the day, aaah f**k it, it's night!