What A Laugh Dog Prices

[dodger 2,754]

Sounds like a handy little dog mr rabbit do you use her for the odd retrieve aswell as rabbits ; )

[Thrush 181]

 

Buying in a dog will always have its place and rightly so. I've bought grown dogs on in the past and they have worked out well for me but they aint the same as sommat i've reared and they almost all have left my hands a better animal BUT as well placed givaways. I've often looked back and wished i was in the market for one of my old dogs...

No if's but's or maybe's but the rise of the Saluki and the coursing boom pushed Lurcher prices ever skyward. Suddenly in the late 80's, people could get their hands on dogs that could kill the then almost mythical 3/3. Surplus pups from capable dogs were going for hundreds of pounds and mostly from those who both had a pocket full of surplus cash and would later use it to wager on their new specialist desert dog!

Ok, there were one or two others that charged a premium, Minshaw sold one or two for big money (then) and Hancock has never been cheap but it was always expected from a commercial breeder and with his book writing partner on promotion, his prices were never really in question.

The ad's changed too. The abreviation HJCKK and others, were once all you needed to know but when the 3/3 and the like came in it read like you couldn't miss and they became a 'must have'.

I'll never agree that hundreds of pounds should be paid out for a working lurcher.

Some of the best dogs have come out of rock bottom prices and the effort of the buyer.

To me the most interesting part of CMW or EDRD is the classifieds and then i'm always lookin for bargin basement. Same to with your Preloved and PFH, i always bang the filters on and look for stuff under £100, it's there that the most interesting lurchers lay, it's there that the fun and challenge of a lurcher really is and it's there where the most satisfaction can be gained.

I firmly believe that Lurchers are a working mans dog and the type of hunting i do is also born of the working man. And this working man could never justify, to himself and for his family, paying hundreds of pounds for any dog and if i'm honest it ain't there to spend anyway!

. BINGO.

Personally having bought pups in the past for 200+ that haven't made the grade for one reason or another and after bringing it on for 12 to 18 mths your back to the beginning and hunting for another 200 quid pup, I would have no problem paying 500 for a guaranteed dog that I had seen working before the purchase and was everything I required in a dog!

Let's not forget that as already stated pups range from 150 to 250 each from well bred stock unless your lucky enough to be gifted one from a friend or something, then the dog will need to be jabbed then reared properly I.e fed properly, stock broken, taught to jump, socialised, etc. Many hours/months are spent making a dog a complete animal so why then if the seller owns such a beast should he sell for the price of a pup?

I agree it's a lot of money and for me to spend that would cause many arguments with her indoors, but I feel it's reasonable when you consider the price of a well bred gundog pup would be 6 to 7 hundred quid!

To me its well justified when you look at the bigger picture but is just my opinion. Atb thrush.

[Ross M 149]

I brought ready made dogs, Iv raised failers..... The bond you get with something you carry in your arms at 8 weeks old money can't buy that and that anit me being a f a n n y it's the truth,

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

I brought ready made dogs, Iv raised failers..... The bond you get with something you carry in your arms at 8 weeks old money can't buy that and that anit me being a f a n n y it's the truth,

Top man ??

 

You're still a Fanny though ?

[Ross M 149]

Gas I'll let you off with your michelan style meals you prepare yours ffs lol

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

Gas I'll let you off with your michelan style meals you prepare yours ffs lol

Is that Michelin star food in Scotland? Chicken, broccoli and pasta?

 

Jesus, you should travel. Lol

[Ross M 149]

To the bins at asda

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

To the bins at asda

???

[francolin 449]

I would question how a good genuine dog ever got advertised ,surely it should be very rare that all other options are not available to some one needing to rehome a decent worker,with no hiden faults .

[MIK 4,756]

Feck offthen....bag chasers my prick of lurcher wouldn't chase a bag if her life depended on it...yet her father was a bag chaser....but so was marks kat....where is MARK..km he hiding again...sick of chasing that cornish pie

I think you and mark brick would get on you seem very similar.....

[davemu 52]

that's you told mr rabbit haha

[MR RABBIT 715]

Lol I know...what will we do today davemu.. Lol

[hare_n_hounds 157]

I'd have no problem paying 500/600 for lurched doing the job. All rearing training etc done for you. Been looking at parsons though and 400/500 pup is a bot steep. Some pups are way over priced I think

[Calli 93]

few here tried introducing the fancy english prices 4,n5 hundred a pup werent long getting sickened.

Kind of like that though. Make sure they are serious.

[tinytiger 826]

Ive payed good money for pups out of "proven" parents and at the end of the day why should a man put all the hard work into HIS dog/s over many seasons making them what they are to then breed a pup for himself and sell the surplus for next to nowt? I wont do the cheap/freebies no more, when i breed off my dogs if i ever do (Aug 1999) when i last home bred a litter the pups wont be a penny less than £400 each..i aint putting thousands of hours of graft into my dogs to give you c**ts them for fuckall..you go to graft and give me your wages? Didn't think so lol..like everything in life if you want quality you pays your money,yes there will always be exceptions to the rule but in the main you know it makes sense ?

sounds fair enough -seen pictures of the bags you posted -but there's people out there with no concience about selling dirt bred off dirt