Old Lurcher Photo Colouring

[mackem 26,829]

On 10/01/2025 at 07:37, comanche said:

From the old carvings it looks like they acted a bit like modern personal  protection dogs . Imagine trying to take-on this chap as he advanced toward you!

Assyrian war hounds,there's a restaurant i visit now and again that's got mesopotamian battle scenes all around the walls,including mastiff type hounds.

[Goly 536]

9 minutes ago, mC HULL said:

no the staffy only ever struggled with a ridgeback it didn’t really have much hassle off akitas 

Must have been wank akitas mate, he had a few run ins with staffs but he generally wasn't that bad with smaller dogs. One of my half cousins staffs was one of the very few dogs he got along with, big white Irish staff called Homer, it was as soft as a brush.

Edited January 12 by Goly

[Goly 536]

He caught game every now and then when out hunting, can remember spotting a hare sat up in a ditch and told me dad to send the akita in while I wait at the other side with my lurcher on the slip, he sent him in but instead of a bolted hare it was a squealing hare, caught the c**t. Lol

We used to sometimes lose him if he put up a squirrel up in the woods, he'd go bounding after em and wouldn't come back, had a great nack of finding em, his recall worse than a saluki. Lol

Edited January 12 by Goly

[mC HULL 12,908]

17 minutes ago, Goly said:

He caught game every now and then when out hunting, can remember spotting a hare sat up in a ditch and told me dad to send the akita in while I wait at the other side with my lurcher on the slip, he sent him in but instead of a bolted hare it was a squealing hare, caught the c**t. Lol

We used to sometimes lose him if he put up a squirrel up in the woods, he'd go bounding after em and wouldn't come back, had a great nack of finding em, his recall worse than a saluki. Lol

lol

[tatsblisters 9,949]

On 10/01/2025 at 12:37, comanche said:

From the old carvings it looks like they acted a bit like modern personal  protection dogs . Imagine trying to take-on this chap as he advanced toward you!

I have a book somewhere about the  War Dog training schools in WW1 .

Apparently lots of people donated their pets to the Army, either because of food shortages or through patriotism. 

A high percentage of these donated pets proved unsuitable during the six  weeks of training  and were unceremoniously shot .   

Some of the  lucky ones were enlisted to guard military camps . Others  went to the front with duties such as search and rescue , carrying medical and other kit , giving   early warning of enemy movements  , carrying   messages or laying field phone lines from cable reels strapped   to their backs .

Interestingly it seems dogs captured from the enemy could be persuaded to change sides and work for their captors.

Spaniels ,collies, lurchers and especially airdales were particularly  suitable apparently. 

I remember the old man telling me that the German shepherd dogs they had in the RVC had come from people who could no longer handle that type of dog and the GSD was a very popular dog in the UK in the 50s. I know he and my mother took a family members GSD that got to much for them to Melton Mowbray a few years after he had done his National service. 

[Black neck 16,022]

The Akita spewed on its very first un but alas the alaunt never done much better  both giants were made 2 look pathetic by a tiny stafford x dog even standing watching and refusing to join there diminutive brother,

[comanche 3,038]

16 hours ago, eastcoast said:

 

Obviously posed  but the last picture is great.

 

[Goly 536]

3 hours ago, Black neck said:

The Akita spewed on its very first un but alas the alaunt never done much better  both giants were made 2 look pathetic by a tiny stafford x dog even standing watching and refusing to join there diminutive brother,

Vampire?

[Black neck 16,022]

1 hour ago, Goly said:

Vampire?

Celt

[Goly 536]

8 minutes ago, Black neck said:

Celt

Canaan.

[Black neck 16,022]

53 minutes ago, Goly said:

Canaan.

Champion