Feral lurcher.

[jukel123 8,033]

Are there any documented accounts of lurchers living wild? Lots of lurchers get lost when working and they are certainly capable of fending for themselves. Any stories evidence?

Edited January 16, 2022 by jukel123

[forest of dean redneck 11,599]

Knew I’d seen it before 

 

 

there you go

[Aussie Whip 4,099]

I saw a greyhound on the side of the highway in bushland south of Sydney around ten years ago. I pulled up around 100m past and walked back to see if I could catch the dog before it got hit. As I got closer I noticed the dog was a mass of huge black scars from untreated rips. It turned to me and started growling and another dog joined it, a huge hairy stag/ wolfhound type also scarred up and both skinny as. I made a quick retreat back to the car and drove off. These dogs had been living feral for years probably and they were looking at me as lunch, lol. They probably survived off roos and maybe pigs judging by the injuries on them. You could tell they weren't recently lost hunting dogs.

[poxon 5,734]

I don’t think I’m modern times a dog living wild would last long without it being noticed it living wild it’d either die of starvation or be killed on the road or shot an rolled in to a ditch. It does sound romantic though but the reason Lurchers catching well is because we put them in the right positions to get them catches

[Tyla 3,179]

6 hours ago, poxon said:

I don’t think I’m modern times a dog living wild would last long without it being noticed it living wild it’d either die of starvation or be killed on the road or shot an rolled in to a ditch. It does sound romantic though but the reason Lurchers catching well is because we put them in the right positions to get them catches

I reckon that would depend where. You might be right here but there's plenty of dogs living wild in other places

[Budgiesmuggler 195]

There was a new species of dingo found a while ago, some highland singing dog or something. There'ss a clip of one dog chasing down a boar

[Bosun11 537]

Recon the thing i own now, could/would live feral if given the chance...

[Black neck 15,964]

2 minutes ago, Bosun11 said:

Recon the thing i own now, could/would live feral if given the chance...

Mine are constantly showing me they don't need me for ote

[dogmandont 9,825]

Mentioned on here before about a lurcher bitch rearing a couple of pups till they were bigger than herself, she had been living feral for a good while with no free handouts, me and a mate tried getting close to them a few times but they were having none of it, all ended up dead after taking a liking for mutton. 

[Robbusher 1,563]

 Few years ago When we used to go ratting round perimeter fence of a big landfill site in Leeds there was a black lurcher that was there for a good few weeks couldn’t get within couple hundred yards of it and it was off in opposite direction to you then it just disappeared   so probably got a lead injection as there’s a small shoot not far away and it’s a big no no going anywhere near it with dogs of any type 

[dytkos 17,793]

Went to Turkey on hols 20 years back, loads of the fuckers, farmers shot them on sight..

 Cheers, D.

[eastcoast 4,131]

A romantic idea but I would think the thing that would drive a dog most in that type of situation would be to seek out people, as has happened, unless it has experienced things that made it want to avoid people and then I imagine, depending where it was, it would be shot before developing skills to fend for itself in the wild even it were capable. In the UK anyway.

[Penda 3,341]

My dogs would be sweet if they ever went feral bin bags would be the menu of the day 

[terryd 8,423]

No lurcher in the uk is going to live off rabbits that is for sure. Bins hand outs and sheep will be the order of the day and an early end unless it gets taken in

[chartpolski 23,565]

The litter brother to my old bitch Delta got loose and lived wild for around six weeks before my mate managed to catch it. It was living in a woods, haven't got a clue what it lived on.

A local Miniature Snauzer got out one bonfire night and lived wild near my Allotments for around three months. I saw it many times, but only managed to catch it when it was trying to run in deep snow. Poor f****r was just about finished but I got it back to its owner and it made a full recovery.

Cheers.