Scottish deerhound or English deerhound

[Black neck 15,875]

16 minutes ago, jeemes said:

Bang at what? dressing up and making vids?

Well jel

[jeemes 4,479]

4 minutes ago, Black neck said:

Well jel

They are Swell's alright

[Black neck 15,875]

17 minutes ago, jeemes said:

They are Swell's alright

Unfortunately mate these deerhound enthusiasts around the world find it hard 2 accept that a lad from Coalville has produced something superior, through years of dedication, and tbh all the crabbing is mere jealousy 

[low plains drifter 10,372]

11 hours ago, Penda said:

I can recreate the English deerhound in a mear 18month or just over 

You'd likely burn the soles off your brown leather slip ons canvassing in that time

[low plains drifter 10,372]

55 minutes ago, Black neck said:

The man refused u access 2 his breeding books and now your all pissed off about it and mekkin out you didn't want it anyway, I know this 2 be true as Aussie Whip told me one night when he'd had 1 too many tinnies

Strike me flamin roan

[eastcoast 4,115]

8 hours ago, Aussie Whip said:

I had the whippets with staghound in them and they had great bush sense, good feet and prey drive. You would be hard pressed to find a staghound over here that is just deerhound/greyhound these days. With pig hunting the big thing over here other breeds such as bull and cattle dog, Dane and mastiff have been added to most staghound lines. If I was looking for the old type I'd go to the wheatbelt in SA where they are still mostly used on fast game. There have been guys crossing the deerhound and grey trying to reproduce the original but you can't replicate that 200 or more years of breeding worker to worker.

That's how types developed and still are being developed to this day for function. I think we get lost at times with a modern development called the Kennel Club were a finite number of animals where judged to be worthy of registration as proper examples of the breed, the gene then pool closed, and forever after bred within the closed gene pool to a breed standard of physical type. Always doomed to failure. 

[Penda 3,341]

59 minutes ago, low plains drifter said:

You'd likely burn the soles off your brown leather slip ons canvassing in that time

Wtf

[shaaark 10,710]

Plenty of deerhound/greyhounds being worked to all sorts, in this country.

Just because someone  on here, don't know that, doesn't mean it ain't happening.

[low plains drifter 10,372]

33 minutes ago, shaaark said:

Plenty of deerhound/greyhounds being worked to all sorts, in this country.

Just because someone  on here, don't know that, doesn't mean it ain't happening.

Hells teeth 

You know?

[DreamsOfRabbits 6]

4 hours ago, Black neck said:

The man refused u access 2 his breeding books and now your all pissed off about it and mekkin out you didn't want it anyway, I know this 2 be true as Aussie Whip told me one night when he'd had 1 too many tinnies

Damn it whip you're giving away our secrets again

[Aussie Whip 4,092]

3 hours ago, eastcoast said:

That's how types developed and still are being developed to this day for function. I think we get lost at times with a modern development called the Kennel Club were a finite number of animals where judged to be worthy of registration as proper examples of the breed, the gene then pool closed, and forever after bred within the closed gene pool to a breed standard of physical type. Always doomed to failure. 

I agree but they are adding other breeds to improve the staghound for pig hunting, slowing it down and making it a bit tougher for the job and losing the speed, temperament and off duty, soft nature the staghound is known for. They should never recognize the staghound as a pure bred, just keep them all hound and keep working them.

[Aussie Whip 4,092]

The Oz staghounds to me have a sort of feral wildness to them but they are very gentle dogs, much more than most hounds, except the deerhound. They are the Aussie bush dog and can catch anything from rabbits to pigs and have heard of them working cattle and scrub bulls. It would be a shame if they lost the essence of what they are.

[Black neck 15,875]

3 hours ago, DreamsOfRabbits said:

Damn it whip you're giving away our secrets again

Is that you nev

[jukel123 7,957]

Has anybody ever spoken to Dave Platt?  Or should I say listened to Dave Platt? its an education....of sorts.

[lurchers 2,763]

29 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

Has anybody ever spoken to Dave Platt?  Or should I say listened to Dave Platt? its an education....of sorts.

I know slacky sold him a dog called Saxon which wouldn’t pick up and had loads thrown at him.Dave made it out to be one of the best he had so that would put me off talking to him.And this dog could run and looked the part but couldn’t do it.