Forum menu
Enough gun dogs, le...
 

[Closed] Enough gun dogs, let's see your........lurchers!

Posts: 488
Free Member
Topic starter
 

other long dogs accepted

that is all

v


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 6:30 pm
Posts: 8396
Full Member
 

Rebel doing what he does best...
[IMG] [/IMG]

With the late, great Fred in the snow...
[IMG] [/IMG]

And on a chilly morning in the woods...
[IMG] [/IMG]


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 6:34 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Kasper - hairy lurcher / terrier / whatever else cross.

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 6:37 pm
Posts: 488
Free Member
Topic starter
 

nice tail!


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 6:38 pm
Posts: 488
Free Member
Topic starter
 

[img] [/img]

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 7:07 pm
Posts: 54
Free Member
 

Stanley the Bedlington - out and about:

[url= http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6046/6226577850_f73c85005f.jp g" target="_blank">http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6046/6226577850_f73c85005f.jp g"/> [/img][/url]

Touch the biscuit tin and immediately you get 'good Stanley':

[url= http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6168/6226055931_1826c49e02.jp g" target="_blank">http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6168/6226055931_1826c49e02.jp g"/> [/img][/url]


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 8:37 pm
Posts: 2
Free Member
 

[img] [/img]

Barney the crap dog. Whippet/Collie cross we think.


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 8:52 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Micks - Greyhound/Saluki cross, only does two things....

[IMG] [/IMG]

[IMG] [/IMG]


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 9:43 pm
Posts: 502
Free Member
 

[img] [/img]

Hetwin looking snooty / snouty.


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 9:54 pm
Posts: 1058
Free Member
 

/hijack/

Lurcher owners, can any of your lurchers run after a mtn bike for 6-8 hours? I would like one, but not sure if 'endurance' is one of the options. Pics above confirm the theory that they only sleep and sprint. Cheers!

/hijack/


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 9:56 pm
Posts: 502
Free Member
 

in her rightful place i.e. the sofa

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 9:57 pm
Posts: 502
Free Member
 

Mowgli - no, but i've never tried that long. she's pretty knackered after an hour...more of a short course xc than enduro type! def sprinters and sleepers.


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 9:59 pm
Posts: 502
Free Member
 

okay, I should stop now:

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 10:02 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

We've done 2-3hrs several times


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 10:20 pm
Posts: 1058
Free Member
 

When I say 6-8 hours, that includes a fair bit of sitting, looking, eating and waiting for gf to catch up. Maybe should take a lurcher out for a test drive, they're beautiful and look like nice chilled out companions.


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 10:37 pm
Posts: 2134
Full Member
 

No idea what Monty is, but pretty sure theres some lurcher in the mix

[IMG] [/IMG]

[IMG] [/IMG]

[IMG] [/IMG]


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 10:41 pm
 goon
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

It's hard to find some pics of Ali and Ted I haven't posted, so I've raided my Picasa for some others.

Minnie
[img] [/img]

The incredible Lemmy in the white collar. About the size of a toy poodle.
[img] [/img]

Franny
[img] [/img]

Bramble
[img] [/img]

No idea of the names.
[img] [/img]

There's nothing like a sighthound running.


 
Posted : 10/11/2012 11:16 pm
Posts: 488
Free Member
Topic starter
 

oh yeah some fantastic dogs on here!

Mowgli Jess the deerhound collie cross will still do a 30k day despite being 10 years old. And she'll hit the nitrous for any hare or cat that sticks its head above the parapet...


 
Posted : 11/11/2012 12:40 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Rocco the greyhound /collie cross has issues but I love him , the other one is Oscar
[IMG] [/IMG]


 
Posted : 11/11/2012 12:13 pm
Posts: 25
Free Member
 

At 9 months so a bit longer now
[img] [/img]
[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 11/11/2012 12:22 pm
Posts: 88
Free Member
 

[IMG] [/IMG]


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 9:19 am
Posts: 852
Full Member
 

Woohoo, love a lurcher thread. Tara the BedlingtonxGreyhoundxWhippetx???

Likes: food, sleeping, running, chasing things, hedgehogs

Dislikes: rabbits, cats, squirrels, mice, other dogs, old women with trolleys that look like dogs.

[IMG] [/IMG]

[IMG] [/IMG]

[IMG] [/IMG]


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 9:34 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Hi guys.

I'm on the other thread (gundog owner currently)

The mrs and I are considering a second pup when we move (not particularly soon i might add)

We love whippets. Can anyone tell me their daily routine? I appreciate the run/sleep thing. But are they highly strung when they are awake?

We walk the lab for an hour at 7am and an hour at about 6pm. he gets thrashed in this time, and basically sleeps for the rest of the the day and night (plus a little evening play time)

we mix it up a bit of course, he rides with me when i'm mtbing for example...

reckon a whippet would fit in at the household?

subjective i know...


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 9:47 am
Posts: 2
Free Member
 

This is Ginny, our greyhound/bearded collie (we think!) cross, studying the start list for this year's Team Time Trial World Championships! [img] [/img]


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 11:31 am
Posts: 40432
Free Member
 

No idea what Monty is

A very handsome chap! (maybe part ridgeback?)

PS. Your missus will probably find the bike frame under that desk , hide it better!


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 11:38 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

[img] [/img]

Reece, who we rescued about 8 years ago, and is now around 14 years old, so spends most of her time doing this. We'll always have greyhounds and lurchers from now on. Definitely found our type of dog.


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 11:52 am
Posts: 2134
Full Member
 

No idea what Monty is
A very handsome chap! (maybe part ridgeback?)
PS. Your missus will probably find the bike frame under that desk , hide it better!

People often say ridgeback, he's about that height but not as heavy. His coat is sort of halfway between ridgeback short and a lab. Colouring is obvously very lab like. Dangerously clever (he worked out how to escape from his enclosure into the run at the boarding kennels, this involved hanging off a pulley - the staff thought they had a ghost) and a chase instinct like a greyhound, and he's very fast. Pretty good at scent tracking too. Enormous paws for his weight. Odd animal...


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 12:55 pm
Posts: 13349
Free Member
 

Your missus will probably find the bike frame under that desk , hide it better!

That old thing? He's had that ages! ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 1:19 pm
Posts: 2134
Full Member
 

I have actually had that frame for 20 years, but it's good to know who my friends are!!


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 5:51 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Lxys and Snoopy say woof...
[IMG] [/IMG]


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 7:50 pm
Posts: 279
Full Member
 

[img][url= http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8490/8175695427_cccb291a3a.jp g" target="_blank">http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8490/8175695427_cccb291a3a.jp g"/> [/img][/url]
[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/salsaboy/8175695427/ ]Maverick at full tilt.[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/salsaboy/ ]andy_carter[/url], on Flickr[/img]


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 7:51 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I love lurchers. I've got a whippet x terrier and she is the most gentle, beautiful animal I've ever met. I'll get some photographs up when I get home.


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 8:17 pm
Posts: 26880
Full Member
 

I am not enjoying this!!!

[img] [/img]

second best rough bitch in Berkshire!!
[img] [/img]

[img] [/img]


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 8:30 pm
Posts: 26880
Full Member
 

But are they highly strung when they are awake?

No not at all, can be a little nervous maybe but whippets are almost cat like in their ability to chill


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 8:36 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Thanks so much for starting this thread. Until 8 weeks ago when we suddenly lost my beloved Bob very suddenly we had 2 lurchers, now we just have dafty Sally.
Bob
[IMG] [/IMG]
Sally
[IMG] [/IMG]


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 8:42 pm
Posts: 852
Full Member
 

RIP Bob

[IMG] [/IMG]

Doing what she does best


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 8:45 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

I so want a Bedlington lurcher!! My dad and brother both have one, and I want to join the club. Hoouse move in 4 weeks then I'm off loking for one!


 
Posted : 12/11/2012 11:16 pm
Posts: 1239
Full Member
 

[img] ?psid=1[/img]

My best friend Barney!


 
Posted : 13/11/2012 12:02 am
Posts: 2111
Full Member
 

Got a jet black dog from Manchester Dog's home. Stood as high as a greyhound, with a running dog's haunches, combined with the chest and distinctive "ridge" of a ridgeback and a slender head. Real bitsa but a lurcher through and through. Ran like the wind, slept like a drunk man and ate like a horse. Loyal as could be. Went by the name of Tippy (or Mr Tips to my old man who used to send him postcards). He's been dead for some time now so no pics, but never forgotten. Lovely dogs. Next dog will 100% be a lurcher, with some terrier in the mix for the endurance.


 
Posted : 13/11/2012 12:34 am