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  1. moonlighter
    Here’s another of her.
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    My first x beddy/whippet. She’s too small to make a decent dog where I live but she hunts well and is very obedient.
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    If I had one, I’d work it.... but I’d never buy one to work. Too fast, too big, and I’d guess too injury prone and no stamina. They don’t look too bright either. I used to live next door to a greyhound rescue place. Nice enough dogs.
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    Sorry to hear that. I’ve lost too many dogs on the lamp, that I don’t do it anymore. I’ll run the odd rabbit in a grass paddock but no more big game. The dogs are running too fast with too many dykes about for my liking.
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    Out if the lurchers I’ve had, I’d say that bitches were the better hunters, and probably a bit more obedient. The dogs I’ve had were stronger and better at bigger game. That could be just down to the individual dog though, and nothing to do with being a dog or bitch.
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    I find most lurchers will follow scent if it’s there, but most I’ve come across won’t actively search for a scent to follow.
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    Totally agree, without ferrets it’s nearly impossible to get hunting permission with a dog in Lincolnshire where I live. There’s a big anti coursing drive on the radio this week. Farmers saying they dare not leave there house in the winter for fear of attack and that many farmers have had to plough in whole fields of crops due to the damage hare coursing causes... I mean, if that didn’t turn the general public against us, nothing will.
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    Last weekend was my first time this season. There’s still a lot of cover about in places, but if I leave it too late, before you know it the winters been and gone, especially if you can only get out at weekends.
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    Had a morning on some new permission today. 15 in total which is great for my area.
  11. moonlighter
    Big strong pups. What cross are they?
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    I bet it’s great to watch them hunt away.
  13. moonlighter
    Don’t these have an outside bit for fresh air and sunlight? Can’t tell from the pictures
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    I’m the same. I only have a couple of mates with lurchers. My family definitely wouldn’t want one, and most of my hunting mate have gun dogs, so they definitely wouldn’t want one. Therefore I’d sell them to strangers... on that note, I was gifted a really well bred coursing dog from a friend.. all the others I’ve had to pay for as I’ve got them from an advert in the countryman’s or EDRD.
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    Also, coney catcher 3, (dancing with dingoes)is worth a watch too. Lots of good tips on there.
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    That wasn’t a coursing bred dog. He was 3/4 grey, 1/4 beddy. The smooth bitch in the picture was the pup from some of the others in the picture.
  17. moonlighter
    These are coursing dogs crossed with the more traditional type lurcher.
  18. moonlighter
    You could... I never have. And also I’ve bought a few dogs, and I never had a home visit requested. Could be a 200 mile round trip easily. Do you do home visits?
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    I personally find retrieving a lottery. I’m no expert at all, but I’ve had a dog who would retrieve a dummy like a Labrador, blind retrieves etc, but showed no interest in retrieving game. then I had another who showed no interest in a ball or dummy, but would retrieve rabbits to hand, even jumping over fences with them. My current dog is ok at both, but she’s only young so anything can change. Good luck anyway.
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    Do you know all the owners of the pups you sell them? What if it had 10 or 11 pups. I’ve only bred one litter as I wanted to keep one back. The other 7 I sold to complete strangers. If I was to sell them to people I knew, I’d still have them now and that was 10 years ago. It’s not a dig, it’s a genuine question? How do you vet new owners?? Can’t really do a home visit first?
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    this was my lurcher x coursing bitch.
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    I had one, but sadly died before she was two. Showing great promise though. I’ve seen a few work and course in the old coursing club I was with. I think the mating was a lurcher bitch, put to a coursing dog. All 3 bitches I see work were mustard. Only small, about 23” but could course and hunt for fun.
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    That’s impressive if it can be called off deer. The dogs I’ve had that loved the deer game, would leave a hare to chase a deer. I’ve owned a dog that could be called of, but she never really loved the deer. She was chasing them, rather than trying to kill them.. massive difference.
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    You’ve not coursed daytime on the fens recently then? If your on the land for any length of time, the police soon arrive... and if your dog is hunting up for hares, 9/10 the hare only gets 10 or 20 yards law.. that’s not coursing in my eyes.
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    The lads I know who use them, don’t use them to improve the dog. They use them so they don’t get caught coursing as much.. no more striping a 150 acre field..in and out.. move onto the next.
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