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  1. Dan McDonough
    I'm curious about Laikas and am wondering if anyone has used them as a base for a lurcher breeding. All info welcome. I've never hunted with one.
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    I have a leggy July female that can really roll but she's about a five hour dog. If she couldn't have caught it in five hours though, it was a very strong coyote. She's getting a little old now but still fights like a big male. I have a friend that has a theory about Julys. He thinks that at some point there was Saluki used to make them. Judging by the coat colors they display and the way some of them seem to run faster as the race goes on, I'd say he's on to something. I've not heard anyone else come up with this theory but he's got some good points.
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    I'm just speaking from the breeder's side of it. All good points.
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    It's easy to stand on the sidelines and whine about a breeders pups not turning out but much of the time it's because most people are not as good as they think they are with dogs. All of the people that bitch about Hancock should try making a dozen batches of pups and see how many actually end up in the hands of competent trainers. If Hancock's pups turn out at better than a rate of 20% he's genius and should get some sort of award because most self proclaimed dog people aren't what they think they are.
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    You paid money for that??? I've nipped dew claws a lot of different ways but two years ago I started biting them off with my teeth. Try not to do it unless the pup is clean. The best part about it is that I can feel right where I'm at and finding the proper place on the joint isn't any harder than splitting a sunflower seed in half. Now, if you've got a mouth full of broken chalk, you might have a challenge on your hands but it's still better than video games.
  6. Dan McDonough
    Samba, what can you tell me about Smiking Gun?
  7. Dan McDonough
    Smoking Gun is my dogs Grandfather. Smoking gun sired Lone Gunman who sired Sugar Rush and Trixie. Sugar Rush is the top dog in the US for 2014.
  8. Dan McDonough
    51 cm and 15.3 kg I'm sure there is some g.h. in there somewhere also but that's not what I'm wondering about. It would be great to hear from someone that's seen him go or better yet raced against him.
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    I keep hearing that the whippet Milhouse (QuiXand Fallout Boy) is setting track records over there. Has anyone here seen him go? I'm curious because I have a bitch that is very closely related to him and is the littermate sister of this years Nat. Champ. on the oval track and also tied with a dog called Mergatroid for first on the straight track but was awarded second. Effectively making him the fastest whippet in the US this year. That dogs name is Turbinado (QuiXandz Sugar Rush). By the way, the two spellings for the kennel name are because QuiXand got a partner (Mike Hattery) and the k
  10. Dan McDonough
    The men in New Mexico have the best hare dogs I've heard of to date. Send me an e-mail and I'll do some work finding where I have that wrote down. Dan jagdlep@yahoo.com
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    If you know five great lurcher men, what do they run? I know that people can only account for what they've seen. maybe I should have asked who the best politician is. This will only prove usefull if people simply answer the question. then we can all add up the results and come up with a larger answer.
  12. Dan McDonough
    Some great answers so far. I'd like to say that we all know that the owner has a big part to play and also that well bred dogs of a lesser cross will likely outperform poorly bred dogs out of a typically greater cross. All of that being said, the best lurcher men do gravitate towards certain crosses and that is what I'm looking to discover. As close as I can come to the ghxcollieXdhxgh is the stag to the collie and then back again to the stag. With some of the things I've seen from my male Duce (28" and 97#'s or 44kgs.) who is a full stag, I don't think there is much of anything he can'
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    What would be the top 3 crosses in the kennels of the very best lurchermen you have witnessed? I'll add an additional question based on the answers. Please list them in order of popularity. For example: 1. GH x BC 2. GH x Kelpie x DH 3. Saluki x BC Feel free to explain why if you think there is something additional information I would like to know to help explain why one cross is more useful than another.
  14. Dan McDonough
    You don't have to follow those rules. I'll bet most of you didn't know that and I'll also bet most of you won't believe me.
  15. Dan McDonough
    I like that one Coursing-Lad.
  16. Dan McDonough
    I'm wanting to respond and to put up a couple of pictures but some pencil head changed the way you do that. Beast- Their doing really well. I'll put up some stuff when I get this crap figured out. NickF- I don't think Salukis would do well up here in the North. Maybe in a cross but just try and wrestle one of those fat ladies that have them for a breeding (the dogs I mean). I don't see it happening. x
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    Edwards and Stuntman hunt open ground. Even so, I'll bet if you put them here in the woods for a season they would have it figured out. I've been hunting a couple of straight stags just like your talking. After the trailhounds get them running I just intercept them with the stags and they can definitely do the job in the woods. I wouldn't say every stag has the qualities necessary to run a coyote down in the woods but some do. I have two that are doing it now. In addition, they will jump a hot one on their own and do the same. They don't always catch in the woods or at least not near as
  18. Dan McDonough
    Look up nutria teeth, their like a small bever with the attitude of a rat...NASTY!!!
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    Here's the last one I got:
  20. Dan McDonough
    Tomo, Our spring sales in have hundreds to choose from. If I go down to one of them, I could pick you out a nice one and get it to the airport. All you would have to do is sit in front of your computer for a day and let the e-mails fly.
  21. Dan McDonough
    When that wolf decides he's in trouble, I guarantee he's much more powerful than what was seen in that video. Just shoot the piece of crap and be done with it. It's tough enough to keep up with the govt. planting all of those things all over he country without telling anyone.
  22. Dan McDonough
    I can see why you guys like this kind of dog. I have not been writing about them very much because I've been up to my ears in dog work the last few months and have not been around the house as much. I still like my leopards and I'm having fun killing coyotes with the stags but I'm having a ball with the lurchers. I've been taking them out on their own outings but I have started taking them long a lot more with the other dogs and letting them come in to trees and even put them on a couple of jumped races. As expected, they are learning very quick so I'm taking easy and not pushing them to h
  23. Dan McDonough
    6 months old and getting started. I snapped a couple of quick photos after I took them out of the truck today. Tommy: Foxy:
  24. Dan McDonough
    I'm in the US and I have the first one and the fourth one. Pretty dang cool! Great work and I liked them both but I think the fourth one was just a little bit better. I thought the GoPro shots were tough to watch in some ways but some of the stop action was pretty cool. The boulder fields those dogs chased across looked like some real ankle breakers but the dogs didn't slow any more than the fox. Andrew should find a way to have the dogs leap over fences about every five minutes because all of the hound hunters that have watched over here all went "WOW!!!" every time a dog cleared a fence
  25. Dan McDonough
    What about a beagle?
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