blue comes everwhere with me, fishing, mooching, walking, collecting wild food/wood, even go lamping sometimes, lol. so for me a coat is a must, do lots of pike fishing thru winter especially and without a coat he just gets shivery and miserable. my old retriever never needed one, rain snow or anything, but not all lurchers have big thick coats, perhaps the type you like/keep does, but not all do and as such coats are nessecary for a lot, unless you just keep them kenneled or inside all the time unless they out walking or working but to me a lurcher is a companion for most of my activities, a