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The facts are that a small lurcher may be as keen to bush and thrash about as a terrier,only one of them will get through thick cover,the other will try its best.
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The reality of life is the fact that the majority of folk with a lurcher get a lurcher before permission,then the need to graft it regardless.Thats possibly how the majority of us started in the game.Then its how we conduct ourselves that sets the example that lurcher owners are tarred with,possibly why lurcher owners are seen as the scum of the hunting world.The majority of lurcher owners are more than responsible about their hunting activities,permission or not,the minority are twats that tar the rest of us.You may have to learn to live with the twats and understand that the majority of us s
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Ive seldom retired a lurcher due to old age,the majority of mine have still hunted into at least their 5th season and much more,the recent mis-fortunes ive encountered have been the type which we seldom encounter,sods law,a Duracel battery would have been less durable in these isolated instances.Im thinking of putting the dog over an Eiderdown and the ones i keep will never get out of their bed,the way my lucks running at the moment a bed bug will throttle them.
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I don,t think its alcohol related,most likely inbreeding,i bet he,s undershot.
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When you have had dogs stolen,especially 4 times,the reluctance grows,since i chose my hunting partners a tad more carefully ive never had a dog stolen since,moving house twice and having an Akita in residence over the last 20 years certainly helped.Called me sceptical but you could meet a stranger 20 miles from your abode,as i once did,he did his homework and within a week i was minus a Coursing bitch,a useful Deerhoundy and a black terrier.In an ideal world a dog would be seen grafting to gauge its potential worth as a stud,that ideology bit me on the arse and hardened my outlook on stranger
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I can understand the reluctance to show a stranger a dog at work,its come back to bite me a couple of times,a more willing nature to a fee would have set alarm bells in motion.
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An honest bitch in an honest kennel,it was once easy enough to source such.Have times changed that much?,especially if looking for a Deerhoundy/Collie type.There are an awful lot of them bred on the Welsh border,many in Scotland,Leeds was once an hot bed as well as North Yorkshire,there are an awful lot of hunting folk that visit this forum,many genuine and honest about their mutts,im looking for one of them.
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In an ideal world id have a bitch to breed from,i don,t and cannot source the right -un that suits,ill nearly guarantee these will be the last lurchers i put my time,effort and tears into,thus they will be bred right to suit or ill borrow my lads dog when the opportunity arises,which is not enough.Im still motivated enough to want what i want and nothing else,ill do without and concentrate on the terriers,i hate going out with the terriers and no lurcher,its like owning a gun and no bullets.
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You probably did as i wrote it clear enough.
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A decent stud is harder to source than a decent bitch,the stud dictates the rules at times and The owner of the bitch im looking for will be as keen as myself to breed for all the right reasons,working progeny,giving 2 pups up for the right sire would be a small price to pay in the bigger picture,id rather have 4 quality pups to do with as i wished,from the right type of sire,than have 5 from somebody less demanding.The right bitch offers as much as the right sire,in breeding,possibly more,im on the lookout for a specific dam with a specific type of owner the other 99% ill manage withou
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Purely Show Lurcher V Purley Working Lurcher
morton replied to jerry attrick's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
As soon as you put KC in the mix the dog is fecked,the KC muppets have ruined every working dog that came under their umbrella.Lurchers are mongrels and prosper because there is very little KC influence in the majority of lurcher production.Its always been about honesty with lurchers,if a person wanted a lurcher for hunting purpose would they go to a working kennel or a show kennel?,ill guarantee that many a show kennel,many another kennel,would bullshit the working pedigree of the litter to salvage a sale. -
The breeding throws large litters,6 is enough for the bitch and to source decent homes for.I understand were you are coming from and its possibly something i should have left to discuss with any prospective breeder.Anybody that wanted to leave a full litter of say 9 or more id not use their bitch.
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I know of an Auntie to him and am trying to persuade the owner to put a litter through her,anything else is either dead,to old or ive no contact.Im on the look out for a pup yet Deerhoundy/Collie lurchers are thin on the ground and genuine bred-uns are scarcer still,im set on that type of breeding as it as served me well enough for many a decade.The major factor is the dog itself,id prefer a pup with him in the mix,i rate him and my lad won,t give him back.
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Ive never ever owned a dog with more heart than a whippet,until i came across Bedlingtons, a Whippet is a dales Beddy,i rate them that highly,I want my terriers to hunt like a whippet and have a Beddys Fortitude,thats another reason why i rate the Beddy above any other terrier,more commited than a terrier or a whippet,or anything else in between,Fact.
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I like to see the different perspective between what i perceive to see to be a good-un and what someone else perceives.Im not for one minute Knocking you mucker yet i never rated Hoskers spud or its Red understudy sapling.Again what some may seem to be a relative hunting lifestyle may not suit another,i had little to connect me to Hoskers hunting lifestyle and his Spud Ego,what i offered him pissed him off, an honest bitch that never stopped and i would not line to his 4th rate beddy lurcher,ive had Beddys since and still would never own a Beddy lurcher,again.Id still never own another honest
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I don,t want terrier or whippet in the mix as it brings litter size down,over many generations,i don,t want bull in the mix as it takes far more away than it offers.The dog is 28" and about 80lb,it offers a tad more than a Whippety-Terrier ish lurcher,can run longer and with more reward than the average bull x and hunts as well as he connects,IF you have a Genuine bitch id expect to show the dog in flight,otherwise ive little to no interest.If your saying bull takes away more than it gives you have never seen the right bull imo. If you want your dogs for hare coursing/rabbiting I understand
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I started out with Whippets and cannot understand why the average hunter does not own one,they take some fecking equalling on Bunny,apart from their lack of jacket and shivery temperament perhaps,id still own another at some time,until then?.
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I don,t want terrier or whippet in the mix as it brings litter size down,over many generations,i don,t want bull in the mix as it takes far more away than it offers.The dog is 28" and about 80lb,it offers a tad more than a Whippety-Terrier ish lurcher,can run longer and with more reward than the average bull x and hunts as well as he connects,IF you have a Genuine bitch id expect to show the dog in flight,otherwise ive little to no interest.If your saying bull takes away more than it gives you have never seen the right bull imo. If you want your dogs for hare coursing/rabbiting I understand
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I don,t want terrier or whippet in the mix as it brings litter size down,over many generations,i don,t want bull in the mix as it takes far more away than it offers.The dog is 28" and about 80lb,it offers a tad more than a Whippety-Terrier ish lurcher,can run longer and with more reward than the average bull x and hunts as well as he connects,IF you have a Genuine bitch id expect to show the dog in flight,otherwise ive little to no interest. If your saying bull takes away more than it gives you have never seen the right bull imo. If you want your dogs for hare coursing/rabbiting I understa
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head of a snake neck of a drake arch of a bream tail of a rat feet of a cat Sounds like a Border terrier quote.
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The working types about are more abundant than what some may perceive,sadly they are swamped in Beddy dross.They are not on the decline,they are well on a resurgent path,its the people about that seek an easier route to Bedlington Nirvana and the mother lode that is still their ruination,source a pup thats hard to find,then reap terrier reward.
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He is no world beater,thats the domain of feckwits and ego,s,the dog is 18 months old,now that will raise many an eyebrow.He is bred right and as allready shown signs of his breeding,his uncle was lost a season ago,as good a dog as id wish for,his mother was retired last year through work related injury,his sister was lost recently and she was purring along more than nicely,his grandmother was another reliable mutt and the Sire,s side to his breeding and working heritage is known and honest.Ive had a shitty 2 years with fecking lurchers and terriers and another loss may be my last,this dog nee
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I don,t want terrier or whippet in the mix as it brings litter size down,over many generations,i don,t want bull in the mix as it takes far more away than it offers.The dog is 28" and about 80lb,it offers a tad more than a Whippety-Terrier ish lurcher,can run longer and with more reward than the average bull x and hunts as well as he connects,IF you have a Genuine bitch id expect to show the dog in flight,otherwise ive little to no interest.
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The weather and unsociable hours are often the barometer of an hunters true intent.
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Who Is The Craziest Lurcherman On Thl?
morton replied to jukel123's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
Many of us once owned that obsessive outlook on lurcher life,in my case it took a decade or 3 to re-invent my hunting lifestyle,there is as much enjoyment and gratification from a less demanding hunting lifestyle now,in a decade or 3 you may concur,until then keep at it mucker.
