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[runforyourlife 361]

Lurchers are so tuned into us, thats how they know the difference between a domestic and a prey animal,

 

so, again its use who are taking the credit for the inteligence of the lurcher....so Domestic cat feral cat.....

 

The dog uses HIS brains to read situations, we are also included in his reading of a particular situation, his senses are picking up things from us constantly, and through our actions he learns how to behave in any given senario, eg, never broke a bitch i had to sheep, but never had a prob with her and stock, why ,because they were of no interest to me and because of that , were of f**k all good to her either,,

 

 

lol, thats one way of putting it but yea, i know what you mean pal..

[fitchet 788]

although im no expert i think lurchers deffinitley know when you dont want them to chase something and when its ok too my lurcher will not even look at our hens but goes mad for pheasants although ive had a few stoats bolt when ferreting and the lurcher knew that it was trying to get away THATS not becouse i wanted to but becouse he felt he had to if you know what imean ?anyway good thread

[Bosun11 537]

My first half x bull, for the first year of his life was brought up with my ferrets but after that i'd changed things a bit and mostly lamped and so my ferrets went. He never saw one from then on and grew to be everything I wanted from the cross, game as anything i've seen, he had taken everything.

By his sixth year we were lamping along the dunes. Spinning the lamp round the beam lit up a pair of ruby eyes next to a patch of maram grass, definatley not a bunny, not quite a cat, smaller, maybe a fox cub but it was January. Feck it, against my better judgement I hissed him on. He tore down the beam and lunged for the strike.... Then jumped immediatley back, totally out of charicter. I couldn't believe my eyes, what type of 'monster' had caused my trusted hound to become a nervous wreck? I ran down to see, all the while my dog looking back at me 'sheepishly'. As i neared i realised what creature caused the panic..... A large hob ferret, dancing and spitting at us both! After six years of hitting every quarry species I put him on, he still gave a ferret the utmost respect and for that I totally respected him, I left that ferret to his own devices and, proud as punch, I left that field.

 

Oh yer, another quickie, my mate had a lurcher, as good a fox dog as any, that grew up with the family cat but would kill any other cat it encountered, the dog once killed a cat that had came in his garden (after his dads pigeons), whilst stood two feet away watching was the family cat. When my mates old man screemed at the dog for doing it, both cat and dog shot into the dogs kennel and watched side by side as his dad cleaned up the mess, cursing as he did so!

 

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Edited May 12, 2010 by n.e poacher

[Guest bezza]

My lurcher bitch encountered quarry in a wood some 8 years ago. Whilst she was dealing with it, a jay was 'cursing' her non stop. Every time she now hears a jay she becomes hyper alert expecting to come across the same quarry. Some will say it's just association but maybe there's some intelligence going on there too.

Edited May 10, 2010 by bezza

[whin 463]

good question my thoughts of cleverness is more reading the qaurry and heading him off in the middle of a big feild or stopping him getting into cover when lamping or quitly picking sqautters up with no fuss or always predicting what hole the rabbs coming out ,or puting himself were the game is going to bolt or sticking to the hedge and dont let the critter through and nailing him , to me thats inherited cleverness from selectivly bred dogs which you cant train, its breeding from proven working lines , the other cleverness is doing , commands but nothing to do with clever running ,most dogs can be trained basic commands most lurchers can but how many lurchers can control the race kill it quick ,have ajaw uick as a rattler ,i lamp sometimes sheep feilds driving through somenites with three dogs they dont bat an eyelid if they did they would get a severe thrashing, a lot of people think party tricks are clever like basiccommands me i like adog thats clever at catching were ever and abit of basics,

[runforyourlife 361]

runforyourlife :wankerzo4:

 

 

why is that n.e . poacher...

 

You not like a good post or a good debate, or you not into posts where you havent got an imput because...... well..

[runforyourlife 361]

My first half x bull, for the first year of his life was brought up with my ferrets but after that i'd changed things a bit and mostly lamped and so my ferrets went. He never saw one from then on and grew to be everything I wanted from the cross, game as anything i've seen, he had taken everything.

By his sixth year we were lamping along the dunes. Spinning the lamp round the beam lit up a pair of ruby eyes next to a patch of maram grass, definatley not a bunny, not quite a cat, smaller, maybe a fox cub but it was January. Feck it, against my better judgement I hissed him on. He tore down the beam and lunged for the strike.... Then jumped immediatley back, totally out of charicter. I couldn't believe my eyes, what type of 'monster' had caused my trusted hound to become a nervous wreck? I ran down to see, all the while my dog looking back at me 'sheepishly'. As i neared i realised what creature caused the panic..... A large hob ferret, dancing and spitting at us both! After six years of hitting every quarry species I put him on, he still gave a ferret the utmost respect and for that I totally respected him, I left that ferret to his own devices and, proud as punch, I left that field.

 

Oh yer, another quickie, my mate had a lurcher, as good a fox dog as any, that grew up with the family cat but would kill any other cat it encountered, the dog once killed a cat that had came in his garden (after his dads pigeons), whilst stood two feet away watching was the family cat. When my mates old man screemed at the dog for doing it, both cat and dog shot into the dogs kennel and watched side by side as his dad cleaned up the mess, cursing as he did so!

 

 

 

Nice 1 bosun, great story, and yet another glimse into the clever mind of a working dog....

[Wild_and_Irish 11]

runforyourlife :wankerzo4:

 

 

why is that n.e . poacher...

 

You not like a good post or a good debate, or you not into posts where you havent got an imput because...... well..

:

 

argue with one another; "We debated the question of abortion"; "John debated Mary"

consider: think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"

discuss the pros and cons of an issue

argument: a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"

 

A bit hard to do any of these debate things without giving your opinion/answer why dogs do the things they do. If you don't want answers why ask a question?

Edited May 12, 2010 by Wild_and_Irish