do lurchers get many injurys

[canis lupus 1]

I was chatting to my OH tonight saying I would love to lern more about lurchers as joining here has sparked an interest, I study dog breeds for many years and what they where bred for the working ability ect, but never look into lurchers for some reason.

 

Anyway he said shorely they must damage themselfs alot being so light framed and having long legs, he also said his friend had 2 rescue ones and both damaged there legs.

 

Now I can't see them being any more likely to injure themselfs than any other dog, the only differance would be they work, so it posable that a working dog could injure itself more than a pet.

 

I don't know anyone with working lurchers, so don't know what to tell him, so thought I'd ask you lot,do your dogs injure easly? what sort of injurys do they get?

[Ideation 8,217]

Perhaps not easily - it's amazing what knocks they can take and get back up and keep running but they are certainly more likely to endure an injury as a working running dog than as a pet. The main injurys are collisions resulting from being close on the back of the rabbit and hitting a tree stump/fence post/tree/dyke wall/dry stone wall/farm machinery/other dog/rock etc at pace. Due to the drive of the working animals their saftey is usually the last thig on their mind. The best of these result in cuts and the worst in dead dogs. Most folk who have been at it years are unlucky enough to lose one in this way. And there is little you can do to avoid it other than knowing your ground and taking the pup out from young to get em used to the kind of land you hunt (trees, dry stone walls etc).

 

Jai.