Greyhound

[born ferreter 1]

Just wondering if pure greyhounds were any good for rabbiting/coursing? Anyone ever had a used them for this?

Thanks. Lewis

[Guest stewie]

depends on a hell of alot mate there 100s of different greyhounds and 1000s of different situations explain more what you mean like age of the dog, type of terrain you want to run, big or small fields, day or night etc etc but the simple answer to your basic question would be yes they can be good at rabbiting

[DogMagic 461]

I think that brought as a pup and brought up as you would a lurcher they would be smashing on all quarry. Think about it, a pure greyhound is as fast as you can get, its undiluted and pure. Whatever you put into it (collie, bull, bedlington etc etc) waters it down and detracts from the speed. The only way of not detracting from the speed is to x it with another pure running dog (whippet for accelaration, saluki for stamina).

 

A retired greyhound (ex track dog) only knows straight ahead and straight lines and not for very long at a time. Its body, muscles and bones have developed to be doing that work. If trained from a pup to go round trees, over fences and to work for hours rather than minutes at a time its muscles and bones will be slightly different and it will have much better stamina.

 

All a sighthound really wants to do is chase and being as greys are so fast not much can get away from a properly trained, agile one with stamina.

 

What I would like to know is if there is anybody out there who has had a greyhound from a pup, brought it up as a lurcher and also used ut on the track?

[rocky1 942]

if you want a dog for numbers then no,they proberly catch 10 a night in little fields with even ground,lack of stamina ,injury prone,lack in the brain department,they will be some that disagree but that,s my opion and before anyone ask i have seen quite afew run

Edited January 2, 2011 by rocky1