saluki natural retreiving?

[strongbow1 257]

ive got no experience with saluki lurchers so was asking the question. (pre ban of corse) would any of the saluki hybrids be natural retreivers. Also is it hard to train saluki types to retreive live to hand.

thanks strongbow.

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

What's the difference between retrieving pre-ban and now?

[strongbow1 257]

prob didnt word it write, i ment at big coursing events, would the dogs retreive? if not, are they hard to train?

[MATTI 34]

In my experience some saluki bred lurchers struggle to remember to come back themselves never mind retrieve game, salukis were bred to run long distance at a high speed & are exceptional at this. But if you want a dog that will retrieve & come back as soon as you want him/her back there is a lot of other lurcher X breeds with more common sense out there.

[mikeball 108]

I've never had a problem with retrieve or recall with saluki xs mate

[Daytimeonly 91]

What's the difference between retrieving pre-ban and now?

the difference is most people would associate a saluki type and pre ban to hare coursing. and the difference between a hare and a rabbit is alot.

[moonlighter 1,162]

Not many retrieve, well out of the ones I've seen anyway. Most have not been trained to though, so therefore they are not naturals.

[Floyd17586 454]

What's the difference between retrieving pre-ban and now?

the difference is most people would associate a saluki type and pre ban to hare coursing. and the difference between a hare and a rabbit is alot.

no the difference between a. Hare and rabbit is you can picka hare from. Your hole but you cant pick a rabbit.

[lamping-lad 160]

my saluki x retreives 99% of the time and comes strait back when called

[chartpolski 20,875]

At "big coursing events", wether it be Saluki hybrids at the Forely, or Greyhounds at the Waterloo; why would retrieving be of interest ? Surely the perfomance of the dog is paramount ? I've never heard of points being awarded for retrieving.

 

Cheers.

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

What's the difference between retrieving pre-ban and now?

the difference is most people would associate a saluki type and pre ban to hare coursing. and the difference between a hare and a rabbit is alot.

 

Really? I thought hares just had bigger ears? The rest of them is the same though and they run the same.

[BOLIO1 1,078]

This bitch, Willow, was a natural retriever. Without any form of training she just wanted to present me with her catches.....even through thick hedges with barbed wire fences. Only after the long runs on big land would she stand over her kills, catching her breath till I got to her.

 

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

This bitch, Willow, was a natural retriever. Without any form of training she just wanted to present me with her catches.....even through thick hedges with barbed wire fences. Only after the long runs on big land would she stand over her kills, catching her breath till I got to her.

 

 

Lovely bitch. Any whippet in there? She looks similar to mine.

[BOLIO1 1,078]

And here is her daughter, Patch, aged exactly 7 months. Willow was bred out of a pure saluki bitch and a saluki lurcher sire. Patch is her daughter by a Khan Jihad pure saluki dog. Never had a problem with recall with either of them.

 

[BOLIO1 1,078]

This bitch, Willow, was a natural retriever. Without any form of training she just wanted to present me with her catches.....even through thick hedges with barbed wire fences. Only after the long runs on big land would she stand over her kills, catching her breath till I got to her.

 

 

Lovely bitch. Any whippet in there? She looks similar to mine.

 

No whippet Gareth, her sire was a dog I had off Alan Sankey called Max ( Tommy Murrays Smokey x Dancer)