Saluki x Temperament

[baw 4,360]

Chalky, your photos always impress me. Who takes them for you lol?

[riohog 5,939]

f**k off ya big safty, it's only banter. I know they have a place in the lurcher world, a big place too. Think I'm getting soft on them too, they're so damn cute

you just stick with them old sheep dogs ,and leave the formula 1 stuff to the big boys

[baw 4,360]

Formula1 fpmsl more like horse carts

[Giro 2,648]

People bang on about Saluki temperament, and yes, they can be a lot harder to handle: I've had Saluki lurchers who didn't even act as though I existed until I started working them; others very timid and sensitive, others bold as brass. I've had some which are really sociable to other dogs, and some which can't to stand to share the same kennel or sofa.

They can be as different to each other as any other dog breed, but the thing to remember is that you really have to earn some Saluki type's respect, whereas other types are a lot more forgiving of human error and are also seem more to be born into servitude to man. Saluki types just aren't so 'domesticated' in general, more like wild things.

When you consider, that historically, they were never trained to do obedience things as such, and the work they did required them to think for themselves, plus having massive drive to run down gazelle and hares in horrendous conditions. I find they tend to live alongside me as though they feel they are equal to me, bit like a cat, which I've said before many times.

 

Giro: the last thing you do if you want a good bond with this type of dog is to hit it: and you also need tons of patience and a different way of looking at dog/human relationships: the 'me say, you do' thing doesn't really work very well with this type. They have to have a bloody good reason for doing what you want them to do if that thing isn't what they would naturally do for themselves: if that makes sense! Treats and toys don't really cut it in the field. I'm not saying that a full-on, super-dooper dog behaviourist kind of person couldn't train a Saluki to jump through hoops, but you have to understand how to make them WANT to do it, and make the reward such that nothing else comes close.

 

Personally, I wouldn't expect any of my heavily Saluki saturated lurchers to stop on command if they see something to run: nothing that little old me can give them in the way of reward would come near the reward of chasing and killing. You learn to work round these sort of issues, and if you have one of the 'huntaway' types, you also learn to keep it on the lead in places where it would be dangerous for the dog to do that. But they are not all 'go-it-alone' dogs: some do have more of the pack mentality and can work close to you and other dogs: how you tell which sort is which as a small pup is very hard to tell!

 

I am in Chalkies Baffled bracket lol..

 

So in sence they "can" be indepent type of hounds and wont crave attention like a gundog..

 

Bond and calm attitude aid the traiing and its not imposable to get them doing basic tasks carring,retrieving and recall ..

 

I as long a dog retrieves and comes back it would be good enough for my standard :laugh:

 

Got a little pup with saluki in it now not a mass of saluki blood.. Its seems as any other pup would at a young age, dose seem calm and sensible and its still not shit in the house yet so its going well so far