Irish Terrier

[spiderfly 111]

Just wondering anyone had any experience with a first cross irish terrier x Greyhound? I known an working irish terrier but his pushing on and wondering would it be worth breeding as a friend has a working Greyhound bitch!?

[Hareydave 1,214]

yeah I had one you could run faster with a nail in your boot

[welcome 447]

I seen a few good first crosses not hare dogs but had everything else.Lamping drawing hunting up or a second dog at a hare very little they couldent do and very easy handled .None of the deaf ear shit yea get with some breads

[spiderfly 111]

Is anyone working one now? thanks for that:)

[roybo 2,873]

yeah I had one you could run faster with a nail in your boot

[Hareydave 1,214]

 

yeah I had one you could run faster with a nail in your boot

 

still killed plenty rabbits an foxes. you don't see as many them about these days I have seen some good ones

[Saluki246 1,053]

Very few, if any, good working irish terriers left now. One i have below, from old breeding, irish terrier x greyhound with a touch of saluki. She does it all, but 5 now and getting on, comes from very good old working lines.

 

 

 

[low plains drifter 11,128]

Never seen a first cross, but I've got an old dog with a bit of irish terrier blood in him, tightest running style I've ever seen used to be a real pleasure to watch him turning them inside out

 

This is him in his earlier days the old boy is 12 now and still jumps up every time I pick a lead up, just wish he was 2 again

Edited April 6, 2015 by low plains drifter

[hawkins26 751]

My mate in Ireland runs them offered me a pup a few month back they look class dogs I will find a pic and put it up

[hawkins26 751]

[Dead Eyes 681]

Never seen a first cross, but I've got an old dog with a bit of irish terrier blood in him, tightest running style I've ever seen used to be a real pleasure to watch him turning them inside out

 

This is him in his earlier days the old boy is 12 now and still jumps up every time I pick a lead up, just wish he was 2 again

That looks to be a hell of an animal

[neil cooney 10,416]

JMHO but the dogs back in the late 70s, the 80s and the 90s that had big reputations (and rightly so) that were known as Irish Terrier crosses always had something else in the pedigree.

Whether it was deerhound, foxhound or ,in the 90s, saluki they were still called Irish terrier crosses.

In saying that there were a few dogs with nothing other than Irish terrier and greyhound in their breeding that were very good but they were a lot rarer than the other Irish terrier crosses that were scatter bred.

IMO any one who'd think about putting an Irish terrier over a greyhound nowadays needs their head examined, but that's just my opinion.

[jigsaw 11,902]

I have neighbours that have ped irish terriers and if I caught one smelling my lurchers hole id kick the fuk out of it ,never mind letting it mate with one. A big gangley useless fukin neurotic scab and im told hes a ''FINE'' example of the breed......sweet jesus help.lol

[Saluki246 1,053]

JMHO but the dogs back in the late 70s, the 80s and the 90s that had big reputations (and rightly so) that were known as Irish Terrier crosses always had something else in the pedigree.

Whether it was deerhound, foxhound or ,in the 90s, saluki they were still called Irish terrier crosses.

In saying that there were a few dogs with nothing other than Irish terrier and greyhound in their breeding that were very good but they were a lot rarer than the other Irish terrier crosses that were scatter bred.

IMO any one who'd think about putting an Irish terrier over a greyhound nowadays needs their head examined, but that's just my opinion.

 

Well said. Their is no true irish terrier or cross now, as the real working irish terrier is moreless instinct.

The silly KC club put an end to a lot of the real working irish terriers. !

[BGD 6,437]

 

 

JMHO but the dogs back in the late 70s, the 80s and the 90s that had big reputations (and rightly so) that were known as Irish Terrier crosses always had something else in the pedigree.

Whether it was deerhound, foxhound or ,in the 90s, saluki they were still called Irish terrier crosses.

In saying that there were a few dogs with nothing other than Irish terrier and greyhound in their breeding that were very good but they were a lot rarer than the other Irish terrier crosses that were scatter bred.

IMO any one who'd think about putting an Irish terrier over a greyhound nowadays needs their head examined, but that's just my opinion.

Well said. Their is no true irish terrier or cross now, as the real working irish terrier is moreless instinct.

The silly KC club put an end to a lot of the real working irish terriers. !

How did the kennel club put an end to anything? They're just a registry. What put an end to a lot of working terrier breeds is the men that worked them moving on to the next big thing. Truly valued working breeds never die out, they just split into working and show/pet strains.