Pups in Cumbria?? Sensible price??

[AndyD89 253]

Alright lads just after abit of advice really . 

Im new to the Lurcher game , have always been around working dogs and have trained a couple of gun dogs to a decent standard, but as far as Lurchers go I don’t have much experience.  I lost my first lurcher just before Christmas to a drunk driver flying through my village ( nearly knocking me over aswel) he was a Beddy whippet greyhound he was about 15 mounts old and I had just started to bring him on, he’d nailed a few bunnies in the daytime, an had just caught his first bunny on the lamp couple of nights before I lost him. I so enjoyed the experience I had with that dog iv just got the bug for Lurchers now.  He was such a mild mannered and biddable dog , so gentle around the house an with my daughter,just a absolute joy to work with, an was showing promise in the field , was bloody gutted.  Anyway I’m on the hunt for a pup now for a sensible price in Cumbria or north west if anyone knows of any??? Open to any x really , was thinking something similar to the dog I lost , or possibly a collie greyhound type?? Open to suggestions really?? What would anybody recommend??? The dog would be rabbiting dog for bit of ferreting and lamping, fairly rough ground round my way and on the whole smaller fields . 

 

Any advice much appreciated lads. 

 

Been reading a lot of threads on here, found It really interesting and helpful

 

[shaaark 10,129]

Wouldn't have thought you'd have too long a wait for a pup of those crosses, or a mix of both, up your way. Sure there's a few lads with both crosses/types up your way. 

Might be an idea to get in touch with poxon, on this site. He has a cracking bitch of that type at the moment, and knows people with that type of lurcher. Perhaps he could put you onto sonething? Probably a couple more on here with that type, but he was the first that came to mind.

Good luck in your search.

[Black neck 15,161]

3 minutes ago, shaaark said:

Wouldn't have thought you'd have too long a wait for a pup of those crosses, or a mix of both, up your way. Sure there's a few lads with both crosses/types up your way. 

Might be an idea to get in touch with poxon, on this site. He has a cracking bitch of that type at the moment, and knows people with that type of lurcher. Perhaps he could put you onto sonething? Probably a couple more on here with that type, but he was the first that came to mind.

Good luck in your search.

Nice 1 furg

[shaaark 10,129]

1 minute ago, Black neck said:

Nice 1 furg

Eh?

[Black neck 15,161]

6 minutes ago, shaaark said:

Eh?

Being refelerant 

[poxon 5,555]

21 hours ago, AndyD89 said:

Alright lads just after abit of advice really . 

Im new to the Lurcher game , have always been around working dogs and have trained a couple of gun dogs to a decent standard, but as far as Lurchers go I don’t have much experience.  I lost my first lurcher just before Christmas to a drunk driver flying through my village ( nearly knocking me over aswel) he was a Beddy whippet greyhound he was about 15 mounts old and I had just started to bring him on, he’d nailed a few bunnies in the daytime, an had just caught his first bunny on the lamp couple of nights before I lost him. I so enjoyed the experience I had with that dog iv just got the bug for Lurchers now.  He was such a mild mannered and biddable dog , so gentle around the house an with my daughter,just a absolute joy to work with, an was showing promise in the field , was bloody gutted.  Anyway I’m on the hunt for a pup now for a sensible price in Cumbria or north west if anyone knows of any??? Open to any x really , was thinking something similar to the dog I lost , or possibly a collie greyhound type?? Open to suggestions really?? What would anybody recommend??? The dog would be rabbiting dog for bit of ferreting and lamping, fairly rough ground round my way and on the whole smaller fields . 

 

Any advice much appreciated lads. 

 

Been reading a lot of threads on here, found It really interesting and helpful

 

Sorry to hear about your dog pal never nice losing a dog 

I don’t know of any pups at the minute so can’t really point you in any direction but good look with your search
 
I’d recommend a Lurcher to Lurcher bred ive found collie/beddy greyhoundy  mix perfect for any occasion they tend to be well constructed to take a nock or two with good feet trainable and adaptable to all forms of hunting an biddable they fit in to family life well I rate this cross as a good general purpose hunting dog that’s a master of none trier of all without going in to specialist dogs 

[AndyD89 253]

Spot on thanks for the advice bud Been looking for quite a while now , everything seems to be bull crosses at the moment , been looking in usual places, gumtree etc. They either seem to be crazy money like a grand plus , or like I say more of a bull cross type, witch   I don’t think would really be suitable for me, as I’m just after a rabbit dog really .  I don’t really know many out and out lurcher men to contact about it really as iv always been more involved in the shooting side of things.

[AndyD89 253]

Yeh was absolutely heart breaking , put a lot of time and effort into that dog. lost dogs before , but they were old and at the end of there life eh. This dog was just starting out, to see him smashed up they way he was hard to take, and to top it off the bloke drove off. 

 

But yeh I think it will be a beddy/collie greyhound mix is what I’m gonna go for.  They way u have described them there is exactly what I’m after to be honest . 

[AndyD89 253]

This is the one I lost , cracking dog

[moonlighter 1,160]

If your on Facebook, there’s a couple of good groups, “bedlington, whippet hunting group” and “bedlington, greyhound” group. They sometimes have litters on there, although they can’t directly advertise on Facebook. 

[poxon 5,555]

49 minutes ago, AndyD89 said:

This is the one I lost , cracking dog

My sort of cuppa t

[AndyD89 253]

9 minutes ago, moonlighter said:

If your on Facebook, there’s a couple of good groups, “bedlington, whippet hunting group” and “bedlington, greyhound” group. They sometimes have litters on there, although they can’t directly advertise on Facebook. 

I’m not on Facebook, but the wife is so il have a look on hers definitely sounds like it’s worth looking into cheers bud

[AndyD89 253]

10 minutes ago, poxon said:

My sort of cuppa t

Yeh I couldn’t fault him mate , for me and what I wanted him for , think he was gonna be a good dog, real shame.  Paid 180 quid for haha these covid prices are just bloody crazy , saw some the other day , first cross beagle whippet, 2500 , these people want there heads testing 

[lurchers 2,597]

My mates bitch is due to drop I think at the end of this month,they will be deerhound greyhound 1stx to a whippet dog.They should be hand things as he is hoping to bring the size down.I did that in 2000 and the bitches made 23tts and the dogs 25/26tts.I don’t know how much they will be but I can ask for ya.That’s his bitch and dog he has used mate

Edited March 9, 2021 by lurchers

[grompz 703]

the, dog that you lost was like poxon stated certainly my type of dog for general mooching about with ferrets, lamp and even working with the gun,on the look out myself for a dog bred like that, getting harder tofind these days, could you not get in touch with the bloke who bred him, or he maybe able to put you on to some off similiar breeding, surely there must been lads up cumbria way,working and breeding this excellent cross, good luck in your search.