Using lurchers for other jobs?

[Runner96 502]

Mine will come picking up with me now and again 

[Black neck 15,156]

4 hours ago, SheepChaser said:

The elusive Fen squirrel .....

Dog has 2 learn to sit in 

[jukel123 6,570]

Had an old long netting partner whose collie lurcher was used for several unusual jobs. He was the only dog I've ever seen that would hunt rabbits at night, drive them into the long net, not touch them, and then go searching for more. He could jump hedges like a horse. Lots of dogs will jump fences and gates, not so many can work out hedges.

His really unusual job was to act as a spittoon though. Eddie, my mate, smoked a pipe and when indoors, (including the pub) he would spit the contents of his gob onto the dog's back. The dog didn't seem to mind. When it came to its favourite area of grass it would roll on its back to get rid of the irritation. The pipe used to bother me because he was forever lighting it at night with an old petrol lighter which was like a f****n flame thrower. It lit up the countryside for miles. I was forever moaning about it and he was forever telling me I worried too much. Eddie's lurcher could retrieve birds shot at night. Really useful when they dropped into tangled undergrowth or were runners.

[levigsp 938]

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Edited March 18, 2023 by levigsp

[Aled 362]

Some great pictures and stories all. 

[shaaark 10,109]

9 hours ago, Runner96 said:

Mine will come picking up with me now and again 

Love seeing pics of this dog.  And, always in great nic.  Absolute little belter.

Remind us how he's bred please, mate. 

[Bosun11 537]

Retrieving shot birds was the usual for me, though this dog didn't need the gun to get a gob full of feather

[levigsp 938]

What I have always found strange is that my dogs would catch rabbits and bring them to hand unharmed, same with free flying birds, catch foxes etc. Then the day after be used as a gundog to flush and retrieve. 

but most gundog men get paranoid about dogs getting hard m outhed by pegging game. they dont seem to grasp the fact hard mouth is either genetic or taught at young age regardless of breed.

 

[levigsp 938]

11 hours ago, jcm said:

Use my old dog to retrieve birds i shoot with the catty,

Hows he bred, looks like my old gonc

 

[levigsp 938]

14 hours ago, OldPhil said:

Hi , yes, I favour the herding based lurcher hybrids,.. I find them easy to school, and I understand their often curious mind set...

I don't have many photos of my earlier Lurchers and Longdogs,...my own abysmal lack, of any PC Security cost me dear,...and its all over now..

Life goes on though,...who needs the photos, when you have the memories, eh..

 

 

I have very few photos from years past as never really bothered with camera. I do however have my journals with everything written up to sit a browse one day when I get old lol, 

[levigsp 938]

14 hours ago, Black neck said:

I expect mine to do various labouring work ,basic spannering electrical repairs ,answering fone ,just the usual

If mine came across spanners etc, they hid them.

 

[levigsp 938]

So looking at the replies and photos I am still amazed after a lifetime of dogs etc, how many different types of lurchers there are. 

When I first went to Lambourne show I couldn't believe my eyes and I'm still surprised now, even though I had a few different myself.

 

Edited March 24, 2022 by levigsp

[jukel123 6,570]

7 minutes ago, levigsp said:

I have very few photos from years past as never really bothered with camera. I do however have my journals with everything written up to sit a browse one day when I get old lol, 

That's That's big regret of mine. I wished I'd kept a diary of shooting, fishing, lurcher and ferretwork.

[shaaark 10,109]

46 minutes ago, levigsp said:

gonc

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[levigsp 938]

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Edited March 18, 2023 by levigsp