ahem

[ishtat]

I thought that commoners were still forbidden from owning sight hounds.

Dolf is uncommon: extra-ordinarily so .

We had lurchers when I was on the farm in Gloucestershire as a kid. They are excellent hunters especially at night for poaching. My brother and I spent many happy evenings as teenagers using lurchers to poach on a neighbouring estate Our dogs were bred from our welsh collie sheepdogs, generally with a greyhound, but the best one we ever had was a whippet/collie - fast intelligent and silent.

One thing to note is that if you have any foxes around you, your lurcher will kill them, she'll even get agitated if she can smell them. But with a lurcher in the yard there will be no foxes hanging around stinking the place out.

We called our best lurcher 'Madam' because she was a rather independent soul who required respect.

 

[Ishmael]

Dolf is uncommon: extra-ordinarily so .

We had lurchers when I was on the farm in Gloucestershire as a kid. They are excellent hunters especially at night for poaching. My brother and I spent many happy evenings as teenagers using lurchers to poach on a neighbouring estate Our dogs were bred from our welsh collie sheepdogs, generally with a greyhound, but the best one we ever had was a whippet/collie - fast intelligent and silent.

One thing to note is that if you have any foxes around you, your lurcher will kill them, she'll even get agitated if she can smell them. But with a lurcher in the yard there will be no foxes hanging around stinking the place out.

We called our best lurcher 'Madam' because she was a rather independent soul who required respect.

No true gazehound makes any noise at all, waste of energy. Of all the hounds of that type I've had I think I heard my Afghans bark once or twice and of the greyhounds, one dog barked once. Actually that was a cause for alarm.

The Greyhound/whippet types are sprinters, the Wolfhounds/Deerhounds are marathon runners. The Saluki falls in the middle of the two and the Afghan is by far the most agile of all the gazehounds (it's all in those hips).

I understand that Lurchers are out-bred gazehounds so I do understand your reference to 'quiet.' You never know what you're going to get with out-bred animals.

I got into an out-breeding program quite accidentally. A co-worker had a Doberman and an Afghan bitch. Nature took its course and I relieved him of one of the pups. This Dobraghan turned out to have some unique characteristics. It would follow a pack of scent hounds and when the quarry was sighted take off. He had the jaw strength of the Dobbie, with almost the speed of an Afghan. I started a breeding program and found a market in the Carolinas. Those boys used the Dobraghans as catch dogs.

I wonder now if the boys where I'm at now would be interested in a Borzoi/Dobbie cross to run on coyote?

Ishmael

 

[dolf]

Friends.

 

[dolf]

If it were on me to say, I think I'd call her Niagara. But then when I would be speaking to her one on one, I'd probably call her GiGi. Later when we steel and dash into the cold, perilous night to protect the innocent and hopeless from that not to be named, she would be known as Madame Velocity, Hound of Justice and Scourge of the Underworld!

OK, but no cape!

 

[Skiddles2014]

Cut your lawn.

 

[InternationalFunboy]

OK, but no cape!

Of course no cape.

 

[butters]

character in spades. she's great

name-wise - she looks a bit like a Mischka - Ka for short or Meesh

 

[dolf]

Amber, the name, is starting to grow on me.

 

[dolf]

 

[Saint Peter]

I told you they would work it out!

 

[dolf]

I told you they would work it out!

that's the suzycat version of an apology, about a minute after she made amber cry by bopping her on the nose.