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on 7 October 2011
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Love those longdogs.
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This journal is dedicated to my boy Culhaiwn who died in October of 2005 aged 8 years. We got him as a puppy from the RSPCA in Nottingham, England at the age of 4 months. He died in his mums arms in Holland Nebraska USA after being diagnosed with lymphoma. He was a well travelled dog, sweet and loving and the best friend a person could ask for...
This is a place where people can post photos, tell stories, and interact with other lurcher lovers.
The English Lurcher is not a purebred dog but is of definite type, usually having a member of the greyhound family as one of its parents. It is thought to have been developed because, at one time in England, only those of noble blood were permitted to own a Greyhound or any other sight-dogs such as the Saluki, Wippet, Borzoi, Afgan hound, irish wolfhound, Deerhound, etc. So these crosses were made to produce an efficient hunting companion for commoners and a popular poacher's dog. Possibly the best Lurchers result from a Greyhound X working herding cross.
This is a place where people can post photos, tell stories, and interact with other lurcher lovers.
The English Lurcher is not a purebred dog but is of definite type, usually having a member of the greyhound family as one of its parents. It is thought to have been developed because, at one time in England, only those of noble blood were permitted to own a Greyhound or any other sight-dogs such as the Saluki, Wippet, Borzoi, Afgan hound, irish wolfhound, Deerhound, etc. So these crosses were made to produce an efficient hunting companion for commoners and a popular poacher's dog. Possibly the best Lurchers result from a Greyhound X working herding cross.
deerhounds, greyhounds, lamping, longdogs, lurchers, lure coursing, poaching, rspca, sighthounds, spca, staghounds, whippets, wolfhounds
