A good dog is a good dog, no two ways about that. Whether we should be calling anything with a bit of greyhound or whippet in it, a “lurcher” is a different matter. Sometimes a cross is just a cross, and a mongrel is just a mongrel, no matter how well it hunts. The names we give them have more to do with our egos than their performance. In a farming culture, a “working dog”, is a herding dog. A stock dog. A drover’s dog. The Greyhound-Working-dog cross had two attributes that were historically vital. 1. A high level of trainability. These were not “point-and-shoot” dogs for running under the lamp. They had to be discreet. They had to work quietly, whether it was a quick circuit of a field to flush hares into snares set in the hedge, or snaffling a hen on command as the traveller’s wagon passed the farmyard and the farmer wasn’t about. They had to stay out of sight when required. 2. Deniability. Lurchers originated - as far as we can tell - at a time when owning Greyhounds for hunting was restricted. A rough-coated collie-marked dog is far easier to pass off as “a sheepdog with a bit o’ leg… they breed them that way over at……” than any of the short-coated sporting-dog crosses. I’ll say it again. A good dog is a good dog. It’s just a pity that we lose the history and meaning of “Lurcher” by common error.

Well done love the video 😊

Ive always got mine from the decent traveller's, obviously working stock , the best a rhodesian ridgeback x greyhound, fast powerful and intelligent , 2nd, saluki whippet x greyhound very fast but took longer to train but never ran out of steam, 3rd bull greyhound just a superb temperament and deer catcher 4th bedlington whippet clever and hard as nails, all lived very long lives, i now have another bull grey thats hare quick and still learning his trade

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Good old jet RIP

What's the cross mate? She looks like 100% greyhound

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Dogs and ferrets 👍 good bag .

Good camp out 👍

Great video mate ❤

I think that he has covered everything about lurches and think people should should listen to what what he saying

Good talk about your ferrets👍🐰

Each to his own mate. Where i live rabbits arent thick on the ground so i only go after them september til feb. Everythings regional. All the best mate love your channel.

Great video mate good all round. 👌

Very good mate

Great video, enjoyed keeping my ferrets years ago. Rabbits very scarce in a lot of areas in Ireland these days unfortunately.

I love working my ferrets, it’s a great way of catching a free food source that’s not wrapped in plastic and the ticks are a nuisance, top man. Roll on the ferret season

Brilliant review mate. what do you feed kits thats just about to venture from the nest ? and is kibble ok to leave in with them ?

Play with me! 😂❤

Burgess excel kibble . Thanks for sharing 👌

Excellent review mate you’re spot on. I’ve kept ferrets for a long time never had any issues with, like you say : handle them well, keep them clean, fed properly can’t go wrong . My ferrets get fresh rabbit pigeon pheasant etc in the winter months. Summer I will stop the meat and feed them on Burgess ex

Are there any that are better in cold conditions? Not live but hunt and walk comfortably in canadian winters?

Very good

I really enjoyed this video. I’m a beaver trapper who traps for meat here in the US. We have no concept of netting. I’m going to look into that and see if I can locate a source for a net over here. I have a lot of beaver trapping vids on my channel. You are exactly right about feeding yourself these days. If you ever find yourself in the US, let me know and I’ll be happy to take you on my beaver line.

Cracking video as per mate👍

No there born with one that they shed seasonally. 👍

Good vid , i used to enjoy camping out , but the years have took there toll now on the owd bones 🙈

Top boy

Nice !

Another great video mate

cracking video mate saving up for some ferrets now, could you do a video on how to snare squirrels and use the fenn traps for rabbits thanks

cracking vid mate

Great stuff. The common people used to feed themselves this way all the time before the power mongers fenced off the common land and claimed it for themselves. That is why we had the war against royalty and their cronies only to be betrayed after we had won it by politicians

Good video, good sound advice and good mentality. Cheers nice one .

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Smashing video with great content

Go home play whit tu toli

American always much talking👎👎👎👎👎🤮🤮🤮

Well done good to enjoy a night under the tarp! Not bad spoon carving job! It’s a skill and a half not easy but you did well…

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Nice one lads

All agreed no macho nonsense just let them be comfortable after doing the job! Good video

My dogs act like elephants around mice! So funny

I had a 25%grey 75%apbt and by far the best field dog I’ve ever had, single handed done tens of badger and hundreds of fox in his life, now I just work with apbts as I never work rabbits anymore

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