Dave Hancock Lurchers

[Levs]

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A friend of mine has a massive Hancock dog, it's very good at making the vet rich! it can find any barbed wire within a ten mile radius and run into it flat out it also excells at running back up the beam into the person holding the lamp and knocking them flying. The other day it ran into a moving car but unfortunately it survived :lol: .

If you want to get a Hancock dog please yourself but make sure it is for the right reasons ( none that I can think of ) don't be getting one just because you've read " Merle ". I over heard someone with a puppy at a show talking about their new Hancock pup they said " yeah it'll be a great dog, the breeding is there isn't it? " :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[calla7]

A friend of mine has a massive Hancock dog, it's very good at making the vet rich! it can find any barbed wire within a ten mile radius and run into it flat out it also excells at running back up the beam into the person holding the lamp and knocking them flying. The other day it ran into a moving car but unfortunately it survived  :lol: .

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Hmm maybe this lad is trying to tell your friend something.

My advice? Pick a car with an open door

 

[jonnie]

Sighthound lover, first decide wot you want your dog to do! Just a family pet?How much room have you got?To work rabbit,to course hare,to work fox?

My time with lurchers started twenty five years ago when i rescued a Bedlington/Whippet from a back yard breeder.Got her at six months and lost her at sixteen years.The best companion and rabbit catcher ! Put her back to a racing whippet at 3 and got four corking pups my brother lost her son last year at 16years.

Trying to find a replacement has not been easy,some friends breed a line of whippet/greyhounds and a line of whippet/greyhound/deerhounds.My next pup was a wxg and a hare coursing dog to impress.Sadly a case of tetinus took that dog at just 3years.

October 2004 I collect Hazel Dam;half greyhound qtr whippet qtr deerhound Sire; same mix different bloodlines.Now 13 months 24" dark brindle/white broken coated a stunning looking pup and very very fast!Will run and catch rabbit but her real future is the running of hare.

This pup is superb nature looks and ability just wot i want but it is a very personal choice. Good luck and good sport. Jon

 

[sparky]

enough said about hancock lurchers i reckon. we all know him and the dogs he produces, i like a nice sheepdog cross whippet rather than greyhound cross sheepdog. if the sheepdog gives anything he gives a better jacket to the whippet.

 

[mally]

enough said about hancock lurchers i reckon. we all know him and the dogs he produces, i like a nice sheepdog cross whippet rather than greyhound cross sheepdog. if the sheepdog gives anything he gives a better jacket to the whippet.

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I've never liked collie x lurchers. I've always found them unpredictable with other dogs and strangers. I've also been out with a friend who has one and if we hadn't got permission we'd be in armliegh jail. It didn't yap it sang like the grove and rufford hunt. It was no use nor ornament. I couldn't catch a rabbit in a tennis court.

I know there are a few out there that do the buisiness but i'd never own one there are better x lurchers IMO

 

[nigelmcfc]

I`ve seen some good Hancock dogs and I`ve seen some really poor ones that couldn`t catch a rabbit in a barrel. Like you said Mally, I`ve always found that collie xs are prone to opening up and if you`re not on permission then it could get a little bit embarrasing!!

I`ve had lurchers that have had a touch of collie in them, but never more than 1/8 .

The collie lurcher craze was just a hype perputrated by Mr Plummer, who was a big mate of Hancock. People read the books, read Plummers articles in Shooting News and voila , collie lurchers are the only true hunting dog. Personally speaking , I`ve always run whippetx lurchers and whippets , and like others have said in this post a good whippet will do everything a lurcher will do in the field . Added advantage with a whippet is that you`re not being given a guessed at pedigree when you buy one either .

 

[sighthoundlover]

I wouldn't change my hancock lurchers for the world. They were difficult to train but they have made all the effort worth it.

They are excellent all round workers. Regarding collie x's yapping, my experience of this is when a dog is ran too young, hence it gets frustrated by not being able to catch it's prey.

Collie x's are going to be hyperactive if not given enough stimulation physically and mentally. My dogs have two hours exercise a day and have mental games in the day. Playing ball games, hide and seek. The kong dog toy is also brilliant it keeps my lurchers occupied for hours.

Alot of collie x's are unpredictable but given the right amount of socialisation when young reduces the risk of this. I couldn't ask for better dog's around children and other animals. My lurchers regularly run about with a yorkshire terrier.

I agree alot of hancocks dogs aren't very good dogs at all, but most of what they turn out like when older is down to their upbringing.

I will always get a lurcher from hancock. My personal favourate being the 3/4 greyhound 1/4 border collie.

 

[sighthoundlover]

Regarding hancock lurchers my father has owned them for over 20 years, he has also bred his own bedlington/greyhound cross for his own use, two pups that he saw out of this cross were excellent dogs, but someone else that had one of the pups from the same litter came out lamping and he couldn't beleive it was out of the same litter, it was useless.

So it's down to the trainers not down to the breeding of the dog. He has always found that hancock lurchers no matter what cross are excellent dogs, they retreive like a gundog, they mark when ferreting, they'll take fur or feather, they always retreive live to hand when size allows it.

So there is no point slating anyone who breeds lurchers. Every breeder will have bred good and bad lurchers, but it is not the breeders fault it's all down to training when young. What you put in is what you get out. All the effort is worth it.

When people have seen our hancock dogs work and our own breeding work, we are always being offered alot of money for our dogs, but we wouldn't sell them for the world.

The simple reason for this is because alot of people can't be bothered to train their dogs, they expect them to learn themselves.

 

[sparky]

hi sighthound lover, i have seen the opposite of what you have said. my friends hancock lurcher wouldnt and couldnt work and the times it caught anything it ran off and devoured it. but thats not to say they all cannot work, i think the issue is, the appaling rate at which he produces pups a lot of which end up unwanted. this post is not meant to offend you. regards

 

[Dave S]

Just want to ask if anyone has any information on hancock lurchers they wouldnt mind sharing with me?
I've heard they are really good dogs from one source, then conflicting information from someone else.

If someone could put some pics up of a few that would be great too.

Thanks

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[Dave S]

Hi don't you think it's the time and hard work that is put into a dog not the conditions it's been bred in,. I've had collie cross lurchers for the past 25 years, the first from a cat & dog shelter, the second from a breeder in Scotland. Both dogs have served me wellin both ferreting and lamping.

 

[Milo-Quin]

I wouldn't change my hancock lurchers for the world. They were difficult to train but they have made all the effort worth it.
They are excellent all round workers. Regarding collie x's yapping, my experience of this is when a dog is ran too young, hence it gets frustrated by not being able to catch it's prey.

Collie x's are going to be hyperactive if not given enough stimulation physically and mentally. My dogs have two hours exercise a day and have mental games in the day. Playing ball games, hide and seek. The kong dog toy is also brilliant it keeps my lurchers occupied for hours.

Alot of collie x's are unpredictable but given the right amount of socialisation when young reduces the risk of this. I couldn't ask for better dog's around children and other animals. My lurchers regularly run about with a yorkshire terrier.

I agree alot of hancocks dogs aren't very good dogs at all, but most of what they turn out like when older is down to their upbringing.

I will always get a lurcher from hancock. My personal favourate being the 3/4 greyhound 1/4 border collie.

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[milly]

Hi don't you think it's the time and hard work that is put into a dog not the conditions it's been bred in,. I've had collie cross lurchers for the past 25 years, the first from a cat & dog shelter, the second from a breeder in Scotland. Both dogs have served me wellin both ferreting and lamping.

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Got it in two :thumbsup:

p.s hows the road show Dave?

Geoff