Whippet X ? Terrier

[Julie D]

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someone at my workplace has a whippet X ? terrier needing a new home through no fault of his own, due to change in family circumstances, they list his details as follows :-

Leo entire male, age 4 this Sept.

ginger, white sox, belly and tip tail

up to date injections

has mixed with in-laws GSD

lives with toddler

I have not met Leo myself, he is free to a loving home, if interested please p.m. me for contact details,

they have sent me a 'phone photo which I will have to ask someone to kindly put on this topic

Julie

is anyone active on k9 with an e-mail to accept this photo please ?

 

[lurcherman]

u mean a lurcher for sale

 

[Julie D]

is that what he is ?

being a novice skinny dog owner I wasn't quite sure, especially as they said he's 'smaller than a NORMAL whippet'

maybe they're as novice as me and think whippets are greyhound size :- "

Hopefully Lesley will be able to put his little face on here for all to see

thanks for looking :thumbsup:

 

[*Lesley*]

Lurcher or whatever good luck in finding him a home Julie :luck: :luck: :luck:

Here he is :wub:

 

[midlanderkeith]

is that what he is ?being a novice skinny dog owner I wasn't quite sure, especially as they said he's 'smaller than a NORMAL whippet'

maybe they're as novice as me and think whippets are greyhound size :- "

Hopefully Lesley will be able to put his little face on here for all to see

thanks for looking  :thumbsup:

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Maybe im wrong, but think they call terrier x whippet, whirriers

 

[Julie D]

he looks nice doesn't he, for a whirrier

seems clever, anyway, he's got a calculator !

 

[Mini Me]

u mean a lurcher for sale

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technically mate, I am not sure that this would be classed as a lurcher. I thought the definition of a lurcher was a long dog (in particular a greyhound), crossed with a herding dog (most often a collie). The speed and intellegence combined making an excellent pot filling dog so loved by our 'wondering' brethren. I think the only whippet x terrier cross you may get away with calling a lurcher (and very loosley termed) would be a bedlington x whippet. I may be stood corrected?

 

[midlanderkeith]

u mean a lurcher for sale

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technically mate, I am not sure that this would be classed as a lurcher. I thought the definition of a lurcher was a long dog (in particular a greyhound), crossed with a herding dog (most often a collie). The speed and intellegence combined making an excellent pot filling dog so loved by our 'wondering' brethren. I think the only whippet x terrier cross you may get away with calling a lurcher (and very loosley termed) would be a bedlington x whippet. I may be stood corrected?

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Quite right and very nicely put

keith :thumbsup:

 

[lurcherman]

sori i should of explained, its a joke me and my m8 shares, so i will tell u the story im a member of a hunting site and 2 years ago we went down to glouster to get him a dog which was sold as whippetx parson russell terrier, well i put sum pics up and was told thats a nice lurcher :rant: its white about 15 inches and looks mostly russell, so for the next 4 months every one told us its a lurcher of which we wasnt having it, i just kept saying its a russell x but kept being told it was a lurcher,

so i wasnt having a dig julie i just wanted to c wot people said,,

i do know wot a real lurcher is by the way but was being told i hadnt got a clue,,

 

[Susan]

:wub: he's a bonny wee chap what every he is :wub:

He looks to have a wee bit of collie in him

All the best in finding him a super home :thumbsup:

 

[doris]

:wub:   he's a bonny wee chap what every he is  :wub:
He looks to have a wee bit of collie    in him 

All the best in finding him a super home  :thumbsup:

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I agree with all of the above :thumbsup:

although, if he does have some collie in him, wouldn't that make him a lurcher again :lol:

 

[lurcherman]

with collie and whippet then hey yeah its a lurcher but the big point i was trying to make on another site was that a lurcher must complete certain tasks i.e. jump, speed to catch a open bunny with ease,, now my m8s dog which was classed as a lurcher was 15inches so wasnt the best of jumpers and even thow fast of mark wasnt a great runner compared to my whippet x, over 100 yards would be 40 yards behind,, but this is only my on view,, so if ur gunna say ITS ALURCHER then a little thought should be put into it,, 25 years ago we wouldnt be saying its a lurcher but now every dog is one,, well not in my book chaps..

 

[lurcherman]

oh and im not saying these small dogs cant do a job, my m8 lurcher well really russell x did a great job bushing and tried going to ground of which he was best at yet a proper lurcher was more at ease in open groind to stretch his legs out fully..

hey but i dont know it all..

 

[OEH]

I think that it accepted that a lurcher is a cross between any sighthound with any working dog, this includes terriers- wheaten, irish and bull terrier crosses are all popular as well as the bedlington cross. Retriever crosses are also accepted as lurchers.

 

[mao]

thank goodness for that, I was beginning to think my 2 Beddie crosses were no longer lurchers!!!! (w00t)

He's a cute looking dog :wub:

 

[lurcherman]

cant u c my point thow we was being told that a dog of 15inches that was russell looks colour and how he works was a lurcher, i like my lurchers to have speed 1st then be able to jump a barbie fence, sight, and also the dog in question had a small tail, lurcher? not in a real world in aint..

 

[Mini Me]

I think that it accepted that a lurcher is a cross between any sighthound with any working dog, this includes terriers- wheaten, irish and bull terrier crosses are all popular as well as the bedlington cross.  Retriever crosses are also accepted as lurchers.

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I hate to be pedantic, but terriers are not 'working dogs.' If they do a job of work, i.e go to ground, which is their original task, then they are classed as a working terrier, but they are first and formost a terrier. A working breed is any dog that is in the working group, i.e Boxer, Doberman. A lurcher is as I have said a FIRST cross between a long dog (in short terms a sight hound - but again technically a greyhound), and a herding breed, NOT a working breed. People have over the years begin to use the term 'lurcher' to encompass any cross or multi cross (mongrel) dog that chases rabbits and has a broken coat. I am afraid they are wrong in doing so.

I have a friend who has a .....wait for it....(greyhound X whippet) x (greyhound x collie) x (greyhound x wheaten) x (greyhound x bull). This animal is an excellent hunting beasty, but could never be called a true lurcher. In fact, it is only the greyhound/collie cross within that lot that is a true lurcher, everything else being first crosses. This dog is technically a working mongrel, and dont get me wrong, an incredible working mongrel at that!! Pre ban this thing took 'charlies for fun'. The owner if asked calls this dog a lurcher, but he is under no illusions as to the real case, it just makes life easier to say lurcher, than to go into the details.

As for crossing some of the more recent 'lurchers' I have seen in the papers lately...for example greyhound x pointers (what on earth), I cannot see the point (pardon the pun), but why cross a breed of dog that is essentially made to point and flush game to a waiting gun or bird of prey, with a dog that is bred to run like f*ck and catch the animal itself? The poor sod must look like its dancing, stop, point, flush, chase, no stop, no chase, no point, no chase....arrrrgh!!!!!!!!!!! PMSL

 

[lurcherman]

ur talking sum sence there mini me :cheers: :cheers:

 

[Julie D]

whatever Leo is, he is still waiting for a new home :- "

Hopefully he will bring the lovely whippet temperament with him to wherever that may be :thumbsup:

Julie

 

[poley]

I own a whippet/whippet. whippet/lakeland. she is a whirrier.she stands 20in to the shoulder. jumps like a stag. swims like a fish. takes large rabbits and works well with the ferrets marking well.and is pretty good on the lamp. although retreving to hand leaves a lot to be desierd.

but could i enter her in a lurcher show?