saluki advice?

[Klenchblaize]

But the Saluki-bred dogs could take it or leave it - sometimes brilliant, sometimes totally nonchalant.

Bit like a good woman!

You're spot on with your reference to hunting down a hare. I fondly recall (now) thinking I had lost my dog after it disappeared, only to slink back to the vehicle some 30-minutes later with what was left of a hare in mouth!

K

 

[Keith Edmunds]

Bit like a good woman!

You're spot on with your reference to hunting down a hare. I fondly recall (now) thinking I had lost my dog after it disappeared, only to slink back to the vehicle some 30-minutes later with what was left of a hare in mouth!

K

After a good course, a hare had often earned the right to freedom - it had proven all it needed to prove as a superb athlete yet those bloody Saluki lurchers would just keep on her, often driving her closer and closer to the centre of a large arable field. The hare would tire and the end was sad and inevitable - all in slow motion.

Give me a 60-second greyhound course any day of the week.

 

[Klenchblaize]

After a good course, a hare had often earned the right to freedom - it had proven all it needed to prove as a superb athlete yet those bloody Saluki lurchers would just keep on her, often driving her closer and closer to the centre of a large arable field. The hare would tire and the end was sad and inevitable - all in slow motion.

Give me a 60-second greyhound course any day of the week.

Its a choice between a hunting or sporting dog. I prefer the former.

K

 

[Greenmist]

I only ever saw pure-bred Saluki's coursing once, that was at the Millennium Cup/Greyhound 2000, and I was actually surprised how quick and nimble they were - not just endurance merchants. I've watched Saluki blooded lurchers course many times and the really good ones made hare coursing look unfair. They had it all - high prey drive, blistering acceleration and bags of stamina. I never enjoyed watching a hare being worn down to a jog - not my cup of tea, but fair play to the dogs.

I would agree with Rake-about, I knew some very good dog-men who could get a Bedlington Greyhounds to do whatever they wanted, but the Saluki-bred dogs could take it or leave it - sometimes brilliant, sometimes totally nonchalant.

D. Brian Plummer, wrote about pure bred Salukis in Iran, much smaller than what is classed as a saluki over here