A Lurcher question

[The Original Kao]

How much sight hound does a dog have to have in them to be classed as a lurcher?
The info I'm getting from google is a lurcher is a sight hound crossed with something else but does it have to be half sight hound, half something else or can it be 1/4 sight hound and the rest something else?
Reason I'm asking is down to the fact my pup is 1/4 whippet and I'm asked a lot about her breeding. It's a mouthful always having to say 'half border collie, 1/4 dalmation, 1/4 whippet' so TBH I'd like to be able to say lurcher Especially as I get tongue tied easily too

 

[Bosworth]

definitely a lurcher. Anything crossed with a sight hound is a lurcher. regardless of percentage. So yes you have a lurcher

 

[The Original Kao]

Thanks
If it wasn't lurcher then I was going to call her a designer dog name of a dippit collie

 

[cremedemonthe]

I have a longdog, (2 sight hounds crossed) just to make things confusing I had a Whirrier before that too (Whippet x JRT lurcher)!
As the other poster has said, if it's got sight hound in there somewhere it's a lurcher even if it doesn't resemble a running dog in any shape or form.
Oz

 

[The Original Kao]

Thanks
A whirrier and a long dog are 2 types I'd never heard of.

 

[Crackedhalo]

A lurcher is any sighthound crossed with a non sighthound, A longdog is any sighthound crossed with another sighthound.

 

[s4sugar]

A lurcher is sight hound crossed with collie or the result of crossing the above back to a sighthound, collie or another lurcher.
A longdog is a cross between sight hound breeds.

Anything else is a cross breed or mongrel or what ever you want to call it. If one parent is purebred it is a xxxx cross.

30 odd years ago I was at an agricultural fair with a lurcher show. I took in my Dobermann for some practice and was told she wasn't eligible. I asked why not as she traced back to a greyhound in 1906 but I doubted that some of the other exhibits could prove their heritage. I was allowed to enter and Zena got shortlisted.

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

O i like the Dippit collie

 

[The Original Kao]

A lurcher is sight hound crossed with collie or the result of crossing the above back to a sighthound, collie or another lurcher.
A longdog is a cross between sight hound breeds.

Anything else is a cross breed or mongrel or what ever you want to call it. If one parent is purebred it is a xxxx cross.

30 odd years ago I was at an agricultural fair with a lurcher show. I took in my Dobermann for some practice and was told she wasn't eligible. I asked why not as she traced back to a greyhound in 1906 but I doubted that some of the other exhibits could prove their heritage. I was allowed to enter and Zena got shortlisted.

Suppose you could do the same with a great dane too then

 

[The Original Kao]

O i like the Dippit collie

we might just go with that, it does kinda suit her.
The lady who does the dog training class we go to commented on her being a bit 'away with the fairies' sometimes lol I blamed the dalmation in her

 

[s4sugar]

Suppose you could do the same with a great dane too then

You could.

It was more to cock a snook at the "lurchermen" who for the most part had mongrels with no idea as to their breeding.
A dog of unknown breeding who's type doesn't scream part long dog is not a lurcher - neither was my Dobe but she had a more valid claim.

 

[Bosworth]

'A lurcher is sight hound crossed with collie or the result of crossing the above back to a sighthound, collie or another lurcher.
A longdog is a cross between sight hound breeds.

Anything else is a cross breed or mongrel or what ever you want to call it. If one parent is purebred it is a xxxx cros'

my bedlington whippet is a lurcher, she has no collie in her whatsoever. And a bedlington whippet is a much sort after lurcher mix. So no a lurcher does not have to have any collie in it at all.

 

[lizness]

Have we any photos?

 

[s4sugar]

A Bedlington is a long dog masquerading as a terrier.

So a Bedlington x whippet is technically a long dog not a lurcher but the term gets misused.
You take both long dogs & lurchers to lurcher shows.

I agree that Bedlington x whippet is one of the few worthwhile crosses. Too often people label any mutt with long legs as a lurcher and next thing are breeding from it.

 

[The Original Kao]

Have we any photos?

There's 2 of her in the collie picture thread on here if you want to see her
They're not recent pics exactly,1 is from when she was 8 weeks, the other about 11 weeks, she's now 16 weeks. must get snapping some more.