Greyhound puppies.... I WANT ONE :) :) :)

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Kimberleigh is torturing me! She has sent me pictures of her adorable greyhound puppies so I can post them on here.... OMG they are just so sweet! I want one! In fact I want them all!

Enjoy :)

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Go on ....... surely you can never have too many greyhounds :) ?

I'd love one of the brindle boys.
 
Oh how weird! I expected them to look like big whippet puppies but they dont! I'd still like one though. The one with the eye patch please!
 
The one with the big white stripe, please. Bless their little worried faces! I’m very puppy broody but I know it won’t happen til we lose Zak, who’s only 8!
 
Yay its letting me post!!

Thank you for posting them Levrier 😀

They are wild now - they turn 7 weeks tomorrow and pics were taken at 6 weeks so they are growing like little weeds!

I think we are keeping 5 or 6?! Madness! In partnership with a friend though who has kennels at home along with gallops, and is installing a pool for them too. It gives decent odds of one turning out good enough for the coursing field, any that dont make it we will find pet homes for.

I'm pretty sure at least the vast majority are spoken for now which is great, they're lovely pups
 
Yep I’ll definitly have two - the second picture and the last one - oh how I wish :) :) :)

Now to arrange the lottery win and bigger house :D

Which ones are you keeping Kim? The brindles are very typy (is that a word?) they all have the same sort of head :)
 
Lévrier;13803677 said:
Yep I’ll definitly have two - the second picture and the last one - oh how I wish :) :) :)

Now to arrange the lottery win and bigger house :D

Which ones are you keeping Kim? The brindles are very typy (is that a word?) they all have the same sort of head :)
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Numbers 3/4/8/12 are the ones which are staying I think! Thats 2 bitches and 2 dogs and have another 1 of each as possibilities but unsure which ones. Number 3 is my personal favourite - she is so pretty and has a fantastic temperament!

Number 2 is the naughtiest!! She is always the last to come back and I inevitably have to go and catch her as she knows when its time for bed and doesn't want to go haha.

Number 13 is the smallest boy, but not by much. He is quite independent, which I guess stems from keeping away from his bigger brothers who try to bully him a bit.

Typey is the perfect word, and I think the brindles stand out for this because of the colour - like horses colour can throw your eye off and so the whites do look slightly different to their brindle siblings
 
Oh dear I nearly asked if 2 and 13 had found homes yet.....no! No! Step away from the gorgeous puppies, it would be mayhem with a puppy AND Mad Millie lurcher :D
 
Do you look for a different type of coursing grey than a racing one? I wonder if they need to be slightly more robust to run on less than a perfect surface?

When I had my lurcher there was nothing more thrilling than watching her course a hare, an amazing sight.
 
Number 2 is just gorgeous!! And being naughty makes her even more want-able!

Thanks for posting these, I always thought they would be so much more angular, but they are adorable.
 
Sorry to jump on this post but I don’t suppose anyone is looking for 2 rescue dogs to adopt? One is a whippet bitch and othe male bull lurcher? I helped transport these to rescue long story short the foster home fell through and they are now both in kennels with no interest at all and sadly the bull isn’t doing well in kennels. They are a bonded pair and are in Cheshire xx
 
Clodagh said:
Do you look for a different type of coursing grey than a racing one? I wonder if they need to be slightly more robust to run on less than a perfect surface?

When I had my lurcher there was nothing more thrilling than watching her course a hare, an amazing sight.
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They are a completely different animal imo - you could stand a large coursing grey next to a small racung grey and mistake them for two separate breeds.

The bloodlines are entirely separate - but some coursing greys do have racing blood and some also do well on the track. So there can be a bit of crossover, but generally nobody would bother taking a racing bred grey onto the coursing field.

They do tend to be much more robust overall - but now the coursing has been so watered down to try to curb the antis that its often more of a straight line run anyway which is sad because there is something magical about watching coursing in its true form
 
kimberleigh said:
They are a completely different animal imo - you could stand a large coursing grey next to a small racung grey and mistake them for two separate breeds.

The bloodlines are entirely separate - but some coursing greys do have racing blood and some also do well on the track. So there can be a bit of crossover, but generally nobody would bother taking a racing bred grey onto the coursing field.

They do tend to be much more robust overall - but now the coursing has been so watered down to try to curb the antis that its often more of a straight line run anyway which is sad because there is something magical about watching coursing in its true form
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Thank you, that is interesting. With you say it is watered down, do you mean the hare gets a longer 'head start'? It used to be 80 yards I think, but may have dreamed that. (PM if you prefer).
 
Clodagh said:
Thank you, that is interesting. With you say it is watered down, do you mean the hare gets a longer 'head start'? It used to be 80 yards I think, but may have dreamed that. (PM if you prefer).
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Yeah the slipper uses his owm discretion now - basically meaning some hares have got to the escape without even a single turn. More than a couple turns is unusual. Open coursing (like what the uk had) is almost non existent anf it is just the park coursing here. So hare is released, dogs are slipped and its more of a straight line race of whoever reaches the hare first wins.

The dogs are muzzled at all times so minimises risk to hares and they work very hard on conservation to ensure the population is as healthy as possible, which is great but its very regimented
 
kimberleigh said:
Yeah the slipper uses his owm discretion now - basically meaning some hares have got to the escape without even a single turn. More than a couple turns is unusual. Open coursing (like what the uk had) is almost non existent anf it is just the park coursing here. So hare is released, dogs are slipped and its more of a straight line race of whoever reaches the hare first wins.

The dogs are muzzled at all times so minimises risk to hares and they work very hard on conservation to ensure the population is as healthy as possible, which is great but its very regimented
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Oh wow - totally different! I had no idea they released the hares, so are the bought in 'crates'? Like hunting the carted stag - does that still happen over there? And how do you stop or catch a hound mid course?
 
Clodagh said:
Oh wow - totally different! I had no idea they released the hares, so are the bought in 'crates'? Like hunting the carted stag - does that still happen over there? And how do you stop or catch a hound mid course?
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They catch them in nets a good while before the coursing meetings are due to begin, feed them, vaccinate them, worm them etc. Any pregnant ones are released immediately. They keep them on safe/secure land that they cant escape from and when they are deemed fully fit/healthy they start to train them lol. They put them in boxes, then open the box and let them run up the field with little terriers behind them, so there is no chance of them being caught and they dont even run properly as they know the dogs arent fast enough to catch them (so dont knacker themselves out)! But it teaches them to run to the escape area which is like a fence with a gap under that the hares can get through but the greyhounds cant! So when they are coursed by the greys they automatically head straight for the escape. Once the season is over they are all released back into the wild.

Not sure about any hunting other than fox hunting tbh as thats all that is done where I am!
 
Wow totally different to how I was expecting it to be - I was thinking coursing like the Waterloo cup over here? Trained greyhounds chasing trained hares :D
 
Lévrier;13805008 said:
Wow totally different to how I was expecting it to be - I was thinking coursing like the Waterloo cup over here? Trained greyhounds chasing trained hares :D
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Absolutely it seems odd tbh but of course it does make sense from a welfare POV.
And LOL at them being chased by the terriers, if our terriers put up a hare they would be at full pelt, yapping and hysterical and the hares sort of lollop along in front 'hop one skip one' as they know they are safe.
 
Lévrier;13805008 said:
Wow totally different to how I was expecting it to be - I was thinking coursing like the Waterloo cup over here? Trained greyhounds chasing trained hares :D
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It used to be the same as the Waterloo Cup - but the antis put so much pressure on it that they 'amended' it so it was more acceptable in the eyes of the animal rights nutters 🙈
 
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