How much would you pay for a lurcher pup?

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Pup is 8 weeks, Deerhound x Greyhound x Collie x Whippet Brindle bitch... could end up with slightly long coat, but hoping it will stay a smooth coat!
Iam hoping to haggle the price down a bit, although can kinda see where the owner is coming from. Pup has been de-flea'd and wormed.
Ideas please!!
 
token 50 quid max, maybe up to a hundred if good working lines and you wanted to work it. No more certainly, you are only encouraging BYBing if so.
 
Yes way way way to much! It's a mongrel at the end of the day. Worming and de fleaing doesnt cost much, they are being greedy and irresponsible. If they give a fig for the pup and not just the money they will let it go to a good home for a token sum. And you can tell them I said so! :p :D
 
Nothing! They are ten a penny in my local rescue (that said the rescue charges £170...) LOL might have just talked myself right out of that!! :D
 
As a comparison, we charge £120 donation for a lurcher, chipped, insured, vaccinated and neutered, also flead and wormed:)
Infact walter the lurcher pup thrown from car is the next one to go in about 10 mins:D
 
Lurchers are fashionable mongrels. That said, most of them are being bred on purpose now and if the owner of the bitch used a KC reg dog, they will have paid a stud fee. I paid £150 for my lurcher puppy last year. It was an accidental breeding and my friend owned the bitch (KC whippet). They were well fed, wormed and extremely well socialised. All puppies cost money to feed and this litter will be big puppies.

I know Cayla has strong feelings about puppy breeding, but I think asking a reasonable price for a puppy deters a lot of wasters from taking puppies on a whim. A Deerhound/Greyhound mix could end up being very big and will be capable of bringing down deer, so be careful if you don't have experience of lurchers/running dogs.

As for taking a lurcher from a rescue centre, you need to be uber careful there, because when I looked recently they were all bull crosses, which are not real lurchers in my view. Running dogs that have been "damaged" by a previous bad owner can be a nightmare to own because some of them are VERY unreliable off the lead and almost impossible to retrain.
 
I have to agree with Tracey1 on this one. Some lurcher lines are highly prized and sought after; you won't get those for peanuts and they'll be going to decent homes who will cherish them throughout rather than let them go to any Tom, Dick or Harry which are the types that usually find themselves in rescue at some time or other especially if they are at chicken feed cost to any takers. That is a generalization on either side BTW!
 
Prices vary. I've paid from as little as £50 up to £250 for my lot. There are some lines bred - mention no names;)- that some people rave about, but they don't do a lot for me personally. If you want to work the dog, check the parents ability. Some lurchers are without the chase & despatch instinct! My most successful lurcher in the ring cost £50.00 from some twerps who bred on a whim who lived in squalor. You never can tell with lurchers. Good luck:D
 
I agree re price if they are well bred and for a purpose, thats why I asked if it was for working or pet? my OH has had lurchers all his life and has paid good money in the past for a specific type to work, he no longer does that, but he was equally suprised by the lurchers we get the rescue in and there quality, inc of course my bootiful shaggy lurcher:D
So no issues from me, as long as they are not skanks breeding what whatever they can.
 
Purpose for pet only.
I have really really wanted to get a lurcher from GRWE, they have been very kind to me. Several have fitted the bill well, but their foster careers have kept them (and who can blame them). Another was lovely, but was in a foster home in kent - too far for me.
My OH now states he wants something with Collie in, so its inteligant enough to be trained 'his way' - ie, 'beg' and 'roll over'!!! Poor Ebby (out current Whipadore) doesn't understand those commands and goes all shy!
I grew up with Whippets (and labs) so I have a experience of ''sight hounds''.
I quite like the mix of these particualr pups, and am awaiting a photo. If I think I can justify the amount, then I will have to see them next week (and get sucked right in no doubt!)
I just don't want to pay £250+ for a bitch pup, who is 'only' a mongeral. I had hoped that £150 is the limit and I really want to stick to it!! Arhhhh
 
I have a lurcher type dog, I got him from a rescue and paid a £120 adoption fee. TO ME HE IS PRICELESS ;0)

I have seen lurcher pups advertised locally and they are £75.00 which I feel is a fair price.
 
I've got a rescued lurcher and ended up paying 120 donation plus 50 castration. (he was too young to be done by the rescue at the time but it was a condition of adoption)
 
I've said it before.... £125 donation fee to GRWE for a chipped, neutered, socialised, cat-friendly (if required), child-friendly (if required) sweetheart :D

I have had a lurcher from a puppy (collie father, deerhound x greyhound mother) and he was a bloody nightmare :D Yes, stunning looking, but as thick as two short planks with no aptitude for learning anything :o:D
 
Haha thats a good point actually Gazey, thinking back all mine with collie in have been as thick as sh!te! Good workers, but thick as you like! The ones with no collie have been much smarter...how odd!
 
I couldnt resist a gratuitous lurcher photo here :D

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The litter were fantastic, half of them were fawn and looked just like mum, the other half were slate greys and collie-imitations just like dad :D It reminded me so much of Lady and the Tramp :D

Dumbest dog I have ever known though :D
 
I wonder if one I had was the same litter, was very similar, and very dumb too! He was called blondie :p I'll dig out a pic! He was deerhound/greyhoundxcollie/greyhound. and huggggggeeee!
 
I only have 2 or 3 rubbish pics of him on the comp, most of the pics I have are proper prints, obviously he was pre digital camera, i think the few I have must have been taken on an old phone. Heres the best of them.
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He was a striking dog and an amazing worker.
 
I'd never buy a lurcher pup from a breeder. There are so many in rescues, there's no way I could justify it.

I've got two, both rescues, both priceless. My greyhound x JRT is as clever as they come (although does have a JRT attitude of big dog in a (not so) small body!!).
 
alcraw said:
I'd never buy a lurcher pup from a breeder. There are so many in rescues, there's no way I could justify it.

I've got two, both rescues, both priceless. My greyhound x JRT is as clever as they come (although does have a JRT attitude of big dog in a (not so) small body!!).
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Oh you must post pics, I just cannot imagine a greyhound x JRT :):):)
 
Here is what I have been sent ... what do you think?
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I love the colour!! Still can't justify the price TBH, so unless a HUGE reduction in price, I think Iam going to have to say no! :( I also 'think' they will get quite big? Bigger than a whippet thats for sure!
 
Hmmmm, ummmmm, what cross did you say they were? They are cute, very cute, but not very, well, lurchery!
 
They look similar to lurcher pups I've seen/known with bull in the cross, the four way tie listed is a fairly common 2nd cross in varying combinations but they don't in my experience lok alot like these pups! How old are they in the pics? They have alot of bone to them and aren't very leggy. They also have rather large folded ears for lurchers! Although obviously they are lurchers as mum is I would just be inclined to debate what dad was! Cayla has probably seen many many more lurchy pups than me though, I'm sure she will say I'm being pedantic! :p :D I wouldn't pick them to work though.
 
Did they say what X the mother was? she does not look like either of those crosses mentioned as in a deerhound greyhound or a whippet x collie? or am I understanding wrong:o it's possible:D

Here is some of our lovely shaggies we had in
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And my handsome shaggy boy
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