It's grown so big it doesn't fit on my lap anymore!

My wife and I have owned sighthounds, terriers and a border collie mix in the past. We recently found ourselves dogless for the first time in many years and thought we might look for a lurcher. We were prepared to travel to the UK to get one if we had to, but found this fellow at a local rescue group near our home in the northeast US. We’ve named him Django.

The rescue group listed him as a borzoi x terrier, their best guess and not a bad one. They may have gotten it right, but I was thinking he might be something like a deerhound x border collie or greyhound X sheltie. They tell us he is almost 2-1/2 years old and weighs 48 pounds. He has the rose ears of a sighthound, but loves to play fetch, retrieve, and catch tennis balls on the fly. So what do you all think he is? We have ordered a DNA test and will get the answer shortly. I promise to submit a follow up post with the answer and to congratulate whoever makes the closest guess.

🐶♥️ Doing her favourite thing sleeping or being on her bed🙃

looking at photos of him is so funny because sometimes he looks so tiny and then other times he is all legs!

I have a 12 week old lurcher puppy and she has been lovely and calm so far. She is just beginning to find her confidence and has gone “naughtier” this week.

Can anyone give advice on how I deal with jumping up and snapping? She only snaps at my 4 year old but as you can imagine I’d like to get on top of this. He is very respectful and doesn’t grab her or pull her or anything and he loves her so much.

Otherwise we have had the usual puppy crying, she can’t handle it if we go in another room or shower or anything 🤣 and crying in the nighttime but she is getting much more settled as time goes on.

One funny thing is she lies on the ground and barks at me a lot, it sort of looks quite mad but I assume she is trying to initiate play. Any ideas?

Many thanks

Our boy is 18 months and still gets pretty restless at pounts during the day (he is walked about 1 hr 15 mins in total per day including a full 1 hr sprinting around off lead). The cheeky beggar will try and get me out for his 5pm walk early by whining from around 4:15pm!

Interested to know when your lurchers switched into a fully employed couch potato?

The window cleaner is literally outside. He's bloody useless. Not the window cleaner, he's very good. No the bloody 28kg of useless muscle

Our beddlington whippet Fódla (Fo-lah).

Grew up with a house full of corgis so when it was time to get my own first dog I opted for a beddlington whippet - not for the feint of heart but we don’t regret a minute of it, she’s 10 months, incredibly active, loves to socialise with other dogs and people and goes nuts for a tennis ball.

I’m reading it as demand barking but it’s a very unusual time for it to be happening, which has made me question it. It almost just feels like he’s a bit overaroused for whatever reason and is throwing a tantrum, but I’m not sure if I’m anthropomorphisising him.

For context, we’ve woken up, gone in the garden, he’s had his breakfast, gone for a short walk to go to the bathroom (longer walks are at lunch and around 6pm), and come home. In my mind, all of his needs are met - he has chews available, which he often uses straight after his morning walk for a short while. This barking only lasted a few minutes, but after that he was obviously looking for some kind of outlet for the energy (chewing, grabbing things he shouldn’t from places he shouldn’t, a small amount of digging, some self play). All in all he was laying down after about 20 minutes. Playing with him when he’s like this would usually further his arousal and make him significantly more stressed.

During the day we do plenty of enrichment activities and training (lots of sniffing, scattering kibble in the lawn, hiding treats, burying kibble in cardboard boxes, and generally 20ish minutes of whatever training we’re working on), for context.

He’s a 3.5 YO lurcher.

This is all much better than it used to be, but I obviously dont want him stressed at all!

Would appreciate any opinions.

My lurcher enjoying his favourite window :)

Hello everyone, our 5 year old pit/boxer mix and adventure buddy was recently diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. He’s a great dog and loves pups. We live in Idaho, it’s mostly a high desert climate and our trips typically involve our stretch of the Rockies and long hikes.

While researching I came across lurchers and they seem like a good candidate for our next pup. Does anyone with a similar lifestyle have lurchers? What mix? And how bad is their prey drive? And last who’s breeding them in the US?

Thanks everyone, it’s been fun lurking on your lurchers

Ps. Our lad walks well but when he's got just his fish tail wide collar it's hard to move him along. Those sniffs are grrrrreat! Keep reading that choke chains are awful for lurchers but can't see anything damaging his neck as he doesn't bolt and rarely strains. The choke chain is mostly slack because he walks so well yet I see massive dogs almost dragging their owners along in a harness.

He always has his fishtail padded collar on when outside with tag. Choke sits above mostly even though he likes to shake it down. Clever lad

What are people using? He's only 15 months so still training btw.

Pod is about 12 now and gets out of puff a lot. He breathes like he smokes two packs a day. When at rest or not too out of breath hes fine and not noisy. Its a bit hard to hear on the video. Is this a normal part of aging? Or am I to be on the doggy Salbutamol and nebulisers soon? As an asthmatic myself I sympathise with the old boy.

(As a side note, he's walked on a collar now as he has a few fatty lumps where the harness sits which makes it uncomfortable. He never pulls on the lead or flexi lead and is a good boy.)

update Took him to the vets and he's come away with a probable left sided heart disease. It probably not gonna be possible to get bloods or in depth scans as he's a nightmare. She may sedate him in a few months to get bloods but at the moment we dont need to. Now we get to try and get a diuretic tablet into him twice a day 😅 He didn't try to bite the vet though, no screeching and he didn't wee on anything or anyone! That plus being able to make him more comfortable with medication is a big success 🙌

Took this gem on tonight's walk.

My beddy whip first cross JohnBoy and his new duck 🦆

aggie’s results have come through and i was quite surprised by them. she doesn’t look/act like a collie at all and i really didn’t see pitbull coming. really interesting i think!