How would I go about breeding Lurchers? Is it OK to have just hounds & terriers or do you need to mix in collie too? Also if you just breed hounds are they Lurchers or Longdogs?

Hi Guest,
The dictionary definition of 'Lurcher' is a "cross-bred dog, properly between the collie and the greyhound".

i have a bedlington whippet greyhound lurcher and shes lovely
lurcher puppies aren't always easy to find home for unless they are from working parents

Guest please be aware that the breeding of Lurchers will soon become a romantic flash back to the past as the coursing for Hare & Rabbit is fast becoming an illegal activity, sad I know, and I guess in the long run it will be regretted, if the number of hares being killed on the roads of Lincolnshire is anything to be gone by. To see an animal twitching on the road hit by a car make me feel very sad, but it appears those who know better think this is the way to deal with an excess number of animal, heaven forbid they should be run down by a hound and killed in one quick action.

Guest, it sounds to me as if you need a heck of a lot more knowledge before you go about this whim. there are hundreds of lurchers from such whims, residing in rescue centres desperately in need of homes :(

To give a brief answer to your question, a lurcher is a x between a sight hound and a pastoral breed. eg greyhound x collie. A long dog is mix of pure sight hounds ie whippet x greyhound. the exception to the rule in lurchers is where bedlingtons are added to the mix. certain people are also infusing bull terrier blood
:( but personally I do not approve of this, being a lurcher/longdog purist myself.
Before you start on some irresponsible, ill thought out breeding idea, you need to have a proven working hound, which is put with the utmost care to another suitable dog, with the knowledge of the sort of puppy you are wanting to produce e.g a rabbiting lurcher for sandy soil or a hare coursing longdog for stubble, or a foxing lurcher for moorland or????? the list goes on but you need to know all this first.

a Lurcher is a cross between a sighthound & any other dog, except sighthound.
Sighthounds crossed are Longdogs...
My advice to you is DON'T breed, there are too many lurchers already in rescue centres....
If you want a good lurcher, buy a copy of the Countrymans Weekly, there's lots advertised in there every week...