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Lurcher, illustration from The Sportsman's Cabinet by William Taplin, 1803; engraved from a painting by Philip Reinagle. A lurcher is a crossbred dog resulting from mating a greyhound or other sighthound with a dog of another type such as a herding dog or a terrier. The lurcher is not a "breed," but is a generic descriptor of a group of varying ...
The American Staghound, referred to by various names including the Cold-Blooded Greyhound, the Longdog of the Prairie and the American Lurcher, is a crossbreed of various sighthounds. It has been bred in the United States from the 19th century where it is used for hunting.
Lurcher; American Staghound; Breeds considered to be controversial, not having by origin a sighthound function ... Hancock, David. Sighthounds: Their Form, their ...
Hancock, David (2001). The Mastiffs: The Big Game Hunters - Their History, Development and Future. Charwynne Dog Features. ISBN 0-9527801-2-7. Jenkins, Robert E.; Mollett, Ken (1997). The Story of the Real Bulldog. TFH Publications. ISBN 0-7938-0491-4. The Lincoln library of essential information. Columbus, Ohio: Frontier Press. 1985.
The company was founded in 2003 in Virginia by David L. Hancock. [3] In their early years, Morgan James provided a hybrid of traditional publishing and a subsidy publisher model in which entrepreneurial business nonfiction authors pre-paid fees against the publisher's royalties to be published.
It is distinct from the lurcher, which is a cross between a sighthound and a working dog, usually a terrier or herding dog. [4]
David Hancock (cricketer) (born 1940), English cricketer; Dave Hancock (American politician) (born 1945), member of the Minnesota House of Representatives; Dave Hancock (weightlifter) (1945–1993), English weightlifter; Dave Hancock (born 1955), Canadian politician and judge, former premier of Alberta; W. David Hancock, American playwright
North Devon Staghounds, Governor and Famous, 1826. The Staghound was said to be a strong, powerfully built breed standing up to 27 inches (69 cm) at the shoulder, with significant sexual dimorphism in size, with dogs being larger than bitches.