I was looking at a site and there is a male 18 month old deerhound for sale for one hundred pounds in Barnstaple. I phoned up being nosy and I was tols that they bought it from a farm - parents seen and it is a pure bredD/H no papers - they dont know anything about it's breeding and they are selling him as they have'nt got time for him!
I have sadvised them to try and rehome him through Sue Reynolds but am of the opinion that they are not interested in this.

I am just concerned that they may sell him on to someone who does not understand the breed.

I have the phone number if anyone is interested.

Trish, I am concerned about this too. I have just spoken to Sue Reynolds. Sue asks
that you give her a call asap so she can deal with this. We do not want this dog
to end up in the wrong hands.

Ok Sally - no problem. I will ring Sue now. Thanks Sally

I have spoken to Sue and she is contacting Joan Wragg as she lives that area. Sue will let me know what happens.

Brilliant, the network will get working down there and hopefully sort this poor dog
out. keep us posted.

How sad, I do hope this boy finds a loving home, fancy not having no time for him, he obviously ended up in the wrong hands in the first place.

Very sad hope this lovely boy is rescued quickly and then found the loving home he deserves

I suppose on the positive side they have realised they do not have the time and want to give him an opportunity of a better life else where. Hopefully he will go to a good home and have a great life.

But for £100 pounds, not mutch of a value to put on him and and this does not bode well for him as its unlikely that a new owner would be carefully vetted. A pure DH at this price, papers or not will be in big demand by people who would only have short term use for him so a happy life is not certain.

I'd go and get him now if it were near me, don't fancy an 8 hour round trip at the moment. That way Murphy would have a play mate and the big fella would have a lovely home, with home cooked food and plenty of ear rubs from my son!! hes an expert, he gets Murphy mooing and talking when he does it!
Hopefully the puppy lady will help him find the right home.

alan wrote:


This is exactley the concerns that I had and when I phoned that concern was confirmed! Let's hope that Joan or someone near can help him

If this was in the hands of some of the lurcher rescues, this dog would have been out this afternoon, but unfortunately the infrastructure does not seem to be in place within the DH club to cope with any sort of emergency. I live only abt 3 hours away and could have sorted this out hours ago had I been asked. To keep this in perspective, we only have the vendors word that it is a purebred as in some other cases like this, they have turned out to be lurchers.

yes we do only have their word that he is a Deerhound - I must admit though he did look like a deerhound from the photo on the site where I saw the advert but there are so many x's that so so much like deerhounds maybe he is just a good lookalike.
When you said that you would have gone down there 'if you had been asked'did you mean asked by me? or where you refering to someone else. I did suggest to the seller to contact the deerhound rehoming lady but they did not seem interested. They said that they had never heard of the D/H club

He does look full, but then again there are quite a few deerhounds x's coming through the rescue system that look like deerhounds, but are x's,
unfortunaly even if he turned out to be a lurcher, the rescues wouldnt take him,
as hes safe - and not in a pts situation.

houndy wrote:

Oh no,not by you ,but by the DH club. I won't go into this any further at this stage but would be grateful if you could tell me which site he is on and I can have a look and see if he's pure. Thanks.

I hope this chap gets a forever home soon. He deserves better than what he has got. But then so do most rescues bless them.

alan wrote:


Alan - he is on a site called www.pets4homes.co.uk
Type in that you are looking for Deerhounds for sale

Hi Houndy, pure or v. close. Now a bit late to phone but will try am., and see if he's still around but suspect too late as he's been on all w'end.

Mmm..thats whaat I think too. Maybe it's not too late as when I phoned them at lunchtime today he did say that he had only 1 phonecall about him and he is still on the site. If he is still there when you phone tomorrow what will you do?

houndy wrote:
Convince them that I'm the perfect owner, pop £150 notes in my pocket and go get him. The DH club ironicly(SPELLING AGAIN) have a waiting list for cases like this and their mantra is to bare down heavilly on indiscriminate breeding . Unfortunately, my friends near Tibberton are away for a few days or they would have sorted this fiasco.