Does anyone know how fast their Deerhounds can run,someone asked me the other day and its something i hadnt actually thought about before.
Jan

Hi Jan, good to see you back on. Finished lambing? Not too sure about the speed thing, but my threequarter DH could do,I think, about 28/29 mph and keep that up for a long time. This was only judged when he was running alongside the L Rover and it was very difficult to slow down as he would then cross in front. He was almost indenticle to a pure-bred so I imagine a fit DH could manage about the same Lurch and others with more knowledge on timing dogs will probably shoot me down in flames.

Hi. I'm Kathy and new to this list. so new I have yet to do a profile. I'm in Melbourne Austrtalia - yeah bushfire capital of the world. Many years ago when I was newish to deeries, my man of the time released the hounds to run with the car. We clocked them at 60+ kph, and that was before they'd wound up to full speed. My understanding is that affies, salukies greyhounds and whippets can all run faster over the short distance. However, let us remember that our hounds are the long distance runners and will beat all comers doing just that. A friend takes his deers to greyhound tracks, and usually manages to astonish the greys people with their stayability as well. That is when the greyhounds were finished the deers were still going and just getting into their stride.

Cheers KCG

Hey! Hi Kathy and welcome...FINALLY!!! Great to see you here. Now we expect lots of pics of Tags and Grace
Sam

When i worked in forestry i would regulary get ghillie to run with the van, he was happy at 30mph and stretched out at 40mph. I measured his stride, in the snow just by stepping it out so not exactly scientific, and it was 6 yds.

Cheers craig

I have no idea how fast Deerhounds are (mph), but as we also own three elderly Salukis and two Greyhounds (young) I can tell you something: If you think a Saluki is tired, you only have to wait two seconds and he wants to run again. A Saluki is from our point of view the ultimate long distant runner, effortless, - always alert. Our Greyhounds (two) are powerful and extremely fast in the beginning, but they do run themselves out...........
We would never ever take our cars to measure.
Maybe dogs do not think, but can you imagine what is going on in their brains when they realise that their "Masters" are trying to drive away without them being in the car? NO WAY!

fiddle wrote:


I love the way Salukis run - that effortless floating over the ground that they do is just beautiful to watch. We had a Saluki at the lure coursing last weekend and he was superb.

However, I digree. I have personal experience of what happens when a Deerhound thinks its human is driving off without it. We were at the Borders coursing meeting and I'd gone down with Marjory and her two - Gowk and Hawk, from memory - becuase my dog was lame. The parking area was at the bottom of a steep and muddy slope, so we thought it would be better if Marjory drove up to the top of the hill, and I came along behind with the dogs. Well, the dogs were convinced they were being abandoned and I was carted about forty yards up the hill, flat on my face. Once they realised there was a bit of rather unhappy and distinctly noisy dead weight behind them, they were deeply apologetic and indeed quite concerned. 'Marjory doesn't use language like that to us,' was written all over their faces.

Oh Lord, that will teach me to use Phil's Mac rather than my PC. I meant, of course, digress.

And because. The text size on the Mac is rather small...

your storey has made me laugh, I was with Craig (my brother) in the snow when he was trying to measure Ghillies stride!!
Regards Annette

Great story Sid!

craigy wrote:


I've heard from other sources that they cruise at 30mph and can run flat out at 40mph so this seems to confirm what I heard elsewhere.

I wonder how their speed could be accurately measured?

What about a speed camera? would obviously get caught out in a 30 zone then

fiddle wrote:


I was in the lucky position of being able to take my 2 deerhounds to work with me, can you imagine what whould have went on in there brains if i took them out for 10 minutes in the morning then left them in the house for 8 or 9 hours every day. They were never left and never tied up or spent any time on the lead walking the streets. They indeed had a pretty perfect life.
Far from being stressed out ghillie would refuse to get in the van, choosing to disappear at home time. He grew up in the woods from being 10 weeks old, he knew every short cut from road to road and some that i didn't. As for being worried, more often than not he would watch you drive away, not even lifting his head in worry, then turn up completly calm some time later be that an hour or so. I could also drive away, go to do a different job, and he would still be in the same place when i returned.
Does this seem like a dog full of panic that he was being left, the woods were his enviroment. Does your dog follow you from the livingroom to the kitchen, from fear of being abandoned
when ghillie was killed (shot in the woods by a no-mark gamekeeper,for being no more than a deerhound, i scattered his ashes in the woods that he spent most of his time and loved. Is that how invisaged leaving my dog? NO WAY!

The hardest was to leave a dog!! Not driving away in the car, can you imagine what was going on in my brain

houndy wrote:


Somebody on this site, can't remember who or when, said that a Deerhound had been monitored at 40 mph with a radar gun. Think it was at a lure coursing event in America.

craigy wrote:


It's good that Ghillie had such an ideal life before it was cruelly terminated by that b*******

That's just so very very sad ! Awful ! The gamekeeper aught to be shot !!!!