The Lurcher is the first designer cross-breed, and distinctly British in origin. These dogs are a cross between one or more sight hounds — such as the Greyhound, Whippet, Saluki, or Deerhound — and one or more pastoral working breeds, most popularly the Border Collie, or a terrier. Sometimes there is no pastoral blood at all, and they are then really ‘longdogs’ (a cross between two or more sight hounds), although all mixtures are popularly called Lurchers.

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