PRACTICAL LURCHER BREEDING. By D. Brian Plummer.

(1985) 2005 new edition. 8vo (161 x 242mm). Pp192. B/w photographs. Pictorial laminated boards, issued without a dust-wrapper.

This book is "an idiots' guide to lurcher breeding a step by step account of the breeding of lurchers and longdogs, not only to continue a family of lurchers, but also [for] starting up a commercial lurcher breeding kennels." Advice, opinion and anecdote in Plummer's customary style. Chapters include: On the relative merits of both lurchers and longdogs; Starting from scratch; Lurcher to lurcher breeding; The fabulous three-quarter bred; Colour breeding; What sort of breeder do you want to be?; Breeding lurchers; The brood bitch; The stud dog; The actual process of mating; The pregnant bitch; Whelping; Rearing puppies; A few snags concerned with the breeding of dogs; Rearing orphan puppies; Inbreeding, line breeding and outcrossing; A few things the lurcher breeder should know about the law; Selling one's puppies.