About Jake
Jake is a black & tan lurcher, adopted from Edinburgh Dog & Cat Home in August 2004. He now lives the life of Riley in a leafy suburb of Edinburgh. His interests include agility, running like the wind, enticing other dogs to chase him, fellow sighthounds Molly & Steve, squirrels, swans, plush swans, swans on telly, Portobello beach, the Edinburgh hills, sofas, & snoozing.
Jake wears Earth Dog hemp collars from Mango Mutt. His collar tag (compliant with KC agility regs) is from the excellent Indigo Collar Tags.
Other (agility) blogs we read
- The days of Johann
- Pacco de Mongrel
- Agility Nerd
- Team Small Dog
- Agility beagle Xsara
- Lucy's agility journal
- Walter's agility journal
- Tip Tail
- dog-li-ness
- Resq Tails
- Days of speed and slowtime Mondays
- Ben McFuzzylugs
Other dog blogs we read
- Coldwetnose - campaigning for dogs in the UK
- The Corgi Lounge
- Daily Coyote
- Life is better with Sheltie hair
- Out with Ari - the caninaturalist
- Popdogblog
- With love, Madison
- Snoutbeagle
- Life with Penny
- Whippet snippets
Jake's Links
- Lurcher Link The best lurcher site going
- A Greyhound or Lurcher in the Family - article by Gwen Bailey
- Greyhound Awareness League - and lurchers too. Scottish!
- Kitsch Collars. Groovy...
- K9 knitters hand-knitted dog coats, all proceeds to dog rescue.
- Learning About Dogs with Kay Laurence, clicker training guru
- Training Lines: for portable agility equipment, fab neon collars of the nite, flash-in-the-dark balls etc
- AgilityNet UK agility info.
- Lurcher Agility League
- Dogcast Radio A twice monthly radio show all about dogs
- This standard Scottish life By our pal.
Jake's Library
Previously on Jake's Progress
- Agility
- Agility shows
- Allotment
- Family
- Health
- Mischief
- Outfits
- Park life
- Scotland
- Training
- Travel
- Whimsy
- Wordless Wednesday
The mists of time
- August 2004
- September 2004
- December 2004
- January 2005
- February 2005
- March 2005
- April 2005
- August 2005
- September 2005
- October 2005
- November 2005
- December 2005
- January 2006
- February 2006
- March 2006
- April 2006
- May 2006
- June 2006
- July 2006
- August 2006
- September 2006
- October 2006
- November 2006
- December 2006
- January 2007
- February 2007
- March 2007
- April 2007
- May 2007
- June 2007
- July 2007
- September 2007
- November 2007
- December 2007
- January 2008
- February 2008
- March 2008
- April 2008
- May 2008
- June 2008
- July 2008
- August 2008
- September 2008
- October 2008
- November 2008
- December 2008
- January 2009
- February 2009
- March 2009
- April 2009
- May 2009
- June 2009
- July 2009
Credits
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And finally...
Why don't you switch off the computer and play with me instead?
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Cute photo. Who won? Or was it a draw...
These two have been playing tug for years ... They are pretty evenly matched. See also a tug to the bitter end in 2006 and a game of snog tug in 2005!
And many other times too :-)
I used to play tug a lot with my girlfriend Josie. Now I run off with a toy and she chases me and we both get a lot of exercise.
BTW my breeder is getting a new puppy, a Scottish Deerhound from Sweden. She just loves the breed, used to have Borzoi then switched to Bedlingtons and wants one Deerhound to show and maybe take lure coursing. I can't wait to meet him when he gets here!
Rudy
A deerhound! Beautiful. There's a well loved type of lurcher which is beddie x whippet/greyhound. They can look a little like mini-deerhounds. :-) - which is just what people expect a lurcher to look like, little realising a lurcher can look like many, many different things, depending on the cross.
I would love a beddie-whippet lurcher. I've seen a couple at agility shows ... and Rudy, I see you're a fine agility dog, which bodes well! It's just not the right time now.