| Lurcher | |||||||||||||||||
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| Other names | Poacher's dog | ||||||||||||||||
| Origin | Great Britain and Ireland | ||||||||||||||||
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| Dog (domestic dog) | |||||||||||||||||
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A lurcher is a crossbred dog resulting from mating a greyhound or other sighthound with a dog of another type such as a herding dog or a terrier. The lurcher is not a "breed," but is a generic descriptor of a group of varying dogs. It was for hundreds of years strongly associated with poaching; in modern times, it is kept as a hunting dog or companion dog.