Longdog

The name of this dog reflects the fact that it has ‘a long head, a long neck, a long body, a long tail and long legs’. Originally it was simply a common name for any kind of sighthound, but then it became restricted to a special kind of cross-bred sighthound. In his study Lurchers and Longdogs, it was defined by Colonel Ted Walsh as ‘a cross between two types of coursing dog (Greyhound to Deerhound, Greyhound to Saluki, etc) or the offspring of parents of such a cross’.
This distinguished it from that other popular type of cross-breed, the Lurcher, which was created by mating a coursing dog with a working dog. To other recent authors, however, this distinction was outdated. They referred to both types of crosses as Lurchers, with the term Longdog being considered ‘so rarely used these days as to be meaningless’.

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