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On the Web
- Yahoo! Groups Directory - Sighthounds - Directory of worldwide forum groups involved with sighthounds. Most require registration.
- Sighthound Adoption and Fostering Center - SAFC is a non-profit organization which accepts Sighthounds from owners, shelters, and other rescuers and matches families with Sighthounds of compatible temperament and abilities. Boise, Idaho
- Sighthounds Online - UK charity that helps sighthounds across Europe. Busy forums, lists of sighthound rescues by area, news. Fundraising, awareness and rescue networking activities.
- The Lurcher - The Thinking Sighthound - 3 sites. WebRing.
- Injoy Lure Coursing Machines - Crafting artificial and mechanical lures for various competitive lure coursing field trials and racing events of prey instinct animals. Includes a coursing chat, photos of sighthounds and non sighthounds coursing.
- Site Hounds Webring - Any site involving Sighthounds. 528 sites. WebRing.
- Original British Coursing Rules of Duke by Norfolk - List of the twenty rules as laid out by the Duke of Norfolk during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, which applied to all Greyhound coursing and were probably used for all Sighthounds as well.
- Sighthounds - Lure coursing club links and events, ASFA and AKC entry forms, pet friendly hotels near trial sites, ASFA top twenty coursers, and photos by Shot On Site.
- Sighthounds in the Netherlands - Information about the sighthound breeds, and racing in the Netherlands. Site in three languages.
- Lithuanian Sighthound Club - Membership information based on breed, show information, top ten dogs in each breed, and news from the sighthound club.
Wikipedia Articles
- Hare coursing - Hare coursing is the coursing of hares, that is to say the hunting of them with sighthounds. In formal hare coursing the objective is to test the dogs on their ability to turn the hare.
- Coursing - ... is the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs —chiefly Greyhounds and other sighthounds— catching the prey by speed, running by sight and not by scent. Coursing was a common hunting technique, practiced both by the nobility, the landed and wealthy, as well as commoners with sighthounds and Lurchers.
- Sighthound - Sighthounds, also called gazehounds, are hounds that primarily hunt by speed and sight, instead of by scent and endurance, as scent hounds do.