Welcome to this section of the site, where a small profile of those deerhounds bred and kept at DOXHOPE kennels will be given. While Bill and John Doherty endeavored to maintain a "true to the old type” strain of deerhounds, these working hounds cannot realistically be compared to cross-bred lurcher or longdogs for ability.  Many of their dogs gave a good account for themselves against quarry, in most cases, much smaller than the hound was designed to hunt. Constant work of any type helps keep the DOXHOPE deerhounds active, fit and hard, and ensures they maintain their natural hunting drive and abilities.

ROSSLIN FLING; Kennel name GWEN
SEX. Female. DOB. 29/10/1992

SHOW RESULTS.
Won BP of breed at Championship show in Scotland, placed many times including first at Championship and open shows, qualified for Crufts.
WORKING ABILITY.
Gwen was a good taker of rabbits for a deerhound by day and at night, she was fairly tight on the turn for a deerhound. Gwen was entered in a lamping competition run by the Northumberland & Durham Working lurcher Club against lurchers, and won her way through to the semi-final. She regularly got into double figures of rabbits on a nights work. Gwen caught a hare on every organized coursing event she was entered in, and on one private event took twelve blue hares in one day.
BREEDING.
Gwen was a quality deerhound, and this showed in a good number of deerhounds she co-produced.
RIP

DOXHOPE LADY ANNADAILLE; Kennel name MEG
SEX. Female.
DOB. 2/12/1994
SHOW RESULTS.
Meg had much show success, qualified for Crufts, won numerous classes at Championship and open shows, and a BP in breed in a strong class at a Championship show.
WORKING ABILITY.
Meg was one of Doxhope Deerhounds top home bred working bitches, another female that oozed quality. She was an all-round hunter, taking rabbits, hare, fox and roe deer. Regularly over 20 rabbits a night were taken by this bitch. Over 40 hares were accounted for in her working life (a good tally for a pure bred deerhound), many foxes were taken single handed. Meg never got to any final of an organised competition, but did take 14 blue hares in one day at a private event, winning the final against her sister DOXHOPE AMBECKY. At the time of the conception of this site, Meg is the only surviving deerhound at DOXHOPE of those listed on this page.
BREEDING.
Meg did well as a brood bitch at Doxhope, and produced some nice puppies. She was a natural mother, but tied very much to Bill. John Doherty did almost all the breeding at his kennels home Bedlington; Meg’s litters however were always bred at Bill’s kennel in Ashington.
STILL ALIVE

DOXHOPE AMBECKY; Kennel name BECKY
SEX. Female.
DOB. 2/12/1994
SHOW RESULTS.
Never exhibited, kept only for work.
Becky was Doxhope`s main hunter, both in organised and private events, and she was an excellent worker on the lamp. Becky was a determined killer, with an exceptional nose. She took nearly 1000 rabbits, plus every other available English quarry. Where Meg was Bill’s bitch, Becky was John’s.
BREEDING.
Becky was another fertile brood bitch that loved motherhood as much as she loved hunting on the heather clad moors of Scotland and the small paddock fields of Northumberland
RIP

DOXHOPE LAIRD of ASHPARK. Kennel name LEWIS
SEX. Male. Kennel name LEWIS.
DOB. 2/12/1994
SHOW RESULTS.
Lewis although not having the same scope of his sister Meg, did    quite well at both Championship and open shows he was entered in, he also qualified for Crufts. Lewis was very well put together, with exceptional feet, and who glided across a ring with pomp and elegance.
WORKING ABILITY.
Lewis, unlike his sibling sisters was rarely worked; he did account for a small number of rabbits, and a few hare courses. Lewis was kept mainly for stud work; he mated his first bitch at 15 months, and his last 6 months before he died, in between, over 200 puppies to his credit.

RIP