I love it all whippets are shit and if its not shit well then it's obviously not a whippet. Like any dogs there are good and bad. Bring them on right and they make great dogs, different than a lurcher, but then they are not a lurcher. Some with pure greys, most people refuse to run them because a lurcher is 'better' but everyone i know who has tried thinks they are great. Whippets are excellent and i rarely hear anyone say 'my whippet shivers or rips easy' it's always 'i been out with the best and they were no good etc' which is utter crap. If they were so useless or just a novelty they would