Guest anonymous Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 some lovely looking whippets there,I HEARD THAT AFTER ABOUT 3 RUNS ON THE LAMP THEY GET REAL TIRED,BUT I HOPE I CAN GET THEM USED TO FERRETS AT THE AGE OF 8 MONTHS,THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP get em used to ferrets now give the dog loads of road work that'll sort out the stamina issue. I heard that someone trained a Saluki to retreive once huh! the things you hear! I'd need to see that to believe it!!! Aye! me'n a'! Did you read it in one of them old poaching books? Boy do they exaggerate in them............ Yes it might have been, let me think, oh yes it was called 'tales of a lying old b*****d who cornered a gullible twat in a pub once' I think LOL................. think I'll leave it there.................... slinking out the back door............ Quote Link to post
mally 832 Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 (edited) Always fancied a whippet. Has the KC wasted them? Mines Kc registered mate as are most featured in this thread. I had a phone call last week from a lady who rang a show breeder about buying a pup, she asked about exercise and the breeder said she walks hers around the block once a week as thats all they needed!!!!. proberly thats all they need to stay in a fat untoned condition the way 99% of show whippets are kept. I bred the Fawn bitch featured in the post earlier in this thread and her sire is a show bred dog. He is however well put together and is of the correct size with plenty of bone. Her Dam is on the large size but is line bred sooty sam, i wanted to bring the size down but keep the strong bone in the pups and i think i succeded in doing this with the way the pups turned out. I certainly wouldn't rule out using a show bre dog over vixen if it had a good bone and was put together properly. I only breed when i want a pup myself to keep and i think long and hard about the stud dog. I only breed from a dog that i think will improve on the bitches faults, how it should be IMO. It's ok breeding from worker to worker but if both dogs have the same faults you'll end up with crap... Alot of people are breeding whippets that are on the large size upto 23" if i wanted a dog that size for rabbiting i'd have a whippetx greyhound. 20" and 28lb is a nice size for a whippet IMO Edited May 8, 2009 by mally Quote Link to post
sean1 13 Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 i had a bitch from mike brown called judy, i lined her with mikes glen and kept a dog back from the litter,he is 2 now and is a really handy rabbit dog with stamina too, no bother at all. he has an excellent nose and hunts up rabbits all day. he,s not the fastest of whippets but he gives 100% every time and has a real good head on his shoulders.he as also ran on some harsh ground and has never had an injury yet,(touch wood)lol. he is a pleasure to own and a real loyal dog Good stuff Sean1.. He looks a decent working whippet mate.. Frank. he is mate he a real honest little dog Quote Link to post
sean1 13 Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 i had a bitch from mike brown called judy, i lined her with mikes glen and kept a dog back from the litter,he is 2 now and is a really handy rabbit dog with stamina too, no bother at all. he has an excellent nose and hunts up rabbits all day. he,s not the fastest of whippets but he gives 100% every time and has a real good head on his shoulders.he as also ran on some harsh ground and has never had an injury yet,(touch wood)lol. he is a pleasure to own and a real loyal dog What height is he? Is that a lurcher to the left? Looks quite big. he is just under 22", yes mate that is one of the lads lurchers Quote Link to post
mally 832 Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Always fancied a whippet. Has the KC wasted them? NO! if you wanted to pay over bloated K.C. prices you could still get you're expensive puppy working, but why bother? you can pick up peds and non peds for less money, breeders ruin breeds by their adherence to badly interpreted rules. The K.C merely set a standard, and the so called expert judges do the rest. that being said my first Whippet was awarded first place in a hunt supporters show despite having lost part of his ear in a fight with a barbedwire fence! the picture is my new nonped racing whippet It's ok buying a non ped but do you actually know what size the pups going to be?? i know a few people who have non peds and its not uncommon to have 22lb through to 40lb dogs out the same litter!! At least with a kc whippet you have a good idea what size the pups going to be. Yes they are expensive but if you work it out it ends up at less than a quid a week (less than 1/2 a pint of beer). Quote Link to post
Guest gaz100604 Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 where is the post gone... now its in sizes,weights,sooty sam,mike brown,show,kc reg e.t.c. dont get caught up with all these type of things lads... i really do think people get caught up in names and lines, have no doubt these dogs do the biz but i have seen non ped and non line names working too.. just put the best into your whippet no matter if he is 17 tts or 23 tts and work it hard.. these little dogs have great prey drive and imo in the right hands make compident workers... my whippet(pics in previous post)dam was a working whippet 18tts and the sire was a racing/working whippet 23tts... no special or fancy line... my fella turned out on the large side as he is 23tts but why does that matter to some people... he has still for his first season for me caught mid teens on the lamp and ferrets very well but still has more to give as he is still young... but as it stands caught a few big rabbits and 125approx rabbits for me this season... i actually bought him as a pet for my young sister but decided to work him and i wasnt dissapointed... so what im trying to say is keep them in tip top shape and give them plenty of work and they should,nt dissapoint no matter what line they are... ps..i have took my whippet out on trhe lamp with a few blokes and their lurchers and out caught their lurchers on a good few occasions. Quote Link to post
adrianvygus 0 Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Always fancied a whippet. Has the KC wasted them? NO! if you wanted to pay over bloated K.C. prices you could still get you're expensive puppy working, but why bother? you can pick up peds and non peds for less money, breeders ruin breeds by their adherence to badly interpreted rules. The K.C merely set a standard, and the so called expert judges do the rest. that being said my first Whippet was awarded first place in a hunt supporters show despite having lost part of his ear in a fight with a barbedwire fence! the picture is my new nonped racing whippet It's ok buying a non ped but do you actually know what size the pups going to be?? i know a few people who have non peds and its not uncommon to have 22lb through to 40lb dogs out the same litter!! At least with a kc whippet you have a good idea what size the pups going to be. Yes they are expensive but if you work it out it ends up at less than a quid a week (less than 1/2 a pint of beer). well actualy I got mine from my mate and his brother so I saw the mum and dad I wouldn't as a rule buy a pup if I didn't! they've got some monsters (size wise) . incidentally on You tube there is a comedian called Jeff innocent look up his 'rescue dogs' video, it's good stuff, Jeff hunts the Beckton gas works and various other wide open spaces in the Eastend ( or the killing fields ass his wife calls them). it is worth a watch. Quote Link to post
lanesra 3,994 Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 where is the post gone...now its in sizes,weights,sooty sam,mike brown,show,kc reg e.t.c. dont get caught up with all these type of things lads... i really do think people get caught up in names and lines, have no doubt these dogs do the biz but i have seen non ped and non line names working too.. just put the best into your whippet no matter if he is 17 tts or 23 tts and work it hard.. these little dogs have great prey drive and imo in the right hands make compident workers... my whippet(pics in previous post)dam was a working whippet 18tts and the sire was a racing/working whippet 23tts... no special or fancy line... my fella turned out on the large side as he is 23tts but why does that matter to some people... he has still for his first season for me caught mid teens on the lamp and ferrets very well but still has more to give as he is still young... but as it stands caught a few big rabbits and 125approx rabbits for me this season... i actually bought him as a pet for my young sister but decided to work him and i wasnt dissapointed... so what im trying to say is keep them in tip top shape and give them plenty of work and they should,nt dissapoint no matter what line they are... ps..i have took my whippet out on trhe lamp with a few blokes and their lurchers and out caught their lurchers on a good few occasions. Good post gaz, good straight forward advice, through my own personal experience id advise anyone lookin to get a whippet to go straight to M.B. and id be confident that person would with the right diet schoolin and exercise of the dog be delighted with there dog, im not interested in the k.c. and the price of a pup is not worth talkin about considerin what the dog will give you back in work and as a pal, i spoke to him over time then went for a pup, and how he told me the dog would mature the nature and his prey drive was 100 % spot on, i know people have knocked him but i couldnt thank the man enough, and thats what its all about, if your happy with what you have, be it k.c. reg or not , then thats all that matters,. Quote Link to post
jacko2009 466 Posted May 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2009 well some very nice whippets there,i am glad i got one now for ferrets and lamping and i have my little whippet lead broke already thankfully,and she is getting used to me,so a bit time with them and they dont be long catching on,thanks everyone for the replies Quote Link to post
Guest fence_hopper Posted May 9, 2009 Report Share Posted May 9, 2009 (edited) well some very nice whippets there,i am glad i got one now for ferrets and lamping and i have my little whippet lead broke already thankfully,and she is getting used to me,so a bit time with them and they dont be long catching on,thanks everyone for the replies [/quo gbsfg Edited May 9, 2009 by fence_hopper Quote Link to post
jacko2009 466 Posted May 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2009 (edited) no bother will have them up in a while mate she is still very nervous of cars traffic etc,but i only have her couple of days,things can only get better i hope Edited May 9, 2009 by jacko2009 Quote Link to post
dangergirl 13 Posted May 9, 2009 Report Share Posted May 9, 2009 Mine is a kc dog (from working lines), and is doing the job well at 11 months, hes 21" and 32 lb. A walk round the block once a week......what a load of crap, bloody showies talk out their arses!! Cheers DG Quote Link to post
Big bald beautiful 1,231 Posted May 9, 2009 Report Share Posted May 9, 2009 looks a lot like my blue dog very nice, can you tell me how he's bred Quote Link to post
kabar 14 Posted May 9, 2009 Report Share Posted May 9, 2009 Got a whippet now 18 months 22". Skin is like tissue, ripped him self a couple of times now on wire. Good as gold with ferrets, took to the lamp after a couple of trips out. Slow to learn gets tired and cold after a couple of hours, only by the end of the season did he realise what it was all about. Looking forward to a better season next time now he's a bit wiser. Quote Link to post
dangergirl 13 Posted May 9, 2009 Report Share Posted May 9, 2009 looks a lot like my blue dogvery nice, can you tell me how he's bred His dad is a son of Mike browns Glen, and his mother is a rimrock bitch. Mainly MB breeding, a cracking dog. DG Quote Link to post
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