Whippet X Bedlington Colouring

[vlmh2 0]

Hello - there are obviously a lot of knowledgeable breeders on here. I wondered if any of you could give me your opinion on the colouring of my dog please?

She is a whippet X bedlington (first cross- so I'm told(!) - I saw both the parents. The father was a peach coloured bedlington. The mother was a white whippet with a couple of small black patches).

My bitch is now 1 year old. Do you think the colour of her coat is likely to change any more?

I'm planning on having her spayed in July, but am hoping that she will get more grey. I wonder if having her spayed will stop her coat from changing colour. I was hoping she'd be grey and fluffy (but shes gorgeous to me anyway).

[surrey lass 12]

she is blue as are most 1st x's, spaying usually makes there coat go softer and curlier as for her colour changing that will not happen,

[ferreterni 29]

nice dog

[Hollie 21]

Hello - there are obviously a lot of knowledgeable breeders on here. I wondered if any of you could give me your opinion on the colouring of my dog please?

She is a whippet X bedlington (first cross- so I'm told(!) - I saw both the parents. The father was a peach coloured bedlington. The mother was a white whippet with a couple of small black patches).

My bitch is now 1 year old. Do you think the colour of her coat is likely to change any more?

I'm planning on having her spayed in July, but am hoping that she will get more grey. I wonder if having her spayed will stop her coat from changing colour. I was hoping she'd be grey and fluffy (but shes gorgeous to me anyway).

 

 

Lovely looking dog, how tall does she stand?

[rabbit tourmentor 29]

dont get her spayed she go all podgey aint wont be as afletic

[jack_frost 0]

V pretty girl mine is blue and white rough coat but thats a nice looking girl

[Neal 1,857]

Spaying won't necessarily make her gain weight...it just means she'll be cheaper to feed!

[Guest STORM CHASER]

This is my first cross beddywhippet, she now two, and has stayed the same colour since 9 months old. She's called Storm.

[vlmh2 0]

Hi - thanks for your comments everyone. Storm is gorgeous. Her coat looks a lot thicker than my Aggie's.

I guess Aggie wont change colour too much now shes 1.

The main reason I've been considering having her spayed is for the health benefits.

 

Hollie - She's asleep at the moment and I don't want to disturb her, but when she wakes up I'll measure her height for you!

[skycat 6,173]

The main reason I've been considering having her spayed is for the health benefits.

 

What health benefits????

 

Could you be thinking of: urinary incontinence, or maybe coat change or loss, or even being more placid??

 

Sorry, but I don't agree with spaying or castrating unless for urgent medical reasons.

 

Some of the possible problems you can get (sometimes, certainly not that common nowadays with correct feeding and exercise) are pyometra and mammary tumours: a bitch can't get a pyo if she's been spayed as there's no uterus to become infected, and yes, mammary tumous are less likely as there are no hormone changes as she no longer has any ovaries.

 

I've kept entire bitches for most of my life and I've only ever had 1 spayed due to medical problems: the others have all lived long and healthy lives with no signs of pyometra or mammary tumours, whether or not they have been bred from.

 

I know a lot of people have their bitches spayed but it is a major operation, then there is the risk (ever present though small) of a general anaesthetic, and whilst pro spaying people will tell you that if your'e careful the bitch wont' put on weight they always do in the end: (why are all male meat animals castrated? So they put on the weight more quickly for slaughter.)

 

The coat texture invariably changes, maybe not straight away but give it a few years and the coat becomes fluffy or even falls out especially on the flanks.

 

Another side effect not often mentioned is that entire bitches and dogs sometimes have a problem when they meet a neutered dog of either sex: its as if they don't know how to behave around something that doesn't give off the right smell, male dogs sometimes being desperate to mount spayed bitches even though they are obviously not in season.

 

This is just the other side of the argument, the side that the vets won't tell you about, and I personally believe that it is wrong to neuter an animal 'just in case' it may have medical problems at some stage in its life. Just my opinion.

[Neal 1,857]

Thanks Skycat! I'm sitting here on Thursday morning reading this while waiting for the vet to open as I'm taking my bitch in to get her spayed. Now I'm having second thoughts. This is the third bitch I've had spayed. The first was many years ago and was because I was re-homing her and knew the bloke I was giving the bitch to might be tempted to breed from her but she definitely wasn't good enough to use. The second was due to medical problems during her last season and my current one is simply because I know enough people breeding the kind of dog I like to never need to breed so have no reason to keep her entire (is that the right word for bitches?). But now I'm having second thoughts.

[towzer 3]

cracking reply skycat very informative an sensible advice