Working whippets

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  On 07/11/2009 at 23:28, fence_hopper said:

  On 07/11/2009 at 21:44, whippetlad1976 said:

just to point out he is no peddlar he breeds when his phone rings and does not when the phone is quiet he works full time so if he was breeding for pure profit then trust me at average of £250 a pup he could sit on the dole and lap it up... he breeds a lot yes but hey just shows how popular the lads dogs are...

 

yis

 

 

is that ment for me coz if you read it properly i'm talking about the sire to my bitch. mike breeds top class whippets but so do other people. the end of the day as mally will agree whippets are bred to close and its nice to see some fresh blood every now ande again

I agree lads fresh blood does need injecting in some of the closely bred strains as its not just their looks but also their nature thats seems to be going astray.atb dell

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  On 07/09/2009 at 20:36, Timid Toad said:

well i have a few whippets some are mike brown lines some are mike brown cross show lines both of these mixes have come out the fine racey type then i also have the show line that has turned out bigger boned and heavier i have just bought a pup that is half sister to the show line bitch and half race line she is bigger and stronger boned than the mike brown line but is only 13 weeks old so i wait to see

 

nice pack

[mally 832]

Please don't think i'm knocking the dog in anyway,My original whippet was bred by mike brown and was a fantastic working dog with the heart of a lion.

What makes me a little suspicious on the black dog being a true ped is the head on the dog and the length of back and the whole shape of him. My bitch was also a very strong whippet and i had my suspicians about her too, she stood at 21" and ran at 35lb.

 

I've seen alot of Mikes dogs and tbh it does depend on the which dogs there out of to what type of whippet pup your going to get as IMO they don't throw to type. I had a blue bitch bred by Mike and she was 181/2" and 25lb i saw 2 of her litter brothers and they were 221/2" and 38lb and 23" and 40lb respectively!!!! you would have never dreamed they were out of the same litter. There's not doubt that Mike breeds good whippets that in the right hands make cracking working dogs, there just a little on the large side for me. Some of which would pass as whippet x greyhounds with there size and conformation....

 

I am all for using new blood in my dogs as my old bitch was actaully line bred, Mike put mother to son to produce my old bitch, so i used a totally unrelated show dog of the correctr size to produce my present bitch Vixen. I'm more than happy with the results as all the pups threw to type and look like peas in a pod. I like a whippet to be around 20" and 30lb with nice wide shoulders and a nice deep chest...

 

At the end of the day if your happy with your dog and it does what you want it to do thats all that matters...

[Guest fence_hopper]

mally i cant disagree with anything you said there your spot on. the only thing i'd like to say that pic aint great the dog is longer in the back, but thats the only pic i have of him