how to tell if its a good pup or not?

[t5avs1 2]

what advice would you give when buying a pup for working, ie working parents etc

[sandymere 8,263]

Well reared pup of the right breeding, doesn't have to be working ie racing grey may never have worked but it will have genrations of good breeding and will bring what you want if mixed with the right cross. The right cross will depend on what you are looking to do in the way of work. I'd go for a 3/4 sighthound as a first lurcher such as a 3/4 grey 1/4 collie, it should be reasonable nicely made even as a pup and come from an even/level litter.

[t5avs1 2]

am lookin at beddy whippet pup, the dog is a ridlington bedlington with pedigree with workin blood, and the bitch is a pedigree oakbark whippet, am wanting it for lamping and ferreting,

[dave a 24]

  On 17/03/2010 at 15:56, t5avs1 said:

what advice would you give when buying a pup for working, ie working parents etc

breeding is everything,if the parents aren't working don't buy,wait for the right pup.

[sandymere 8,263]

Why whippet rather than greyhound? Has the whippet got show or duel purpose in it's background? When I say the parents haven't got to be workers I don't mean that they shouldn't come from working/racing lines just that they haven't got to have worked themselves.

[t5avs1 2]

the whippet is a pedigree oakbark, i have been told not to go for a pedigree whippet but a racing one is this write or?