any 3/4 whippet 1/4 beddy?

[lifelong cumbrian 1,826]

My 1/2 beddy,1/8 greyhound,3/8 whippet pup is coming on great. She is now 11 weeks and 12"tts, border bitch pup is 6 months. Really looking forward to getting them out with the ferrets later this year.

[jf1970 328]

nice team you have there cumbrian,

[brunty29cdo 5]

A few photos of my pup on her walk today

looking nice mate

[fresh earth 47]

I have/had a half x dog Bobby yes cracking dog works with ferrets happily but reason for me having him is/was i needed something i could take "other" game with when this was legal... my best mate has the mother to the pup who is a pure bred whippet i gave him the bitch as he had lost his old dog and i had 3 other working bitchs so could lose 1 easyer than he could and she still belongs to me we lined her with bobby as both fancyed a bitch i will openly admit that i only wanted a bitch pup for the sake of having a broken coated dog in the kennel cause realisticaly a 17" 3/4 beddy 1/4 whippet is in no means possible going to ever do much if anything more than a decent whippet will and i refuse to consider they would be fast enough to give a decent whippet a run for its money however a dog on the other hand would take the sharp end with less of a problem than a whippet would but personaly i wouldnt slip a whippet or a beddy x bitch regular on anything other than a rabbit hence why i think and most should agree the cross is pritty pointless in regards to ability on rabbits against a good working peddy whippet note not every "working" whippet is a good one some may say they have more drive but tbh i have 3 whippet bitch's who run in all weather along side 4 beddy x lurchers and they take 8 out of ten rabbits in any conditions the half x dog is still mine and i use him at weekends but he is in my mates kennel that has my wee whippet bitch to as he has more work that suits the dog than me i will however be keeping a bitch from his next litter he had no bitchs in the last one but as i say its only for the sake of something diff i am out with my mates 3/4 bitch and his half whip 1/4lakie 1/4 beddy dog tmz ill get a few piks.

 

Excuse the essay i dont knock the dog in the slightest and as i say will have one just think the whippet does the same job and to the untrained eye a smooth 3/4 would be identified as a whippet so technicaly it is a pointless cross but for the sole fact the whippet does the same job.

[troter58 1,711]

to be honest mate i think your talking crap i would like to see your whippets run and catch on the land i run they would get smashed to bits thats why i run 3/4 whippet /beddy and so how can a whippet do do the same job? because we have tried whippets they are to fragile get knocked up and then are in for weeks imo

[tb25 4,627]

My 1/2 beddy,1/8 greyhound,3/8 whippet pup is coming on great. She is now 11 weeks and 12"tts, border bitch pup is 6 months. Really looking forward to getting them out with the ferrets later this year.

[fresh earth 47]

Are you for real i run 3 kc registered whippet bitch's i work them in woodland on rocky hills and various other terrain from a coast line to a railway bank and my two 3 year olds have never gave me a problem barr my bridnle dropping a muscle while lamping a golf course my younger bitch is show stock and i mean champion show stock and she is the fastest dog in my kennel with anbelievable stamina. Although i do trot my dogs for at least 5 hours a week along side my pushbike or on a chip road between two of my farms so this keeps them fit and in working condition i dont debate a fat ped whippet thats lay on a couch all day will get knocked up but to be fair so will any bloody lurcher ! i work along side beddy x's and i have seen the lads turn there nose up while its pooring down and i have went out with a whippet my self iv also had em say i aint running mine in woodland they will get injured. A smooth coated 3/4 beddy whippet has absolutely nout that a whippet has other than an inch or so less in hight a little terriers stuberness and tbh i see nout else less pase maybe can you honestly say to me if that wee bitch pictured was presented to you as a kc whippet you would have said hold on the now she is a beddy cross way hardier looking bitch ... get a grip .

 

I like the beddy x but as i say only for the coat factor if i worked 3 beddy whippet bitchs on the land i work my whippets id catch less rabbits fact! i am out with 3 or 4 lads with various beddy x's and from 3 nites a week out there lucky of a rabbit or two i run a diff bitch each night giving a day of and never doubling up and come home catching 3 or more a time on the same land if we go out on the bikes to give em some road work mine trot at the side or ahead of us on a woodland track my mates 2 beddys 1 a smooth one a broken coat are lagging behind i dont see what the cross has that a true well maintained working whippet dont and anyone who has owned a good whippet will agree . I am not knocking the wee dogs as they do there job and are cracking looking wee things but ill only ever have one in for the sake of a change not because they can do something a whippet cant.

 

p.s my whippets also work whin bushes almost daily and never refuse to anything barr bramble and i aint had a lurcher who would neither .

[wuyang 513]

Good thread this!

[old hunter 5]

cant beat a good little beddy/whippet

[ruby jet 184]

heres mine 3/4 whippet 1/4 beddy best rabbit dog ive ever had !!!