whippet

[tel12 1]

My lad has got a 8 month old whippet 17 tts do you think it will make the grade ie will it make a rabbiter. I think the rabbit will run off with the dog holding on what do you think ?

ive got 2 whippets a month older there coming on fine mate , been ferrting and seen the lamp your have plenty of sport with it

[brother 10]

18.5"

 

[airbourne 128]

18.5"

 

 

thanks for the replys. brother he looks a cracker

[jamiew 11]

My lad has got a 8 month old whippet 17 tts do you think it will make the grade ie will it make a rabbiter. I think the rabbit will run off with the dog holding on what do you think ?

[a friend of mine has a whippet and he hunts everything with her,she once got a roe cornered hung on to its head and did get run off with ,so i would,nt worry about a rabbit,she is a good bitch mind,atb jamiew

[sowhat 1,572]

18.5"

 

 

I think I've seen that picture before on another site , is there any bedlington in its breeding?

[Moll. 1,770]

As has been said, whippets, dogs especially can take quite a while to mature, especially mentally! It took my lad over 2yr to sort his head out, One season he would pick & chose his runs and pull up when he saw rabbits going to the fence lines, i was demented with him. Now he has mentally matured there has been no looking back, and i am over the moon with him

He is only 19.5 tts.

[rob190364 2,594]

does anyone use their whippets in woodland or is it asking for trouble? I wouldn't mind a whippet but half the places I go are in woodland, are they OK as long as they're familiar with the land etc. or is it not advisable?

[Guest Anubis]

18.5"

 

 

I think I've seen that picture before on another site , is there any bedlington in its breeding?

 

 

There's not beddy it that whippet

The dog is a pleasure to watch work.

[tripletree 75]

this is a bit better pic if it loads up. His dog with his daughter age 18 months carn't wait till she older so she can come out with us.

He looks like he may have another inch or two in him to me he'll definately fill out he looks shapely enough to me all the best with him keep us posted

[fresh earth 47]

Wouldnt worry mate that dogs still growing looking at the last pic he should make 18" easy enough . I had a patt bitch 11" who used to mark for fun and pull anything the ferrets got out she was no bigger than a rabbit so wouldnt worry as the saying go's size aint everything. I work this wee bitch regularly in woodland she is rising 4 and never had an injury yet touch wood. She is pritty well switched on though and weves round tree's as she knows the land we run well she will also chose what fences she will go through/under sometimes this means losing a rabbit but if she went through them all she would have had her share lay up with injury. That said i wouldnt run either of my other two in some of the wood i work as tree's are sometimes as close as 3ft from the next and ones to fast for her own good and the other gets tunnel vision and tends to only see what shes chasing. Heres my old bitch any terrain she's happy i never leash her and it would be the first time she's had rabbits on a gravel pitch or car park not that i would let her run them but when she's loose in the day lite she runs what she likes. Long ear shot and tracked on writen permision.