sooty sam (whippet)

[paulus 26]

Funny how SS keeps coming up,I have never met Mike brown or spoken to him,I suppose there will be lads on here that know him,

what I have heard is that SS mainly ran on the lamp, now I don't know if that is true, so don't quote me, as he was born on August 1991 that was 20 years ago so maybe someone saw him work, or perhaps mike is a lone hunter I do not know,

There are stud dogs out there with no SS breeding or very little.

 

 

dont how sooty sam ran but i had a blue bitch he sired back in1994 mistral (fast lady of meliden) she took hare and rabbits well. she was an exellent ferreting dog, the only dog ive owned that would crown a laid up ferret. she also went in on the odd fox. all in all a very game little bitch.

[Ideation 8,216]

A few people on here have said that he is not very helpful on the phone but more than happy to talk when your face to face with a fist full of dollars

 

 

I and many others have had good, long, informative convos with him. He knows whippets and certainly his whippets very very well. He does not suffer fools gladly, and many of those who have said that they rang him and didnt get much chat are those who slag him off on here - wonder what their attitude was like on the phone?

 

Sooty sam is dead. What he did or didn't do. . . . thats for mike and a few others to know and the rest to speculate about! And yes ss was mainly lamped.

 

Now to the original question - i would expect ANY well built, well brought on 'working type' whippet to be able to handle a rabbit/hare/fox/small deer (roe/munty) single handed. It wouldnt be first choice of dog for doing the latter quarry, but if you like Whips and they suit you then there is nothing to stop you doing the bigger stuff with them fairly regular.

Edited January 27, 2011 by Ideation

[anthonytomo 8]

thanks lads all this is helping in my decision

[jarv5116 57]

Id love to see one of these whippets on a fox single handed I think whippet would really struggle on fox on its own. Im not saying all whippets would jibb. just think whippet would struggle killing big foxes.

[fresh earth 47]

I have owned 3 or 4 that have went into charlie in the past i wouldnt and never have run them on fox simply because they will and do get smashed a bit in the proses and i wouldnt want my prize ferreting companion lay up for the sake of a stinking carcus of no use to me. Youd be surprised but every whippet iv owned has been gaging to be slipped on every charlie iv seen on the beem thats why i never work mine from heal no more always on a slip. a decent sized whippet takes less stick but realisticly how do you expect a 20lb whippet to slay a charlie sometimes 1 and a half times its weight without getting stick ?

 

I owned 1 who was extreme but she was a fluke i think i was only about 13 when she was entered and always worked from heal remembering this was pre ban she took bloody everything from feather to fox roe hare no bother she took a bit stick now and then but tackled whatever i put infront of her she regularly took duck and even had a few geese of the feilds local to me but in reality i was a 13 year old clueless boy now i wouldnt risk my pride and joy for the sake of an adrenaline rush as thats all anyone owning a whippet will get from running a fox as if that was the intended quarry id buy a bullx and did do pre ban.

[Blue one 89]

thanks lads all this is helping in my decision

 

The best thing you can do, is ring Mike your self and not come on here getting some very daft answers...

Below, is his number and web site, good luck and let us know, truthfully, how it went, if you phone him, i am sure if your decent and know what you want a whippet for, he will answer you well.

 

http://www.mikeswhippets.com/

[anthonytomo 8]

thanks lads all this is helping in my decision

 

The best thing you can do, is ring Mike your self and not come on here getting some very daft answers...

Below, is his number and web site, good luck and let us know, truthfully, how it went, if you phone him, i am sure if your decent and know what you want a whippet for, he will answer you well.

 

http://www.mikeswhippets.com/

thanks mate i will ring now but just to ask a few questions but im looking on another strain from what people have said

[anthonytomo 8]

mate i rung him and ask him about the dog and hes said there no such thing for 10 years

i said i know but did you own him

he replied yer i said can u just answer me one questions what did he take and what have your whippets taken quarry wise

he replied ring us back on the weekend

now tbh if this dog was so good and i owned it i would of answered that one question

people must be true about what they say

[weasle 1,119]

Sounds like the dog took the same as the owner.............. THE P*SS

Edited January 27, 2011 by weasle

[Malt 379]

mate i rung him and ask him about the dog and hes said there no such thing for 10 years

i said i know but did you own him

he replied yer i said can u just answer me one questions what did he take and what have your whippets taken quarry wise

he replied ring us back on the weekend

now tbh if this dog was so good and i owned it i would of answered that one question

people must be true about what they say

 

Maybe he just didn't want to answer those kind of questions from a stranger on the phone.. I certainly wouldn't have been..

[Blue one 89]

mate i rung him and ask him about the dog and hes said there no such thing for 10 years

i said i know but did you own him

he replied yer i said can u just answer me one questions what did he take and what have your whippets taken quarry wise

he replied ring us back on the weekend

now tbh if this dog was so good and i owned it i would of answered that one question

people must be true about what they say

 

So you were on their for a couple of minutes by the looks of it.

I think i have wasted my time with you, as it sounds like your looking for attention, by producing a big long argumentative thread...

[firstrike 21]

Id love to see one of these whippets on a fox single handed I think whippet would really struggle on fox on its own. Im not saying all whippets would jibb. just think whippet would struggle killing big foxes.

 

When they get the nack mate they get straight on with the job,I do have a biggish whippet though..

[anthonytomo 8]

mate i rung him and ask him about the dog and hes said there no such thing for 10 years

i said i know but did you own him

he replied yer i said can u just answer me one questions what did he take and what have your whippets taken quarry wise

he replied ring us back on the weekend

now tbh if this dog was so good and i owned it i would of answered that one question

people must be true about what they say

 

So you were on their for a couple of minutes by the looks of it.

I think i have wasted my time with you, as it sounds like your looking for attention, by producing a big long argumentative thread...

im not bieng funny mate i started this thread of asking about a bloodline in a dog i didnt want to cause a arguement you told me to ring the lad and give me his number so i did you asked me to tell you what he said and so i did so what ye problem

[anthonytomo 8]

mate i rung him and ask him about the dog and hes said there no such thing for 10 years

i said i know but did you own him

he replied yer i said can u just answer me one questions what did he take and what have your whippets taken quarry wise

he replied ring us back on the weekend

now tbh if this dog was so good and i owned it i would of answered that one question

people must be true about what they say

 

Maybe he just didn't want to answer those kind of questions from a stranger on the phone.. I certainly wouldn't have been..

 

i get wear youre coming from mate but the dog was pre ban so nothing can happen about it i didnt mean to start this topic off about a arguement i was just looking into bloodlines of whippets because im looking on buying one and when people started to reply on this topic i realised that myabe this bloodline wernt right

[Ideation 8,216]

mate i rung him and ask him about the dog and hes said there no such thing for 10 years

i said i know but did you own him

he replied yer i said can u just answer me one questions what did he take and what have your whippets taken quarry wise

he replied ring us back on the weekend

now tbh if this dog was so good and i owned it i would of answered that one question

people must be true about what they say

 

Maybe he just didn't want to answer those kind of questions from a stranger on the phone.. I certainly wouldn't have been..

 

 

His yard HAS been robbed in the past.