Have a look at this

[fordie 8]

Have you seen any think like it before

[iworkwhippets 12,647]

Yes i have, double muscling in whippets, ie bully whippets

[troter58 1,711]

that looks a mess poor bugger like to see it behind a bunny haha

[rob190364 2,594]

erm....photoshop

[king squirrel 53]

erm....photoshop

its not photo shop there was a thread about these a while back if i remember rightly it is something to do with faulty genes or something along those lines have a look on the search on previous threads atb ks

[CarraghsGem 92]

looks like a belgian blue

[MagyarAgar 88]

looks like a belgian blue

 

It is the same gene defect. These animals are myostatin deficient.

There is a study of whippets were they showed that race champions have often the allele configuration of normal/deficient.

The normal/deficient type of whippets is more muscular then normal/normal.

 

I think this pic is from the study:

 

Cheers

Magyar Agar

Edited April 5, 2011 by MagyarAgar

[fordie 8]

that looks a mess poor bugger like to see it behind a bunny haha

 

Its not right and not fair

[chartpolski 24,211]

erm....photoshop

 

No, it's not photoshopped, it's just an extreme example of double muscled whippet. They crop up quite regularly in non-ped Whippets; I've had two over the years, one by Red Baron out of a Greyhound bitch and one by Haymaker out of a half x grew. There is one running at my local track just now, it's litter sister is only 18lb and looks like a pedigree !!. The same dog can run well though ! They are obviously some sort of throwback or genetic mutation between the non-ped Whippet and the Greyhound !

 

Cheers.

[jf1970 328]

wendy the bully whippet, here's a link

 

http://animal.discovery.com/