are whippets good for lamping?

[kelly14 0]

are whipphets good for lamping?

[Rabbiting man 1,191]

I.ve not seen a bad one mate

[trigger2 3,140]

ive seen and lamped some o.k whippets on the rabbits.

[kelly14 0]

I.ve not seen a bad one mate

any advice on what whippet and the size

because im only lamping rabbits

also what ground are they good on and small or big fields

thanks mate

[kelly14 0]

ive seen and lamped some o.k whippets on the rabbits.

what lines did you have?

what they like on small and big fields?

[Ideation 8,216]

Good enough, but if it's purely a lamp dog you are after, you would be better off with another type, and that's from someone who loves whippets.

 

If you are going to get a whippet get a good working bred pup, and should handle most things, but they are most suited to small land and in my eyes, rough land, pastures, hedges etc.

 

But i'd say more a daytime dog. Nose like a fecking beagle.

[Rabbiting man 1,191]

Good enough, but if it's purely a lamp dog you are after, you would be better off with another type, and that's from someone who loves whippets.

 

If you are going to get a whippet get a good working bred pup, and should handle most things, but they are most suited to small land and in my eyes, rough land, pastures, hedges etc.

 

But i'd say more a daytime dog. Nose like a fecking beagle.

 

 

Yep I was going to say that you got there first

[kelly14 0]

Good enough, but if it's purely a lamp dog you are after, you would be better off with another type, and that's from someone who loves whippets.

 

If you are going to get a whippet get a good working bred pup, and should handle most things, but they are most suited to small land and in my eyes, rough land, pastures, hedges etc.

 

But i'd say more a daytime dog. Nose like a fecking beagle.

thanks mate what would you suggest ? someone told me a whippet x greyhound

[Romany 1,065]

Will suit some folk

[HUnter_zero 58]

Nose like a fecking beagle.

 

 

So so so true! Two fields mowed and my little bitch has found, nay directly walked to a dead field mouse in each, rolled and ended up smelling like the toilet. Poor girl had flies buzzing all around her tonight

Better nose than any lab or spaniel I have ever seen.

 

John

[Ideation 8,216]

Good enough, but if it's purely a lamp dog you are after, you would be better off with another type, and that's from someone who loves whippets.

 

If you are going to get a whippet get a good working bred pup, and should handle most things, but they are most suited to small land and in my eyes, rough land, pastures, hedges etc.

 

But i'd say more a daytime dog. Nose like a fecking beagle.

thanks mate what would you suggest ? someone told me a whippet x greyhound

 

 

To be honest mate, once you get onto lurchers it's just what pleases you.

 

Now if i was you, looking for what you are, where you are. . .

 

I would find out who had some belting rabbiting dogs, and look for a pup that was bred out of two dogs that did exactly what i wanted my pup to do, and that i quite liked the look / feel of.

 

I'd be way more concerned with finding the above than any particular breed.

 

Having said that, i do think if killing bunnies is your thing, you'll be hard pressed to fault a well bred collie/grey.

 

But as said, ANY, WELL BRED rabbiting lurcher will do.

[jonnygray 139]

Mate as an all round dog for rabbits you won't find better, will pick em up daytime nighttime with ferrets will bush for you will find its own quarry will rat and a good one with balls will snot Charlie aswell. I had two great ones and my bitch I got now I can't fault. Was never a whippet fan before my first one and won't ever be without one again. If your just bunnies with the occasional extra you can't go wrong. I got me a Collie grey too for the bigger stuff cos the whippet got limits and I like to be out most day and nights during the season and you can wear em out. my only downside on the lamping is a small whippet can make a meal of picking up and retrieving a big rabbit and the squealing can clear a field in seconds.

 

jonny

[Ideation 8,216]

Nose like a fecking beagle.

 

 

So so so true! Two fields mowed and my little bitch has found, nay directly walked to a dead field mouse in each, rolled and ended up smelling like the toilet. Poor girl had flies buzzing all around her tonight

Better nose than any lab or spaniel I have ever seen.

 

John

 

 

Too true mate, mine is exactly the same, uncanny. Sometimes it's a pain, you cannot take him for 'just' a walk, as soon as he's in the field, his nose is down and he's working like mad to find scent and then will hunt it with a fury. He will find game anywhere.

 

Lost him for 2 hours behind a fox the other day, through thick woodland and cover.

[kelly14 0]

Good enough, but if it's purely a lamp dog you are after, you would be better off with another type, and that's from someone who loves whippets.

 

If you are going to get a whippet get a good working bred pup, and should handle most things, but they are most suited to small land and in my eyes, rough land, pastures, hedges etc.

 

But i'd say more a daytime dog. Nose like a fecking beagle.

thanks mate what would you suggest ? someone told me a whippet x greyhound

 

 

To be honest mate, once you get onto lurchers it's just what pleases you.

 

Now if i was you, looking for what you are, where you are. . .

 

I would find out who had some belting rabbiting dogs, and look for a pup that was bred out of two dogs that did exactly what i wanted my pup to do, and that i quite liked the look / feel of.

 

I'd be way more concerned with finding the above than any particular breed.

 

Having said that, i do think if killing bunnies is your thing, you'll be hard pressed to fault a well bred collie/grey.

 

But as said, ANY, WELL BRED rabbiting lurcher will do.

ok mate cheers

[Ideation 8,216]

Mate as an all round dog for rabbits you won't find better, will pick em up daytime nighttime with ferrets will bush for you will find its own quarry will rat and a good one with balls will snot Charlie aswell. I had two great ones and my bitch I got now I can't fault. Was never a whippet fan before my first one and won't ever be without one again. If your just bunnies with the occasional extra you can't go wrong. I got me a Collie grey too for the bigger stuff cos the whippet got limits and I like to be out most day and nights during the season and you can wear em out. my only downside on the lamping is a small whippet can make a meal of picking up and retrieving a big rabbit and the squealing can clear a field in seconds.

 

jonny

 

 

Good post that mate, and i whole heartedly agree, all that is, but the first bit.

 

You can find better all round rabbit dogs. A top rabbiting lurcher will beat a top rabbiting whippet.

 

But for what they are you cannot fault them, and i fecking love the fire they have, such an exciting dog to work daytime.