Beddy/whippet Or Whippet

[Malt 379]

 

fair play to you malt for keeping the dog

He's really good natured and good with my kids mate, protective even. He'd let them climb all over him and hug him, seems to enjoy it even. Not that I don't teach my kids how to behave around dogs, even our own. I won't get rid of a dog once it's been living around the family so I just had his nuts off to stop him doing my nut in when my little JRT bitch comes into season, and he'll spend the rest of his life here as a pet if nothing else..

Mind I'm slagging him off, he is a trier once he's on to something, plenty of heart!

 

 

..with my youngest:

 

 

My mates beddy/whippet x grey. Thought I had some better pictures of him here somewhere..

 

 

IMO the grey adds a whole lot more to the mix going on the dogs I've seen run..

[nothernlite 18,077]

nice looking dog malt personally i cant see by the beddy crosses there heart is huge dont seem to fear much im a believer once you have a dog its there for the rest of its days

[Country Joe 1,411]

 

 

new kid on block.

Whippet x Bedlington x Whippet.

Some stunning dogs there pal, I no tough decision but which if you can was best all rounder???

 

cant relay say, they were all decent dogs, if your going for a beddy cross the 3/4 is a good all rounder.

[patterdalejoel 669]

 

 

 

 

 

 

I've got a 22" beddy/whippet here, if I'm honest I wouldn't have one again.. If I went down the beddy route again I'd want something like a beddy/whippet X greyhound..

 

why not?

 

ive got a relatively small beddy whippet bitch 17tts, she hunts like a beddy but is built like a whippet, and she has caught loads of bolted rabbits on long courses upt dales, on some terrible ground and has never even knocked up a toe. i think her light weight means she gets no injuries. she is a great fun dog, the amount of times me and my pals have gone "oooohhh" and "ahhhhh" when she has grabbed hold of a bunny after a long course on limestone she is tough as old boots, and as sommeone pointed out to me, would a full whippet have the coat or skin to manage all day in the howling gales or sat on the quad for ages at 70mph winds?

 

 

Yep, i've seen the little fecker do it Wouldn't be my first choice up there though ., . . . . or any dog under about 24 tts.

 

Although I do agree your wee dog is like a tough little spider monkey. And I do like her a lot

 

As for rabbit sizes and hares . . . . in answer to some of the other points.

 

If a decent sized whippet struggles with a rabbit . . . . it's just a shit dog

 

And I would imagine a whippet would get up on and kill a hare easier than a beddy/whip??? Being faster. Did there not used to be whippet coursing clubs?

 

 

 

yep i didnt think about yours. although yours is more than just a whippet, hes just more "tougher" in pictures and in the flesh. why wouldnt it be your first choice? we went out with a beddywhip/grey 25tts and half the places we went he couldnt let it off the lead due to the rocks etc that would of snapped his legs. my little one can run in a lot more places up here, thus giving me more sport, no point in getting a dog i cant run.

 

 

Yer I know what you are saying, Finn is tougher than most whippets you see. But I think if we both ran our dogs over a season up there, mine would break way before yours!

 

Also, I thought about what I wrote. . . . . the logic was, that with those reed beds etc, I found that the taller dogs were at a bit of an advantage, both in terms of moving through it and also keeping the quarry in their sight. You make a good point however, about the rocks etc. I found something like Johns 'Gem' probably what I would pick, something with a bit of leg, but also tough and more importantly smart. In all honestly, a dog of her stamp (maybe a 1/2 x?) and one like your Eve, would make a lethal team!!!

 

But like I said at the time, I like your little spider monkey a lot, bags of heart, tough as old boots and agile as a cat. Hard to beat. I would just feel that working the rough reed beds, she may be at a disadvantage due to her height? I may well be wrong.

 

yes your probably right, if anything i would want her to be taller, but only by a 3-4 inches, i think anything else i wouldnt need. them reed beds were first and last shes been in really, not many of them around, only on that bit.

 

 

That's a very fair point, i suppose i have seen a fair bit of the reeds, so have formed my opinion from there. But looking at 'the graveyard' opposite, i probably wouldnt chose a dog much bigger than 22/23 tts, to try to cut down the risk of the bad tumbles.

 

i drive 3 miles further up that road from where you picked me and johnnyboy up to get to work on a farm, and i let the bitch run by the side of the car, and she is reguarly over the walls after rabbits, and that graveyard and land like it, worst even; you reguarly see her powering after rabbits over the rocks etc, and she always comes back in one peice people always go on about "good feet" and her feet look terrible compared to "good" feet pics on here, she has long toes and her nails grow more forward, and she has never even come back with a limp after running over some shit.