Longhaired Whippet

[Rabbiting man 1,192]

I didn't think you could get Longhaired Whippet to I googled it, then I came across these so here is a short history of the Longhaired Whippet. It has not been without some controversy. In the 1970s, after several decades and breeding generations, an AKC Whippet breeder named Walter A. Wheeler Jr. went public with his successful breeding of a long coated variety of Whippets developed from both his own smooth coated (short haired) Whippets and those from other Whippet breeders that displayed observable evidence of carrying the longhair gene.

Mr. Wheeler claims that the long coat is the result of the expression of a recessive gene for long hair which is carried in some lines of smooth Whippets. Although some people continue to believe that Longhaired Whippets are derived solely from short haired Whippets, others believe that the long coat more likely came from cross-breeding with other longer-coated breeds such as the Borzoi or Shetland Sheepdog, both breeds that Mr. Wheeler owned. One reason for this alternative belief is that some Longhaired Whippets carry the recessive MDR1 allele and/or the recessive CEA allele, mutant genes found predominantly in herding breeds, but not in the smooth Whippet.

[Hot Meat 3,109]

I'd bet they are Borzoi crosses. Maybe not up close but somewhere there will be...

[stinkershop 56]

Sure looks like it

[BOLIO1 1,078]

They've been marketed under the "silken windhund" brand as well.

[BOLIO1 1,078]

They've been marketed under the "silken windhund" brand as well.

[BOLIO1 1,078]

Freekin' touch screen phones.....

[whipbed 42]

i found a bit about these dogs a while back and they were refered to as silken windsprites

the breeder in america coincidentaly also bred borzois!

[cocker 2,655]

silken windhounds, they are whippet borzoi hybrids mostly kept in America, although theres a few in the uk now, and a small silken windhound club in the uk too

[paulus 26]

whippet/borzoi cross of some description 100%

[kranky 507]

whippet/borzoi cross of some description 100%

They are a whippet borzoi cross. I'm surprised no one has pointed this out.

[paulus 26]

 

whippet/borzoi cross of some description 100%

They are a whippet borzoi cross. I'm surprised no one has pointed this out.

 

the tucked tail and russian accent gives it away

[skycat 6,174]

Very pretty animals, I wonder if anyone actually works them.

[TOMO 27,389]

If they had been bred from a working borzoi type , that can still be found in Russia ukrain ect,,,they might be able to do a bit

[jack2o 45]

there was a bit about these in the countrymans

months ago.i asked on here about them working and the general replies were that these are show dogs

[Wxm 1,638]

But this is the problem when you have people putting other breeds into whippets and kc reg them there will be throw backs and then it's ohhh wow, x + y ended up with abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz and hay presto we have a mungrel with kc papers, I breed that's truely fcuked is the staffs with the introduction of everything to get something that looks like a legalised Pitt !!