Are Bigger Heavier Whippets Better For Work????

[robadoo 212]

I have a 22tts 40lbish and also a 19tts 30 odd lb dog , , they both robust and can take knocks , the smaller one is much quicker and better in and around cover , also quicker off the mark when ferreting . I much prefer the faster action running style of the smaller one .not noticed much difference in stamina , they all shiver when cold and wet .And if a got another , I'd be wanting one of a similar stamp of the smaller one.

[carp king 155]

Same here robadoo

I agree the smaller ones are what I like , just seen a lot of dinosaurs lately with the attitude that they are better for work , suppose diff folk like diff things I have a 21 lb and a 28 lb and my smaller one is more agile and faster acceleration ,keep the comments coming lads

[bunnys 1,228]

much prefer the standard of the 20 may be 21 inch 28 32 ib bitch built corectly whippety .atb bunnys.

[whitefeet4190 1,728]

Lighter frame dogs bounce better and when they crash they will be better than a heavy dog ! FACT

It's like a two people if they both fell over the fat b*****d would do more damage than a skinny person never heard of the phrase " the bigger they are the harder they fall " it's common sence

[whitefeet4190 1,728]

Lighter frame dogs bounce better and when they crash they will be better than a heavy dog ! FACT

It's like a two people if they both fell over the fat b*****d would do more damage than a skinny person never heard of the phrase " the bigger they are the harder they fall " it's common sence

[aaron the coursing man 144]

a think they mean a more thicker set dog will not cramp up as much as a flimsy one but ive neva had whippets so wouldent no but that's how it is with lurchers I think and heavier short coupled dogs that are slower are more robust but whippets are maybe different because whippets are more racy

[Ideation 8,216]

Lighter frame dogs bounce better and when they crash they will be better than a heavy dog ! FACT

It's like a two people if they both fell over the fat b*****d would do more damage than a skinny person never heard of the phrase " the bigger they are the harder they fall " it's common sence

 

Not technically true, a fat b*****d may fall on say their hip and have plenty of padding and so do no damage, where a skinny person may hit their hip bone and damage themselves. I've had my dog take some tumbles, knocks and cuts that I think would have been worse for a finer boned animal, and he isn't the heaviest as it is, being a whippet.

 

And yep Aaron, that was kind of what I meant. Ability to keep going run after run, and also to keep going night after night without losing condition. Seen some smaller, lighter whippets who I doubt could handle four hard nights lamping in a row? Maybe i'm wrong.

 

My biggest motivation is that I like the way a whippet works and runs, but where I am, a dog that is 100% only able to despatch a rabbit isn't as useful as one that is able to tackle bigger quarry without getting badly smashed up, or without having the weight or jaw size to stop it.

[whitefeet4190 1,728]

Ok

[Ideation 8,216]

I don't know if i'm right, I just wouldn't say it was a 'FACT' the other way around

[whitefeet4190 1,728]

My saluki x whippet jumped out of my bedroom window a couple of months ago and my upstairs is higher than normal and he jumped out straight on to the concrete below and yelped but that was it and off he went down the road after the cat he had seen lol but I am sure if my bull grey jumped out of window it would of been a different story but anyway I can see both sides but I still stand by my theory

Atb for season

I can't wait not long now

[whitefeet4190 1,728]

Lol I might put this in to practice if I can make my bull grey jump out of same window then we will know for sure what bounces best lol

That's a joke by the way !

[Ideation 8,216]

Lol I might put this in to practice if I can make my bull grey jump out of same window then we will know for sure what bounces best lol

That's a joke by the way !

 

 

Funnily enough I was just out to the garden to build a catapult capable of firing both the lurcher and whippet at the nearest wall. . . . . .

[Astanley 11,568]

As to"bigger ,heavier whippets " being better in the field , I don,t know , possibly , a more pertinent question would be , are bigger heavier whippets real whippets ?

The relatively new phenomenon of 22 and 23 " whippets , is symptomatic of added greyhound blood , whilst this may result in fine dogs who may well excel in the field , they don't have the whippets unique running style , the whippet temperament is also in danger of being lost ,

20"whippets are now considered to be on the small side , when this was the upper limit for cousing under rules .a sport in which the Laguna kennels excelled ,Yet the classified pages would have us believe that Laguna dogs start at 22 ".

[keepitcovert 842]

Ive had whippets ranging from 16lb to nearly 40lb and my experience of them is as follows, when i was racing them the racing weights were 16 to 32 lbs now the bigger dogs ran from scratch and the smaller dogs were given a yard per lb advantage eg a 25lb dog was given 7yards over a 32lb dog and so on, now the bigger dogs would nearly always gain yardage on a smaller dog. The point i am making is that quite often you think a dog is faster than it actually is, due to its running style, ive seen whippets that looked like they were turbo charged when they were coursing on their own, but could look mediocre when up against a dog with a different running style. I remember a whippet round my neck of the woods that had a reputation of being the fastest thing on four legs coursing rabbits its legs were going ten to the dozen and it really looked fast. But a deerhound cross owned by the same guy picked rabbits up for fun with ease.

[aaron the coursing man 144]

I personally think if you go out a lot and work your dogs hard a few nights a week a whippet needs bread with something to slow them down and make them more robust but I suppose a whippet would be ok for a few bunnies ferreting every now and then for pace but lamping you don't need loads of pace but for short pace you can not nock a whippet I am not very educated in the racing department but I if I was id say id go for a tall whippet but very racy it all boils down to what you want if its for ferreting the od mouching id say get one but for serius work id say dont they are not made for it simple az it would be lyk going down the fens with a half and half bull greyhound or using my heavily type lurcher for racing ther not for it