Lets See Them Whippets, Coarsing, Racing, Working

[Retsdon 64]

9 hours ago, troyboy17 said:

Ray was a good friend until we disgree on someone  putting non ped in ped whippets and it split the whole whippet racing and I never  raced again

Curious about this. Do you mean introducing whippets without papers into the line, or dogs that aren't whippets?

[northern lad 2,292]

2 hours ago, Retsdon said:

Curious about this. Do you mean introducing whippets without papers into the line, or dogs that aren't whippets?

Non ped  have greyound in them and are considerably faster

[Retsdon 64]

In which case I suppose it could be argued that provided the resulting dogs meet the breed's weight and size specs, then a smattering of greyhound blood might actually improve the whippet breed by making the dogs faster and stronger and widening the gene pool. I don't know about whippets, but I do know with border collies that if the dog in question had won a specific number of ISDS sanctioned trials,  the International Sheepdog Dog Society would, at one time, have allowed for the registration of an unpedigreed dog - thereby giving it kosher breeding papers to let it into ISDS registered lineages. The argument went that the border collie breed was about working sheep, and so it would be self-defeating to exclude a well-proven sheepdog from the gene pool simply because  its owner was missing a bit of paper. The sole criteria was working performance. But of course that was 25 years ago, and maybe the ISDS has gone all kennel-clubby these days.

However,  like I say, I don't know whippets or how those who race them judge the breed, so maybe I'm comparing apples to oranges. But one thing's for sure. In anything from dogs to cattle, to geraniums probably, among aficionados breeding out is always going to bring up the 'pollution' v 'improvement' controversy and raise hackles. So it's probably important to bear in mind that there are real and legitimate arguments with merit on both sides, and not to allow differences to become personal or friendships to be destroyed. Life's too short. After all, when all's said and done it's just dogs chasing after stuff...

Edited February 8, 2018 by Retsdon

[Black neck 16,011]

40 minutes ago, Retsdon said:

In which case I suppose it could be argued that provided the resulting dogs meet the breed's weight and size specs, then a smattering of greyhound blood might actually improve the whippet breed by making the dogs faster and stronger and widening the gene pool. I don't know about whippets, but I do know with border collies that if the dog in question had won a specific number of ISDS sanctioned trials,  the International Sheepdog Dog Society would, at one time, have allowed for the registration of an unpedigreed dog - thereby giving it kosher breeding papers to let it into ISDS registered lineages. The argument went that the border collie breed was about working sheep, and so it would be self-defeating to exclude a well-proven sheepdog from the gene pool simply because  its owner was missing a bit of paper. The sole criteria was working performance. But of course that was 25 years ago, and maybe the ISDS has gone all kennel-clubby these days.

However,  like I say, I don't know whippets or how those who race them judge the breed, so maybe I'm comparing apples to oranges. But one thing's for sure. In anything from dogs to cattle, to geraniums probably, among aficionados breeding out is always going to bring up the 'pollution' v 'improvement' controversy and raise hackles. So it's probably important to bear in mind that there are real and legitimate arguments with merit on both sides, and not to allow differences to become personal or friendships to be destroyed. Life's too short. After all, when all's said and done it's just dogs chasing after stuff...

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[green lurchers 16,714]

Trevs poppy n Betty  after a day bolting 

[Rusky1984 155]

Cracking day that nice one

[Trev70 5,185]

2 hours ago, green lurchers said:

Trevs poppy n Betty  after a day bolting 

A good day in the trees on Tuesday 

 

 

[green lurchers 16,714]

2 minutes ago, Trev70 said:

A good day in the trees on Tuesday 

 

 

Plenty good days with them two trev  

Edited February 11, 2018 by green lurchers

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Old moonlake lines and racer bred 20 in Dogs 

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None of them easy peasy long nets socks lol 

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